From Socialist Alternative-Did you see Ginger in The Intercept today?

Did you see Ginger in The Intercept today?

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10/26/2017 6:27 PM

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To win the Midwest’s first $15 minimum wage, Socialist Alternative member Ginger Jentzen brought together a powerful coalition of social justice organizations, unions, faith groups, neighborhood organizations and supportive small businesses. Let’s build off our historic victory to send a voice for working people to City Hall, who will unapologetically fight to enforce $15 and defend workers’ rights, tax the rich to fund education and affordable housing, and make Minneapolis affordable for all. Can you donate $15 right now to win a voice for working people in City Hall? Friends, “The Intercept” news outlet just published a major feature on the groundbreaking Ginger Jentzen campaign, calling Ginger “a socialist who gets things done.” “Seeing that we can organize and fight around a specific set of demands and then achieve them through the movement building, the grassroots organizing, that I think really made [the $15 minimum wage] possible in Minneapolis,” Jentzen said… “It [took] years of strike action and rallies at city hall,” Jentzen said of 15 Now’s success. “We had dozens and dozens and dozens of public meetings trying to discuss out the aspects of a policy. … It’s not about, in my mind, just trusting that everybody has the best of intentions. It’s about fighting tooth and nail. Because council members are under pressure from the other side from the Chamber of Commerce, from the biggest corporations in Minnesota... “In Seattle with [Socialist Alternative Seattle City Councilmember] Kshama [Sawant] in office, 15 was won in basically six months, right?” Jentzen said. “She was able to use her seat, she was able to use her office as a voice for working people in a way that was even higher [than as an activist]. That’s where it connects to the idea that movement and electoral politics can actually … if we are running people independent of the political establishment and are actually building and organizing with working people and using their offices as a place to continue that organizing to pass policy in the best interest of the working people, I think we could do a lot more running people, running candidates that are rooted in the social struggles and movements that are shifting consciousness in society.” Check out the full article here. As the Star Tribune reported recently, wealthy real estate developers and big business representatives have issued a “Call to Action” directly aimed at stopping our movement. We need your help to stop corporate donors from buying this election.   Can you chip in a $15 donation today to Team Ginger, to make history and elect a voice for working people in City Hall? Contribute Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list