This month, let's go all-out for Raise the Wage Renton!

Join Seattle DSA for our April

Chapter Membership Meeting

Tuesday, April 25th, 7:00PM

Southside Commons, 3518 S Edmunds Ave, Seattle

Please RSVP

In-person attendance is encouraged but Zoom is available for those who need it.

Everyone who helped organize and attended the Chapter Convention last month has a lot to be proud of. We established clear priorities for our work together in the year ahead. Since then, Seattle DSA has stepped our efforts for our central priority in South King County: to get Raise the Wage Renton on the ballot. Join us for the April 25th CMM at Southside Commons to discuss how we can all work together and make $19/hour a reality in Renton – and read on for how you can plug into the campaign!

The proposed agenda for the April CMM is here. Voting items at the meeting will include:
 

Big business is fighting back in Renton. We’ve already seen the usual assortment of huge corporations disguised as “small business interest groups” or trade associations pushing back against RTWR. Hear from your fellow DSA members in the Renton Reporter, where they dispel common myths about raising the minimum wage.

Volunteers have made important connections in the community through our signature-raising efforts, but we'll need to go all-out for the next two months to qualify this initiative for the November ballot. We're asking all DSA members and supporters to consider if they can dedicate a few hours each week to win this fight.

Check out our calendar to sign up for one of our many outreach events!
 

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!