Calls To Action

Solidarity Budget Wins Elimination of 80 “Ghost Cops” from City Budget, Protects Investments in Community Well-Being

Tell Council what should be in the budget. Click on the link below to find sample scripts and the amendments that will give us a Budget to Live, Budget to Thrive!

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TAKE ACTION

NOW

October 31st - Ghost Cops Take City Hall!

November 2nd

Fund Services Not Sweeps

Rally at City Hall Plaza at 4:30 PM

November 3

We're launching “Should SPD Do It”?

If you had control over Seattle’s dispatch system, when would you send an armed police officer, and when would you prefer another option? Here’s a website where YOU make the call:

https://should-spd-do-it.glitch.me/

These different kinds of responses are not all robustly funded yet, but they could be.

1. Check out the website and take the two minute survey

2. E-mail City Council your results and tell them what YOU want our public safety $$$ spent on!

3. Screenshot your results and share with your friends.

#ShouldSPDDoIt?

https://should-spd-do-it.glitch.me/

November 4th 

Call in Day to Protect Jump Start

bit.ly/sbtakeaction

November 7th 

Seattle Says NO to ShotSpotter Webinar

12pm, streamed live on Facebook (@SeattleSolidarityBudget), Twitter (@wapeopleprivacy) and YouTube (@wapeoplesprivacy)

Sponsors: WA People’s Privacy

Watch the webinar here : http://bit.ly/StopShotSpotterSeattle

November 8th

Rally for Human Services & Dignity

City Hall, 8:30am

Sponsors: King County Coalition on Homelessness, Seattle Human Services Coalition, OPEIU Local 8, SEIU 1199NW

Wear red, bring signs and banners

Voter registration and voting rights restoration available

Followed by 9:30 a.m. public comment

Please join Women in Black on the steps of Seattle City Hall (4th/James) from noon to 1 pm Wednesday 11/9!

November 9th

Wednesday’s vigil now will be for TWENTY-FIVE people, and the 2022 Death List now stands at a heart-stopping and record-breaking 216. Directly after the vigil we’ll be delivering letters with our budget demands to our elected leaders.

We're grateful to WHEEL's volunteer Homeless Mortality Work Group for helping maintain and analyze our Women in Black lists, and staff and participants of WHEEL’s First Presbyterian Shelter for lovingly painting our signs.

Learn more : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064430329677

For the past two weeks, Solidarity Budget has been pouring over Bruce’s proposed budget and listening to hours of council hearings so you don’t have to! There are some MAJOR fails in the budget that take us farther from our vision of a budget to live and a budget to thrive.

Council has the chance to amend the budget, with the first round of amendments due Tuesday, October 18th. Contact them today, and tell them: Fix Bruce’s Fails!

Everything you need to take action is here: bit.ly/BrucesTopFails

Post the Call to Action to your Social Media pages. Slides are here.

Make your community aware of the Solidarity Budget

Bring it up in conversation. Post our social media slides. Do what it takes to make the Solidarity Budget common knowledge.

Contact your Seattle city council member

3 easy steps to tell your council members that you support the Solidarity Budget.

  1. Craft a unique message about why you support the Solidarity Budget. It doesn’t have to be long; brief comments get the message across.

  2. Enter your home address to find your district and council members here.

  3. Choose a contact method: