Kshama Sawant is a Seattle city councilor who led the fight for a $15 minimum wage in her city, which sparked a movement that swept the country. She has fought tooth and nail in the interests of working people by building grassroots movements to win millions of dollars for affordable housing, funding for LGBTQ+ services and a moratorium on coal and oil trains passing through Seattle. She lead the charge on a head tax for big businesses including Amazon to fund affordable housing and homeless services. Kshama is a member of Socialist Alternative who ran as a political independent and accepts no corporate money. She takes the average wage of a worker in her district and donates the rest of her income to social movements.
Amazon, Comcast and other major corporations are pouring money into the Seattle City Council race to knock out Kshama because they know she and the grassroots movement of workers and students she helps build are huge threats to their massive profits. A win for Kshama in Seattle will be a win for working people across the country and an example of how we can build a similar movement in Boston!
Join us on Saturday, July 27 at 6 p.m. at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain to raise money for Kshama’s campaign, and to hear from State Rep. Mike Connolly, Cambridge City Council candidate Ben Simon, and other Boston area activists on why it is important for us in Boston to help re-elect Kshama!
RSVP on Facebook here and invite your friends!
For more information about Kshama's program and accomplishments or to donate, check out her campaign page at kshamasawant.org. |
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