I'm getting word from activists at City Hall this morning reporting an excessive deployment of police by SPD and the city council.
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At todays public session there were almost no supporters of this bill. The few positive comments came largely from landlords and business owners.
One business owner complained that his building had no other business tenants and was largely vacant. He blames the sex workers and homeless. Funny thing tho, I wondwr if the landlord considered lowering the rent?
Last month KUOW covered a few perspectives on the laws
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Funniest moment during public comment was when someone said:
“If you are so concerned about women being bought maybe you should look over at [Councilmember] Tonya woo”
Which Tanya Woo is such a clown car of corruption and backdoor dealing I don't even know where to start but she's definitely the most bought woman in Seattle 🫠
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2024/07/09/79595822/council-member-tanya-woo-decries-graffiti-targeting-her-in-the-cid-as-hateful -
Meanwhile most cringe moments. Second cringiest was definitely the landlord who proudly owns SIXTEEN buildings describing himself as "a small business owner" and also afraid of the homeless.
Top cringe however was the landlord who attempted to sing an anti-homeless version of "which side are you on". They cut his mic, he kept singing until the entire audience and city council were telling him to shut up. Guess we found one thing everyone agrees on 🫠
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Ultimately Seattle city council advanced anti-homeless legislation and AGAIN illegally delayed Social Housing (I-137 certification).
Council did not put forth a replacement bill for I-137 and just decided to delay. (again, that's illegal lol). They even cited the fact they already were illegally delaying I-137 so no biggie if they continue to ignore the initiative process.
Tanya Woo reportedly wondered aloud "What IS social housing?"
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Right, so where's that leave us, folks who want tax money to maybe help people?
Come on down to the Seattle City Council meeting, Sept 17th, 2024, 2pm!
We're probably gonna be fining homeless people $5k for existing instead of building housing, city council should probably hear from you.
This one seems important, mark your calendar
Calendar - Council | seattle.gov
City Council calendar of meetings and events.
(seattle.gov)
#Seattle #I137 #Homeless #SocialHousing #SexWork #StopAndFrisk #CathyMoore
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Activist held a noise demo Sunday evening at councilman Bob Kettle's house(the guy who called the cops on public commentors).
Councilman Kettle is ramming through the new Seattle stop and frisk law SOAP/SODA. It targets anyone who looks homeless, is dressed similarly to a sexworker or looks like they do drugs and enables cops and courts to banish people from large swaths of the neighborhood.
Unsurprisingly, Bob Kettle lives in Seattle's favorite Sun Down town.
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A lot of people don't realize Seattle contains a few sundown towns. Well tonight Queen Anne proved sundown towns are alive and well in Seattle.
After about 15min of starting the noise demo, an engaged mob of karens and kens angrily engaged protesters. A shithead ken pushed a transwoman to get to a speaker (which was not in use) behind her.
He picked up the speaker and hurled it, striking me in the head, nearly in the temple.
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I called the cops to file a report. We have photos of the assailants and videos. Most appeared to live on the block with the councilman and some home addresses of assailants were documented. The EMTs arrived within about 10min.
The cops NEVER showed up to take the report. We waited two hours.
People ask why we protest?
They destroyed our gardens.
They shutdown public comment.
They passed laws, attempting to criminalize homeless people existing near Mutual Aid servicesnullagent (@[email protected])
Attached: 3 images Happy heavenly birthday to chairman Fred Hampton. Hampton was the visionary behind the breakfast program the Black Panthers were known for among many other projects. It's incredible that he started feeding dozens of kids while he was only 10 himself 🤯 The sheer scale and growth in these programs that Fred achieved in such a short time is literally why there are so many government run school meal programs now. They felt existentially threatened by Black people NOT starving. #FredHampton
PartyOn (partyon.xyz)
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In the medium term I'd like some support completing my fundraiser to spend time with my newborn.
I also at the same time am working on the start of some formal processes to hold this current Seattle City Council accountable. I can't talk about that in detail until documents are completed and filed due to rules. But I'm going to need a bit of heads down time to get that project fully into flight.
nullagent (@[email protected])
I would love to prioritize this deeply meaningful and necessary labor when I have any time to spare—but right now I'm between a rock and a hard place just trying to keep the lights on. It's too easy for me to sacrifice necessary sleep because I know I'm more privileged than many in my community, and I have the organizing skills to make shit happen. The more ongoing support I have to sustain this work, the more effective I'll be in balancing all the demands on my time. https://ko-fi.com/nullagent
PartyOn (partyon.xyz)
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In the short term, I'm gonna need a day or two to recover but might need some sleuthing help to get to a final ID on the primary assailant.
If you or someone you know has had to sue over these sorts of issues in the King County area I'd love a lawyer recommendation or help sleuthing once I make content available (hopefully I caught the money shot ).
I'm fairly certain the neighbors we were able to already ID know the identity of the attacker, so I'm confident we can shake something loose.