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Whose Streets? Our Streets! is partnering with community organizations to bring candidates running as Mayor, City Council, and City Attorney face-to-face with South End residents. They’ll be asked tough community-driven questions on safety, immigration, and surveillance. Issues most pressing to us right now:
Key issues:
Community Safety: Who gets to decide what safety means? For too long, “safety” has meant more policing and criminalization. We want to talk about what true safety looks like when it is defined by the community. Safety should mean solidity, opportunities to grow, and real care, not just enforcement.
Immigration: How will local leadership ensure immigrant families are supported, welcomed, and free from fear of detention and deportation? How can our city be a place that builds trust and strengthens families, rather than dividing them? Will they invest in language access, safe housing, good jobs, and schools where every child feels they belong?
Surveillance: From license plate readers and predictive policing to facial recognition, surveillance technology is rapidly expanding in Seattle. Many community members worry these tools erode trust, increase racial profiling, and allow unchecked monitoring of our lives. We want to know: How will you protect our privacy, civil rights, prevent racial profiling, and build transparency and accountability?
Politicians love to name-drop our communities during campaign season. But our safety and survival are on the line, and it’s time candidates hear from us.
There will be dinner, childcare, and translation provided.
Join us at The South End Speaks — Our Voices. Our Votes.
This candidate forum is co-hosted by: ACLU of Washington, The Black Rose Collective, East African Community Services, Estalita’s Library, Lavender Rights Project, OneAmerica, Puget Sound Sage, Rainier Ave Committee, Stop Surveillance City Seattle, Surge Reproductive Justice, WA Bloc, and Whose Streets? Our Streets!