On February 27th, a talk in the Conversations on Social Issues (COSI) series about restorative justice was held in Room A at the Seattle Central Library. The event featured Community and Youth Organizer of Washington Building Leaders of Change (WA-BLOC), Jerrell Davis,aka Rell Be Free. The talk focused on the…
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COSI talk: The problem with commodifying information
Have you ever noticed targeted ads appearing in your Facebook or Instagram feeds after searching for a particular product online? Why are textbooks so costly? Dave Ellenwood, librarian, presented The Problem with Commodifying Information at Thursday’s COSI. The word commodity brings to mind tangible goods and raw materials for sale…
COSI talk: Let It Not Happen Again
More than 50 people filled conference room A on Thursday at noon. Opening and hosting the discussion was Clarence Moriwaki, who boasts many titles such as founder of the Japanese Exclusion Memorial, and former aide to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Moriwaki began the COSI talk with a brief history of…
Conversations on social issues: MMIW
The most recent COSI event on Thursday, October 10th, welcomed Chelsea Hendrickson (an enrolled member of the Northern Arapaho and Cup’iq people) as well as several guest speakers to lead the discussion on the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) in Canada and the US. Awareness of the…





