[20][37][38][39], During the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Sawant urged the Seattle City Council to condemn both Israel's attacks on Gaza and Hamas's attacks on Israel, and called on President Obama and Congress to denounce the Israeli blockade of Gaza and to cut off all military assistance to Israel. [57], Sawant and Mayor Jenny Durkan have repeatedly clashed, and in June 2020, Sawant said that the mayor should resign.

Sawant came to the United States after graduating with a degree in computer sciences from the University of Mumbai in 1994.

In 2015 he was the Finance Director for Kshama Sawant’s independent socialist re-election campaign to City Council.[3]. Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ 'to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing office [14], After moving to Seattle, she taught at Seattle University and University of Washington Tacoma and was an adjunct professor at Seattle Central College.

She also won above 55 percent in Fremont and Ballard, the center of Scandinavian American voters, and in Beacon Hill, a solidly working class district south of downtown.

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She was released on $500 bail.

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[2][13], Sawant has indicated that the genesis of her becoming a socialist began in India, a country plagued by immense poverty. [53][55] Shortly after enacting the tax, the city council voted 7–2 to repeal it, with Sawant being one of the two dissenters. ", "Kshama Sawant vs. Pamela Banks: Grandiose designs vs. local grounding", "The Times recommends: Pamela Banks in Seattle City Council District No. [11] After moving to the United States with her husband Vivek, she decided to turn her attention to economics following a year and a half stint as a programmer. Sawant owns a home worth between $200,000 and a million dollars and is married to Calvin Priest, who works for an organization called 15 Now. [73][74] Sawant maintains that a socialist economy cannot exist in a single country and must be a global system just as capitalism today is a global system. The most recent manifestation of this strange national suicide is, of course, the establishment this past June of an officially tolerated downtown Seattle no-go zone, the ‘CHOP’, in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. All council members in this city are elected non-partisan and at-large.

[10][21] She praised Occupy for putting "class," "capitalism," and "socialism" into the political debate. She has said they could be converted into multiple uses, such as production for mass transit.

[51] Sawant, as one of the four people of color on the new Council, also became part of a younger and more diverse Council, the first to seat members by district in more than 100 years.[51].



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