June 28th, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019 Dear Steve and Beau Harer, Glenn and Debra Koehler, and Detente Management; We are writing to urge you to immediately renew the leases of Mergitu Argo, Mouhamed Tall, Modou Ndiaye, and Lenh Vong. You recently served the four of them with 20-day notice to terminate their tenancy, with no cause or […]
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June 27th, 2019
Dear Superintendent Juneau, Director Halfaker, Chief Academic Officer DeBacker, Executive Director Starosky, Director Bush, Senior Assistant General Counsel Boy, and School Board Members, I am writing to urge you to reestablish the partnership agreement and the MOA with the Urban Native Education Alliance (UNEA) to secure Robert Eagle Staff Middle School (RES) building facility for […]
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June 27th, 2019
Wednesday June 26, 2019 Dear friends and community members, My office and I send our solidarity to The Crescent bar on Capitol Hill, whose Pride flag was recently shredded, and The Lumber Yard and The Swallow, who also reported anti-LGBTQ targeting. We stand with the LGBTQ community in condemning these cowardly and hateful acts, and […]
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June 26th, 2019
Dear Sisters and Brothers, Workers, socialists and activists around the world stand in solidarity with your heroic struggle against the government’s anti-democratic extradition bill. We are watching your struggle and support it. You are not alone! Following the magnificent million-strong demonstration of June 9, the Hong Kong government, acting on behalf of big business and […]
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June 19th, 2019
Thank you to the organizers for inviting me to speak at this wonderful celebration of struggle. Frederick Douglass, a former slave, leading abolitionist and activist for women’s rights, spoke words that can act as a guide still today. Frederick Douglass proclaimed that “If there is no struggle, there can be no progress. Power concedes nothing […]
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June 13th, 2019
Thursday June 13, 2019 Dear New York rent control activists, As a fighter for rent control and housing justice and as an elected socialist in Seattle, I stand in solidarity with your movement. My City Council office fully supports your demand that your state legislature pass the bills that would establish universal rent control, strengthen […]
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June 6th, 2019
Thursday June 06, 2019 Dear sisters and brothers, Workers, socialists and activists around the world are watching your heroic struggle for democracy, human rights, and decent living standards. You are not alone! While Bashir has been forced from office by your determination, the same forces that supported him are seeking to cling to power. At […]
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June 4th, 2019
Join our movement as my Council office unveils our draft legislation to Tax Amazon and Seattle’s wealthiest corporations for permanently affordable social housing and a Green New Deal! Join us! Tax Amazon Legislation Unveiling and Press ConferenceTomorrow, March 4th9AM in Seattle City Hall Dear friends and fellow housing activists, As we all, I’m sure, are […]
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