Kshama Sawant Re-Elected Despite Corporate PACs Spending $4 Million to Buy City Council Despite big business and Amazon going all-in behind corporate candidates in all seven city council races, Seattle voters rejected Jeff Bezos’s bid to flip the council to the right. In Seattle’s most-watched, most expensive, and most polarized council race in decades, Socialist […]
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Amazon’s money bomb backfires! Amazon spending $1 million trying to buy Seattle City Council has provoked anger. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren take to social media to warn against the danger of letting Amazon buy Seattle’s City Council elections and support our campaign along with others running against Amazon-backed candidates. Thank you to Bernie Sanders […]
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On Tuesday, Oct 15, Amazon dropped a $1 million bomb on the Seattle city elections, in a flagrant attempt to blow up Seattle’s democratic process and drive out Seattle’s socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant. This brings their total spending to a RECORD-SMASHING, totally unprecedented $1.5 million! Only US citizens and Green card holders can donate to […]
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Originally published CounterPunch.org on 9/23/2019. In what may turn out to be a preview of the U.S. presidential election, with the ruling class hell-bent on stopping Bernie Sanders at all costs, big business in Seattle is carrying out an unprecedented assault of corporate PAC money against socialist and progressive candidates in this year’s elections. The […]
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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’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 […]
Continue ReadingPatrick Ayers is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Not only can socialists get elected, we can get re-elected. Watch Kshama Sawant’s video inviting people to join Socialist Alternative In Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighbourhood on the first night of the results, hundreds of campaign supporters are celebrating at our election night party. People […]
Continue ReadingPatrick Ayers is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Keep the Voice for Working People on the City Council! Follow Kshama Sawant’s campaign in Seattle at KshamaSawant.org facebook.com/VoteSawant @votesawant Socialist Alternative City Councilmember Kshama Sawant won more than 52 percent of Seattle’s District 3 August primary vote, putting her in a strong position […]
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