Working people need to stand together in solidarity against the right-wing attempt to silence Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Black Lives Matter movement with a recall campaign! The recall campaign, if successful, would overturn last year’s re-election and push our working-class representative out of office. Most importantly, the recall effort is an attempt to undermine Seattle’s social movements, which have won major victories against big business.

The right wing and big business are furious about the Defund SPD campaign, our movement’s historic Amazon Tax victory, our renters rights victories, the $15 minimum wage, and how Kshama has used her socialist City Council office to fight relentlessly for working people and the oppressed.

During our 2019 re-election campaign, Amazon, big real-estate developers, and even Trump donors unleashed a record breaking onslaught of corporate cash in an unsuccessful attempt to drive out the most consistent fighter for working people to ever sit on Seattle’s City Council. Now, they are desperately searching for a do-over.

The recall petition filer himself has explicitly said that this is a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, and three of the charges in the petition are directly against BLM. Councilmember Kshama Sawant is the only Seattle City Councilmember who has fought consistently alongside BLM and against police violence, to defund the police by 50%, and who voted against the New Youth Jail and the racist rollback of accountability in 2018’s police contract. 

As ordinary people face deep inequality, unaffordable housing and evictions, economic crisis, police violence, and climate crisis, we need her voice in City Hall now more than ever.