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deutsey

(20,166 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 01:40 PM Nov 2015

Is anyone here involved with Socialist Alternative?

http://www.socialistalternative.org/

With Kshama Sawant's re-election in Seattle, I checked out the site of the socialist organization she's affiliated with.

Socialist Alternative is the organization that spearheaded the campaign to elect Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council, the first independent socialist elected in a major U.S. city in decades. We are a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day. We are community activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; we are activists campaigning for a $15/hour minimum wage and fighting, democratic unions; we are people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia.

Just curious if anyone's involved (or has been involved) with SA and what your experience is (was).
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Is anyone here involved with Socialist Alternative? (Original Post) deutsey Nov 2015 OP
Not personally but in theory TBF Nov 2015 #1

TBF

(34,368 posts)
1. Not personally but in theory
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 02:40 PM
Nov 2015

I'm sure I'd find a lot to agree with. The problem we face in this country is the deferral to the two-party system. I am in the camp that would love to see a viable independent party arise, no matter what it's called.

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