I’m endorsing Nilu Jenks @niluj.bsky.social, fellow @workingfamilies.org candidate because she’s committed to fighting for a future for all of us! Deeply rooted in D5, Nilu has been a champion for democracy and immigrant communities. She’s the colleague I want on council and deserves your support!
Hey, uh, public defense in Washington is teetering on the brink of disaster due to historic underfunding by the state and new caseload standards that will add further monetary stress to an already-struggling system www.thestranger.com/news/washing...
Lots of talk about audits recently. How about we focus on this!
Fixed-income seniors and working families should not be subsidizing wealthy private golf courses.
Graph showing that Super PAC spending on behalf of conservative candidates far exceeded spending for progressive candidates in the 2023 Seattle City Council elections
Corporate PACs spend ~$20/vote purchasing Seattle elections.
More than 80% of Capitol Hill residents voted for the Crisis Care levy, but their elected leaders chose to listen mostly
to wealthy white property and business owners who objected to building a Center in their backyard.
NEW STORY// Capitol Hill Landlords Lobbied Hard Against Crisis Care Center, Records Show
By Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org
We have to aspire to something higher than pushing an encampment around the corner so it’s a problem for a different block.
Participants place stickers on a map of Seattle. Someone points at the map front out of frame.
The Mayor sits on a panel with three others listening to their experiences.
Seattle is coming together to open new shelters with wrap-around services citywide.
Thank you to everyone who joined tonight's community briefing on my shelter expansion plan. I was pleased to announce our first new site in Interbay, and the acceleration of Glassyard Commons & Brighton Village.
I'm at Mayor Katie Wilson's "Shelter Accelerator Update April Community Event" (rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?) where she's cueing up a panel discussion. First shelter site: a 75-plus-person Pallet shelter on Armory Way in Interbay!
Thrilled to be endorsed by @tech4housing.org! These folks played a huge part in helping social housing get over the electoral finish line, and they provide lots of capital and volunteer time for so many good things in Seattle.
My many thanks!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gFG9US/
NEW STORY// Wilson, Housing Advocates Rally for Bolder Seattle Growth Plan
By Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org
Sara Nelson’s city council gave Seattle Police officers a contract that allows them to investigate and exonerate themselves for this.
Blue Origin's lunar landing system on top of copper Europa moon with Jupiter in the background.
Blue Origin Lander Delivered to Wrong Moon: tinyurl.com/yz49j6du
Comp plan comment at City Hall has gotten through the line. Stop on by before 6:30 PM and you'll be able to speak with no wait!
Please donate to help purchase chairs and tables and they’ll engrave your name on them! buy.stripe.com/9B6aEX0EOeOA...
Comp Plan Public Hearing • Virtual - 4/6 at 9:30am • In-person - 4/6 at 3:00pm (Seattle City Hall) SEATTLE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Eddie Lin SEATTLE CITY COUNCILMEMBER DISTRICT 2
Today is the day! Come make your voice heard on Phase 2 of Seattle's Comprehensive Plan. Comment sign up times:
- Remote: 8:30am-10:30am
- In-person: 2:30pm-6:30pm
Everyone ready for Seattle Comp Plan rally and public comment tomorrow?!
Give comment AND send these 2 action letters!! They also have talking points if you need them!
APARTMENTS ON QUIET STREETS & NEXT TO PARKS NOW! LFG!!!
actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is explaining her plan to let Seattle build more housing, in more places, and more quickly than her predecessor Bruce Harrell had planned.
The Comprehensive Plan will decide if social housing can actually exist across our city--or stay blocked by outdated zoning.
We didn’t win just to stop here.
📣 Join us April 6 at City Hall, 12PM.
Let’s make social housing possible everywhere.
#Seattle #SocialHousing #CompPlan
A photo of the Pike Place starbucks in Seattle Washington
We, the partners at Pike Place #301, are excited to announce our intent to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. As partners of the first Starbucks, we’ve decided to form a union to uphold the core values of our company and the Pike Place Market: fair and equal treatment, respect, and dignity for every single partner who makes this store so special. Thousands of partners around the country are working together to fight for a better workplace, and we look forward to joining them. Starbucks as a company was built on the core pillars of belonging, courage, and joy. Sadly, under your leadership – in our store and so many others – Starbucks has lost its way and veered from the core values that defined us. Store partners are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. We open the stores every morning and close them every night. We greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember our regulars’ names and favorite orders. But beneath the veneer of the excellent experience we craft for visitors every day, partners do not feel a sense of belonging and joy – unequal treatment is the norm, not the exception. When we speak up, that courage is punished, not rewarded. That has been most evident with Starbucks dispatching two national labor relations personnel to our store to surveil partners after the company heard we were discussing unionization, raising tension in the store that can be felt by both workers and customers. The market's founding gave us clear directions: "It is for you to defend, to protect and to uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly; that no extortion be permitted and that the purpose for which it was created be religiously adhered to." The path to our union may be challenging, but we know this: We are better working together as a team, we have each others’ backs, and we respect everyone’s right to make their own choice. We call on Starbucks to live up to the core values of courage, joy, and be…
Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊
Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks:
Astronauts floating in moon crater pool, pina coladas in-hand with Earth in the distant background floating in darkness
Artemis II Astronauts Say Teams Not Working Either: tinyurl.com/mr2c73dp
Sound Transit has a survey up around the realignment of the ST3 plan. It's very high level and doesn't ask about specific projects, but does have an open form question at the end where you can list your priorities.
soundtransit.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
West Seattle Station Area Planning map, highlight the West Seattle Junction Station Area, as well as the Delridge Station Area. The Station Area Planning logo is in the top right, decorated with various shapes.
Survey deadline extended to April 3!
🗣️ West Seattle & Delridge neighbors! We're planning for growth and livability around future light rail stations and we want to hear from you. Let us know what your neighborhood priorities and ideas are by taking our survey.
survey.alchemer.com/s3/8694303/f...
Seattle should tax the wealthy corporations here that benefited from Trump tax cuts and Federal transit spending cuts to pay for Sound Transit 3.
NEW OP-ED// Op-Ed: Help Us Fight for the Bold Housing Plan Seattle Deserves
By Jazmine Smith, Jeff Paul via @theurbanist.org
Is there a legal basis to ban cars on historic preservation grounds because when Pike Place Market was founded in 1907 there were only about 300 gasoline powered cars in Seattle?
16 states tax their poorest residents at rates higher than California taxes its richest.
That's because more states rely on regressive taxes, which asks more from lower-income households.
California is among the least regressive.
itep.org/low-tax-for-...
