Social Issues

Young internal refuges Mindanao Philippines

High in the mountains of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines Internal refugees displaced from the more hospitable lowlands by agribusiness supported by the corrupt government in Manila have created a community called Kamingawan ("wilderness"), on jungle forest land logged out and abandoned by the same cut and run cronies of the regime.

At home, Pansur Nauli, North Sumatra Malaysia

In communities across the Pacific basin indigenous communities have seen self-sustaining local economies collapse as international agribusiness moves in to take over the best agricultural lands. Leaving families destitute and dependent on the whims and labor needs of markets half a world away. In North Sumatra the lowlands have been taken over by rubber plantations, while the uplands have been taken over by coffee plantations to stock Starbucks and the like around the world.

Internal Refugee, Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao Philippines

Forced off prime agricultural lands many Filipinnos from rural areas travel to cities seeking work and living in squalid conditions.

Internal Refugee, Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao Philippines

Forced off prime agricultural lands many Filipinos from rural areas travel to cities seeking work and living in squalid conditions.

Iraq War Protesters Seattle

Young protesters marched against the first Gulf War

Anarchist, Seattle

The Seattle area has been a locus of left wing politics and anarchist movements long before the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The pattern dates back to the labor movement of the early 1900s when Industrial Workers of the world members in nearby Everett were gunned down in the streets by a rapidly assembled "militia" of "deputies" Most so-called anarchist groups are small disorganized collections of disaffected young people like these protesting against the World Trade Organization.

Nursing Home of Asian Elders, Seattle

At Keiro nursing home in Seattle, WA. Tom Kim, a volunteer (center), helps his father Kwan Kim and other Alzheimers patients

Alzheimers Patient, Seattle

At a nursing home in Seattle, a wife tries to feed her husband who is lost in the fog of Alzheimers

Brain Research University of Washington

At the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, a student volunteer participates in brain function research .

Healthcare at University of Washington Medical Center

UWMC patient Chelsea Williams, who suffers from MS and high blood pressure, undergoes a stress test at the UWMC Regional Heart Center as Dr. Larry Dean, Center Director, looks over.

Palliative Care, Community Health Center of Central Wyoming

Casper, WY, Community Health Center of Central Wyoming affiliated with University of Washington family practice residence in partnership with the WAMMI program. Cortney Vandenburgh, a forth year medical student on clerkship from Kanas City University of Missouri of medicine and bio-science, with Jeremy Starr D.O. Chief Resident of Wyoming Medical Center, on early morning rounds, visit patients, check x-rays, and other clinic responsibilities.

Rural Health Care, Community Health Center of Central Wyoming

Casper, WY Sept. 14, 2004, Community Health Center of Central Wyoming affiliated with UW family practice residence in partnership with the WAMMI program, which makes medical education accessible to students by decentralizing the educational process and share existing facilities and personnel. Dr. Madhu Hooda, MD, confers with a patient of the Health Center.

Rural Health Care Community Health Center of Central Wyoming

Casper, WY Sept. 14, 2004, Community Health Center of Central Wyoming affiliated with UW family practice residence in partnership with the WAMMI program, which makes medical education accessible to students by decentralizing the educational process and share existing facilities and personnel. Jeremy Morse, a second year resident from the WAMMI program, confers with a patient.

Elder care, Seattle

old guy sitting

Family Homelessness, Seattle

Angela and Leonard DeClue, and their children trudge across Seattle's Capitol Hill on a winter evening en route to a family housing shelter.

Family Homelessness, Seattle

Angela and Leonard DeClue, and their children wait at a downtown bus stop during their search for shelter housing.

Family Homelessness, Seattle

Angela DeClue comforts her sons Sean,2, and Alexander, 5. The homeless family spend their days at the Family and Adult Service Center in Seattle. At 8:20 each evening the family must board a city bus for a 40 minute ride to a church which provides them a place to sleep for the night. At 6:20 each morning the family is awakened and by 6:40 they are on a bus heading back to the FASC facility downtown. From there the older children depart on another one hour bus ride to school while their parents deal with the small children and the sometimes daunting bureaucracy faced by the homeless.

Family Homelessness Seattle

Alexander DeClue, 5, recovering from a long day of traversing Seattle by bus and the added trama of half a dozen shots and vacinations, rests in his mother's arms at the Family and Adult Service Center in downtown Seattle. The homeless family spend their days at the Family and Adult Service Center in Seattle. At 8:20 each evening the family must board a city bus for a 40 minute ride to a church which provides them a place to sleep for the night. At 6:20 each morning the family is awakened and by 6:40 they are on a bus heading back to the FASC facility downtown. From there the older children depart on another one hour bus ride to school while their parents deal with the small children and the sometimes daunting bureaucracy faced by the homeless.

Family Homelessness Seattle

The homeless family of Leonard and Angela DeClue and their four boys Jeremiah, 9, Alexander 5 and twins Sean and Darien, 2, (photographed in an alley in downtown Seattle)spend their days at the Family and Adult Service Center in Seattle. At 8:20 each evening the family must board a city bus for a 40 minute ride to a church which provides them a place to sleep for the night. At 6:20 each morning the family is awakened and by 6:40 they are on a bus heading back to the FASC facility downtown. From there the older children depart on another one hour bus ride to school while their parents deal with the small children and the sometimes daunting bureaucracy faced by the homeless.

Homeless, Seattle

At the surplus former Federal Office Building/Immigration and Naturalization building in Seattle's International District, a homeless man prepares his bed for the nighht. SHARE/WHEEL, a cooperative of homeless people runs this and 12 other shelters and is the city's largest provider of emergency housing for Seattle's estimated 8,000+ homeless people. This shelter attracts two to three dozen homeless per night. The facility which was used as a jail for illegal aliens, is spartan but affords a dry and safe environment. Volunteers from among the group manage the facility and provide security.

Homeless, Seattle

At Seattle's Union Gospel Mission some of Seattle chronically homeless population hear a mandatory sermon in the chapel prior to enjoying a special Veteran's Day lunch of hamburgers and fries. Seattle's homeless population is estimated at 8,000 and the missions are where the hardest cases usually end up.