Sheri
On September 3, 2008, the Seattle Weekly printed a story regarding a county agency discriminating against a Tarot card reader who wished to offer her services for a charity event:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-09-03/news/psychic-s-donation-not-accepted/
Here is the King County Solid Waste Division web page announcing the event that Ms. Chauran applied to support:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/environme...es/2008/september/0905Waste-Free-Holiday.aspx
Discrimination in any form should not be tolerated - absolutely not by a county office or organization. The American Tarot Association (ATA) has issued a response in the form of a letter to King County Executive Ron Sims, along with the following Press Release regarding the discriminatory actions of the King County Solid Waste Division. The ATA called for an apology to Ms. Chauran as well as allowing her to read at the Waste Free Holiday program if she chooses to.
I've attached the Press Release we've sent -- it's not on the ATA website yet (but it will be in the September issue of Tarot Reflections).
The above words along with the Press Release were also sent to the Seattle Times and the Post-Intelligencer as well as being posted as a comment to the story and sent as a Letter to the Editor at the Seattle Weekly.
Please feel free to add your voices by posting comments to the story (at the address above) as well as sending email to:
exec.sims@metrokc.gov
King County Executive Ron Sims (highest level within county government, I believe)
These people were copied on the letter and response sent to Ron Sims:
megan.sety@kingcounty.gov
KCSWD employee that turned Ms. Chauran down
logan.harris@kingcounty.gov
Public Affairs manager for KCSWD
Contacting the newspapers...
citydesk@seattlepi.com
News desk at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sending comments to the reporter and editor of the Seattle Weekly and the Seattle Times news desk (as a news tip) is more difficult as they don't have email addresses, you have to go to their websites and fill out a form.
Seattle Weekly: go to address of story and click reporter's name (Jesse Froehling) to send to him, and "Write to Editor" icon at top of article to open form to send to Editor (the same form).
Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/services/contactus.html?tab=newstip
I think maybe the TV stations are next...
valeria
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-09-03/news/psychic-s-donation-not-accepted/
Here is the King County Solid Waste Division web page announcing the event that Ms. Chauran applied to support:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/environme...es/2008/september/0905Waste-Free-Holiday.aspx
Discrimination in any form should not be tolerated - absolutely not by a county office or organization. The American Tarot Association (ATA) has issued a response in the form of a letter to King County Executive Ron Sims, along with the following Press Release regarding the discriminatory actions of the King County Solid Waste Division. The ATA called for an apology to Ms. Chauran as well as allowing her to read at the Waste Free Holiday program if she chooses to.
I've attached the Press Release we've sent -- it's not on the ATA website yet (but it will be in the September issue of Tarot Reflections).
The above words along with the Press Release were also sent to the Seattle Times and the Post-Intelligencer as well as being posted as a comment to the story and sent as a Letter to the Editor at the Seattle Weekly.
Please feel free to add your voices by posting comments to the story (at the address above) as well as sending email to:
exec.sims@metrokc.gov
King County Executive Ron Sims (highest level within county government, I believe)
These people were copied on the letter and response sent to Ron Sims:
megan.sety@kingcounty.gov
KCSWD employee that turned Ms. Chauran down
logan.harris@kingcounty.gov
Public Affairs manager for KCSWD
Contacting the newspapers...
citydesk@seattlepi.com
News desk at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sending comments to the reporter and editor of the Seattle Weekly and the Seattle Times news desk (as a news tip) is more difficult as they don't have email addresses, you have to go to their websites and fill out a form.
Seattle Weekly: go to address of story and click reporter's name (Jesse Froehling) to send to him, and "Write to Editor" icon at top of article to open form to send to Editor (the same form).
Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/services/contactus.html?tab=newstip
I think maybe the TV stations are next...
valeria