Fox News’ Kennedy called Seattle a “socialist hellhole” in a July 12 broadcast. We’ll take that as a compliment. We know not all our fellow comrades are the kinds of local media and politics-obsessives some of us are. Your Seattle DSA Communications Committee intends to put together a weekly compendium of local stories and … Read more
The Seattle Democratic Socialists of America Steering Committee calls for Danny Fetonte to step down from his position on the DSA National Political Committee. An overwhelming number of our delegates and members, as well as comrades across the country, were rightfully disappointed and concerned when they learned that Fetonte had omitted his history of working … Read more
Featured image: Seattle DSA was able to send 16 delegates to the 2017 DSA National Convention. From August 3 – 6, 2017, the Democratic Socialists of America held their biennial national convention in Chicago. It was the organization’s largest-ever gathering of socialists from all 50 states. Delegates gathered to determine DSA’s priorities for the next two … Read more
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Illustration by Seattle DSA organizer Lyall W. By Seattle DSA organizer John Smith War is never good. Even wars for survival, or against fundamental injustice, are tragedies borne out of the aggression or cruelty that preceded it. War is always a failure of one or more parties to understand others, wherein one another are treated … Read more
Featured image: “The Overseer’s Rod,” Queen Mary Psalter, ca. 14th Century. By Seattle DSA organizer Collin Pucher In August 2016, a group of small business owners staged a press conference at Molly Moon’s on Capitol Hill to support I-1433, a ballot initiative raising the Washington state minimum wage to $13.50 by 2020. Molly Moon Neitzel … Read more
By Chuck McKeever On Sunday, July 23, members of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America carried out a service project at Mount Baker’s Heliotrope Ridge trail. The DSA volunteers joined a larger work party from the Washington Trails Association to do some badly-needed rehabbing of one of the most popular hiking trails in the … Read more
If you were within eyeshot of the internet, Fox News, or a copy of USA Today lately, you’d think that the jig is up–the $15 minimum wage that workers fought and won a few years back has destroyed Seattle. Low-wage workers are being fired left and right, and what increases in pay they made have … Read more
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Featured photo courtesy of the Transit Riders Union.
Featured image by Seattle DSA graphic design team By John Smith One day, after starting your exciting new job, you might find yourself learning of a speaker coming to the company. You would need to donate to the corporate political action committee (or PAC) in order to attend the appearance, but it’s only a small … Read more
