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May Chapter Membership Meeting - ZOOM ONLY Tuesday, May 23, 7-9pm Please RSVP
Here are the NPC nominations from Seattle DSA members to be voted on by the chapter
According to National DSA, here are the rules regarding the NPC nomination from chapters, etc:
Any DSA member in good standing may be nominated as a candidate for the NPC elections through a nomination resolution passed by a majority vote of either:
Chapters, OCs, national DSA Working Groups, or committees must hold a nomination meeting for the NPC candidate. The nomination may occur as part of a general meeting. Nomination should not be seen as an endorsement of a candidate or their politics, but as an affirmation that the member is active in the work of DSA and is constructive and comradely towards their fellow members."
The LC is working on getting the delegate statements up on the blog so we can make an informed decision about who we want participating in the democratic discussions and debates on the way forward for DSA. Announcements will be made when these are available. Keep an eye out! |
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📣Here’s our weekly update for our campaign Raise the Wage Renton! (Week of May 8):📣
Last week brought a lot of challenges for our campaign to Raise the Wage in Renton.
We were asked to leave a number of grocery stores where we’ve been collecting signatures (Safeway, Target, Albertsons). It'll be difficult to make up the number of signatures we were getting at these hot spots. We failed to meet our goal of reaching 5,000 signatures last week. 😕 We have collected around 4,700 so far, and we need to submit 8,800 valid signatures from registered Renton voters to qualify the initiative for the ballot. However, some signatures will inevitably be invalid, so we need to collect over 13,000 signatures within a 6-month window to qualify the initiative for the ballot.
Despite these challenges, we still believe we can qualify for the November ballot if we ramp up this grassroots movement in the remaining 7 weeks! |
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📣Upcoming Activities📆
The recent landslide victory of a pro abortion rights State Supreme Court Justice in the fiercely contested Wisconsin elections and Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teacher Union activist and Bernie-crat, winning Chicago’s mayoral race, defeating a conservative, tough-on-crime Democrat, makes clear, if given the option, large sections of working class people are voting for pro-working class solutions.
This follows on the heels of the 2022 midterms when working people also voted for pro-working class solutions: raised the minimum wage to $15/hour in Nebraska, 6 states voted to support abortion rights in referendums, and a majority bucked their own Republican dominated state in South Dakota to extend Medicare funding.
All of this makes crystal clear - if we can get Raise the Wage Renton on the ballot, we have a high likelihood of winning. |
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Join @super_uw, @falastiniyat, and @samidounseattle and Seattle DSA for a community gathering, rally, and march to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine—Al-Nakba— and create a space to channel our grief into action. |
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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. 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! |
