On September 17th, 4:30 to 8:30, Seattle Solidarity Budget is hosting a community gathering of sharing, mutual aid, food, fun, laughter, and organizing at Jefferson Park, Shelter #3 for the SSB Roundtable ‘25.

We are bringing together many groups and organizations that provide services or help our community members to access the resources they need to survive. We will also unveil the draft of our collective community-driven platform of Guarantees, zeroing in on what our community needs and wants to fight for this year. 

SSB’s theme this year is “We define what makes us safe. We keep us safe.” Mutual Aid means not only caring for the individuals in our community but for the groups who support those individuals. To win the fight for a sustainable future, to live sustainably on our planet, we must practice sustaining each other. If we are to achieve a sustained resistance to the rise of fascism and dictatorship, then we must sustain the resistors. We will need a diversity of tactics. The state is not in place to keep us safe, but we will wrest what we can from it to achieve that end, and then we will make up the difference ourselves.