Detective Patrick Michaud said Seattle's march wound through downtown and ended in the Capitol Hill neighborhood where a small group of demonstrators calling for a higher minimum wage blocked an intersection and told officers they planned on being arrested.
Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant joined the rally and spoke during a stop at Seattle University.
She claimed that while teaching at SU she was paid a "poverty wage."
$15/hr is just the beginning. We must fight for all working people! #FightFor15 #OccupySU pic.twitter.com/9hI1kfiHpq
— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) April 16, 2015
She also claimed she was for non-violence, but a mandatory minimum wage sounds like violence to me, by preventing, by the force of government, a business person and a worker to agree to terms of work on their own, with the clear threat and use of force for failing to comply.
"We need to take non-violent, direct action for social change!" #FightFor15 #15now @tmorello @OccupyWallSt pic.twitter.com/xOPcOSSaKv
— Kshama Sawant (@VoteSawant) April 16, 2015
That is not non-violence. It is the call for the violent obstruction of contract.
-RW
"$15/hr is just the beginning. We must fight for all working people!"
ReplyDeleteWasn't that supposed to be the end? Wasn't that wage rate supposedly a "livable wage"?
I suppose we should be glad that they are silly enough to enrage the populace by blocking traffic.
If it is true that Sawant was paid a "poverty wage" while teaching at SU, it's probably because she has a PHD in Economics but taught Socialism.
ReplyDeleteCoproaches and socialists, no good guys in this one
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