☑️VOTE YES on I-135 for Social Housing!

Ballots are due by tomorrow, Tuesday, February 14th, by 8pm!

If you mail in your ballot, it must be postmarked no later than Tues, 2/14. You can also drop it off at any ballot box listed here. If you lost your ballot or didn't receive one, you can get a replacement one here. To vote in-person, visit a voting center here.

Finally, take a pic of yourself dropping off your ballot and post it on your socials! Let get the word out to vote!

Raise the Wage Renton Tabling – Renton Safeway 

This Wednesday, Feb. 15, 5-7pm

Please RSVP

Join us at Renton Safeway to help get Raise the Wage Renton on the ballot!

Raise the Wage Renton Tabling – Renton Highlands Library 

This Saturday, Feb 18 10am-1pm

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 (not required, but encouraged so we have a sense of how many volunteers to expect)

Join us to help get Raise the Wage Renton on the ballot!  We need to gather over 10,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.  

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!