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Occupy Seattle City Hall
Occupy Seattle City Hall
January 8, 2014
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Socialist city council member Kshama Sawant drew the loudest cheers and the most sustained applause as she denounced "international capitalism" while proclaiming from the center of this bastion of big-D Democracy that "working people need a new political party... accountable to themselves." T-shirted, sign-waving Sawant loyalists raucously cheered as well-dressed, grim-faced Democratic Party regulars shifted on their heels, wondering what to do with their hands. Sawant herself displayed no such uncertainty, closing her speech by raising a fist in the air and declaring: "Solidarity."
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Meanwhile, Sawant supporters gathered down the street in a spare auditorium at SEIU 775 headquarters, drinking cheap wine from paper cups as visiting Irish Socialist Party politician Joe Higgins delivered a fiery speech.
But for all the differences in style and ideology, the real tension behind the scenes between Sawant and Murray is much more mundane. For example: The Murray camp was reportedly furious at Sawant for telling her supporters to show up to the inauguration with T-shirts and signs, accusing her of turning what should be a genteel celebration into a political rally. The day before the inauguration, Murray posted a defensive open letter to Sawant on Facebook, taking issue with a quote she gave the Seattle Times about "pressure from below" causing him to act on the minimum wage. And the mayor was no doubt miffed when, at the end of the ceremony, the local, national, and international news media mobbed Sawant at an impromptu press conference on City Hall's steps, leaving him to wander off to Benaroya.
January 8, 2014
snip---
Socialist city council member Kshama Sawant drew the loudest cheers and the most sustained applause as she denounced "international capitalism" while proclaiming from the center of this bastion of big-D Democracy that "working people need a new political party... accountable to themselves." T-shirted, sign-waving Sawant loyalists raucously cheered as well-dressed, grim-faced Democratic Party regulars shifted on their heels, wondering what to do with their hands. Sawant herself displayed no such uncertainty, closing her speech by raising a fist in the air and declaring: "Solidarity."
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Meanwhile, Sawant supporters gathered down the street in a spare auditorium at SEIU 775 headquarters, drinking cheap wine from paper cups as visiting Irish Socialist Party politician Joe Higgins delivered a fiery speech.
But for all the differences in style and ideology, the real tension behind the scenes between Sawant and Murray is much more mundane. For example: The Murray camp was reportedly furious at Sawant for telling her supporters to show up to the inauguration with T-shirts and signs, accusing her of turning what should be a genteel celebration into a political rally. The day before the inauguration, Murray posted a defensive open letter to Sawant on Facebook, taking issue with a quote she gave the Seattle Times about "pressure from below" causing him to act on the minimum wage. And the mayor was no doubt miffed when, at the end of the ceremony, the local, national, and international news media mobbed Sawant at an impromptu press conference on City Hall's steps, leaving him to wander off to Benaroya.
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