Book KSHAMA Sawant has wrote a book called “ Kshama Sawant American Socialist, but this book is not issue yet. I could not found any other book that related to this topic, so I had searched the description of this book. In this book, Kshama Sawant present her story about how she won the election of the city council in 2013 and plan of raising of minimum wage of fifteen dollars an hour. She also wrote about political culture, economic and social justice in order to persuade more people for the movement who are against the capitalism.
Magazines/Newspaper
A) Kirk Johnson, “A rare elected voice for socialism pledges to be heard inseattle” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/us/a-rare-elected-voice-for-socialism-pledges-to-be-heard-in-seattle.html?_r=1 …show more content…
She was born in India and grew up in Mumbai, then she immigrated to Seattle with her husband. Sawant had gave up her engineering field and began the dedication to learn the economic. She was discontented by the economics inequity and the level of poverty. She had received a PhD at North Carolina State University in economics program. However, Kshama Sawant had also ran for the Washington State House of Representatives before won a seat on the Seattle City Council, but the result was not satisfactory. By hearing a speech from a Socialist Alternative organizer, Kshama Sawant decided to become a member of Socialist …show more content…
Seattle is a wealthy city but only 1% of people are the richest and the rest of the 99% are falling behind. This is not an unique scene at Seattle. In our realistic society, billions of employed people and unemployed people are living in the difficult condition. The cost of house rent, the insurance of healthcare and tuition fee for the education are become economic burden. Kshama Sawant also mentioned that the average salary that corporate CEO getting is seven thousand dollars per hour, while fifteen dollars an hour for the minimum wage considered as presumptuous. As a socialist, Kashama declared she will fighting for fifteen dollars minimum wage and build a mass movement that benefit only for one small minority but for all the
Magazines/Newspaper
A) Kirk Johnson, “A rare elected voice for socialism pledges to be heard inseattle” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/us/a-rare-elected-voice-for-socialism-pledges-to-be-heard-in-seattle.html?_r=1 …show more content…
She was born in India and grew up in Mumbai, then she immigrated to Seattle with her husband. Sawant had gave up her engineering field and began the dedication to learn the economic. She was discontented by the economics inequity and the level of poverty. She had received a PhD at North Carolina State University in economics program. However, Kshama Sawant had also ran for the Washington State House of Representatives before won a seat on the Seattle City Council, but the result was not satisfactory. By hearing a speech from a Socialist Alternative organizer, Kshama Sawant decided to become a member of Socialist …show more content…
Seattle is a wealthy city but only 1% of people are the richest and the rest of the 99% are falling behind. This is not an unique scene at Seattle. In our realistic society, billions of employed people and unemployed people are living in the difficult condition. The cost of house rent, the insurance of healthcare and tuition fee for the education are become economic burden. Kshama Sawant also mentioned that the average salary that corporate CEO getting is seven thousand dollars per hour, while fifteen dollars an hour for the minimum wage considered as presumptuous. As a socialist, Kashama declared she will fighting for fifteen dollars minimum wage and build a mass movement that benefit only for one small minority but for all the