@PriceRip I hope you can make that work without penalties to yourself.

Never say it is a small thing. You might well inspire others to do the same.

          My mortgage is but a tiny thing in the scheme of things, but to me it is a big deal.

@Mark from Queens Thank you for telling us more about Ms. Sawant.

However, this divestment has come about because of Ms. Sawant and her co-sponsor and the many Seattle residents who came out in support, called their own council members and so on. Maybe, finally, we are getting the kind of focused, responsible leadership we need, instead of the parade of self-serving snobs and crazy drama queens of the last few decades.

May I ask, what does 33 and 1/3 at TOP mean?

for what true liberalism looks like. We must, and she has her whole time in office, keep the focus on Wall St.'s influence as the omnipresent and dominant factor over our lives for why life for the 99% has been so decimated.

As far as I'm concerned Kshama Sawant is the nation's sole or top Progressive (Liberal, or whatever e're calling ourselves today) politician.

Check out these credentials: former Occupy activist and college professor, elected 2x to Seattle City Council in which she defeated Big Money from both the Rep and Dem parties, ran on Fight for 15 and rent freezes in a city being overrun by global financial elite pillaging, promised to give her salary back to the movement and only give herself the median income of the city, encouraged Boeing workers to occupy their manufacturing plant with a sit-in strike when the company was threatening to leave to another city for tax abatements, won largely on the strength of a grassroots campaign of volunteers and canvassers who believed in the basic principles of socialism, has become a great national voice of a new movement of folks fed up with the dysfunction of DC and the duopoly's Neoliberal handouts to the 1%, and conducted very successful and packed town hall meetings in Seattle over citizens' concerns over rising rents and lack of affordable housing.

This is the way it's done, folks. I've been a more work-outside-of-the-system person since Occupy, but Bernie's campaign gave me one last dance volunteering for a politician. Sawant may have the blueprint. I've donated to her and seen her speak in person (in NYC) a handful of times. She's dynamic and focused.

Kshama is fearless, sharp as a whip and committed to pragmatic Socialist principles that will certainly resonate with voters across the political spectrum who want real life solutions.

Like Nastarana says, this is activism put into practice and appears to me on this day to look like the best way forward.