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 […]
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July 29, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant, News Releases, Sawant
Councilmember Sawant: Newly-Formed Art Workers Union at Frye Art Museum Begin Bargaining Today, Calls for Community Support
Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council’s Human Services, Equitable Development and Renters Rights committee, issued the following statement as the newly-formed Art Workers Union engaged in its first bargaining session, on July 29, with Frye management for a union contract: “As a member of the local teachers union, City Councilmember...
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July 29, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Art Workers Union members deserve the community’s full support and solidarity as they begin bargaining today with Frye Art Museum management
Today (July 29), as the newly-formed Art Workers Union begins bargaining with Frye management for a first union contract, I issued this public statement: “As a member of the local teachers union, City Councilmember and elected representative of Seattle’s working people, and member of Socialist Alternative, I congratulate the Frye Art Museum security guards on […]
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July 16, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant, News Releases, Sawant
Councilmember Sawant Celebrates Appeals Court Decision on ‘Tax the Rich’ Legislation
Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle) issued the following statement today in response to the State Court of Appeals ruling on Seattle’s Tax the Rich (income tax) legislation – Ordinance 125339 – sponsored by Councilmembers Sawant and Herbold, which passed unanimously by City Council in 2017: “Yesterday’s court ruling on our ‘Tax the Rich’...
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July 10, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
My letter standing with Crosscut and KTCS workers in their efforts to form a union
I sent the following letter on Tuesday July 9th, 2019 urging the CEO of Cascade Public media urging him to recognize the decision to form a union by the workers at Crosscut and KTCS. Dear Robert Dunlop, CEO Cascade Public Media: As a Seattle City Councilmember and an elected representative of the city’s working people, […]
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July 10, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant, News Releases, Sawant
Councilmember Sawant Urges Management to Recognize Crosscut Union
Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle) shared excerpts from an open letter addressed to the CEO of Cascade Public Media, underscoring her support of Crosscut and PBS KCTS 9 journalists and employees efforts to form a union, and urging management to voluntarily recognize the union. Sawant, after having successfully supported other unionization efforts...
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July 3, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
My letter to Cadence Real Estate, urging them to accept the demands of the tenants of the Chateau Apartments
To Cadence Real Estate, Chris Garvin, Barret Johnston, John Garvin: I am writing to again urge you to transfer the building-based section 8 subsidies to another building in the Central District, to allow your tenants to remain in their communities when you demolish their homes. My office has done outreach and found a not-for-profit affordable […]
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June 28, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant, News Releases, Sawant
Sawant, Tenants Announce Skyway Victory and Improvements to Seattle Just Cause Ordinance
Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle), chair of the Council’s Human Services, Equitable Development and Renters Rights committee, announced today that Skyway tenants facing impending eviction due to absence of Just Cause protections in unincorporated King County have won a huge victory, as the landlord has rescinded the eviction notices. She also announced that...
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June 28, 2019January 6, 2023Councilmember Sawant
Our Letter with the Community Demanding End of No-Cause Evictions
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 […]