Selected Articles
While 70,000 People Marched To Seattle Center, Tukwila Protesters Needed More Bodies To Block ICE Kidnappings
“If you were one of the millions of people who took part in a march this weekend, you should be proud for taking the first step toward openly displaying your disgust and awakening your inner activist. In our hyper-individualist capitalist American culture we’ve been conditioned to be obedient yet disengaged members of society, so this is not a natural state for many of us.”
Read More - published by the Burner
With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
“Make no mistake—the everyday people of Washington are not worried about taxes being too burdensome for humanity’s richest corporations. Washington voters are worried about rising housing costs, rising energy and utility costs, unaffordable child care and a lack of full employment. None of these concerns are addressed by Pedersen’s “Millionaires Tax”—some will actually get worse. The bill throws some consolation prizes to working-class Washingtonians in the form of tax breaks on personal hygiene products, but no amount of tax-free shampoo will wash off the dirty feeling of being fleeced by your state representatives.”
Read More - published by Real Change
May Day Organizers Demand No School, No Work, No Shopping
”In 1938 under the New Deal’s Fair Labor Standard Act, American workers finally got the eight hour workday written into law, and it was because of those decades of labor, immigrant, and socialist activists all over the world coming together across sectors, getting organized, going on strikes, pressuring corporations, and using their labor power to fight for their rights.”
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As ICE Disappears Our Neighbors, We Must All Be A Pebble In The Gears Of Fascism
“We the people, in solidarity, can protect our communities from the President and the thugs he has hiding in every corner of this country. We must find ways to safely transport and house immigrants that need safe harbor, we must band together to refuse cooperation with ICE agents. Each of us must be like a pebble in the gears of fascism.”
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Seattle DSA Interview: Socialist Night School
“Patrick O’Neill:You also mentioned that school under the capitalist system is largely used as a place to train people to be workers, and to train people to accommodate themselves to authoritarianism. Can you talk a bit about how socialist night school re-imagines this relationship with school?
Ty Saxon: There’s a great book by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis called Schooling in Capitalist America. In the book, they go over evidence showing that our schools are primarily training people to obey authority. Teachers mainly reward students for obedience and not for intelligence, creativity, curiosity, or critical thinking.”
Read More - published in Seattle DSA Substack