King County Elections - Mary Martin - Governor Candidacy Statement lyrics

Elected Experience: None. Other Professional Experience: None Education: Experience as an industrial worker facing grinding economic depression conditions from capitlaism's deepening crisis. Community Service: Chair, Washington Socialist Workers Party. Fights for labor solidarity, Black rights, women's equality, and defense of the Cuban Revoluton, an example for working people. Organized solidarity for the International Longshore Workers Union locked out by EGT in Longview, backs organizing efforts by farmworkers in Skagit Valley. I grew up in a military family and lived in the Jim Crow south, fighting racist discrimination. I protested U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. I support a woman's right to choose abortion. Statement: Capitalism is in crisis. The Democratic and Republican Party candidates seek to rescue the bosses from their deepening economic, social, moral crisis. I say working people need to overthrow the dog-eat-dog capitalist system and take political power. The ruling capitalist families use Washington's economic and military forces to protect their investments and interests abroad. The Socialist Workers Party speaks out against Washington's imperialist wars — from Iraq, Afghanistan to Syria. The SWP strives to advance cla**-consciousness and self-confidence of workers as we fight together. We fight within the ranks of labor to transform our unions into effective fighting instruments. We're part of the fight for $15 and a union; for a government-funded public works program to create jobs and build schools, hospitals, childcare and recreation centers, replace crumbling infrastructure and pipes filled with lead laced water our children drink, and other things working people need; the fight against Puerto Rico's colonial status; for free medical care for all; to fight against deportations of immigrant workers; to defend a women's right to abortion; to demand cops who k** or brutalize working people are prosecuted. We back the effort to free Dwight and Steven Hammond, Oregon ranchers framed on trumped-up arson charges. We demand the arrest of FBI and Oregon cops who k**ed Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to protest the Hammonds imprisonment. As Malcolm X said, workers “find their self-worth” through these struggles, becoming capable of changing the world. The Cuban Revolution is an example of this for working people. End Washington's economic embargo against Cuba! Join the fight to overturn the dictatorship of capital, build a new society based on human solidarity and join the worldwide fight for socialism — a life truly worth living.