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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 31/12/2025

There are 12 hours left in the year. Donate now to help us reach our $200K end-of-year fundraising goal! 2025 has been a BIG YEAR for Real Change – one of celebration, grief and action. 🧵 ⬇️

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 24/12/2025

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Real Change!🎄☃️ ➡️ During this season of giving, please consider making a gift to Real Change tinyurl.com/rcwfd25 For hundreds, our Vendor Center means possibility, hope and community. Your donation keeps this space open for our neighbors who need it most!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 17/12/2025

There are TWO WEEKS left in our Winter Fund Drive! 💙❄️ If you haven’t yet, give now to help us raise $200K by Dec. 31: tinyurl.com/rcwfd25 For 31 years, Real Change’s Vendor Program has provided our neighbors with the resources and care they need to THRIVE. Donations of every size power this work!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 16/12/2025

Every Winter Solstice, WHEEL stands vigil to honor the homeless people who’ve died outside, in public or by violence in #KingCounty that year. Please join Homeless Remembrance Project in remembering, grieving and honoring our community on Sunday, Dec. 21. #WithoutShelterPeopleDie

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 06/12/2025

As a result, workers have decided to play one final card: A national, open-ended strike. Starting on Nov. 13, baristas in more than 40 cities went on strike, picketing outside their stores and shutting them down.

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 04/12/2025

Want to read all this in print AND support essential Seattle workers? Buy a copy from Real Change vendor Dawn! Dawn (badge #13757) has made a living as a vendor since 2017. She typically sells outside the Lake City Post Office. Next time you’re in the area, stop by to say hi & grab a paper! 📰💕

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 04/12/2025

A new issue has hit the #Seattle streets! In this week's paper: - @guyoron.net covers @sbworkersunited.org's nationwide strike. - Our newsroom announces our new generative AI policy. - Dev Manager Kelly Nguyen writes about the power of community. 📍Find a vendor now: tinyurl.com/find-a-vendor

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 03/12/2025

"Local news is under threat." - @typewriteralley.bsky.social There’s still time to support Real Change’s independent journalism this #GivingTuesday! ➡️ Donate now to power our newsroom – and help us get closer to our critical end-of-year fundraising goal: tinyurl.com/give4change25

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 02/12/2025

There are 12 hours left in #GivingTuesday. So far, 20 generous community members have donated to our campaign. Can we DOUBLE that by the end of the day? 💙✨ 💕 ➡️ tinyurl.com/give4change25 🌟 Not able to give? 🌟 Share this post with 5 friends to help us get the word out about our campaign!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 02/12/2025

#GivingTuesday is tomorrow. Help us raise $50K during this radical day of giving! 💕 @nerd4cities.bsky.social is one of thousands of readers who knows how vital Real Change is. ➡️ Join us in our fight for a future where EVERYONE can live & thrive in Seattle now: tinyurl.com/give4change25

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 27/11/2025

#GivingTuesday is coming up on Dec. 2, and we're choosing to kick things off early! Last #GivingTuesday, our community raised over $70K. ✨ This year, we hope to raise $50K by Dec. 2 to fund our programs and bring us closer to our major Winter Fund Drive goal. ➡️ Join us: tinyurl.com/give4change25

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 27/11/2025

A new issue of Real Change has hit the streets! 📰 💕 In this week's paper, we're covering Seattle protests calling for an end to the civil war in Sudan, a campaign calling for Seattle Housing Authority to repair its housing & more. 📍 Find a Real Change vendor near you: tinyurl.com/find-a-vendor

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 12/11/2025

Jen Tibbits (badge # 12894) sells the paper outside the View Ridge PCC. 📰💕 Next time you’re in the area, stop by to say hi and buy a paper for just $2, cash or Venmo! 📍 Find a Real Change vendor who sells the paper in your neighborhood: tinyurl.com/find-a-vendor

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 12/11/2025

It’s Wednesday and you know what that means: another issue of Real Change is hot off the press! ✨ In this week's print paper: @guyoron.net breaks down local election results, @glentalk.bsky.social covers Israeli ties to Seattle's government (c/o @sgn.org) & more!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 04/11/2025

We’re less than 72 hours out from our biggest event of the year: our 31st Anniversary Celebration 🎉 If you haven’t yet, now’s the time to RSVP and secure your seat: givebutter.com/rise-and-refuel Can’t make it out? You can help us celebrate 31 years by donating at the link above. 💙 💛

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 30/10/2025

Free next Thursday, Nov. 6th? ✨Join us in Pioneer Square for the biggest Real Change event of the year!✨ Together, we're celebrating 31 years of economic opportunity, independent journalism and housing justice. 🌅💕 ➡️ RSVP now: givebutter.com/rise-and-refuel

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 29/10/2025

A new issue of Real Change is out now! Buy a paper from a #streetpaper vendor while you're out celebrating spooky season. 🎃📰 Read about Seattle's City Attorney race, local fashion scene, and why @cjayeasye.bsky.social wants the city's progressive media to do better in our Oct. 29 issue.

Real Change vendor Cliff Tymony holds up the latest issue of the newspaper. On the cover is a photo of a competitor at the inaugural Fresh Fit competition in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park. On top is the title "Fresh Fit."

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 27/10/2025

For 16 years, King County has had the same person helming the ship: former KC Exec Dow Constantine. @guyoron.net spoke to the front runners who hope to take on the mantle: Claudia Balducci & Girmay Zahilay. Read about both & check out all of our 2025 election coverage online ➡️ bit.ly/realvote2025

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 23/10/2025

There are just two weeks left until we come together to celebrate 31 YEARS of Real Change! 🎉 🌟 Rise & Refuel🌟 📅 Thursday, Nov. 6 at 10 AM 📍 THE 101 in Pioneer Square 🎤 Hosted by @bretthamil.bsky.social; feat. Malou Chávez of @nwirp.bsky.social 🔗 RSVP now: givebutter.com/rise-and-refuel

Graphic with the text "Rise & Refuel: 31 Years of Real Change. Nov 6, 10 AM. THE 101, 101 S Jackson St., Seattle. Register online at: givebutter.com/rise-and-refuel." On top of the graphic is a sun vector on top of a stylized photo of the outside of Real Change's office.

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 22/10/2025

A new issue of your favorite Seattle newspaper has hit the streets! In this week’s paper, @guyoron.net talks to KC Exec candidates, @sabraboyd.bsky.social shares where Seattleites can find free COVID vaccines & more! Find a Real Change vendor near you to read it in print: tinyurl.com/find-a-vendor

Real Change vendor Jeremy Quinlan holds up the latest issue of the Real Change newspaper. The cover features a photo of owners of Studio 7117 in Seattle. On top is the title "Studio 7117 Reflects on Art and Community."

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 05/09/2025

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! 🌟

celebrating 31 years season after season

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 26/08/2025

📰 Find it on page 2 of the Aug 20 issue of @realchangenews.bsky.social available from your local #streetpaper vendor. Real Change vendors are folks with lived experience of homelessness and poverty who earn income selling the paper. Grab one for $2 (cash or Venmo)! 📸: Mia Anderson/Unsplash

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 26/08/2025

💻 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.

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 22/08/2025

Hungry for more? 😋 Devour the rest of the feature online here: 🔗https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/08/20/all-youth-can-eat-program-feeds-hundreds-kids-week-free-meals 📸: Hong Ta & Marian Mohamed

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 22/08/2025

"Initially called “Every Kid Eats,” he started the program in 2022, when he began going to dozens of individual restaurants and pitching the idea. In its inaugural year, seven restaurants participated. Three summers later, the total is now 18." 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 22/08/2025

🍴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. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 22/08/2025

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. 💛

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 21/08/2025

Outside of work, Kelly loves crafting, traveling, cooking, & dancing at live concerts 🎶 We’re so excited to have her on the Real Change team! ✨ #RealChangeNews #NewStaffSpotlight #WelcomeKelly

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 21/08/2025

☀️ 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. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 20/08/2025

James Wade (Badge #10880) has been a Real Change vendor for 17 years and is always rocking a sick bucket hat 😎. Celebrate our birthday by picking up the latest issue for just $2 (cash or Venmo) from James or find your local #streetpaper vendor at the link on our website! 📸: Marian Mohamed

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 20/08/2025

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: 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 19/08/2025

✨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! 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 16/08/2025

Read more online here: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/08... 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 16/08/2025

“The first Thursday of every month is a special day in Pioneer Square. As the sun begins to set and casts a deep orange hue across the sky, the historic neighborhood awakens." 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 16/08/2025

😎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. 🎨 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 14/08/2025

Real Change vendors are folks with lived experiences of homelessness and poverty who make an income selling our newspaper on the streets of Seattle. Next time you see a vendor buy a paper for $2, cash or Venmo!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 14/08/2025

Read it on page 2 of the August 13 issue of @realchangenews.bsky.social when you buy it from your local #streetpaper vendor. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 14/08/2025

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. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 13/08/2025

Buy our new issue from Larry Perkins (Badge #7752) or find your nearest local vendor here: www.google.com/maps/d/viewe... 📸 Cover art by @patty Patty Tang

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 13/08/2025

☀ 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: 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 08/08/2025

Every summer canoe families from across the region — and sometimes as far away as places like New Zealand and Thailand — begin the annual journey, starting from their communities and visiting Native nations across the Salish sea at the end of July. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 08/08/2025

This year, for the first time in nearly 15 years since deconstruction began on two dams, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is the host nation. After landing in Elwha, west of Port Angeles, Washington, comes five days of protocol with the sharing of songs, dance, meals and gifts. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 08/08/2025

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. 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 06/08/2025

Find a vendor nearby at the link in our bio. Papers are $2, cash or venmo!

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 06/08/2025

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: 👇

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 05/08/2025

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

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 04/08/2025

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.

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 01/08/2025

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...

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 30/07/2025

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 ⬇️

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Real Change 🗞️ @realchangenews.org · 26/07/2025

🚨 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!

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