Kshama Sawant
/Overview
Kshama Sawant born Pune, India October 17, 1973. American social activist; economics professor. Socialist member of Seattle City Council, 2014-present. Arrested for participation in Occupy protest blocking eviction, 2012, and Seatac minimum wage protest, 2014. Opposed Israel-Gaza war.
Quotations
“It is the responsibility of elected officials everywhere to openly speak out to stop the humanitarian catastrophe, and to condemn it in the strongest possible terms... All killing of innocent people, women and children especially, should be condemned. And the last month of killings of Palestinians in Gaza is not only stomach-turning, it is only one in a long and documented series of war crimes stretching over decades. This has been happening with the tacit or overt complicity of US imperialism.” (Aug. 4, 2014 speech; photo seattle.gov)