This statement was authored by the Seattle DSA Socialist Feminist Committee and approved by a vote from the general membership on December 5.
Education
Insight from local issues to challenging ideas in order to better understand class struggle.
The Hellhole – week of 11/13
About the header photo: Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12, 2017 broadcast. We wish! Winter is almost here, and we’re rapidly reaching the end of our timeline to get Seattle’s houseless residents off the streets before freezing weather puts their lives at risk. Unfortunately, Seattle isn’t ready to take… Read more »
Universal Healthcare Isn’t Just a Human Right—It’s Freedom
Healthcare is a human right; among leftists, there is no question. But even while a majority of America believes that the government is responsible for providing some form of healthcare for its citizens, there are still a lot of people we need to convince before single-payer becomes the kind of issue for which politicians could… Read more »
The Hellhole – week of 10/30
About the header photo: Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12 broadcast. We wish! Socialists want to create a world in which everyone is safe, warm, and healthy (or if you read DSA’s platform, we want you to lead “a full and dignified life”). Capitalists only want that if it… Read more »
Socialism and Public Banking: The Story of the Bank of North Dakota and the Nonpartisan League
By Seattle DSA Organizer Justin Hutchinson Some Seattleites have been interested in public banking lately, and with good reason. There’s a growing mass of citizens who don’t want Seattle or Washington pumping money into Wall Street extraction industries, and since the Great Crash of 2008 is still fresh in people’s imaginations, there has been widespread… Read more »
Seattle sweeps away its vets: Getting to know the unhoused residents of Beacon Hill
Featured image by Jennifer Spriggs/Seattle DSA design team. By Chuck McKeever and David Editor’s note: Content warning for assault and mention of suicide. On Thursday evening, an orange notice was placed on the windshield of one of the lived-in RVs occupying the parking lot adjacent to the Beacon Hill Veterans Affairs office. The notice, written… Read more »
The Case Against Compromise Politics
By Seattle DSA organizer Keaton Slansky “Compromise” has been endemic to American politics for as long as many millennials (and anyone else that’s unable to recall the Reagan presidency) can remember. They can never remember a time when the Democrats weren’t trying to “meet the Republicans in the middle,” and now, in 2017, an entire… Read more »
The Hellhole – week of 10/16
About the header photo: Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12 broadcast. We wish!
No Society Here
Art by Seattle DSA organizer Brian Reindel By Seattle DSA organizer John Speranza
The Hellhole – week of 10/2
About the header photo: Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12 broadcast. We wish!
Sweeping People Away: How Seattle’s homeless sweeps do more harm than good
Featured image by Jennifer Spriggs/Seattle DSA design team. By John Smith and Chuck McKeever, with editing by Seattle DSA Communications team In the empty spaces beside the low-traffic surface road under the Alaskan Way Viaduct, a few small groups of tents were home for people who had nowhere else to go. Despite the loud traffic… Read more »
The Hellhole – week of 9/25
About the header photo: Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12 broadcast. We wish!