[American Left History publishes or re-publishes articles and
notices of events that might be of interest to the liberal, left-liberal and
radical public. That has been the policy generally since the publication due to
financial constraints went solely on-line in the early 2000s as the Internet
has allowed new and simply outlets for all kinds of material that were almost
impossible to publish when it was solely hard copy going back to the early
1970s.
Over the past couple of
months American Left History has
received many comments about our policy of publishing materials and notices of
events without comment. More than a few comments wondered aloud whether the
publication agreed with all, or most of what has been published. Obviously
given that we will republish material from sources like the ACLU, the movement
for nuclear disarmament and established if small left-wing organizations
formally outside the main party system in America unless we were mere
by-standers to the political movements many of the positions are too contrary to
agree with all of them.
Policy: unless there is
a signed statement of agreement by one of our writers, me or the Editorial
Board assume that the article or notice is what we think might be of interest
of the Left-wing public and does not constitute an endorsement. Greg Green,
site manager]
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Al,
In just a moment, I am going to ask you to make a donation to our campaign before our next fundraising deadline. I wanted to explain what this is really about and why this deadline is so critical.
At the end of this month we are going to report how much money we’ve raised. But just important is who those donations come from.
Our campaign is run entirely on grassroots donations like yours. I don’t take a penny from corporations, CEOs, business lobbyists, or big developers. And as your Councilmember, I accept only the average worker’s wage, donating the rest of my $130,000 salary to grassroots social movements.
We need to build a powerful grassroots campaign to defend our seat for working people in City Hall, capable of defeating the attempts of big business to buy the elections. We’re proud to say that we’ve already raised $75,000!
But we also need to report as many donations as we can. That’s why our goal is to hit 1,000 donations by the end of the month on Sunday. Because every single donation sends a powerful message that this is a race that can’t be bought by big business.
Time is running out.
Can you make a $15 donation to our campaign before our fundraising deadline? We need to report as many individual donations as we possibly can. We’re asking because this is important.
What’s at stake this year is who runs Seattle — Amazon and big business, or working people. Our movement to tax big business to massively expand social housing and to create a Green New Deal for working people in Seattle will continue to be met with fierce corporate opposition. With this report, we will demonstrate that it’s possible to run powerful grassroots campaigns that are not for sale.
Every donation sends that message. So thank you in advance for adding yours today.
In solidarity,
Kshama Sawant
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