Resolution in support of Kshama Solidarity Campaign

Resolution in support of Kshama Solidarity Campaign

Since being first elected to Seattle City Council in 2013, Kshama has been an unwavering fighter for working people and socialist policies. Her victories fighting for the $15 minimum wage, landmark renters’ rights, and the Amazon Tax were inspirations for similar campaigns here in British Columbia.

In the past year Kshama has been steadfast in supporting the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd movements, marching with workers, fighting in City Hall against police brutality, and building a movement to win passage of first-in-the-nation legislation to ban police from using tear gas, rubber bullets, and other so-called “crowd-control” weapons.

As a result of her and the socialist movement in Seattle’s success, big business (including rich Republicans and Trump donors like billionaire Martin Selig) are behind an insidious, undemocratic effort to unseat Kshama through a recall campaign. 

We recognize this recall campaign is not just an attack on Kshama, but is an attack on all working people and socialist movements, not just in Seattle, not just in the United States, but around the world. An injury to one is an injury to all.

Democratic Socialists of Vancouver endorses the Kshama Solidarity Campaign to fight the right-wing, anti-worker recall campaign, and to join with her and other allied forces to continue fighting for affordable housing for all, for an end to police brutality, for Black Lives Matter, and for the Green New Deal.

Democratic Socialists of Vancouver encourages its members to volunteer for the Kshama Solidarity Campaign and help out in any way that would be practicable, since the recall is an attack on all working people.

Solidarity!