From Councilmember Kshama Sawant
SEATTLE – Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle) will host a rally Thursdayevening to demand that the City fund 1,000 units of affordable housing with the funds previously intended for building a new North Precinct police building.
Councilmember Sawant will unveil key details that explain how this funding can be made accessible to affordable housing projects. She and other speakers will also directly address assertions that a new North precinct is necessary.
“This week’s brutal killings of black people in Tulsa and Charlotte at the hands of the police, and the protests in response, remind us that a struggle for affordable housing and against economic inequality are inextricably linked with racial justice. We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,” Sawant said.
Affordable housing advocates, racial justice activists and members of the faith community will call for the development of City-funded affordable housing. Several speakers will explain why they believe the North Precinct is a gross misuse of public funds.
WHAT:
Bunker Blocked! Rally to #Build1000Homes Instead! – hosted by Councilmember Kshama Sawant
WHERE:
Washington Hall
153 14th Ave, Seattle 98122
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
WHO:
Councilmember Kshama Sawant
Sharon Lee, Executive Director, Low Income Housing Institute
Violet Lavatai, Membership & Development Coordinator, Tenants Union of WA State
Reverend Robert Jeffrey, Pastor, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church
Ubah Warsame, Somali & East African community advocate
Abdi Mohamed, Somali & East African community advocate
Kailyn Nicholson, Organizer, Socialist Alternative
Rabbi David Basior, Kadima Jewish Community
Rachel Padgett, member, Washington Federation of State Employee Local 1488
Ijeoma Oluo, Writer, Speaker, Editor at Large at The Establishment
And others.