Kshama Sawant

@cmkshama

What a spectacle: @AOC stands w/ Biden, saying "the matter is closed."

AOC claims it's about ceasefire in Gaza, rent relief, expanding Medicare & ending student debt.

This is rank gaslighting.

Biden, the Squad, and the whole Democratic Party are a dead end for working people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12706862

[3:58:58 Kshama Sawant/Carl/Steve join] The Labor Organizing Summit | Part 2 - Featuring Kshama Sawant [6:01:33 | Jul 29 2023 | RBN]

Blacking Out Corporate Propaganda and Educating for a Revolution.

RBN = Revolutionary Blackout Network

Edits:

• updated link to start when Kshama/Carl/Steve/ joins in
• added 4 timestamps

Timestamps (WIP=workinprogress):

• [0:13] Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela in Milwaukee speech
• [4:12] Feras joins, Palestine Community Network
• [34:01] Chuck Modi (Activist/Journalist/Writer), Cop City talk
• [57:24] Sabby Sabs becomes host, panel guests join, members of the UPS Teamsters and NY Postal Worker
• [2:00:10] Video about Edward (Midwestern Marx), "The differences between Marxism, Communism, & Socialism"
• [2:01:50] Guests Carlos/Eddie/Noah from Midwestern Marx join in
• [3:58:58] Kshama Sawant and guests join in

A crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party following the train wreck of the Biden-Trump presidential debate, and Biden's catastrophic performance.

On Strike is joined by Briahna Joy Gray, host of the Bad Faith podcast and, until recently, co-host of The Hill Rising, from which she was fired in retaliation for speaking out consistently and courageously against the genocidal war on Gaza. We speak with Gray about the crisis for the Biden administration, the failures of AOC and the Squad–including the recent defeat of Jamaal Bowman in New York–and the path forward for working people, including the important effort to build Jill Stein’s independent, antiwar Presidential campaign.

Register now for the Inaugural Zoom Conference of Workers Strike Back and join Jill Stein, former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse to discuss and vote on a strategy to build an alternative to the rotten Democratic and Republican Parties, which have blood on their hands both at home and abroad. Register now: www.workersstrikeback.org/events/july-national-mtg

Powerful sections of the Democratic Party leadership remain determined to ram Biden down the throats of working people despite the absolute disaster of not only last week’s debate, but Biden’s candidacy as a whole. In the face of the threat of a second Trump Presidency, they are prepared to risk everything rather than replace their doomed candidate. The pro-Biden Democratic establishment is trying to pretend nothing much has happened. It’s a weapon’s grade level of political gaslighting.

The calls for Biden to step aside have grown, now including two Democratic members of Congress–Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. But even as pressure on Biden approaches a boiling point, the so-called progressives in the Democratic Party, including AOC, have remained silent, choosing to preserve their rotten relationship with the political establishment over the interests of working people, who desperately need an alternative to the status quo of crisis and war. Meanwhile, the “alternatives” on offer from the Democratic establishment, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris, have equally abysmal records to Biden and would also be beholden to the pro-war anti-working-class agenda of the Democratic Party.

If you think the working class needs new and analysis like in this episode, become a member of Workers Strike Back today. By joining Workers Strike Back, you can support the production of On Strike and help us build a fighting workers’ movement to fight for what workers need: a $25/hr minimum wage, good union jobs, free universal healthcare, quality affordable housing, and an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Join Workers Strike Back today at workersstrikeback.org/join.

#kshamasawant #bjg #badfaith #onstrike #presidentialdebate #presidentialdebate2024 #biden #kamala #harris #dnc #newparty #jillstein #gaza #workersstrikeback #uncommitted

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17197732

Rescind Biden: How Workers Are Organizing Against the Warmonger-in-Chief [50:37 | JUN 07 24 | On Strike!]

The U.S. Presidential election is now less than 5 months away. Working people continue to struggle, as the world falls deeper into crisis and war. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues, funded off the backs of American workers, even as a majority of Americans oppose the slaughter.

Meanwhile, the political establishment and media have presented working people with a rotten false choice: Warmonger-In-Chief Joe Biden or right-wing billionaire Donald Trump. We need to reject both Biden AND Trump, who offer nothing but more war and suffering. The billionaires have two parties, we need one of our own. And we need to build an independent movement that can end this war on Gaza and win real gains for working people. We need mass protests at the Democratic National Convention this August in Chicago to demand an end to the slaughter and of all U.S. funding of the Israeli war machine. Workers Strike Back is helping build that movement.

We also need to demand that unions rescind their endorsement of Joe Biden, who is no friend to unions or workers. Instead working people should support Jill Stein, the strongest independent left, antiwar candidate.

On Strike speaks with union educator Joe S about his and other workers’ recent efforts to pass a resolution in the Washington Education Association to rescind the union’s endorsement of Biden, and how we can fight to build a new party for working people.

#Election #2024 #election2024 #Biden #Trump #bidenvstrump #stein #jillstein #thirdparty #independentcandidate #Gaza #union #KshamaSawant #labor #labormovement #strike #uncommitted #education #teachersunion #newparty #workersstrikeback #onstrike #workersparty

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17198470

“Jimmy Dore is outrageous and outraged, bothersome and bothered. A crucial, profane, passionate voice for progressives and free-thinkers in 21st century America. Jimmy will anger you if you’re a conservative and enrage you if you’re a liberal.”—Patton Oswalt

The Seattle City Council member who brought the $15 minimum wage increase to Seattle, Kshama Sawant, and her honest thoughts on Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in an interview From Democracy Now.

Jimmy Dore breaks it down.

Title edit2: [Legacy Media Coverage of Kshama Sawant]

It happened when council member Kshama Sawant rolled out a 300-million-dollar payroll tax plan today to fund affordable housing.

ON STRIKE! A video broadcast w/ Kshama Sawant & Bia Lacombe.

Workers are falling behind. We're repeatedly sold out & betrayed. We need our own media & organizations to take on the billionaires, their political servants, and win.