Author: Jeff Stevens

Leave It to Blethen

In the summer of 1963, Seattle was blazing with the fire of civil rights protest. Jeff Stevens schools you on that history.

Jeff Stevens histories you about one of Seattle’s all-time great countercultural gathering places.

“Some believe Seattle is different . . .”

Jeff Stevens remembers Tyree Scott, Seattle’s late, great labor and civil rights leader.

Jeff Stevens tells the inspiring tale of one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in radical Seattle history.

Jeff Stevens tells the story of the night punk rock and DIY culture simultaneously arrived in Seattle.

Jeff Stevens tells the tragicomic tale of how a radical student protest in Vietnam War-era Seattle was hijacked by a swarm of angry bees. No, this is not an urban legend.

Seattle’s University District has long been known as a locus for student-led protests. Jeff Stevens documents he first such major protest event in the U District.

Seattle has a long history of excellent local alternative newspapers. Jeff Stevens remembers Helix, our city’s late-1960s countercultural oracle.