Kshama Sawant

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“We need to be clear about what our goals are,” Sawant said in a speech on Sunday in Dearborn, Michigan. “We are not in a position to win the White House.

“But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.”

So the goal is “fighting to defeat Harris, not just symbolically but in reality,” Sawant said. “This is ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her.”

If you admit Stein can’t win, and you claim Harris must be defeated, then you’re working to elect Donald Trump.

@wrkrsstrikeback

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will both continue funding the lsraeli state's genocide in Gaza. Both the Democrats and Republicans are warmongering parties of the billionaire class. 1/x

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NO HARRIS, NO TRUMP

Hassan Abdel Salam | ABANDON HARRIS Co-founder

ORGANIZE TO END THE GENOCIDE

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October 6 | 2 PM ET Bint Jebail Cultural Center 14201 Prospect St Bldg. 2 Dearborn, MI

KSHAMA SAWANT | Socialist & Former Independent City Councilmember

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Harris and Trump will both continue funding the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza. Both the Democrats and Republicans are warmongering parties of the billionaire class. We need to win every possible vote for Jill Stein as a step towards building a new antiwar working-class party.

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Watch our interview with Jill Stein from May, on the ground at the campus antiwar protests: https://youtu.be/NXSZUtt4kYE

• The antiwar movement has gained renewed momentum, with dozens of university campuses across the nation seeing mass encampments and protests against the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza.

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters’ rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We’re organizing to build Jill Stein’s independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters’ rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We’re organizing to build Jill Stein’s independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for working people.

@cmkshama

AOC can't seem to cheerlead Harris enough.

AOC claimed Harris was working tirelessly for a ceasefire, as Harris presided over $20B more of arms to Israel.

On the other hand, AOC can't seem to attack Left antiwar proworker candidate Jill Stein enough. Why? The answer is below.

[Image of article with headline: "US elections 2024: Jill Stein leads with Muslim-American voters in three swing states, survey shows", sub-headline: "The Democratic and Green party candidates each command vlose to a third of the Muslim-American vote"]

[Image of Dr. Jill Stein below article sub-headline, information below picture says: "Jill Stein, presidential candidate, speaks in front of the 'Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine' in downtown Chicago 21 August, 2024 (John Rudoff/Reuters)]

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1834716593227808967

Abandon Harris founder Hassan Abdel Salam speaks at Workers Strike Back’s rally in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Hear from Abdel Salam about his experience being arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli state in retaliation for peaceful protests in Jerusalem, and about what it will take to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is being funded and supported by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party.

Join Workers Strike Back THIS SUNDAY @ 12 pm PT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET for our National September Monthly Meeting to discuss next steps to build the biggest possible vote for Jill Stein and her independent, antiwar, pro-worker Presidential campaign, as a step towards building a new party for working people.

#gaza #harris #trump #kamalaharris #democrats #war #newparty #kshamasawant #jillstein #workers #labor #antiwar

Summary

1. Kid Cabella from Hard Lens Media interviews activists including Nick Cruz from RBN, Dr. Jill Stein from the Green Party, and Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
2. The discussion centers around the event "Disrupt the DNC" and critiques the Democratic Party's actions against third-party and independent candidates.
3. Sawant highlights a disconnect between the Democratic Party's actions and the needs of working-class Americans facing a cost of living crisis and opposition to the war in Gaza.
4. She emphasizes the need for a new political party that genuinely represents working people, criticizing both Democrats and Republicans for failing to do so.
5. The conversation points to low enthusiasm for the Democratic Party, evidenced by empty seats at the DNC convention.
6. Sawant stresses the importance of maintaining momentum for third-party movements and building an independent anti-war movement.
7. The activists call for continued advocacy for a ceasefire and challenge the two-party system to better represent ordinary people's interests.
8. They discuss the challenges facing the anti-war movement in light of Kamala Harris's nomination and her alignment with Biden's policies.
9. The speaker argues that regardless of who is in the White House, the U.S. will continue to be led by a "warmonger in chief," with both major parties supporting militaristic agendas.
10. They conclude by advocating for grassroots organization and participation in upcoming labor movements, emphasizing the need for independent leftist leadership and a militant labor movement.

Watch On Strike’s interview with Sabrina Salvati of “Sabby Sabs” podcast about what Kamala Harris’ nomination means for working, Black, and young people and how our movement can fight back against both her and Trump. We discuss the independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign of Jill Stein and Workers Strike Back’s upcoming rally at the Democratic National Convention on August 20, featuring Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network.

REGISTER NOW to attend the rally in Chicago on August 20 in person or to join via Livestream: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve...

BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and to help us build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative that can win what working people need, including an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Apply to become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join.

After being forced to dump Biden amidst a political meltdown in the Democratic Party, the Democrat establishment has quickly moved to coronate the Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presumptive Presidential nominee. Nearly every establishment figure from Nancy Pelosi to Jim Clyburn has rallied behind Harris, along with so-called progressives like Bernie and AOC, who have shown once again that they have no strategy for working people and are utterly broken to the party elite.

Harris’ long record as Vice President, as a U.S. Senator, and as a “tough on crime” prosecutor is deeply anti-worker, anti-poor, and anti-Black just like Biden’s. And while Harris has had some outwardly progressive rhetoric, she has been lockstep with Biden in backing the genocidal war on Gaza and the continued U.S. funding for the Israeli state's war machine. She is no alternative for working people.

#KamalaHarris #DNC #Biden #Trump #KshamaSawant #JillStein #Independent #politics #worker #blackworker #gaza #ceasefirenow #labor #election2024 #sabbysabs #revolutionaryblackoutnetwork #workersstrikeback #onstrike #newparty

@cmkshama

It's dishonest & nauseating for Kamala Harris to co-opt the working-class "When We Fight, We Win" slogan.

She's backed to the hilt by billionaires, as is Trump.

She's complicit in Biden's broken promise on the $15 wage.

She criminalized poor people for children missing school.

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1815871984464699562

Workers Strike Back Inaugural National Zoom Meeting

Zoom Link

Featured Speakers:

Jill Stein, Kshama Sawant, Nick Cruse

As the genocidal war on Gaza enters its tenth month, with shocking new revelations of brutality by Israeli forces, a majority of Americans now oppose the war, with just 36% supporting U.S. military aid to Israel. Major unions like UAW, SEIU, and NEA, along with countless smaller unions collectively representing millions of workers, have passed ceasefire resolutions, and students at nearly every major university have organized courageous protests against the war, facing suspension, expulsion, and police repression.

Yet as the US Presidential election draws closer, both Biden and Trump continue to give the war their unflagging support. With two warmongers being put forward by the two parties of the billionaire class, what is the next step for workers and students looking to end the war and occupation? And how can we build a strong enough antiwar movement to stop the flood of U.S. money fueling the Israeli war machine?

Join Left independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein, socialist and former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network founder Nick Cruse to discuss and vote on a strategy for the movement.

No Biden, No Trump!

How can we end the genocidal war on Gaza?

Speakers:

1. Nick Cruse, Revolutionary Blackout Network founder
2. Jill Stein, Left Independent Antiwar Presidential Candidate
3. Kshama Sawant, Socialist and former Seattle City Councilmember

Flyer:

The ongoing chaos of the US political system was heightened on Monday by the spectacle of Teamster President Sean O’Brien speaking at the Republican National Convention – the first Teamster President ever to do so – demonstrating the dramatic extent to which Biden and the Democrats have lost authority through their sellouts of working people. For decades, top labor leaders like O’Brien have provided cover for the Democrats’ betrayals, while pumping hundreds of millions of union workers’ money into Democratic Party campaigns. Now, O’Brien is sucking up to Trump and Republicans in a desperate attempt to escape the Democrats’ sinking ship, to which other labor leaders have already tied themselves.

O’Brien’s speech at the RNC is a shameful maneuver that hides the stark reality for working people: neither party is on our side, and we need a new party of our own.

Watch a working-class analysis of O’Brien’s RNC speech from On Strike co-hosts Kshama Sawant and Emily McArthur, and a discussion about a fighting strategy for the labor movement that you won’t find anywhere else.

And REGISTER NOW for the Inaugural National Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back, THIS SUNDAY, JULY 21 @ 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET, featuring left independent antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein, socialist and former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Backout Network co-founder Nick Cruse: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve...

BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and build our independent working-class organization, and so you can VOTE SUNDAY on our proposal to endorse Jill Stein’s independent Presidential campaign. Workers and young people urgently need to build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative.

Be sure to subscribe to On Strike And become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join.

#RNC #SeanOBrien #Biden #NewParty #KshamaSawant #Teamsters #AOC #republicannationalconvention #railstrike #sarahnelson #governmentshutdown #flightattendants #union #newparty #strike #jillstein #independentcandidate #antiwar

Mental health has spiraled into a nationwide crisis, especially for young people.

On Strike! speaks with local high school student activists Natalya, Charlotte, and Fatra, who organized alongside Kshama Sawant’s socialist City Council office and a movement of hundreds of other students, socialists, and union members to demand $20 million in funding for student mental health services in 2023 by increasing the city's Amazon Tax – and they won. We also speak with educator and union member Adam Ziemkowski, who was a lead organizer in Kshama Sawant’s socialist City Council office for a decade, and has played a crucial role in many victories, including the fight for mental health services in 2023, as well as winning the original Amazon Tax victory in 2020.

If you're inspired by these students fighting back, help us spread these ideas. REGISTER NOW to join antiwar Presidential candidate Jill Stein and Kshama for Workers Strike Back's INAUGURAL NATIONAL ZOOM CONFERENCE on Sunday, July 21, at 2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern. www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg

Nearly 20 percent of high school students - one in five - report serious thoughts about suicide, and nearly one in ten report a suicide attempt. This has gone hand in hand with a frightening increase in gun violence affecting young people. Since 2017, gun deaths have become the leading cause of death among people under 25, with a major increase since the start of the COVID pandemic.

In Seattle, where On Strike! is filmed, young people are facing both these crises – mental health and gun violence. Just last month, a 17-year-old Garfield High School student Amarr Murphy-Paine was tragically gunned down outside during the school lunch hour. Seattle’s Democratic Party political establishment and their mouthpieces, like the Seattle Times, have been cynically trying to exploit this latest school shooting by insisting that cops need to be brought back into schools. So young people are continuing to fight back and get organized to demand action – mental health support and fully-funded public schools, NOT COPS.

Seattle’s corporate Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell and all-Democrat City Council are refusing to hire social workers and mental health counselors for Seattle’s public school students, even though the money is already there as a result of last year's victory of increasing the annual Amazon Tax.

Watch to hear how the students are also connecting their struggles to the other urgent questions facing working people, like how to end the genocidal war on Gaza and build the strongest vote against both Biden and Trump in November and for Jill Stein.

Be sure to subscribe to On Strike!

Workers Strike Back relies on members and supporters across the country and around the world to produce On Strike! and to get the resources we need to get organized to win our demands. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY and get involved to help us build a fighting workers’ movement. As a member, you will also be eligible to vote at the July 21 Zoom Conference on our proposal to endorse Jill Stein’s independent, pro-worker, antiwar campaign for President. Become a member now at www.workersstrikeback.org/join

#mentalhealth #education #politics #gunviolence #school #Amazon #gaza #climatechange #Biden #Trump #schoolfunding #educationfunding #red4ed #teachersstrike #taxamazon #taxtherich #studentprotest #highschool #onstrike #workersstrikeback #kshamasawant #jillstein #newparty

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17197576

About On Strike!:

News & analysis to beat the bosses. On Strike is the video broadcast of Workers Strike Back, hosted by Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. We cover issues from the perspective of workers’ needs, not billionaire greed. We provide socialist analysis and strategy to build working-class movements, fight against oppression, and for a new mass party for workers and young people. These same ideas have been used by Kshama in her decade as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council, overcoming big business and Democratic Party opposition to win four elections and victories such as the $15/hour minimum wage and the Amazon Tax. Workers Strike Back is an independent, rank-and-file campaign organizing in our workplaces and on the streets against the bosses and their political servants.

#Trump #Biden #debate #JillStein #election #workers #gaza #ceasefirenow

Video description:

The Democratic Party is in panic over Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump. Even liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow and Van Jones have been unable to spin the debate as anything but a failure, while major publications, including the New York Times, have called on Biden to drop out of the race.

But for working people, it’s not just a question of Biden’s catastrophic performance. The content of the debate was the latest reminder that the Democratic and Republican Parties do not in any way represent working people and have no solutions to the many crises facing us–from climate change to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Biden and the Democratic Party have backed the war on Gaza to the hilt and their failure to represent working people’s interests have only emboldened Donald Trump and the right wing, who are escalating their attacks on immigrants, trans people, and other oppressed groups.

Young and working people are in urgent need of an alternative to these two anti-worker, pro-capitalist warmongers on offer from the Democratic and Republican Parties.

On Strike is joined by Jill Stein, the independent left, antiwar candidate running for President with the Green Party, to talk about the debate, what her Presidential campaign is fighting for, and how workers can build an alternative to the two capitalist parties.

And JOIN US on JULY 21 @ 2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back – featuring Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network – to discuss the strategy for the left and antiwar movement to end the genocidal war on Gaza and build a new party for working people.

Register here: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17568272

Join Jill Stein this Sunday July 14th at 8pm EST for a virtual rally to Strike the Empire Back with special guests Kshama Sawant, Susan Abulhawa and Jenan Matari.

No Biden, No Trump!

How can we end the genocidal war on Gaza?

Speakers:

1. Nick Cruse, Revolutionary Blackout Network founder
2. Jill Stein, Left Independent Antiwar Presidential Candidate
3. Kshama Sawant, Socialist and former Seattle City Councilmember

@cmkshama

What a spectacle: @AOC stands w/ Biden, saying "the matter is closed."

AOC claims it's about ceasefire in Gaza, rent relief, expanding Medicare & ending student debt.

This is rank gaslighting.

Biden, the Squad, and the whole Democratic Party are a dead end for working people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12706862

[3:58:58 Kshama Sawant/Carl/Steve join] The Labor Organizing Summit | Part 2 - Featuring Kshama Sawant [6:01:33 | Jul 29 2023 | RBN]

Blacking Out Corporate Propaganda and Educating for a Revolution.

RBN = Revolutionary Blackout Network

Edits:

• updated link to start when Kshama/Carl/Steve/ joins in
• added 4 timestamps

Timestamps (WIP=workinprogress):

• [0:13] Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela in Milwaukee speech
• [4:12] Feras joins, Palestine Community Network
• [34:01] Chuck Modi (Activist/Journalist/Writer), Cop City talk
• [57:24] Sabby Sabs becomes host, panel guests join, members of the UPS Teamsters and NY Postal Worker
• [2:00:10] Video about Edward (Midwestern Marx), "The differences between Marxism, Communism, & Socialism"
• [2:01:50] Guests Carlos/Eddie/Noah from Midwestern Marx join in
• [3:58:58] Kshama Sawant and guests join in

A crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party following the train wreck of the Biden-Trump presidential debate, and Biden's catastrophic performance.

On Strike is joined by Briahna Joy Gray, host of the Bad Faith podcast and, until recently, co-host of The Hill Rising, from which she was fired in retaliation for speaking out consistently and courageously against the genocidal war on Gaza. We speak with Gray about the crisis for the Biden administration, the failures of AOC and the Squad–including the recent defeat of Jamaal Bowman in New York–and the path forward for working people, including the important effort to build Jill Stein’s independent, antiwar Presidential campaign.

Register now for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back and join Jill Stein, former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse to discuss and vote on a strategy to build an alternative to the rotten Democratic and Republican Parties, which have blood on their hands both at home and abroad. Register now: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg

Powerful sections of the Democratic Party leadership remain determined to ram Biden down the throats of working people despite the absolute disaster of not only last week’s debate, but Biden’s candidacy as a whole. In the face of the threat of a second Trump Presidency, they are prepared to risk everything rather than replace their doomed candidate. The pro-Biden Democratic establishment is trying to pretend nothing much has happened. It’s a weapon’s grade level of political gaslighting.

The calls for Biden to step aside have grown, now including two Democratic members of Congress–Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. But even as pressure on Biden approaches a boiling point, the so-called progressives in the Democratic Party, including AOC, have remained silent, choosing to preserve their rotten relationship with the political establishment over the interests of working people, who desperately need an alternative to the status quo of crisis and war. Meanwhile, the “alternatives” on offer from the Democratic establishment, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, have equally abysmal records to Biden and would also be beholden to the pro-war anti-working-class agenda of the Democratic Party.

If you think the working class needs new and analysis like in this episode, become a member of Workers Strike Back today. By joining Workers Strike Back, you can support the production of On Strike and help us build a fighting workers’ movement to fight for what workers need: a $25/hr minimum wage, good union jobs, free universal healthcare, quality affordable housing, and an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Join Workers Strike Back today at workersstrikeback.org/join.

#kshamasawant #bjg #badfaith #onstrike #presidentialdebate #presidentialdebate2024 #biden #kamala #harris #dnc #newparty #jillstein #gaza #workersstrikeback #uncommitted

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17197732

Rescind Biden: How Workers Are Organizing Against the Warmonger-in-Chief [50:37 | JUN 07 24 | On Strike!]

The U.S. Presidential election is now less than 5 months away. Working people continue to struggle, as the world falls deeper into crisis and war. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues, funded off the backs of American workers, even as a majority of Americans oppose the slaughter.

Meanwhile, the political establishment and media have presented working people with a rotten false choice: Warmonger-In-Chief Joe Biden or right-wing billionaire Donald Trump. We need to reject both Biden AND Trump, who offer nothing but more war and suffering. The billionaires have two parties, we need one of our own. And we need to build an independent movement that can end this war on Gaza and win real gains for working people. We need mass protests at the Democratic National Convention this August in Chicago to demand an end to the slaughter and of all U.S. funding of the Israeli war machine. Workers Strike Back is helping build that movement.

We also need to demand that unions rescind their endorsement of Joe Biden, who is no friend to unions or workers. Instead working people should support Jill Stein, the strongest independent left, antiwar candidate.

On Strike speaks with union educator Joe S about his and other workers’ recent efforts to pass a resolution in the Washington Education Association to rescind the union’s endorsement of Biden, and how we can fight to build a new party for working people.

#Election #2024 #election2024 #Biden #Trump #bidenvstrump #stein #jillstein #thirdparty #independentcandidate #Gaza #union #KshamaSawant #labor #labormovement #strike #uncommitted #education #teachersunion #newparty #workersstrikeback #onstrike #workersparty

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17198470

“Jimmy Dore is outrageous and outraged, bothersome and bothered. A crucial, profane, passionate voice for progressives and free-thinkers in 21st century America. Jimmy will anger you if you’re a conservative and enrage you if you’re a liberal.”—Patton Oswalt

The Seattle City Council member who brought the $15 minimum wage increase to Seattle, Kshama Sawant, and her honest thoughts on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in an interview From Democracy Now.

Jimmy Dore breaks it down.

Title edit2: [Legacy Media Coverage of Kshama Sawant]

It happened when council member Kshama Sawant rolled out a 300-million-dollar payroll tax plan today to fund affordable housing.

ON STRIKE! A video broadcast w/ Kshama Sawant & Bia Lacombe.

Workers are falling behind. We're repeatedly sold out & betrayed. We need our own media & organizations to take on the billionaires, their political servants, and win.