Category: History

Whose freeway? Our freeway!

Benjamin Linder was not from Seattle, but his time here as a UW student was fondly remembered by many locals in the wake of his assassination by CIA-backed Contras on this date in 1987. Jeff Stevens tells the tragic story.

The spring of 1970 was an intense time to be a radical in Seattle.

Seattle circa 1980 was a place and time of great countercultural renaissance, featured weekly at Belltown’s WREX nightclub. Jeff Stevens punksplains.

Seattle’s truly historical Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center is excellent evidence in support of the ancient adage about direct action getting the goods. Jeff Stevens tells the story of the birth of Daybreak Star.

Seattle hasn’t always been a pristine yuppie utopia, doncha know. Circa 1917, it was quite the raucous radical mecca. Jeff Stevens histories you once again.

Enter the Seattle Liberation Front.

Seattle circa 1997: gentrification was the word. Jeff Stevens remembers a comical protest against a serious problem.