Oct. 12th Book Launch: How Seattle socialists defeated Amazon and upended city politics
Book Launch: We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System
How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics
Featuring author Jonathan Rosenblum and hosted by the Coalition of Progressive Electors
Sunday, October 12, 1pm at 411 Seniors Centre (3502 Fraser Street)
RSVP: https://www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch
Join local labour and political activists to learn from Seattle-based organizer and author Jonathan Rosenblum for a presentation and discussion about the lessons of Kshama Sawant's years as a Seattle City Councilmember and the political strategy and grassroots mobilizations behind her successes in taking on the establishment including the world's wealthiest person.
Other speakers include:
Henly Larden, VP & Pay Equity Co-Chair Air Canada Workers (CUPE 4094)
Sean Orr, COPE Vancouver City Councillor
As COPE gears up to fight for affordable housing, expanded public transit, and fully-funded public services in next year’s municipal elections, we’ll discuss how the lessons out of Seattle can inform our fight here.
About The Book
Seattle was the first major city to mandate a $15 minimum wage; the first to implement a payroll tax on Amazon to build affordable housing; the first to secure a bevy of renters’ rights laws, making good on the slogan, “Housing is a human right.”
In a municipal government dominated by pro-business Democrats, Sawant and the popular street movements she led against major corporations headquartered in the region—including Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, and Starbucks—won battles that would transform the city’s trajectory for years to come.
We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System tells this extraordinary story from the inside.
Books will be for sale, thanks to Spartacus Books!
More information on the book: https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-re-coming-for-you-and-your-rotten-system/