National Endorsers

 

Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine* (see solidarity statement) Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate 2012 (see solidarity statement) Matt Gonzalez, Former President of San Francisco City Council* Dan Savage, It Gets Better Project* and author of Savage Love

Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder & Co-Director, ROC United (Restaurant Opportunities Centers United) Cindy Sheehan, Anti-war Activist, Peace and Freedom Party* Vice-Presidential Candidate 2012 Cheri Honkala, Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate 2012, Co-founder of Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign* Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for NY Governor 2012

Steve Early, Labor Journalist David McLanahan, Co-founder & Coordinator of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program* Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative, former Minneapolis City Council Candidate 2013 Paul Street, Journalist & Author Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report* & Black Agenda Radio* Kevin Zeese,  Organizer, Popular Resistance, co-director of It’s Our Economy* Margaret Flowers, Organizer, Popular Resistance, co-director of It’s Our Economy*

 

 

* Endorsing in personal capacity

Seattle Area

       

                                          

 

 

Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council Member, Socialist Alternative Carlos Hernandez, Seattle Fast Food Worker Movement Leader Abdi Mohamed, Working Washington, Organizer for Sea-Tac Prop. 1* ($15/hr minimum wage), Somali American Public Affairs Council Nicole Grant, Vice President of Washington State Labor Council* Paul Bigman, Martin Luther King Jr. Central Labor Council* Executive Board Member Richard Burton, Washington State Nurses Association* Political Action Coordinator Julianna Kreuger Dauble, Washington Education Association* Political Action Committee Board Manager Kimberly McCrae, American Federation of Teachers Local 1789* President Angela Marshall, IBEW Local 46 Press Secretary Doug Neilson, WFSE 1488* Shop Steward & E-Board Member Larry Gossett, King County Councilmember* Ivan Weiss, Former Chair, 34th District Democrats* Ben Shiendelman, Publisher, Seattle Transit Blog*

Gerald Hankerson, President of NAACP Seattle/King County* & Alaska, Oregon, Washington State Area Conference* (see solidarity statement) Timothy Harris, Executive Director, Real Change* Lauren Berkowitz, Burien City Council* Sally Soriano, Former Seattle School Board Member (2004-2007) Lee Seese, Pastor at Mount Baker Park Presbyterian Church* Robby Stern, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action President Rich Lang, Pastor at University Temple United Methodist Church* & Real Change* Columnist Juan Bocanegra, El Comité Pro Reforma Migratoria Y Justicia Social Dorli Rainey, Longtime Seattle Activist & Peaceful Occupy Protester Maced by Seattle Police Aaron Dixon, Co-Founder of Black Panther Party Seattle Chapter Geov Parrish, Journalist & Community Activist, Former Columnist for The Stranger* & Seattle Weekly* Celso Tolman, Filipino American Political Action Group of WA* Stacia Jenkins, Normandy Park City Council* Michael Niguse, Eritrean Community Center*

Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative Spokesperson Katie Wilson, Transit Riders Union General Secretary Dorsol Plants, Former Seattle City Council* Candidate Justin Simmons, Metropolitan Democratic Club* Former Executive Director Joey Gray, Former Seattle Mayoral Candidate Alan Lloyd, Seattle Green Party Activist Claude Ginsberg, Seattle Green Party Activist William Bass, Seattle Green Party Activist Toby Thaler, Fremont Neighborhood Council* Kyle Lucas, Former Member of Tumwater City* Bill Yates, Puget Sound Democratic Socialists of America* Committee Member Thomas Lavigne, Attorney at Cannabis Counsel PLC Law Firm* Rob Crawford, Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture* Spokesperson Alan Stewart, Progressive Global Commons* Managing Director Sue Peters, Seattle School Board* Director Jesse Hagopian, Teacher at Garfield High School*, Rethinking Schools* Associate Editor Ian Gordon, Secretary-Treasurer Laborers Local 1239*

* Endorsing in personal capacity

Small Business Endorsers