Vigil for Eucy & Call to Action

This Friday, March 31, 7pm

Gilman Park

(923 NW 54th St)

This Friday night we will be attending a vigil for Eucy, a SDSA member who recently passed away. Come reflect and mourn on the transgender day of visibility and organized by Eucy's friends. We stand in solidarity with all of our members who are struggling with this loss.

Raise the Wage Renton Tabling – Downtown Renton (Boona Boona Coffee)

This Saturday, April 1

11-2pm

Boona Boona Coffee
724 S 3rd St

Please RSVP

Raise The Wage Renton MORNING Tabling – Safeway

This Sunday, April 2

2:30 - 4:30

4300 NE 4th St

Please RSVP

Join us at our weekly Raise The Wage Renton signature gathering table at the Safeway on NE 4th St in Renton.

Talk to retail/service workers and their customers, meet cool people from around King County who care about workers’ standard of living, and contribute to a great cause! Check out the Seattle DSA calendar for more days and times.

UAW 4121 Solidarity Tabling

This Saturday, April 1

10-12pm

University District Farmer's Market

50th & University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Please RSVP

UAW 4121 postdocs and research scientists units both voted overwhelming to authorize a strike in response to UW administration's continuous stalling on bargaining. You can check the Seattle DSA statement in solidarity here. We have a solid number of DSA members in UAW 4121 and we are looking to start building community support for their ongoing contract fight.

Joni us for our first tabling at the UDistrict Farmer's market to talk to community members about the ongoing bargaining fight happening at UW.

Friends,

In 2014 under pressure from a movement led by socialists and the local labor movement, Seattle City Council passed the $15 minimum wage - the first major city to do so.  This set off a prairie fire of other minimum wage struggles, most recently in Tukwila.  It’s been estimated that the 2014 Seattle minimum wage victory will transfer $2.5 billion over ten years from some of the biggest corporations in the world to 100,000 workers, disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ, and Black people. 

We have an opportunity to strike a blow against the billionaire class through a grassroots movement of working people and youth that can win a higher wage in Renton.  First and foremost we need to help gather the 10K+ signatures to qualify for the ballot.  This will take resources.

Will you kick down $25, $50, $100 for Seattle DSA to support the grassroots movements for a higher minimum wage in Renton?  

The low wage, no benefit corporations that dominate Renton will fight tooth and nail to prevent any attempt to stymie their ceaseless flow of profits.  They will spare no amount of money to defeat our movement.  

In October our chapter voted to hire two part-time staff members – a major milestone for Seattle DSA.  This month, Guillermo Zazueta began work as our new Campaign Organizer and Ty Moore stepped in as our new Communications Organizer. The two staff will help activate our 1,500 members, build in South King County, and ramp up our chapter’s communications and media. 

With its multi-racial working class, the need for socialists to root our movement in South King County is clear. Raise the Wage Tukwila winning by 82% showed there is an opening, and we’ve established points of support during the Gallardo campaign. 

But to build DSA in South King County will take serious resources.  

Please chip in $25, $50, $100 to strike a blow against the billionaire class!