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Following Monday's explosive interview with Rep. Jamaal Bowman about Force The Vote and the utility of The Squad as part of an "inside/outside" strategy to move the country to the left, socialist former Seattle City Counsel member and founder of independent movement organization Workers Strike Back to offer her perspective, as part of the adversarial left, discuss a left response to the current political moment, and to debrief on Briahna's recent Piers Morgan interview on Trump's first month.

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Main Topic: This YouTube video features a discussion between [Briahna Joy Gray] and Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle city councilwoman, about Rep. Jamaal Bowman's interview on the Bad Faith podcast. The conversation centers on the Squad's political strategies, their relationship with the Democratic Party, and the necessity of independe

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Republicans & Democrats are parties of war & the rich.

We need to fight the rich & both their parties to win what workers need.

Join Chris Hedges, Kshama Sawant, Jill Stein, and working people from around the country for Workers Strike Back’s Fight the Rich Organizing Conference!

Then join us on SUNDAY, 2/23 from 10 am - 5 pm Pacific at the Langston Hughes performing arts center in Seattle for our first-ever in-person Workers Strike Back Convention to vote on our campaigning priorities, elect a fighting leadership, and build the fight against the rich and both their parties! If you’re not yet a member of Workers Strike Back, sign up now to join! Go to https://www.workersstr/...

It’s been barely a month since Trump took office, and he has already carried out a blitz of attacks on working people. With Elon Musk — the owner of Tesla and the richest person in the world, with a wealth nearing half a trillion dollars — Trump and his administration are focused on

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Introduction and Guests

• The podcast is hosted by Sabrina Salvati, who introduces the episode and its guests, former Seattle City Councilor Shama Sawant and former Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein.
• This episode marks the first time both guests appear together on the show, setting the stage for a discussion on the recent presidential election and their collaborative efforts during the campaign.

Overview of the Presidential Election

• The conversation begins with an analysis of the recent presidential election, highlighting significant events such as the incumbent president dropping out and Kamala Harris being selected as the Democratic nominee without a primary.
• Shama Sawant, k

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Thanks to Sonali Kolhatkar for on-the-ground video from Pasadena and Altadena.

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Overview of the Wildfires

• The video begins with a dramatic portrayal of the devastating wildfires in Southern California, particularly emphasizing the destruction in Pacific Palisades.
• The fires have consumed over 40,000 acres and destroyed more than 12,000 buildings, leading to at least 16 fatalities and 13 people reported missing.
• Both affluent and working-class communities have been impacted, with significant losses reported among long-standing Black communities in Pasadena and Altadena.
• The report highlights the historical significance of these neighborhoods, where many homes have been passed down through generations.

Personal Accounts of Evacuation

• Sonali Kolhatkar shares her harrowing experience of evacuating her family due to the escalating threat of wildfires, particularly focusing on her elderly parents' needs

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On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

Introduction to Worker Strike Back

• The broadcast welcomes viewers with a New Year greeting and introduces the purpose of Worker Strike Back, which is to build movements and provide a working-class analysis of events.
• It emphasizes the need for a clear strategy in the fight against the billionaire class and their political allies.
• The previous year included live coverage of elections, rallies, and protests, focusing on significant events in the labor and anti-war movements.

Achievements and Activism in the Past Year

• Worker Strike Back reported from various significant protests, including the Boeing machinist picket line and anti-war encampments at universities.
• The organization fought against attempts to undermine the minimum wage victory in Seattl

@wrkrsstrikeback

Workers Strike Back is joining the Chicago People's March for Justice on January 20th to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump and his administration's planned attacks on immigrants and working people. Come to Workers Strike Back's monthly meeting on Tuesday January 14th in Chicago to prepare for the protest by registering here: https://workersstrikeback.org/events/jan-chicago

The new warmonger-in-chief has promised to continue the genocide in Palestine and deport millions of working people. Trump is openly collaborating with billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who have a long anti-union track record.

The Democratic Party itself, under Biden, led the obscene military aid to the Israeli state, broke the railroad workers' strike, and betrayed promises to working people, including the $15/hour minimum wage and canceling student debt.

Working people and union members need to organize independently of the two parties of capitalism. We need mass protes

@wrkrsstrikeback

Join Workers Strike Back SUN, Jan 12 @ 3 pm ET /12 PT for our January monthly meeting.

Discuss the fight to tax Amazon & big business in 2024 & lessons from our historic Amazon Tax victory in 2020 that won $250 mil/yr for affordable social housing.

RSVP: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/jan-national

1:53 PM | Dec 21, 2024

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We need to use our momentum from getting out the vote for Jill Stein's antiwar pro-worker campaign to fight the rich and their two parties. To end the wars and the genocide in Gaza. To fight against racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression. To organize protests and strike actions to win a $25/hour minimum wage, Medicare for All, quality affordable housing, and good union jobs for all.

Both Democrats and Republicans are a dead end for workers, the union movement, and the antiwar struggle. We urgently need a new, independent, antiwar, working-class party that can take on the billionaires & warmongers and BREAK the two-party system.

Register now for Workers Strike Back's February Organizing Conference SATURDAY, Feb 22 @ 10 am PT!^[[1] https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference]

Link to signup for event: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference

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Both billionaire parties have carried out horrific attacks on immigrant workers. Barack Obama was dubbed the “Deporter-in-Chief” and continues to hold the shameful record for the most deportations in history. Trump has promised to beat that record by launching a mass deportation campaign, including the possibility of workplace raids, which would be a dangerous attack on workers and the labor movement. Both parties continue to send billions to fund endless wars and the genocide in Gaza.

Rank-and-file union members need to get organized around a fighting strategy to take on these two capitalist parties and end their anti-immigrant attacks. Sign up below to join the WSB Labor Caucus Sunday, December 1 @ 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT!^[[1] https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/dec-2024-labor-caucus]

Link to signup: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/dec-2024-labor-caucus

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

We don’t run any ads and we don’t take corporate money. We rely on support from working people like you, so SUBSCRIBE NOW to On Strike and BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back: www.workersstrikeback.org/join

On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters’ rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli wa

@cmkshama

Unofficial results show Harris LOSING in Dearborn to @DrJillStein in precincts where Biden won in a landslide & where Workers Strike Back has been campaigning with Arab & Muslim voters. To fight Trump & the right, we need a new working-class antiwar party

@OS26

Look at this final evening tally from one majority Arab American Muslim precinct in East Dearborn #Michigan

Trump sweep #Yalla

[Image of Unofficial results in Dearborn]

[Harris: 59, Trump: 203, Oliver: 3, Terry: 0, Stein: 153, Kennedy: 0,...]

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1854022001457070237

@wrkrsstrikeback

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will both continue funding the lsraeli state's genocide in Gaza. Both the Democrats and Republicans are warmongering parties of the billionaire class. 1/x

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NO HARRIS, NO TRUMP

Hassan Abdel Salam | ABANDON HARRIS Co-founder

ORGANIZE TO END THE GENOCIDE

JILL STEIN | Presidential Candidate

RALLY Sunday

October 6 | 2 PM ET Bint Jebail Cultural Center 14201 Prospect St Bldg. 2 Dearborn, MI

KSHAMA SAWANT | Socialist & Former Independent City Councilmember

REGISTER & attend in person or via livestream

Harris and Trump will both continue funding the Israeli state's genocide in Gaza. Both the Democrats and Republicans are warmongering parties of the billionaire class. We need to win every possible vote for Jill Stein as a step towards building a new antiwar working-class party.

[email protected]

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Watch our interview with Jill Stein from May, on the ground at the campus antiwar protests: https://youtu.be/NXSZUtt4kYE

• The antiwar movement has gained renewed momentum, with dozens of university campuses across the nation seeing mass encampments and protests against the Israeli state’s genocidal war on Gaza.

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters’ rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour

On Strike provides news & analysis from a working-class perspective, putting forward a strategy to take on the billionaires and their political servants, and win.

On Strike is a production of Workers Strike Back, which was launched by Kshama Sawant and other working people in 2023 to spread the lessons of her decade as a socialist City Councilmember in Seattle, where she led movements to win historic victories like the first major $15 minimum wage, the Amazon Tax for affordable housing, and landmark renters’ rights like the first-in-the-nation ban on winter evictions. Workers Strike Back is building a movement across the country to fight for things like a $25/hour minimum wage, free healthcare and quality affordable housing for all, an end U.S. military aid to the Israeli war machine, and an end the genocide and occupation in Gaza. We’re organizing to build Jill Stein’s independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign & to begin laying the foundation for a new party for workin

@cmkshama

AOC can't seem to cheerlead Harris enough.

AOC claimed Harris was working tirelessly for a ceasefire, as Harris presided over $20B more of arms to Israel.

On the other hand, AOC can't seem to attack Left antiwar proworker candidate Jill Stein enough. Why? The answer is below.

[Image of article with headline: "US elections 2024: Jill Stein leads with Muslim-American voters in three swing states, survey shows", sub-headline: "The Democratic and Green party candidates each command vlose to a third of the Muslim-American vote"]

[Image of Dr. Jill Stein below article sub-headline, information below picture says: "Jill Stein, presidential candidate, speaks in front of the 'Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine' in downtown Chicago 21 August, 2024 (John Rudoff/Reuters)]

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1834716593227808967

Abandon Harris founder Hassan Abdel Salam speaks at Workers Strike Back’s rally in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to demand an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Hear from Abdel Salam about his experience being arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli state in retaliation for peaceful protests in Jerusalem, and about what it will take to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is being funded and supported by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party.

Join Workers Strike Back THIS SUNDAY @ 12 pm PT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET for our National September Monthly Meeting to discuss next steps to build the biggest possible vote for Jill Stein and her independent, antiwar, pro-worker Presidential campaign, as a step towards building a new party for working people.

#gaza #harris #trump #kamalaharris #democrats #war #newparty #kshamasawant #jillstein #workers #labor #antiwar

Summary

1. Kid Cabella from Hard Lens Media interviews activists including Nick Cruz from RBN, Dr. Jill Stein from the Green Party, and Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant.
2. The discussion centers around the event "Disrupt the DNC" and critiques the Democratic Party's actions against third-party and independent candidates.
3. Sawant highlights a disconnect between the Democratic Party's actions and the needs of working-class Americans facing a cost of living crisis and opposition to the war in Gaza.
4. She emphasizes the need for a new political party that genuinely represents working people, criticizing both Democrats and Republicans for failing to do so.
5. The conversation points to low enthusiasm for the Democratic Party, evidenced by empty seats at the DNC convention.
6. Sawant stresses the importance of maintaining momentum for third-party movements and building an independent anti-war movement.
7. The activists call for continued advocacy for a ceasefire and challe

Watch On Strike’s interview with Sabrina Salvati of “Sabby Sabs” podcast about what Kamala Harris’ nomination means for working, Black, and young people and how our movement can fight back against both her and Trump. We discuss the independent, pro-worker, antiwar Presidential campaign of Jill Stein and Workers Strike Back’s upcoming rally at the Democratic National Convention on August 20, featuring Jill Stein, socialist & former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network.

REGISTER NOW to attend the rally in Chicago on August 20 in person or to join via Livestream: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/eve...

BECOME A MEMBER of Workers Strike Back today to help support the production of On Strike and to help us build an independent, pro-worker, antiwar alternative that can win what working people need, including an end to the genocidal war on Gaza. Apply to become a member today at www.workersstrikeback.org/join.

After being force

@cmkshama

It's dishonest & nauseating for Kamala Harris to co-opt the working-class "When We Fight, We Win" slogan.

She's backed to the hilt by billionaires, as is Trump.

She's complicit in Biden's broken promise on the $15 wage.

She criminalized poor people for children missing school.

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1815871984464699562

@cmkshama

Members of Workers Strike Back, @wrkrsstrikeback, voted almost unanimously to endorse @DrJillStein for President!

Jill is calling for $25 minimum wage, Medicare for All, free four-year college, an end to genocidal war on Gaza.

Join Workers Strike Back!

https://workersstrikeback.org/

Source: https://x.com/cmkshama/status/1815176971544133966