As part of its efforts to acknowledge and address racism on Vashon and beyond, the island’s Showing Up for Racial Justice group will host a discussion next weekend about incarceration and systemic racism in the criminal justice system.
With the recent snow storms here on Vashon, we are reaching out to all community members who found our Voice of Vashon Emergency Alert Service posts helpful and informative. Voice of Vashon volunteers posted over 30 alerts to subscribers of the Alerts email list and on Facebook. We covered everything from the weather, to bus schedules, school closures, food bank distribution centers and […]
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“It’s more important than ever before to hold hands and catch and share stories of substance and grace and defiant courage and irrepressible humor. The alternative is to allow nothing in our lives but sales pitches and lies.” —Brian Doyle This is a panel discussion of Brian’s genius that follows the dramatic reading, “Kissing the […]
Debra Busman is a fiction/creative non-fiction writer and co-director of the Creative Writing and Social Action Program at California State University Monterey Bay. Co-editor of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing, Busman’s work has been published in Combined Destinies: Whites Share Grief About Racism, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, The LA Review, and more. Her […]
