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The COVID-19 vaccine touches down in Seattle

Against a backdrop of surging cases and limited supply, how quickly will inoculations start to provide relief? A look at how Canada has done with this pandemic (like most other countries, the answer is “better than us”). Looking back at protests for civil rights in the ‘60s, and challenging our narratives about political violence today.

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Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on WA vaccine rollout

62,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are landing in King County today. Who will get them, and how? KUOW’s Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is the station’s expert on all things vaccine.

COVID in Canada

How are things going to the north? Next week will mark nine months of Canadian-American border closures. CBC municipal affairs reporter Justin McElroy shares how British Columbia is doing with the virus and arriving vaccines.

CORE activists reflect

In civil rights-era Seattle, the Congress of Racial Equality took a stand for racial justice. Founding members Jean Durning, Joan Singler, and Norman Johnson look back at that time.

Does peaceful protest have a monopoly on legitimacy?

One well-worn hallmark of protests in the 1950s and 60s was nonviolence. But political violence and destruction of property goes back to the founding of this country, says Wellesley College historian Kellie Carter Jackson. And we have a double standard for violence today depending on who’s flipping the cop car.

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