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1/BREAKING: Seattle’s current mayor (@mayorjenny) spits on Black community by shelling out $200K to a WHITE consultant to lead her hand-picked tokenized “BlPOC” task forceSpeaking right to you Brittani @brittmanzo

1/ BREAKING: Current mayor targets Seattle’s Black community by slashing the Equity Fund in yet another display of anti-Blackness.https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-mayor-jenny-durkans-budget-plans-include-elimination-of-30

1/ POLITICAL ED: Black-led solutions means BLACK. This isn't a "civil rights" reckoning. This isn't a general "racial" reckoning. This is a reckoning w/ anti-Black racism. This is about the

An entirely non-Black @SeattleCouncil is introducing a bill that guts efforts to divest from policing & invest in Black community. Ignoring calls from 1000s & 1000s of Black community members

1/ @CMLGonzalez pledging to divest from police & invest in community“I think it’s important for me as an elected official, as an elected official who is a non-Black Mexican American

What's DEMOCRATIC BUDGETING? It's where people decide together how to spend part of a city's budget. We're creating a community-led participation process that deepens democracy, strengthens communities, & makes public

FACT: In the legal field, there is the very basic concept of an "indispensable party." Basically, an indispensable party is so essential to an issue that if you leave them