Right, so where's that leave us, folks who want tax money to maybe help people?

Come on down to the Seattle City Council meeting, Sept 17th, 2024, 2pm! ✨

We're probably gonna be fining homeless people $5k for existing instead of building housing, city council should probably hear from you. 📢

This one seems important, mark your calendar👇🏿

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#Seattle #I137 #Homeless #SocialHousing #SexWork #StopAndFrisk #CathyMoore

I dipped out of the city council meeting to watch the I-137 community forum, was pretty obvious how this was gonna play out.

The council has passed the SODA/SOAP bills which makes looking like a homeless person, a sex worker, or drug user in Seattle a reason a cop can stop you.

You can be banned from neighborhoods and fined $5k for existing in the wrong places.

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#SODA #SOAP #Seattle #SaraNelson #CathyMoore #BobKettle #Sexworker #Homeless #DrugWar #SeattlePol

The demonstrators at city hall ask you to please take action and sign the Strippers Are Workers (SAW) letter to the city council opposing Seattle's stop and frisk laws.

Seattle previously had laws like this, and big surprise they were used against Black Americans, other people of color and queer+trans people at an alarming rate.
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#Seattle #ACAB #CathyMoore #SOAP #SODA #lgbtrights #sexwork #homeless #blackmastodon #SPD

Tell City Council: Don't Bring Back Prejudiced Stop & Frisk Law + Ban People from 7-Mile Stretch of Town

In June 2020, at the height of BLM protests in Seattle and across the country, our City Council unanimously agreed to end Seattle’s regressive “prostitution loitering” law. That was a big move — and a wise one.

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I'm getting word from activists at City Hall this morning reporting an excessive deployment of police by SPD and the city council.

During this morning's city safety council meeting council members held public comment about SOAP/SODA legislation which aims to jail and fine sex workers and homeless people $5k for existing in major parts of town.

CM Cathy Moore's loitering laws have caused significant community resistance so council members cut short public comment.

#Seattle #SPD #CathyMoore