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Join Sisters Organize for Survival,
a campaign of Radical Women,
in fighting to defend women and other poor and working people against ongoing cuts to health care, social services, jobs, and education!
Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SisOrgSurvival
With the successful fight to save Basic Health last legislative session under our belts Sisters Organize for Survival is just getting started! We know that the fight to defend the most vulnerable is not over. Budget deficits and further cuts loom. Basic Health and other services are not safe as long as their funding relies on regressive and unstable sources, such as "sin" and sales taxes. These taxes also unfairly put the heaviest burden on those with the lowest incomes—such as single moms, elders, unemployed youth, people with disabilities, and the homeless.
SOS believes that in order to keep vital services, Washington State must have real tax reforms! In the campaign to save Basic health, SOS called for instituting a steeply graduated income tax on the rich and corporate profits. We demanded an end to balancing the budget on the backs of poor and working people in this state!
For this reason, SOS is gathering signatures to get Initiative 1098 on the November ballot. I-1098 would establish an income tax on individuals earning above $200,000 and couples earning above $400,000. It would reduce the property tax and relieve taxes on small businesses. Passing this initiative would be an important first step in changing Washington 's highly regressive tax structure.
Together we can stop programs from being pitted against each other in every legislative session. We can't depend on politicians who have failed to build a secure future for Washingtonians! Let's work together to ensure a wide safety net for all people and enact real change in this society! We deserve this and more!
Stop balancing the budget on the backs of poor and working people! No more regressive taxes! Institute a steeply graduated income tax on millionaires! Tax corporate profits!
JOIN THE FIGHT!
Please contact SOS to confirm meeting dates or for more information.
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
206-722-6057 206-722-6057 RWseattle@mindspring.com www.SaveBasicHealth.org
The SOS campaign to save Basic Health is endorsed by:
Allyship; Democracy Insurgent; Dyke Community Activists; Freedom Socialist Party; National Lawyers Guild-Seattle; Olympia Single Payer Action; Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity; Political Staff Workers Union Local 1; POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights); Retired Public Employee Council, Chapter 3; Retired Public Employee Council, Chapter 28; Seattle OUTprotest; Sistah 2 Sistah; Social Justice Fund Northwest; Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 304; Alton McDonald, President and Founder of New Century Justice Network; Patti Imani, home health care worker for the elderly; Lea Zengage, Justice Works*
*For identification only
"Don't Scrooge Around on Basic Health" rally outside the state Democrats' annual holiday party (12/6/09).
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What's Happening
September 2010 meetings
SOS workshop at US Social Forum, June 2010 (video)
Help on the initiative
campaign to tax the rich!
SOS Newsletter #1
Victory Party April 29
Organizing Meeting
April 22
URGENT: Call these Senators ASAP
February Organizing Meetings
Statement on Tiller murder verdict
Tax reform letter printed in Daily Olympian
"Campaign having an impact": 1/25 news release
Jan. 31 Gathering in Lakewood, WA
January 22 rally for abortion rights and Basic Health
--interview on KBCS radio
--News Tribune & Olympian story
--photos & Olyblog story
Jan. 12 - State of emergency rally for Basic Health
-- photos from the rally (by ^Berd)
Weekly organizing meetings
Thurs., 7pm
Informational Letter
Talking Points
Real Change puts SOS on the front page!
Dec. 10 -- Call-in to Save Basic Health
--sample
script for
calling
Rally says "Don't Scrooge" Basic Health
--video clip
Tribunal Finds State Guilty of Neglect of the Poor
--view
public
comments
--view
testimony on
national plan
(Videos by Elliot Stoller)
--tribunal
endorsers
Cee Fisher
speaks at AIDS vigil
Christina Lopez
speaks at
LGBT rally
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