“For the Capitol Hill neighborhood, for District 3, for Seattle, for our state, for our nation, for the entire world, I wish that 2017 will be a mind-blowing year of mass peaceful radical protests that put a left agenda on the political map of the world, as opposed to a right-wing and corporate agenda. I wish that we were able to take this energy in America and build towards a new progressive united independent party for the 99%, so that we can finally deliver a blow to the strangle-hold between corporate Democrats and right-wing Republicans—who, although have differences between them, serve the same corporate masters—which is why we are in this situation. So let’s fight together.” — Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member