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After doing the proletarian
thing all day--remodeling for Bulgarian
immigrants made good who remember the
commie days all too well--I donated a
significant portion of my day's hourly wage earnings
to Kshama Sawant.
She's my district's
(#3)
city council member, one
of the few
socialists to be elected to high office in
the USA since Jack
London ran for San Francisco mayor.
Her fiery opening remarks touched on many social
justice topics: institutionalized racism,
systemic violence, gender inequality, affordable
housing, equitable taxation, and fair labor
practices. She led the fight for local
$15/hr minimum wage, a campaign which has
spread nationwide. Seattle city council members
are paid $117,000 a year; she accepts only $40,000
and donates the rest to a
solidarity fund. She's a champ! So I felt a
little bad when she regarded my shirt with
discreet distaste during her talk. But it turned
out OK! From a distance, she assumed it was a
regular Coca-Cola
logo, which really would have been kind of evil
and banal. She was tickled once she saw the
joke and Brett Hamil, a
jokester himself, prompted this portrait. I'm
proud of it. As the T-shirt says, "I'm voting
for the socialist."
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