Real Change is celebrating over three decades of community-driven journalism, justice for all, and jobs for people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Locate your nearest vendor and buy the special 31st anniversary edition today! 🌟

💻 In this powerful op-ed, guest writer Morgan Costello-Hostettler with PCs For People WA breaks down the deepening digital divide and the very real consequences of defunding digital equity efforts.

🍴FEATURE FRIDAY In this week’s feature, Hong Ta shines light on how the recently developed All Youth Can Eat Program is cooking up, filling bellies and bridging communities across Seattle, Tacoma, and Denver. 👇

Next Friday, we invite you to join the Homelessness Remembrance Project and WHEEL as our community honors the life of longtime Real Change vendor Don Lowe, who passed away earlier this year. All are welcome to join as we remember Don and stand together in grief, solidarity, and hope. 💛

☀️ New Staff Spotlight ☀️ Join us in welcoming our new Development Manager, Kelly Nguyen (she/her)! 💙💛 A Seattle native + proud UW alum, Kelly brings a background in marketing & diversity studies as well as a personal passion for uplifting communities of color through advocacy & inclusion. 👇

Happy 31st Birthday, @realchangenews.bsky.social! I'm laid up with a fractured ankle this week, but am with our incredible vendors, staff and volunteers in spirit!! Come celebrate with us! givebutter.com/rise-and-ref...

It’s Wednesday and it’s our birthday! 🎉 On this day in 1994, the very first issue of Real Change hit the streets. 31 years later, we’re still here, bringing you street-rooted, community-powered journalism every single week. 🗞️ In the paper this week: 👇

#OnThisDay in 1994, the first issue of Real Change was published in Seattle. historylink.org/File/2716 @realchangenews.bsky.social

✨Rise & Refuel: 31 Years of Real Change✨ 🎉 We are officially one month away from our 31st Anniversary Breakfast: Rise and Refuel! Join us on Thursday, September 18 as we celebrate 31 years. Together, our beautiful community has built something powerful and we're just getting started! 👇

😎FEATURE FRIDAY In this week’s feature, Marian Mohamed breaks down how Seattle’s Pioneer Square Art Walk blends community, creativity, and self-expression, where locals have shown for over 40 years that fashion here means wearing whatever makes you feel like yourself. 🎨 👇

Community Update 08/15/25 Two of our beloved Real Change vendors were recently detained by ICE. The outpouring of support has been awe-inspiring and together, you've already raised over $23,000 for the new Real Change Legal Defense Fund.💙 Here's where things stand: 👇

In this month’s @stopthesweeps.bsky.social column, H shares how the unhoused community cares for each other and encourages county and city officials to listen to those receiving services to best understand where they are coming from. 👇

☀ The sun is shining on another beautiful Wednesday and a new issue of Real Change has officially hit the streets! Get your news today from your local #streetpaper vendor for only $2 (cash or Venmo). In the paper this week: 👇

The annual Canoe Journey event for Indigenous tribes across the Pacific Northwest and beyond is well underway, with families coming together to paddle to the host nation. 👇

It’s Wednesday and you know what that means! Have you seen your local Real Change vendor about the newest paper? It’s hot off the presses today! Rain or shine, here's what we’re covering: 👇

Washington, Primary Election Day is here! ✅ Our vendors voted 🗳 Now it’s your turn - be sure your voice is heard and drop your ballot at the closest ballot drop box by 8 PM! #WAElections #CivicPower #RealChangeVotes

Real Change confirmed today that two of our vendors have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This action is a direct attack on a protected community and poses a chilling threat to the safety and well-being of all individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty.

As our Editor in Chief, @sabramboyd.bsky.social, explains: "ending crime and disorder" for our unhoused neighbors really means more sweeps, more arrests, and more suffering. This othering rhetoric has a dark history. How little has changed in 100 years. 🔗 www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/07...

It's time for a new issue of Real Change News! Read on for some of the highlights in this week's paper, and be sure to look for Real Change vendors selling the paper near you! 📷: Marian Mohamed ⬇️

🚨 Trump’s executive order from Thursday, July 24th targets people experiencing homelessness with punitive and dehumanizing policies… and the organizations that serve them. 💙 TAKE ACTION: Donate today at givebutter.com/real-change to help us fight back. Read more below!

Yesterday was an inspiring day at Real Change! We hosted nine incredible candidates for Seattle and King County races who took the time to meet with our dedicated vendors – the heart and soul of our newspaper! 🧡

The sun is shining and while the Route 8 is still 'L8', it's a beautiful Wednesday in Seattle! ☀️ Our July 23rd issue of Real Change, now in the hands of vendors near you, dives deep into local transit! 👇 📸: Patty Tang

📢 Introducing Real Change’s 2025 Primary Election Voters Guide! 📢 For the first time in years, Real Change's newsroom expanded its election coverage with a primary election voters guide, researching 33 candidates across six races. You can read about it here!: www.realchangenews.org/2025-electio...

The sun is HOT, but our paper is HOTTER! The new issue of Real Change News is out now! 📰 For the first time, Real Change has decided to expand its election coverage with a primary election guide. 📰 Read on for what races are covered, and how to get your paper! 🎨by Reed Olsen

Newly released data reveals that health outcomes significantly improved for roughly 1,900 participants of King County’s Health Through Housing initiative (HTH) since 2021. Read more in @guyoron.net's story now: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/07... 📊 by Guy Oron Source: King County DCHS

"When I tell them about democracy vouchers, I get to see the same empowerment in them that I am feeling now." - Cinthia Illan-Vazquez (E.D. at The Washington Bus, a youth-led movement building organization) Read their op-ed in our July 9 paper - or online: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/07...

Hey! It's Wednesday! We've got a brand new issue of Real Change News on the streets now, so read the thread for what you can expect! You can read these stories in the July 9th issue of Real Change News, being sold by an incredible vendor like Avery Nelson (badge 11493) for $2 - cash or Venmo! ⬇️

We had an inspiring day at Real Change today, hosting five incredible candidates who took the time to meet with our dedicated vendors – the heart and soul of our newspaper! 💛 Read on for more! ⬇️ #RealChange #Seattle #PrimaryElection #Vote #Homelessness #Poverty #VendorVoices #SeattlePolitics

In 1853, Congress created the Washington Territory. 135 years later, a group of young activists formed @washoutwashington.bsky.social, questioning why the state they live in is named after an enslaver who wore dentures made from enslaved people’s teeth. Read: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/07...

The sun is shining in Seattle... maybe because it's time for a new edition of Real Change! Read on for what you can find in the July 2nd issue, for sale now for $2 (cash or Venmo): 🎨by Chris Burnside ⬇️

Videos recorded on June 7, 2025 at Pride in the Park. Read the full article in this week’s issue of @realchangenews.bsky.social : www.realchangenews.org/Seattle-Prid...

🏆 Real Change and other local nonprofit media partners won numerous journalism awards this year! Scroll through the thread to see each award, and let these incredibly talented reporters, editors and artists know how proud you are of their work in the comments below! ⬇️

Buy the June 25th edition of Real Change News to read Pongo Poetry's latest poetry on page 2! Feat. poetry written by three youth at the Child Study Treatment Center. 🔗 Also available online: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06... 🎨 by Michaela Löffler

My latest comic for @realchangenews.bsky.social - new issue out today! Given the recent police violence towards LGBTQ+ rights protestors in the park named after him, telling Cal Anderson’s story felt imperative. #calanderson #calandersonpark #gayrightsmovement #pride🌈 #seattlehistory

It's time for a new issue of Real Change News! Read the thread for a sneak-peek of what's inside! As always, you can buy a copy of this week's paper from any Real Change vendor for $2 - cash, or Venmo. Ray Lemus is ready to sell you a copy! Cover 📸 by Patty Tang ⬇️

Seattle writer, photographer and cultural critic @cjayeasye.bsky.social shares how Seattle’s deep social and economic divisions are the result of intentional policies that have long prioritized property over people. 📰Read more here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06... 📸 by Sal Biggs

📰 It's Wednesday, so it must be time for a new issue of Real Change! As always, you can pick up the most local, hard-hitting news from a vendor for just $2 (cash or Venmo). Read the thread to see what's in this issue (and where to find Shawn Wilson, RC vendor)... ⬇️ Cover 📸by Barry Johnson

☀️ Real Change Summer Sprint is ON! Donate by June 29th to support our vital work & enter to win up to 2 FREE 2-day Bumbershoot tickets (Aug 30-31)! Your support empowers REAL change. 👉 Sprint & Win: givebutter.com/realchange-s... #RealChange #SummerSprint #Bumbershoot #Seattle

"In February 2024, I testified at the state legislature as a child trafficking survivor in support of the Strippers Bill of Rights to help repeal discriminatory laws that made performers in WA more vulnerable to being exploited." - @sabraboyd.bsky.social www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...

"The long descent into homelessness" Our friends at @stopthesweeps.bsky.social discuss how close we all are to homelessness, often one medical emergency or missed rent payment being enough to send us down a harmful spiral too fast to climb out of. Read More: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06...

Do you know where to find your hot-off-the-presses issue of Real Change News? It's out now! Read on for what's in this week's issue, and be sure to get your paper from a Real Change vendor like Richard Smith (Badge # 14565) from where he lights up Broadway & Denny! Papers are $2, cash or Venmo.

"When the Rainbow Fades," a new op-ed by @krystalmarx.bsky.social, delves into the economic & political forces impacting (falling) corporate Pride sponsorships. 👓 Read the full analysis in Real Change News: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/06... #RealChange #SocialJustice #PrideMonth #Pride

Congratulations to Seattle's best Staff Reporter - @guyoron.net!

Time for a new issue of Real Change! 🏳️‍🌈 Real Change E.D. @krystalmarx.bsky.social explains why corporate #Pride sponsorships are disappearing 👀 Seattle city council retracts plan to weaken ethics code (& CM Moore resigns) 🫂 How Washingtonians are dealing with Trump’s immigration crackdowns

FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance. 🔗: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/05... By @glentalk.bsky.social, Guest Writer #SPD #FBI #RealChange #BlackLivesMatter

As the Trump administration’s deportation efforts continue, here’s a refresher — compiled by @capitalb.bsky.social using information from the Florida Immigrant Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Immigration Law Center — on the rights of migrants.

⏰It's Wednesday, which means it's new issue time for Real Change! This week's paper includes an interview with Durell Green from CHOOSE 180, a Q&A with @mariafoscarinis.bsky.social, how the SPD and FBI infiltrated 2020 Seattle protests & the SPD defund that never happened. Cover 🎨: ZigZag (RIP)

After a frantic week of advocacy, Tent City 4 (TC4) residents have a place to stay in Lake City, at least for now. However, the lack of a location for TC4 as recently as 17 hours before the encampment was scheduled to move has raised concerns... Read @guyoron.net's full story: tinyurl.com/bp73bkd9

New issue alert! ⚽@sounderatheart.com asks: How will the Sounders spend the millions of dollars FIFA is giving soccer teams during the World Cup? ⛺Tent City 4 moved to a new site at the last minute, and @guyoron.net has the details. 🐶Dogs, dogs everywhere! #RealChange #StreetPaper

It's true! We're reading "How will the Sounders' Cup World Cup windfall be spent" on Page 5 in today's issue, on the streets now! Find a Real Change vendor selling the best street paper around, here: tinyurl.com/find-a-vendor @sounderatheart.com @soundersfc.com @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social