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Capitol Hill Community Post | Rally and March on International Workers’ Day

From Councilmember Kshama Sawant

Yesterday the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a resolution brought forward by the May 1st Action Coalition, the Coalition of City Unions, immigrant rights activists, and me, proclaiming City of Seattle workers have the right to take the day off on May 1, 2017 without retaliation!

Rally & March on International Workers’ Day
Fight Trump and Defend Immigrant Rights!
Judkins Park, 2150 S Norman St
Monday 5/1, 11 AM

This year, fifty-nine organizations have joined Seattle’s May 1st Action Coalition to call for a day of mass protest linked to significant strike actions across the country. Shutting down Trump’s agenda will require us to build up to even larger and more organized actions in the coming months. It will take disrupting business as usual, whether through strike action, student walkouts, or nonviolent civil disobedience.

Join the immigrant community, labor, and social justice advocates to march on Monday, May 1, 2017! A preliminary program will begin at Judkins Park (2150 S Norman St) at 11 AM. The march will depart from the starting point at 1 PM, and will end at Fisher Green at Seattle Center (located South of the International Fountain).

Every right and liberty that we enjoy as working people has been won through mass organization, mobilization, and action. In particular, the most powerful tool we have in our arsenal as workers is strike action. When working class people organize and withhold their labor, it hits Trump and the billionaire class where it hurts: their profits.

In Solidarity,
Councilmember Kshama Sawant
Seattle City Council, District 3

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Nope
Nope
6 years ago

While I am writing my check for $12k property tax this year I will stand in solidarity with the council workers I am funding. Viva Seattle !

RWK
RWK
6 years ago

In other media reports, Sawant has called on her minions to shut down freeways, airports, etc. Is this not “inciting violence.” Why hasn’t she been arrested?

Jim98122x
Jim98122x
6 years ago
Reply to  RWK

It applies to tRump and it applies to Savant. “People get the government they deserve”.

ERF
ERF
6 years ago
Reply to  RWK

“There’s a famous Supreme Court case, called Brandenburg, where they basically draw the line between saying something like ‘Go block the freeways,’ but that’s not imminently going to happen, as opposed to being in a crowd near the freeway and shouting ‘Let’s all go block the freeway!’ That might be incitement that would be a crime.”