
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Great! Anyone else?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d be up for meeting late this week (Thursday/Friday?) or sometime the following week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie<br class="">

<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2021, at 2:46 PM, Stephen DeSanto <<a href="mailto:rachidian@gmail.com" class="">rachidian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Katie. It's good to hear from you. I have time to help research.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen<br class=""></div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:48 PM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi Research & Data team!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s been a while. I hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the summer. At last night’s membership meeting we passed the resolution below, to explore organizing in South King County. As a few of you already know, there are reasons to be especially interested in the city of Kent, which has strong connections with Amazon (warehouses & Blue Origin) and a pretty crappy city council & mayor (though that could change somewhat in this election).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we are to plan a successful campaign in Kent or South King County, we'll need to do quite a bit of RESEARCH. Anyone game for helping out with this over the next few months? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t have a list of specific questions, but a lot of vague ideas. Might be good to meet up (in person even?) and brainstorm. Let me know if you’re interested!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="gmail-m_-8540201242547660609docs-internal-guid-89c706ec-7fff-229c-fbec-f0afbfeb96de" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Resolution #152 on organizing in South King County</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Proposed by the General Council</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS with the Stay Housed Stay Healthy campaign, TRU has for the first time attempted to move legislation in cities outside Seattle, with some success; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS through this campaign TRU has begun to build connections with organizations, community leaders and elected officials throughout King County; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS many of the issues of the greatest importance to TRU members— including public transit and transportation, housing and homelessness— are truly regional; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS there is in general much less grassroots organizing and power-building happening outside Seattle than within; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">WHEREAS as Seattle as gentrified, many working and poor people and people of color have been pushed out to the rest of King County, especially to South King County; and</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-s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<div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class="">Katie Wilson</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class="">General Secretary</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class="">Transit Riders Union</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#666666" class=""><a href="https://transitriders.org/" target="_blank" class="">https://transitriders.org</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><span class=""><font color="#666666" class="">206-781-7204</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">The Transit Riders Union is a democratic organization of working and poor </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">people, including students, seniors, and people with disabilities, taking control over our own lives, and building up the power we </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">need to change society for the good of humanity and of the planet. We will </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">fight to preserve, expand, and improve the public transportation system in </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">Seattle and beyond, so that every human being has access to safe, </font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class="">affordable, and reliable public transit.</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" class=""><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class="">I also write </span><a href="https://crosscut.com/author/katie-wilson" style="font-style:normal" target="_blank" class="">opinions</a><span style="font-style:normal" class=""> for Crosscut. </span></font></i><i class=""><font color="#999999" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class="">Sign up for my newsletter </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/g_D3nf" style="font-style:normal" target="_blank" class="">here</a>.</font></i></div></div></div></div></div>

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