Chris Hedges Endorses Kshama Sawant for Coongress

From the campaign:

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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