Kshama and our campaign are proud to be endorsed
by Chris Hedges! Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize
winning journalist, author, and host of the online
broadcast The Chris Hedges Report.
In his video endorsement of Kshama Sawant, Hedges says:
I’ve admired and supported the revolutionary
socialist Kshama Sawant since she was first elected
in 2013 to the Seattle City Council. Her fierce
commitment to the working class, her steadfast
defiance of the billionaires who destroyed our
democracy, and her anti-imperialist and anti-
colonialist credentials have long made her a
special target.
The billionaire class has pumped millions of dollars
into campaigns to defeat her and orchestrated a
recall vote in 2021, which she fought and won.
Her current campaign for Congress is part of
our grassroots struggle to wrest power from
the hands of the global ruling class. It is a
campaign for free healthcare for all funded by
taxing the rich. It is a campaign to raise the
minimum wage to at least $25 an hour. It is a
campaign to block landlords from extorting
massive rents and evicting families. It is a
campaign to drive politicians like Adam Smith,
a tool of big business who is funded by and
subservient to the Israel lobby, from Congress.
In an age when we stand on the cusp of fascism,
we cannot rely on the Democratic Party, whose
betrayal of the working class and subservience
to the rich gave us Trump.
We need a political earthquake. We need a
revolution. But it won’t happen until we
stand with revolutionaries like Kshama.
Hedges is the latest principled leader on the left to
endorse Kshama Sawant. He joins Mumia Abu-Jamal,
revolutionary socialist, former Black Panther, and
political dissident who has been imprisoned for over
44 years in one of the most brutal examples of
political retaliation by the American capitalist state.
Also endorsing Kshama is Alice Walker, activist and
Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Color Purple.
In the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report,
Hedges interviews Kshama about her Congressional
campaign and upcoming primary election on August 4th.
We are now only FIVE WEEKS away from the primary
for Washington’s ninth congressional district. Only
the top two candidates will advance to the general
election. We need to go all out to make sure Kshama
gets into the general election so that we can elect the
first ever revolutionary socialist to Congress.
To help fund our crucial effort to get out the vote in this
primary, we are trying to raise $25,000 in this last week
of June. Join Chris Hedges in supporting the only candidate
in this race fighting for an end to all military funding for
Israel, for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich,
to shut down ICE and the detention centers, and for
national rent control.
Donate $25, $50, or $500 now to elect the socialist
who beat the billionaires!
Solidarity,
Kshama for Congress
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