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Capitol Hill Community Post | Rally Tonight, Bunker Blocked! Build 1,000 Homes Instead

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

 

WHEN:
Thursday, September 22

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.

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