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"Those who attempt to shut China out in the name of de-risking will make a historical mistake"

Seattle DSA and a broad coalition of working class organizations helped deliver Renton the highest minimum wage in the country through the passage of Measure 23-02. Now, South King County DSA organizers are forming a branch and expanding a socialist presence in a multiracial, working class city.

Tonight, Seattle DSA is celebrating a historic win for the working class in Renton. Voters have overwhelmingly decided to raise the minimum wage to $20.29/hour for the largest employers in town. This victory will facilitate a wealth transfer of tens of millions of dollars a year from the capitalist class to working class Rentonites.

We’re grateful for our coalition partners who were crucial in this campaign. The Renton Education Association played a crucial role: three REA members served on the Raise the Wage Renton steering committee and helped lead this campaign to victory. Contributions from labor and individuals sustained the campaign for over 13 months. Our progressive ally and Renton City Councilmember Carmen Rivera has been a champion of raising the wage from the beginning, despite constant outside pressures from business interests. The Transit Riders Union are the architects of Tukwila's minimum wage initiative, and their guidance was a huge factor in getting this initiative passed.

Raise the Wage Renton’s steering committee and PAC board were composed entirely of DSA members. Most of these members, including everyone on the PAC board, live and work in Renton, and were fighting alongside fellow workers for greater economic freedom. The campaign knocked on 25,000+ doors, canvassed 59,000+ voters, made 14,000+ phone calls, and had 15,000+ conversations with Renton voters in the field or on the phone.

Over 100 DSA members mobilized for 90% of these canvass attempts and 75% of these phone calls. Membership mobilized at an unprecedented scale for our chapter, showing the power of a member-driven DSA campaign! Working at this scale established a new socialist organizing presence in Renton, and we're excited for what the future holds for Seattle DSA and our soon to be formed South King County Branch.

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I am gobsmacked by how unflinchingly NBC News is handling this, especially in contrast with the talking heads on MSNBC. Is there some kind of civil war between Comcast subsidiaries?

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The first and main reason for the KKE's refusal to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples, which enshrines shared parental responsibility, is the commercialization of procreation and adoption. A second, equally important and related reason is that, in practice, the articles of the bill bypass the social right of a child to the motherhood-fatherhood relation as an evolving biosocial relationship. Our Party considers that parenthood is the relationship between a parent and child, which at the individual level reflects existing social relations. The KKE's position is based on the rights of the child, i.e. the child's social need to have ties with its mother and father. This need has an objective basis: the interrelated motherhood-fatherhood relation, resulting from the complementary function of man and woman in the process of procreation. The laws that are enacted must defend this right, not undermine it.

The preachers of “individual rights” have rushed to label the KKE as “homophobic”. They 'll do the same for this article.

Front runner is Parabowo the former Defense minister who worked for genocidal dictator Suharto running with the term limited president Jokowi's foreign educated eldest son, Gibran

Parabowo's name was also in the Paradise Papers.