Save the date for an exciting evening of presentations and discussion related to racial equity in transportation, featuring Whose Streets? Our Streets! and organizers from other community groups. This event is part of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways’ Shaping Seattle live panel series. To learn more: https://seattlegreenways.org/get-involved/calendar/shapingseattle/.

Description: “Join us to learn from experts at the forefront of key opportunities and challenges facing our city. Connect with community leaders and supporters paving the way to a more accessible, equitable, safer and sustainable future. Activate with partners and peer organizations on projects, events and campaigns pushing this work forward. … We're gearing up for Mobility Justice, on July 20, with thought leaders and trailblazers addressing pivotal issues facing our BIPOC communities.”

Stop by our table to hang out and learn about what Whose Streets? Our Streets! has been working on this year. We’ll be running a community survey on automated traffic enforcement.

Description: “This Juneteenth, celebrate a legacy of freedom, resilience and community with a power-packed lineup of local and national musical performers. Join Africatown Community Land Trust and King County Equity Now as we to commemorate the liberation of our ancestors from chattel slavery and collectively envision and explore what future freedom and equity can look like for all of us. We’ll pack Jimi Hendrix Park with Black-owned business, family-friendly games and activities and enjoy a lineup of local musical acts and national headliners Talib Kweli and Kevin Ross.”

For more details, see: https://www.summerofsoulseries.org/juneteenth

Visit our table at 23rd and Jackson! We’ll be engaging community on our group’s priorities for 2023, including automated traffic enforcement.

Description: “Join us for a an event equally filled with celebration, reflection, and inspiration as we honor the legacy of Black Wall Street and work towards building a brighter future for Black Seattle. … Shop over 100, local Black-owned businesses along S Jackson Street at Honoring Our Black Wall Streets, an annual community expo celebrating Black entrepreneurship in the heart of Central District!”

To learn more, see: https://www.summerofsoulseries.org/black-wall-street

Join this webinar to hear WSOS member Ethan C. Campbell present on equity considerations in automated traffic enforcement.

Description: “In the wake of the killings and harassment of Black and Brown people at the hands of law enforcement, automated enforcement (AE) is being touted as an alternative solution to community safety. Please join the Transportation Equity Caucus (TEC) on Wednesday May 3 from 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT in a discussion about how automated traffic enforcement has the potential to perpetuate bias and disparities, increase fines and fees, and increase surveillance and incarceration in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities. We will also discuss equitable and just alternative safety strategies that prioritize historically marginalized communities. The TEC is committed to creating safe communities for all.”

Register here: https://policylink.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocumpqj8jEtz0m8GQS1UO3o5DDiCquCkF

[Update] Watch a recording of this webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPfVm-DQWVw

You’re invited to join Whose Streets? Our Streets! for a community town hall on Seattle’s automated traffic enforcement cameras. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 14th, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Rainier Arts Center in Columbia City, located at 3515 S Alaska St, on the downstairs level.

The town hall will provide an opportunity for community members to voice their opinions and concerns about Seattle’s automated traffic enforcement cameras. Topics of discussion will include the fairness of the tickets, their impact on BIPOC communities, and the city’s planned doubling of its school zone speed cameras this year. The event will include a short presentation followed by group conversations over a catered dinner, and childcare will be provided. The town hall will be attended by staff from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), who will be on hand to listen to community perspectives.

Description: “In this panel discussion, activists and organizers will describe their community-based efforts to create new paradigms for BIPOC communities to live and thrive in Seattle. … Our panelists will report back to the community about work this past year, then transition into what’s coming up in 2023, campaigns happening across the city, and how to get involved putting your values into action to make real changes for your community.”

Moderated by Clara Cantor, Whose Streets? Our Streets!, Solidarity Budget Coalition, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

Presenters:

• Angélica Chazaro, Solidarity Budget

• Ayan Musse, Whose Streets? Our Streets!

• Ethan Campbell, Whose Streets? Our Streets!, Central Seattle Greenways

• Ruba Ayub, Whose Streets? Our Streets!, Youth Voices for Justice

• Travonna Thompson-Wiley, Solidarity Budget, Black Action Coalition

Learn more about attending the 2023 Seattle MLK Coalition workshops: https://www.seattlemlkcoalition.org/workshops-2023

Description: “Whose Streets? Our Streets! and Solidarity Budget are co-hosting a Town Hall focused on public safety in Rainier Beach. Come learn why the Mayor's proposal for gunfire detection surveillance won't make us safer. There will be a panel discussion and small group discussion. We want to hear from you: what would make you feel safer? Sidewalks? Investments in community programs? More housing options? Dinner, childcare and translation will be provided. Masks are required. If you can't join us in person, please check out the live stream on our Facebook event.”

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/new-holly-gathering-hall/town-hall-rainier-beach-public-safety/615330370379291/

Description: “The Relatives of Old TimerS (ROOTS) Celebration, which will be held on Sunday, September 4 at Jimi Hendrix/Sam Smith Parks outside of the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) in Seattle. ROOTS hosts an annual community picnic in a setting that lends itself to sharing culture and traditions. ROOTS is now 50 years strong and the organization is totally volunteer driven and has been since its inception! This event is a social gathering in support of closing the generation gap to strengthen family and community ties.

The celebration specifically draws a community of Black folks (including immigrants and refugees) from all of the Pacific Northwest as well as those who have moved away but still have a connection to this area. Everyone looks forward to this annual event to revitalize community connections that have been lost due to passages and gentrification. There is a rich appreciation among Seattleites of all backgrounds to embrace the history of Black people in the Northwest.”

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/484682260035111/

Description: “Bulldogs, former and current staff, alumni and the entire community are invited to Garfield's Centennial Celebration from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27 at the school. Highlights of the day will be a variety of musical performances by noted alumni and current students, decade reunions, historical displays, community partner presentations, student displays, food trucks, and much, much more.”

For more info: https://www.garfieldhighschoolseattle.com/events

Description: “Solidarity Budget is back! Join us for the Summer of Solidarity Community Party at Rainier Playfield. Let's kickoff this year's budget season together over food and entertainment. Come learn about the community-led campaigns we are supporting as we build a city where everyone can thrive. You will have a chance to hear from organizers upgrading community centers as climate resiliency hubs with the Healthy Through Heat & Smoke (HTHS) campaign, organizers for ballot Initiative 135 for social housing in Seattle, and organizers working on keeping Amazon out of Mt. Baker by forcing them to cancel their warehouse permit. As we defund cops, courts, and cages, let's fight for the city we want! We will have spoken word performers, music artists and a DJ. Food will be provided as well.”

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1743301639356989/

Description: “Celebrating the best of the African American community and African Diaspora culture in the Northwest featuring music, food, culture, and family fun!”

For more info: https://umojafestnw.com

WSOS will be tabling and conducting our survey on parking enforcement at the Juneteenth event at Jimi Hendrix Park (2400 S Massachusetts St, Seattle, WA 98144).

Come meet the crew and hang with us for a while as we plot world liberation and celebrate the progress we have made thus far.

WSOS will be tabling, giving away swag, and doing community surveys on the corner of 23rd Ave and E Union St in Seattle, WA from 1 PM to 4 PM on Saturday May 28th.

Come meet our crew, get plugged in, and let’s work together to improve how we are treated on our streets!

Description: “People of color are often not at the table when major transportation decisions are made for communities. In this workshop, learn about Seattle’s BIPOC groups that are leading transportation work impacting communities of color. Panelists will describe their coalition building around climate justice, mobility justice, unjust traffic enforcement and legislative advocacy to build a transportation future rooted in equity.”

Moderator: Olivia Smith

Panelists:

• Rebecca Rosado, Front and Centered

• Ethan Campbell, Helmet Law Working Group

• Renaissance the Poet

To learn more and register for this virtual workshop: https://www.seattlemlkcoalition.org/calender/2022/1/7/bipoc-and-transportation-equity