ISSUE 38
C E L E B R AT I N G
VOLUME 51
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JUSTICE FOR JAAHNAVI “She had limited value”: SPD under fire for officer’s comments about the killing of Kandula
by Lindsey Anderson SGN Staff Writer On August 2, 2023, the Seattle Office of Police Accountability received information about an incriminating bodycam tape wherein Seattle Police Officer Daniel Auderer made seemingly flippant and insensitive remarks following the police killing of 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula.
see KANDULA page 5
Photo by Lindsey Wasson / AP
Starbucks workers up the ante with National Day of Action
Also join Homegrown sandwich workers on the picket line Photo courtesy of SBWU
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer Starbucks workers upped the ante in their struggle with the giant coffee corporation with a National Day of Action on September 14. The plan was to draw Starbucks customers and community supporters into the fight with customer-led informational picketing and flyering at many Starbucks locations.
“Starbucks is doing everything in its power to ignore its unionized workers, but it has to listen to its customers,” said Daisy Pitkin, field director of the unionization drive. “We’re calling on customers to join the fight and stand with Starbucks workers on September 14.” Pitkin said thousands of customers and allies would “join us at stores all across the country.
see STARBUCKS page 6
“BellingQueerstory” with the Good Time Girls Julian Eltinge in The Fascinating Widow – Photo by White Studio New York Public Library
by Cameron Martinez SGN Contributing Writer While Bellingham’s slogan is “City of Subdued Excitement,” the Washington town has a lively history that Kolby LaBree has embraced wholeheartedly. Walking down the streets of downtown, she wore an entire outfit inspired by the vaudeville male impersonators Hetty Urma and Vesta Tilley,
all while telling the stories of Bellingham’s rich Queer history. LaBree is the owner of Good Time Girls, a local group that hosts a slew of historical walking tours, ranging from a focus on prostitution (“sin and gin”) to crime (“gore and lore”). The “BellingQueerstory” tour is the realization of her five years’ worth of research into the Queer community.
see BELLINGHAM page 4