Hello and welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin managing editor Micah

Utrigt. What a time to be alive when there are so many socialists running for Congress and so many

other local and statewide national offices that it's difficult for us to schedule them all

on this podcast. We've interviewed two socialists recently who are running

for House, Heidi Sloane, who's running in Texas, and Kathy Kunkel, who's running in West Virginia.

And today we're interviewing a third house candidate who is Rebecca

Parsons in Washington's sixth district. Rebecca is a member of the

Democratic Socialists of America. She's an activist with the Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee, a court

appointed special advocate for Pierce County, advocating for children in the foster care

system and somebody who's done a ton of other stuff which she will explain in this

interview. Here's Rebecca.

Rebecca, hello. Hi Micah, thanks for having me.

Thanks for being here.

So why don't you start off with just telling us a little bit about yourself and your district?

Yeah, so I grew up moving around overseas every two to four years when my father was in the

foreign service and we moved back to the states when I was 12. In college I took a

course on genocide studies and that really changed a trajectory for me a lot. I went to

Srebrenica for the 12th anniversary. They do a funeral every year there. I

went there I saw a kind of history in the moment happening. It was a really important experience in my life and after that I went to

Guatemala and Mexico to learn Spanish and then also while I was there I volunteered as a human rights

observer with

the Zapatista village there and they were being threatened by a paramilitary

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