Welcome to another episode of the vast majority. I'm Jack

of and Deputy Editor Micah Utrich. There's been such an upsurge

in socialist electoral activity since the first Bernie Sanders campaign five years ago,

that there's a danger that we forget some of the more recent OGs of socialist electoral campaigns, specifically

Shama Suwant, who is a socialist, a member of the group Socialist

Alternative who was elected to City Council in Seattle in 2013 and at this point

is one of the most senior members of Seattle's City Council and what Shama has done over that eight years is fairly

incredible to behold she has joined or helped lead fights on major working class

issues in Seattle ranging from a $15 an hour

minimum wage and affordable housing in the city and fighting corporate tax

giveaways to companies like Amazon and Microsoft to basically be involved in every single

major working-class fight that has happened in that city and she is a real

testament to what a elected official that is in very close contact with the working class movement

can use their office to achieve in a way that really strengthens those movements

through the bullhorn that her office provides.

And she has been up against an incredible amount of pushback throughout her entire eight years in office that is ongoing today.

As I mentioned in the conversation I have with her that you're about to listen to,

you just Google her name and go to Google News and you can just read the

read the headlines about the absurd attacks that she is constantly

subjected to.

So she is someone whose work is very critical to the health of I think the left in

Seattle as well as around the country and someone who is really suffering a lot of

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