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Real Change a partner in organizing Seattle Unity Forum

posted by Tim Harris on Friday, June 11 at 2:43pm

If ever there was a time for a strategic alliance of activists across barriers of race, class, and issue, it is now. Seattle’s potential for a series of broad progressive wins is greater that at any other time in recent memory.

Elected leadership has shown unprecedented willingness to challenge the downtown establishment. The Police Chief selection process has centered on the issue of who can best depolarize relations between communities of color and law enforcement. A bid by the downtown establishment to further criminalize homelessness was recently turned back by a broad coalition of groups led by Real Change, NAACP, and the ACLU, and hinged on the courageous and key support of Mayor McGinn and Councilmember Mike O’Brien, activists known mostly for their work on environmental sustainability.

Please join forum sponsors Real Change, United African Public Affairs Committee, Sierra Club (Seattle Chapter) and the Center for Global Justice and Access to Justice Institute at the Seattle University School of Law on Saturday, June 26th, 10-2, for an exploratory forum that brings together communities of color, sustainabilty, and social justice activists for an open-ended dialogue that results in achievable, immediate steps toward greater unity and political clout across what have too often been divergent constituencies.

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