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  Speakers Forum

  Erica Barnett shakes-up and stirs the conversation around alcoholism and addiction

  When Seattle based reporter Erica Barnett took her first sip of alcohol as a young teen, she had no idea just how impactful that moment would later become. Nor did she realize how inadequate rehabilitation centers, inspirational self-help mottos, and truisms about a “rock bottom” (something Barnett never truly felt) would be for her.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  New 'Twilight' book promises to rekindle vampire tourism, but pandemic could also put stake in it

  The Twilight phenomenon gets an injection of fresh blood this Tuesday with the release of a new installment in the bestselling vampire saga from author Stephenie Meyer. The series of novels and subsequent hit movies spurred legions of fans to visit the fictional story's real-life setting on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. But a predicted "renaissance" in vampire tourism could be bled by the resurgent virus pandemic.
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  Engage

  Protest Book Club: Great reads for change with Seattle's hip-hop professor

  Dr. Daudi Abe along with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and public radio listeners explore recommendations for revolutionary reads.
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  Engage

  Pandemic Book Club: Reading recommendations from Nancy Pearl and KUOW listeners

  Book Lust author Nancy Pearl talks with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and public radio listeners about great reads for lockdown
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  Speakers Forum

  We need to talk about charter schools...

  Diane Ravitch was once an avid supporter of charter schools, affiliated with various right wing think tanks. She came to a turning point when she could no longer stay quiet about the fact that charter schools were floundering. A former Assistant Secretary of Education, Ravitch took a bold step. She reversed her previous position and began a journey toward defending public schools and educators
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  Speakers Forum

  Before you try reading the entire Harry Potter series to your child…there might be another way to spark a love of literature.

  Raising children in a time when technological advances skew traditional modes of learning can be challenging. But many children prefer screen technology to books. Before you’re tempted to take away the tech to boost a young child’s vocabulary, you might want to listen to what New York Time’s editors Maria Russo and Pamela Paul have to say.
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  Speakers Forum

  Migrants: Locked up and forgotten? How U.S. citizens hold the key

  According to immigration lawyer César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, the dissolving of immigration prisons in the US is a good first step towards mending our immigration system.
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  Speakers Forum

  'Woke' capitalism? Anand Giridharadas isn't buying it

  ‘We don’t have a bad apple problem, we have an bad orchard problem ’ Anand Giridharadas remarks to a Seattle audience.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  E-book battle: King County Library boycotts major publisher

  Macmillan announced libraries would have to repurchase new e-books every two months, instead of every two years.
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  Speakers Forum

  ‘Planetary arsonists,’ Naomi Klein calls some world leaders. But she has hope

  In 2018, the intergovernmental panel on climate change released a report that detailed that unprecedented transformation in every aspect of society was needed to curb the effects of climate change. It gave a timeline of 12 years. We now have 11 yrs. The information in the report has given way to a rise in activism in younger generations, scientists, as well as given momentum to the proposed US legislation The Green New Deal. Its becoming apparent there's an upward trend of considering climate change in the-present and future-decision making practices of societies-and individuals. But, according to author Naomi Klein, the true required actions to avoid further and greater devastation of climate change isn’t happening rapidly enough…

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