Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s Socialist City Councilmember, Kshama Sawant, is in the midst of a major fight for re-election. U.S. elections are long and expensive compared to most of the world. Seattle city elections are in two parts: a primary that runs through August 6 and then […]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The business-backed campaign to defeat Kshama Sawant is likely to make this City Council race the most expensive in Seattle history (the 2015 campaign to unseat Sawant set the previous record!). Three months before the August primary, which will select the top two candidates […]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In the four years since city and county officials declared a “State of Emergency” on homelessness, the situation has gone from bad to worse. Unfortunately, the dangerous, right-populist ideas animating “Seattle is Dying” are likely to gain growing support in the absence of any […]
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Nick Jones is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After two months of intensive fightback from working people and renters, the Seattle City Council voted 8-1 on November 19 to adopt a business-as-usual budget that completely fails to offer a solution to the affordable housing crisis that affects tens of thousands of working […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Letter from Kshama Sawant to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Julian Salazar Dear Sisters, I am writing to congratulate you, and other newly elected socialists, on your elections and to outline the lessons of our experience in Seattle since my first election to […]
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COPE Vancouver City Council candidate Jean Swanson Socialist Alternative’s Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant Saturday October 13, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre Room, Room 1900 With all 2018 COPE candidates: Anne Roberts, Derrick O’Keefe, Barb Parrott, Diana Day, Gwen Giesbrecht and John Irwin. Two fearless activists who brought their fight for social justice to city […]
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Kshama Sawant’s Speech On June 12, at short notice, the corporate politicians on the Seattle City Council voted to repeal the Amazon Tax on big business that would fund affordable housing. Here is a speech by Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative
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Keely Mullen and Calvin Priest are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. On May 14, the Seattle City Council passed a historic tax on Amazon and other big corporations to fund permanently affordable, publicly owned housing. The driving force behind this victory was the strength of our #TaxAmazon movement. Under the leadership of housing […]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is facing two defamation lawsuits, the aim of which is to silence an outstanding representative of working people and the oppressed. The first is from two police officers who shot and killed a black man in 2016. The […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Sisters and Brothers, The first horrifying year of Trump’s White House has come to an end. A year of massive tax handouts to the corporate elite, of gutting regulations, of an assault on the hard won gains of working people, and attempts to criminalize […]
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