Tax Amazon Action Conference

From Councilmember Kshama Sawant:

Our movement is picking up steam! On January 13, we held a powerful launch rally of our Tax Amazon 2020 campaign, with 500 people rocking Washington Hall to Tax Amazon and big business to build social housing!

Now join my council office and a coalition of progressive, labor, and renters’ rights organizations — alongside hundreds of working people in Seattle — at the first of our grassroots democratic Tax Amazon conferences. Let’s come together as a movement to discuss different proposals for an Amazon Tax, including how much it should raise annually, what it should fund and what tax mechanism we should use, as well as to organize the grassroots strategy needed to win.

During last year’s elections, Seattle’s working people rejected Amazon’s attempts to buy City Hall. We now have a historic mandate for taxing Seattle’s biggest corporations to build social housing —a major expansion of social housing — publicly-owned, high quality, affordable, green and energy-efficient homes for working people, built by union labor and an important part of a Green New Deal.

But we know that big business will fight tooth and nail to maintain their corporate tax haven in Seattle. To win our Tax Amazon struggle, we will need to build a powerful movement.

Our immediate task is to file a grassroots ballot initiative this February so that we can begin collecting signatures to get our Amazon Tax on the November ballot.
I hope you can join us.

In solidarity,
Councilmember Kshama Sawant