Dear Friends, This Monday, more than 100 people gathered outside the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct for a National Day of Outrage to demand justice for Atatiana Jefferson, Charleena Lyles, and numerous black women killed at the hands of the police. Family members, faith leaders, and racial justice advocates all spoke powerfully, calling for police […]
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September 19, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Superintendent Student Advisory Board to School Board & Superintendent Juneau: “Enforcing unexcused absences for this strike is essentially punishing students for trying to make a change in the world, and we urge you to reconsider, and decide to excuse these absences.”
Rainier Beach High 11th grader Angelina Riley reads a letter to the Seattle School Board and Superintendent Denise Juneau, signed by 16 of 17 Seattle high school Superintendent Student Advisory Board members, urging them to “excuse absences of all students participating in the climate strike this Friday.” The letter was authored by Ingraham High 11th […]
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September 18, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Seattle School Board & Superintendent Juneau: Stand with the Students and with the Fight for Climate Justice by Excusing Student Absences for the Sept 20 #Climate Strike
Superintendent Juneau and School Board members: I received Superintendent Juneau’s letter in response to the unanimously-passed Seattle City Council resolution, and to my letter addressed to you. In both the Council resolution and in my letter, the School District is urged to stand with students courageously walking out Friday this week, September 20th, as part […]
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September 18, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Seattle School Board: “You have the power to help hundreds, maybe thousands, of Seattle school children. Will you use that power for the better or for the worse?”
Zoe Schurman – Washington Middle School Student, Global Climate Strike Activist Below is a speech Zoe delivered at a rally and press conference organized by my office on the morning of Sept 18 with students, educators and climate justice activists outside Washington Middle School to call on the Seattle School Board to excuse students from […]
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September 18, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
“Don’t force us to deal with the consequences of an unexcused absence simply because we demand the right to a future”
Kimaya Mahajan – Interlake High Student, Global Climate Strike Activist Below is a speech Kimaya delivered at a rally and press conference organized by my office on the morning of Sept 18 with students, educators and climate justice activists outside Washington Middle School to call on the Seattle School Board to excuse students from school […]
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September 16, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
My Letters Urging City, State & School Superintendents to Excuse Students from Classes to Attend Sept 20 Global Climate Strike
September 16th, 2019 Dear Seattle City School Board and Superintendent Juneau, I hope the 2019-2020 school year is going well so far. As I am sure you are aware, on Friday, September 20th, hundreds of Seattle Public School students will walk out of classes to take part in the Global Climate Strike. The strike action […]
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August 9, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
I Stand with the Jewish Community in Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants
On August 8th hundreds of Jewish community members and supporters, marched and powerfully demonstrated against the atrocities being committed by ICE and the Trump administration against immigrant communities daily before our eyes. I applaud activists and organizers in the Jewish community here in Seattle, standing with other communities facing all out assaults on their lives […]
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August 5, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Solidarity with Workers’ Occupation of Harland & Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland Bring the Shipyard into Democratic Public Ownership!
On behalf of working people in Seattle and the United States, we salute the workers courageously occupying the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and send you our full solidarity and support. We support the members of Unite and GMB trade unions that started the occupation last week, to defend their jobs and […]
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August 2, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Close the NW Detention Center – Solidarity with Immigrant Children & Families in Concentration Camps along US-Mexico Border
On August 1, I joined hundreds of protesters outside the ICE headquarters in Seattle, demanding an end to the detention and inhumane treatment of immigrant families and children along the US-Mexico border and calling on the Washington State Legislature to ban private immigration detention centers, including the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, which is the […]
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July 30, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Letter to Community & King County Council in support of Just Cause Eviction
Dear housing justice activists, Congratulations to King County renters Mergitu Argo, Mouhamed Tall, Modou Ndiaye, and Lenh Vong, who successfully fought off No-Cause Evictions from their landlord last month! We organized together – tenants, the Tenants Union of Washington State, the Seattle/King County NAACP, King County Councilmember Larry Gossett, my City Council Office, Be:Seattle, Washington […]