Social unrest, shattered glass and spilled blood have always been a part of the Seattle region's history (Everett: insurance, homes)

[homesinseattle]

Article link here. https://crosscut.com/2020/06/short-v...ests-and-riots

"We might call Seattle the Emerald City, but the green landscape of the Puget Sound region has been sprayed with blood, shattered glass and tear gas for well over a century. Political protest and civil unrest centered on racism, labor, civil rights, and war and peace have not been uncommon. For the most part, these protests are nonviolent, but sometimes they have featured rioting, police brutality, vandalism, media bashing, shaming and blaming, and death.

What follows is a nonexhaustive review of some of our region’s experience with violent protests or clashes. Some have arguably yielded positive results, while others reflect tragedy, human cruelty and senseless destruction. Many of society’s faults and fault lines featured here remain intact. The violence gets attention, and today it is being exposed, broadcast and tweeted as never before. The smartphone is now an essential part of protest documentation. The historical record is another window that can provide context and background for what we are seeing today".

[pnwguy2]

Very true, and important point. Seattle may be "chill" today, but it has a very rough and unsettling history.

[dav51lin]

pathetic history

[pnwguy2]

Here is another article about this subject...

https://mynorthwest.com/1919707/hist...nrest-seattle/

[homesinseattle]

Originally Posted by dav51lin

pathetic history

That’s a little simplistic, dav51lin. Besides being instrumental in the strengthening of the labor movement (you know, the inventors of the weekend), here are a number of inventions/innovations that have come from Seattle in its relatively short history. https://www.seattlemag.com/50-things-seattle-gave-world

[elkotronics]

pathetic history

That's a bit "we'll never make it" dav51lin. There's this airplane manufacturer named Boeing that falls in to the category homes explains above as "inventions/innovations" that started in Seattle that have made huge technological/manufacturing contributions. I put 20 years in at the Everett-Boeing plant and I remain impressed by my first full time employer. Don't cut down Seattle constantly - unless you really hate it and everything it stands for, dav51lin.

I'm from there and I know it's got it's problems - and it has had a lot of strife in civil rights and also in labor strife. Throw Everett in there with the union/labor strife as well. The union I was in at Boeing - SPEEA - we struck Boeing in the fall of 1999 and the strike lasted 48 days. It was at that time the longest white-collar strike against a company in the history of the U.S. Funny thing is - I closely examined each offer - the one before the strike that was voted down and the one Boeing came up with to lure us all back - and the first one was just as good as the 2nd offer! The union was so hell-bent on striking "just to see what kind of mayhem we could stir up" - elkotronics came up with that explanation of why we struck - but they were so hell-bent on striking - the union hardcores would organize rallies inside the 40-87 and 40-88 buildings - and they could yell with the best of 'em - certainly an unforgetable time in my work history.

Meanwhile, Boeing upper managers were busy getting layoff notices ready and I and 18 others in my work group of 21 people were laid off in the spring of 2003. I fully vested towards my Boeing retirement, thankfully, allowing a better life for Mrs. elkotronics and I. Plus, Boeing lobbied the Federal Gub-Mint to train those of us if we wanted to learn a brand new skill after our Boeing career. I chose a career in healthcare and Boeing and The Trade Act fully paid for the books and tuition for my Associate's Degree in Respiratory Therapy. What's more - The Trade Act paid for weekly $456 State of Washington Unemployment Insurance direct deposits into our bank account while I was studying in school. For a year and a half! Wow! I'd say that I was taken care of well. That's why we went to an oakie town in mid-Missouri for me to go to school. Cheaper rent! Western Washington would've shaved our skin off fully! So, off to the 2nd career I went and now I'm baking in the southern New Mexico sun, still enjoying my healthcare career.

Kudos to Boeing!

[Gaylord_Focker]

It's a shame what these savages are doing to our downtown.

[pnwguy2]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

It's a shame what these savages are doing to our downtown.

And Capitol Hill. Very disturbing what is happening to my hometown.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/l...a-9c21be5afb18

I'm tired of the city doing relatively nothing about all this crap. Move in now! (And I am generally a pacifist).

[JGC97]

Not living there, I had no idea your lovely city was experiencing such chaos. In the news tonight, you now have a little cluster in downtown called Chaz (?) Not sure of the spelling. Sorry. I hope you're able to take back your city soon. If you don't, this type of thing will migrate throughout the entire U.S. and that's not something I want to see. Good luck to all of you

[rosebud49]

Originally Posted by HereOnMars

Not living there, I had no idea your lovely city was experiencing such chaos. In the news tonight, you now have a little cluster in downtown called Chaz (?) Not sure of the spelling. Sorry. I hope you're able to take back your city soon. If you don't, this type of thing will migrate throughout the entire U.S. and that's not something I want to see. Good luck to all of you

Just found this article:

After days of protests following the death of George Floyd, Seattle police left the boarded-up East Precinct building Monday night as a crowd of anti-police protesters set up barricades in the surrounding area, declaring six blocks in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood to be “autonomous” and a “cop-free zone.”

The president also described Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's handling of the situation as "pathetic," and asked "Has she ever done this before?" He also called on Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to send in National Guard troops to restore order.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-...aighten-it-out