Posted on 06/13/2020 5:00:03 PM PDT by Libloather
An software engineer turned firebrand socialist has been named as the leader of a movement which has pushed police out of six-block area of central Seattle, known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ 'to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region', according to Fox News.
**SNIP**
Sawant tweeted Friday: 'Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police, but is turned over permanently into community control. My office is bringing legislation to convert East Precinct into a community center for restorative justice.'
She further stated: 'The movement has been undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan's police. Congratulations, solidarity!'
On Tuesday, Sawant used her position as a councilwoman to lead hundreds of protesters into City Hall, where she reportedly unlocked the building and let 300 people stage an hours-long takeover of the building.
The group called upon Mayor Durkan to resign.
Sawant is known for her militant and uncomprising style of politics, prompting one Seattle Times columnist to liken her to the Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
'She had has one answer to every question, and it is always some form of 'off with their heads'', the writer stated.
In 2013, Sawant became the first socialist to be elected to the Seattle City Council. She describes herself as an 'an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work as a public servant'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Social justice” means rob and kill white people—just didn’t want any confusion on that point.
By the time we got to Seattle we were half a million strong...
BS the Mayor is restraining the police The governor is impotent’
It is way past time for trump to make good own his threat to quell the insurrection not make more statements declaring the obvious. Every statement he makes like this only points out he does nothing. It’s like calling Hillary criminal for 18 months and letting her walk free by appointing a spineless AG
All hat and no cattle.
The people who write headlines for Daily Mail are on drugs.
She’s Idiot Sawant
I totally agree with you—Hellary is a criminal and should be doing hard time.
However, there should be no rush to deal with Chaz.
It is a showcase of leftist insanity that should be used like a club to humiliate Democrats until they bend the knee to us and beg forgiveness.
Where’s Lon Horiuchi when you need him?
the president is showing weakness by making threats and doing nothing.
Lot of people running around with that title who couldn't write code worth anything. I do see more and more the term data "scientist" which I'm sure is to avoid scrutiny as to what they actually do.
The President should stop making threats. This will eventually play out. And however it does, it will benefit President Trump.
“And they want ice, the good kind.”
I think that’s actually in The Declaration of Independence wording. Free Ice (the good kind!) For All!
*SNORT*
to the detriment and loss of the people who live in and have businesses in the area. Politics instead of safety is like politics and not trying to win a war (VN, Desert Storm)
Waiting under three conditions is just wrong as the situation deteriorates.
It’s been 6 days since trump said he would call out the troops. How many days is okay with you.
Kshama cares about manmade globull warming:
21 Sept 2014: Kshama Sawant: Speech from People’s Climate March NYC
A day before the largest climate action in history, Kshama Sawant joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Chris Hedges in New York City for a panel discussion to debate the way forward for the environmental movement. Video jumps directly to Kshama, and you can read the speech below...
(excerpts) Our demands to the so called “world leaders” also need to be clear.
We need massive public projects to put an end to fossil fuel as part of a rapid transformation to clean energy, along with a dramatic expansion of mass transit—all of which would create millions of living-wage, unionized jobs...
We must face up to the fact that the so called free market will not be able to end its addiction to fossil fuels, and certainly not at the speed that is required...
It was great to hear Bernie Sanders tonight. There has been some talk about Bernie running for President in 2016, to provide an alternative to Hillary Clinton.
I don’t always agree with Bernie, I’ll be honest—especially his recent positions on US foreign policy. But just for a moment, let us imagine the impact of a well-known and credible independent left challenger of the stature of Bernie running as a challenge to the two parties of big business in the 2016 elections...
https://sawant.seattle.gov/speech-from-nyc-peoples-climate-march//
is she just as concerned about...
17 Nov 2018: NYT: ‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj
The higher-caste men greeted Mr. Sardar with a punch to the face. Then they broke his arm. Then they pinned him down. Mr. Sardar shrieked for help. Nobody came.
One higher-caste man stuffed a rag in his mouth. Another gleefully pulled out a razor. He grabbed Mr. Sardar’s scalp and began to lift and cut, lift and cut, carving off nearly every inch of skin.
“Take that!” Mr. Sardar remembers them saying. “Tell everyone we scalped you!”
Mr. Sardar is a Dalit, a class of Indians who are not just considered lower caste, but technically outcaste — what used to be called untouchable. Bound at the bottom of India’s Hindu society for centuries, the Dalit population, now estimated at more than 300 million, has been abused for as long as anyone can remember...
In late October, a 14-year-old Dalit girl was beheaded by an upper-caste man whose wife said he hated the girl specifically because of her caste. A Dalit scavenger was tied up and fatally whipped outside a factory in May, in a beating captured on video and broadcast across India. In March, a Dalit man was killed by higher-caste men for riding a horse (traditionally, Dalits aren’t supposed to do that)...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/world/asia/tell-everyone-we-scalped-you-how-caste-still-rules-in-india.html
Someone should do a “deep dive” into her background.....Im guessing it more interesting then Joe the Plumber...
no ... the problem is that their skulls aren't being bashed in.
and add in a few Kent States for good measure
So this is what the H1b scabs turn in to.
Coming from Mumbai she's shocked at inequality and poverty in United States. Can you wrap your head around that hutzpah? Sounds like an H1-B visa ingrate.
Yep. A filthy former Indian H1B. Send ALL Indians home. Only a very few become Americans and respect America.
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