Drug Addiction and Homelessness in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
Memorial Erected to Remind Burien Homeless of Fentanyl Overdose Death
Seattle CARE Team Helps the Homeless
Drugs and Homelessness
Seattle Deputy Mayor Admits Permanent Housing “isn’t the solution”
Visible Human Suffering on the Streets of Downtown Seattle
Jonathan Choe Joins David Josef Volodzko on The Radicalist
Click below to listen to Jonathan Choe discuss the changing journalism landscape, crime in Seattle and the failure of “defund the police,” Seattle’s stalled revitalization efforts, and the fentanyl epidemic with writer and foreign correspondent David Josef Volodzko.
Drug Use and Stolen Goods Damage Downtown Seattle Core
The Lowest Depths
Back to California. Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths, first staged in 1902, focuses on run-down people living in a flophouse: Vaska the thief, Nastya the prostitute, Luka the tramp, and Kvashnya the meat-pie seller, along with a downwardly-mobile baron, a suicidal actor, and others equally miserable. But in the play, at least temporarily, they are alive and conscious. If fentanyl had hit Russia then, even famed Moscow Arts Theater director Konstantin Stanislavski would have been stymied in creating some dramatic action: Users of the synthetic opioid are often inactive, with stiff limbs. Gorky portrayed lower depths, but fentanyl drops users in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district into the lowest depths, close to death. I’ve walked many crime-ridden areas by day, but Read More ›