Seattle DSA Night at the Movies:

Sorry to Bother You

This Saturday, April 8th at 4PM

The Beacon Cinema, 4405 Rainier Ave S

Sorry to Bother You follows the journey of Cassius Green, a worker in a call-center in dystopian Oakland. Four months behind on rent, Cash is approached by his co-worker about unionization, and his boss about a promotion. For everything that unfolds next, you’ll just have to watch with us.

Join your neighborhood friendly Seattle DSA members, fellow workers and friends for a screening of Boots Riley’s already legendary film, Sorry to Bother You, at the Beacon Cinema in Columbia City! After the movie, we’ll head to Hill City Taphouse out and discuss what it can teach us about our own labor struggles.

This event is open to the public - so be sure to invite your friends!

This is a free event, but we encourage you to join $10 if you can. Nobody turned away!

Raise the Wage Renton Tabling – Target

This Saturday, April 8

10 - 2pm
1215 N Landing Way

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Raise The Wage Renton Tabling – QFC

This Sunday, April 9

2:30 - 4:30

4800 NE 4th St

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Join us at our weekly Raise The Wage Renton signature gathering table at the QFC on NE 4th St in Renton.

Talk to retail/service workers and their customers, meet cool people from around King County who care about workers’ standard of living, and contribute to a great cause! Check out the Seattle DSA calendar for more days and times.

Women, Race, and Class Discussion

Thursday, April 13

7:00 - 8:30pm

RSVP here for the Zoom link.

Join us as we read and discuss Angela Davis’ groundbreaking book Women, Race, and Class. Where does sexism come from? Did it always exist? Is it just a part of human nature? What’s the most effective way to fight sexism?

The text offers a Marxist analysis of gender oppression under racial capitalism, and it is one of the earliest texts to offer an analysis of gender/racial/class oppression as not only intersecting but as structurally co-constituted.

For our first meeting on this book, we’ll discuss chapter 3 & 4.

This discussion is organized by the Reproductive Justice Working Group of Seattle DSA.

Friends,

In 2014 under pressure from a movement led by socialists and the local labor movement, Seattle City Council passed the $15 minimum wage - the first major city to do so. This set off a prairie fire of other minimum wage struggles, most recently in Tukwila. It’s been estimated that the 2014 Seattle minimum wage victory will transfer $2.5 billion over ten years from some of the biggest corporations in the world to 100,000 workers, disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ, and Black people.

We have an opportunity to strike a blow against the billionaire class through a grassroots movement of working people and youth that can win a higher wage in Renton. First and foremost we need to help gather the 10K+ signatures to qualify for the ballot. This will take resources.

Will you kick down $25, $50, $100 for Seattle DSA to support the grassroots movements for a higher minimum wage in Renton?

The low wage, no benefit corporations that dominate Renton will fight tooth and nail to prevent any attempt to stymie their ceaseless flow of profits. They will spare no amount of money to defeat our movement.

In October our chapter voted to hire two part-time staff members – a major milestone for Seattle DSA. This month, Guillermo Zazueta began work as our new Campaign Organizer and Ty Moore stepped in as our new Communications Organizer. The two staff will help activate our 1,500 members, build in South King County, and ramp up our chapter’s communications and media.

With its multi-racial working class, the need for socialists to root our movement in South King County is clear. Raise the Wage Tukwila winning by 82% showed there is an opening, and we’ve established points of support during the Gallardo campaign.

But to build DSA in South King County will take serious resources.

Please chip in $25, $50, $100 to strike a blow against the billionaire class!