Socialist wins Seattle city council seat
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On Nov. 16, eleven days after election night, the first socialist to be elected to the Seattle City Council held her victory rally. The rally was at the headquarters of SEIU 775NW. This fact alone is significant since SEIU endorsed her opponent. By the time Socialist Alternative candi date Kshama Sawant (photo on left) spoke that evening, the crowd was avid to hear her, and she spoke for half an hour. She started by saying that she would be speaking that long because “when you are challeng ing the status quo, you cannot speak in sound bytes. It takes time.”
Sawant talked mostly about the fight for the $15 an hour minimum wage and reminded everyone that voting is only the first step. She then warned that there would be attempts to use slander to divide the movement. They will tell us to have a “reasonable” discussion and try to water down our demands. She emphasized, “We need to stay strong, tor, launched a hunger strike, pledging not to eat until a meaningful outcome was reached in Warsaw. He did not have much luck. Despite the wake-up call Haiyan presented to the delegates, they were still asleep at the wheel even though carbon emissions continue to climb at a record pace.
Recently, big polluters such as Austra lia, Canada, Japan, and the United States have scrapped their pledges to reduce emissions. In addition, no one has put money in the kitty for the Green Climate Fund, for which $100 billion was to be raised by 2020 to aid poor countries in coping with the effects of extreme weather and adapting to climate change with clean technologies. This justifiably raises the crucial issue of climate justice for those parts of the world most heav ily suffering from the effects of the ac cumulated emissions of countries that N.Y. student struggle — 2 Ty Moore campaign — 3 Egypt / Nurses strike — 4 $15 minimum wage — 5 Grenada Revolution — 6 Canada news — 8 (continued on page 3, in “Superb vote for Minneapolis socialist”)
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