Kshama Sawant
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Seattle City Councilmember 2014-2023 • Socialist Alternative • Workers Strike Back •
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After months of declaring that Black Lives Matter, every single Democratic City Councilmember voted against the Peoples Budget & my office's proposal to develop legislation to establish an elected community oversight board with full powers over police, including hiring & firing.
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I just announced that I'll bring legislation banning police use of chemical weapons (including teargas, mace, pepper spray), rubber bullets/bean bags, water cannons, sonic/ultra-sonic weapons, and banning purchase of weapons, along with their use.
We'll need a movement to win.
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Breaking News: Seattle City Council unanimously passed our movement's & my socialist Council office's legislation banning Seattle police from using or purchasing teargas, blast balls, rubber bullets, other weapons!
HUGE congrats to our movement for this!
#BlackLivesMatter
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Our Tax Amazon movement has made history!
Seattle City Council just voted to pass an Amazon Tax on the largest corporations to fund affordable housing & jobs, to begin to end racist gentrification.
This is entirely because of the thousands of working people, unions, socialists!
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It's deeply unfortunate it was the right wing who've shown how to fight for something in Congress.
The Squad, also the Progressive Caucus headed by Jayapal, have utterly failed - refused - to use their leverage to stand up to Dem establishment & win ANY gains for working people.
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All but 1 of “Squad” crossed the picket line, voting w/ Dem-Rep majority to break rail workers’ strike.
A socialist can't be a strike breaker. This should result in expulsion from DSA. Failing that, the Squad’s betrayal of workers becomes DSA’s betrayal.
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Just got maced and gassed with hundreds others by Seattle police on 11th & Pine. With no provocation. All the movement was demanding was: Let us march!
Shameful violence under Mayor Durkan. And the 30-day tear gas pause is totally meaningless.
Durkan Must Go.
#DefundPolice
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What Minneapolis City Council actually did in relation to police:
Pass a resolution to create a yearlong study, AKA, spend a year pretending they’re doing something & hope the movement dies down in the meantime. This same Council voted to increase the police budget 6 months ago.
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Absolutely gut-wrenching passing away of Summer Taylor, who was run over by the driver of a car that ploughed into a Black Lives Matter protest march. Deepest condolences and solidarity to their family, friends, and fellow activists.
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Over 3 million Americans have lost their jobs. We're heading into a deep recession.
Jeff Bezos is $5.5 billion richer today, while exploiting delivery, grocery, and warehouse workers.
Tomorrow, I'll be announcing an accelerated Tax Amazon bill to fund citywide
#COVID19
relief.
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In city after city, Democrats have betrayed promises made during the height of
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
.
Demonstrating yet again that our movements, and movement leadership, need to be independent of the political establishment. And that we need a new party for the working class.
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Biden & Democrats had no issue bypassing Congressional oversight to attack Syria.
But they apparently couldn't overrule the non-binding opinion of the Senate parliamentarian for a $15/hour minimum wage.
Democrats use rules & "decorum" to justify selling out working people.
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It’s official: our movement has WON a historic, first-in-the-nation ban on caste discrimination in Seattle! Now we need to build a movement to spread this victory around the country ✊
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I stand w/ rail workers against the rotten “deal” being imposed by Democrats, including so-called progressives in Congress
If rail workers call actions/rallies this week, my office will be there. Labor MUST fight back w/ mass action to win a strong contract with paid sick leave!
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A politician's legacy is a political not personal question. An enthusiastic supporter of every imperialist war while in office, John McCain shares responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths. To whitewash that is to disrespect those who died in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere
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On an interview this evening, a reporter from corporate media asked me, isn't it selfish that essential and frontline workers at Instacart, Amazon, and hospitals are going on strike, when we have a pandemic?
Wanna talk about selfish: let's talk about the billionaires.
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Seattle doesn’t need a curfew, pepper spray, tear gas.
We need an end to racist police violence. We need economic & housing security, including immediate COVID relief, housing & jobs through the Amazon Tax. We need an end to the inhumane homeless sweeps.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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Yesterday, our movement won a historic victory, making Seattle the nation's FIRST city with a ban against police use or purchase of
Chemical weapons
Kinetic impact projectiles
acoustic weapons
directed energy weapons
water cannons
disorientation devices
ultrasonic cannons.
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Those arrested at the protests must be released immediately
Mayor Durkan must resign. If she refuses to, I will bring articles of impeachment forward.
Tomorrow, I'm bringing legislation to ban all chemical weapons, "crowd control devices" & chokeholds
#DefundPolice
#TaxAmazon
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As part of Defunding Seattle Police by at least 50%, we need to purge all officers who've committed police violence & brutality as well as those who gave the orders.
Seattle Police have a longstanding record of racist killings, violence against protests.
We need to clean house.
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The unfortunate truth is we're not going to tax the rich or win Medicare for All or 15 by attending billionaire galas.
We won Seattle's historic $15/hour & Amazon Tax not by me attending Amazon or Chamber of Commerce events, but by me using my office to build fighting movements.
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If a small group of workers in Buffalo can beat Starbucks executives to form a union, you can be sure the organized power of the working class can change society.
Congrats to Starbucks workers!
Let's unionize & build a militant, democratically-organized American labor movement.
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There is no reason why police officers should be paid over $150k/year, which is considerably more than most workers are paid.
Teachers and social workers should be paid better, rather than police officers getting overtime for abusing protesters, people of color, and the poor.
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As a socialist, I take only the average wage of a worker in my district, and give the rest of my salary to labor & other movements. I'm proud to donate $1,000 to
@SBWorkersUnited
strike fund. Let's stand with Starbucks workers! We need more of this: new unions and strike actions.
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I'm bringing a proposal today to cap Seattle police officer pay to $150k/year. Police Officers are some of the highest-paid in the city. This is not an accident, because throughout the history of class society, the class in power makes sure to pay their forces of repression first
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After the historic Amazon Tax victory last week in Seattle, our movement has just won $18 million/year (at least) of the Amazon Tax to be dedicated for affordable Central District homes for Black working-class and poor families. This is truly historic and first-time for our city.
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Trump's threat to send military to Seattle in retaliation against the youth-led anti-racist movement is a sign the right wing is growing scared of the powerful example.
We reject Trump and his horrific, reactionary agenda.
No military, no national guard, no racist police.
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If Durkan won't resign, I'll bring articles of impeachment
I'm bringing two bills to City Council tomorrow: ban chemical weapons & "crowd control devices" & ban chokeholds on ordinary people & protests
Need public testimony. Sign up 12PM Mon, speak 2PM
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STRIKE ALERT! Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE NOW at 2 stores in Seattle.
➡️Starbucks @ 5th & Pike
➡️Starbucks @ 2344 Eastlake Ave E
Workers are demanding a $20/hour starting wage, free healthcare, full staffing, and an END to union busting! Join me on the picket line!
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Our socialist Council office is fighting for
- a ban on Seattle police use/purchase of chemical weapons, rubber bullets, sonic/ultrasonic weapons
- a ban on chokeholds
- a cut in police budget by half to fund restorative justice
- Amazon Tax on big biz to fund housing & jobs.
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Peaceful but brave protest movement on Capitol Hill, placing flowers on the street in front of the militarized forces.
This elicited another comment from that disembodied voice on the SPD loudspeaker: You're placing objects near my officers. I'm warning you.
Objects = flowers
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The resolution from my office, urging Biden to lift COVID-19 patent restrictions, passed 7-1 in Seattle City Council.
Our movement rejects the status quo of billionaire-profit-driven vaccine apartheid & vaccine nationalism. We demand vaccine internationalism, a People’s Vaccine!
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Tonight, rank and file & progressive unions in ML King County Labor Council made history
We voted to expel Seattle Police from our labor movement!
Unions were built on the idea that an injury to one is an injury to all.
All working class united against racism, police violence
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We reject the crocodile tears of Mayor Durkan & the local Democratic establishment!
In 2018, every Democrat in City Hall voted for the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild contract, which rolled back the limited police accountability.
I was the only No vote on the City Council.
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Due to the pressure and unity of our community campaign, in just 30 hours, we've successfully forced the mayor to back down from evicting Northlake Tiny House Village in the winter, rejecting the anti-homeless logic of the right wing and Chamber of Commerce. When we fight, we win
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This is from tonight. This is why Durkan's 30-day teargas pause is all but meaningless.
Our movement needs to fight to win a permanent ban on police using ANY chemical weapons, weapons like rubber bullets & a permanent ban on chokeholds - both are bills I'm introducing Monday
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Seattle's Mayor just announced moratorium on residential evictions!
After nearly 7,000 signed this petition from my office. When we fight, we win!
KEEP SHARING the petition - let's get to 15K. We still need small biz protection & foreclosure moratorium.
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The only reason Democratic politicians were defeated today was because of the *absolutely ferocious* fightback from the movement - not because of the largesse of the Dems. Let's remember that as we head into a continued fight to defund police by at least 50%, and to cancel rent.
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Our movement's won a victory today. City Council voted to DEFUND the SWEEPS of homeless encampments.
Congrats to those fighting for years: homeless activists & advocates, People's Budget, socialists!
We need to keep organizing for tiny house villages, services, social housing.
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AOC recently claimed she couldn't fight against Democratic Leaders on behalf of workers because it would cause “relational harm” with those party leaders. What about the vast & very real harm taking place in the absence of such a fight for working people?
Working people asked AOC: why didn't you & Squad use
#ForceTheVote
? The right-wing Freedom Caucus did.
AOC's response: If we were to fight for something, we'd cause "relational harm" with the Democratic establishment. So we don't fight for anything.
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The overturning of Roe - despite overwhelming support for legal abortion - is a historic defeat for the women’s movement & represents a victory for the right.
While the right has waged a determined campaign, it is the Democrats & their NGO affiliates who allowed this to happen.
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Biden & Dems are selling out rail workers. The Congressional Progressive Caucus, who've failed on every issue of consequence to workers - whether 15 wage or Medicare for All - don't seem to be able to muster up backbone to stand up for a few days paid sick leave for rail workers.
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If you agree that Seattle police should NEVER use chemical weapons, rubber bullets, blast balls, or chokeholds on ordinary people and protest movements, will you
retweet this
speak in Monday public testimony. Sign up at 12 noon Monday and speak at 2PM.
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Billionaire wealth globally climbed to $10.2 trillion April-July, an increase of over 25%. Jeff Bezos alone has increased his wealth by $74B this year.
As the super-rich got super-richer at the height of pandemic, the economy plummeted and unemployment crippled tens of millions.
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Grand jury on Breonna Taylor killing is a grim reminder: courts under capitalism aren't on the side of oppressed & working people. They're an arm of the capitalist state & billionaires, who'll use every tool.
Need to organize independent mass movement on streets & in workplaces.
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I donated $10,000 from my solidarity fund to Starbucks workers courageously unionizing, despite union busting by billionaire bosses.
I take home the average worker's wage. The rest of my six-figure City Council salary after taxes goes into this solidarity fund.
@SBWorkersUnited
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Today I had an amendment to cap the salaries of City of Seattle executives at $150,000/year, which is far more than most workers make.
I've proposed this every year, and every year City Council has opposed it.
This year, once again, not ONE SINGLE Councilmember supported this.
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Working people asked AOC: why didn't you & Squad use
#ForceTheVote
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AOC's response: If we were to fight for something, we'd cause "relational harm" with the Democratic establishment. So we don't fight for anything.
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Congrats to Starbucks workers! We forced Seattle City Council Democrats to vote yes on our resolution demanding Starbucks stop their union busting.
Solidarity with Memphis workers who were fired. We need rallies in cities across the nation to demand Starbucks give the jobs back!
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The Texas energy nightmare is a warning sign of what could happen nationwide, unless working people actively begin the fight for a different society. Capitalism has failed to address climate disaster & created an infrastructure nightmare for most of us & profits for a few.
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The movement, led by a multi-racial community of youth, won a major victory, forcing Seattle police & the big business-backed establishment to leave East Precinct. The movement was undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan's police. Congratulations, solidarity!
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Seattle Police officer Daniel Auderer cackled in response to the death of Jaanhavi Kandula, a young Indian exchange student, after she was run over by a police vehicle. And he said her life "had limited value."
Working people need to demand an independent, public investigation…
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Despite the ban our movement won, a federal judge has shamefully ruled Seattle police can continue to use weapons like tear gas & blast balls.
It's particularly chilling this comes in tandem with Trump’s decision to send border patrol agents like an occupying army into Seattle.
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Luxury property developer and CEO Tim Gurner, who owns nearly a billion dollars in wealth, says:
"Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."…
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Working people want to see the Squad stand up to the establishment. Progressive leaders and leaders of major labor unions need to harness that desire and publicly urge that the Squad use their numerical balance & refuse to vote on the MUST PASS stimulus bill unless $15 is in it.
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On Monday, I'll introduce two bills:
One to ban Seattle police from using any chemical weapons (tear gas, pepper spray, mace), rubber bullets/blast balls/bean bags, water cannons, sonic weapons.
Another to ban the use of chokeholds.
Both to be voted on as soon as possible.
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As a socialist, I'll be voting to override corporate Mayor Durkan's shameful veto of the August budget vote.
If Councilmembers do not override Durkan's veto, it'll be nothing but a capitulation on even the tiny reductions in police spending & other modest gains our movement won.
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"Breonna’s home should never have had police. When the layers are peeled back, the origin of Breonna’s home being raided by police starts with a political need to clear out a street for a large real estate development project & finishes w/ [the police]."
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Last month, over 96% of Minneapolis teachers voted to strike for the first time in over 50 yrs. Today is their first day on strike. They are fighting for competitive pay, more mental health staff, $35k starting pay for support professionals, smaller class sizes, & racial equity
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The 1970 8-day illegal, wildcat postal worker strike created the USPS, won collective bargaining for postal workers despite Nixon, improved wages, conditions, benefits.
Today, the USPS is the most popular federal service, a lifeline for millions, especially low-income people.
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Mayor Durkan and her deputies are eager to get in front of TV cameras and denounce the murder of
#GeorgeFloyd
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They refuse to
#SayTheirNames
. So today in City Council, I did.
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Rayshard Brooks was murdered *yesterday* by Atlanta police.
No, we don't need more "studies" or "process" from Democratic establishment, who are as complicit as the police who act under them.
Independently elected community oversight with FULL powers over police
#DefundPolice
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The Democrats on Seattle City Council have refused to Defund police. They voted No on the People's Budget demand to defund the police by 50%.
Now they're getting ready to roll back what they voted yes on: to have $375K for community by limiting bloated police executive salaries.
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My office has announced first-in-the-nation legislation to ban caste discrimination in Seattle.
Like racism, caste is rooted in class society & capitalism.
We need working-class solidarity to force the Democrats to vote yes.
Sign & share the petition!
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Our experience in Seattle shows we cannot rely on Democrats - even progressive ones - to win a federal $15 minimum wage.
Seattle’s historic $15/hour minimum wage was won by a socialist strategy, basing itself on 15 Now, an independently & democratically organized mass movement.
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हमारे आंदोलन ने अमेरिका के सिएटल में जातिगत भेदभाव पर प्रतिबंध जीतकर इतिहास रच दिया है!
दमन और आर्थिक शोषण के विरुद्ध लड़ने के लिए हमें वैश्विक स्तर पर anti-capitalist आंदोलनों की जरूरत है।
और हमें मजदूर वर्ग द्वारा, और उसके लिए, चलने वाले समाज की जरूरत है - एक समाजवादी समाज।
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When people who profess to be progressive but claim there's no choice but to have faith in Dems & someone has the political courage to admit they were wrong about having faith in Dems & that we need to fight Dems to to win anything, the pro-est people resort to character attacks.
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As a workers" representative, I take only the average worker’s wage. The rest, after taxes, of my $146,000 City Councilmember salary goes into a solidarity fund for labor & social movements.
I just donated $20,000 from this fund to
@amazonlabor
for the union struggle at Amazon!
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Rittenhouse being acquitted of all charges is a sickening travesty of justice & reminder that all of capitalism's institutions are complicit in this racist, murderous system that's exploitative of the vast majority. We'll need powerful mass movements uniting the working class.
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All of Seattle's Democratic City Councilmembers shamefully just voted to increase car tab fees - one of the most deeply regressive taxes - on working-class & poor people instead of increasing the Amazon Tax by about two one-hundredths of one percent to fund transportation needs.
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'Striketober' is in full swing.
"Corporate America wants to frame this as a 'labor shortage. Wrong. What's really going on is ... a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, a healthcare shortage..."
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Socialist Alternative & I send solidarity to my fellow left & socialist elected representatives, Congressmembers Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Bush, Squad who've faced serious threats in recent weeks, only to be met with right-wing gaslighting & dismissal of their very legitimate fears.
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Mayor Durkan has failed the working people of Seattle since day one of her administration. She has now abused her power, and harmed thousands of ordinary people – all in defense of big business & the status quo of racism and inequality. This past week has been the final straw.
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Stunning gaslighting words from Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best.
Repeated statements on how police violence is needed because some people are "looking to start a fight".
As a socialist, not much surprises me in politics, but I'm literally shaking in disgust at this display.
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Progressives,
#Squad
can STILL force $15 into the
#COVIDReliefBill
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It will take political courage.
They will have to stand up to Democratic establishment pressure, withhold their votes, call on millions of supporters to back them up.
The left needs a fighting strategy to win.
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As socialists in solidarity with working people globally, we say:
* No to imperialist intervention in the Middle East. Withdraw US troops from the region.
* Support movements in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon in their struggle against poverty, corruption, ethnic division.
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We have to be sober. The ruling class - incl Democrats who presided over George Floyd’s death - would sacrifice one “bad apple” to prop up their rotten tree. The criminal justice system is still intact. Just this year, 319 people have been killed nationally at the hands of police
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#DefundDAPL
bill passes! Join us for final vote on Monday, 2/6, 2pm!
#StartWithSeattle
#MniWiconi
#NoDAPL
!
@ShaunKing
@wakiyan7
@350_Seattle
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Today I am introducing legislation to ban
@MayorJenny
& future mayors from allowing police to use chemical weapons & chokeholds.
Tomorrow Tue 6PM at Cal Anderson park, join me and hundreds others in our movement's rally to
#DefundPolice
,
#TaxAmazon
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A huge victory for the People's Budget and the Black Lives Matter movements today.
The majority of City Council approved our movement's & my office's proposal to reduce the pay of the 13 Police executives ($200K - $300K/year) to the lowest rung in their respective pay bands.
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"I've no respect for the stars & stripes, or any other flag symbolizing slavery. Triumphant socialism will haul down that flag & every other that symbolizes capitalist class rule & wage slavery. I'm a patriot, but in the sense that I love all countries."
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Amazon saying it'll pay $15/hour minimum wage is huge victory for warehouse workers who exposed exploitative conditions & for Seattle's Tax Amazon movement that forced Bezos' bullying out in the open. Let's continue the fight: unionize Amazon workers, win federal $15, tax Amazon!
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The need for paid leave during Coronavirus quarantine is a big unresolved issue. Though the labor movement fought for & won paid sick leave in WA, it's limited. Many workers are left out, including contract workers. We need to publicly demand corporations pay for quarantine leave
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All 8 Democrats shamefully voted to end hazard pay for Seattle's grocery workers. I was unable to attend, but I've categorically opposed this all year. Retaining this hazard pay was the least the Dems could've done. Really, they should've expanded it for to essential workers.
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News flash: The political establishment has no intention of defunding police.
Leaving aside Mayor's promised $16M cut, Democrats want to cut only $2.6M out of the remaining 2020 SPD $170M.
That's not a typo, $2.6M.
The People's Budget proposal would cut $69M. We need to fight.
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New Seattle poll shows over 50% people support defunding police by 50%.
The KOMO TV report of this poll points out that the largest portion, $35 million, of our People's Budget proposed $85M defund would fund affordable working-class housing in communities facing gentrification.
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All detained released in Chicago! Let's keep the sit-in going until
#SeaTac
detainees freed too!
#MuslimBan
#NoBanNoWall
#ResistTrump
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There were probably 20 minutes of thank yous from Councilmembers today.
Not one (other than when I spoke) thanked the Tax Amazon movement, the 100s who sacrificed, whose sweat, tears built this grassroots campaign & collected 30,000 signatures w/o which this wouldn't have passed
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Shame on Mayor Jenny Durkan for deploying Seattle police yesterday in a brutal attack against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters & homeless neighbors at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP).
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The far right violence at the Capitol is the result not only of Trump, but also of the complete failure of the Democratic establishment to stand against his attacks on the working class in any meaningful way over the last four years.
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The working class, the labor movement, the climate justice movement, and the left as a whole need a new party that is by and for workers.
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The force of our Tax Amazon movement, our grassroots multi-racial, working-class solidarity and our determination to smash all obstacles from big biz has forced Seattle City Council Budget Committee to pass an Amazon Tax.
The final vote is on Monday, but this is truly HISTORIC!
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Predictable but unfortunate "the squad" failed to
#ForceTheVote
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#MedicareForAll
.
Obviously, the tactic should be tied to strategy of breaking from Democrats & building a new party for working people. But failing to use elected positions to fight for our side is a non-starter.
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It's crucial
@UAW
Prez
@ShawnFainUAW
is condemning repression & mass arrests of antiwar protesters on campuses.
Now's the time for Brother Fain & UAW leaders to rescind the endorsement of Biden, the warmonger-in-chief.
The labor movement needs to say NO to both Biden & Trump.…
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Not to mention the countless working people's lives damaged by McCain's support, as a Senator, for brutal neoliberal social and economic policies in the United States. Our solidarity belongs with the millions of families suffering under such policies here & abroad.
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Shame on Mayor Durkan for using the cover of the COVID crisis to crack down on protesters. Durkan & other local establishment politicians, who claim to be saddened by the murder of George Floyd, have enabled the systematic racism and violence from the Seattle Police Department.
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Yesterday in Portland, as 100,000 are still without power, at least one grocery store began throwing away massive amounts of food, thinking if the store couldn’t sell the food for a profit, the food would be better going rotten than feeding people in need.
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I testified to strongly support a statewide tax on profiteering rich & to oppose any attacks on Seattle’s Amazon Tax. Stunningly, Dem State Rep Noel Frame rudely interrupted me many times, saying I wasn't maintaining "decorum" & silenced me (literally muted me on the Zoom call).
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Solidarity means continuing the fight: defund police by 50%; immediate release of protesters without charges; East Precinct permanently into community control; 1,000 homes im Central District w/ Amazon Tax; independent elected community oversight board w full powers over police.
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