Labour Power Rising - We're Coming For You And Your Rotten System - Book launch with Jonathan Rosenblum

When?

October 12, 2025 at 1:00pm2 hrs

Where?

411 Seniors Center - 3502 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5V 4C5

3502 Fraser St Vancouver BC V5V 4C5, Vancouver, BC V5V 4C5, Canada

Book Launch: We’re Coming For You And Your Rotten System

How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics

Featuring: 

Jonathan Rosenblum, Author and Organizer 

Henly Larden, VP & Pay Equity Co-Chair Air Canada Workers (CUPE 4094)

Sean Orr, COPE Vancouver City Councillor

Join organizers from COPE and Seattle-based organizer and author Jonathan Rosenblum for a presentation and discussion about the lessons of Kshama Sawant's years as a Seattle City Councilmember and the political strategy and grassroots mobilizations behind her successes in taking on the establishment including the world's wealthiest person. 

As COPE gears up to fight for affordable housing, expanded public transit, and fully-funded public services in next year’s municipal elections, we’ll discuss how the lessons out of Seattle can inform our fight here.

About The Book 

Seattle was the first major city to mandate a $15 minimum wage; the first to implement a payroll tax on Amazon to build affordable housing; the first to secure a bevy of renters’ rights laws, making good on the slogan, “Housing is a human right.”

In a municipal government dominated by pro-business Democrats, Sawant and the popular street movements she led against major corporations headquartered in the region—including Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, and Starbucks—won battles that would transform the city’s trajectory for years to come.

We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System tells this extraordinary story from the inside.

Books will be for sale, thanks to Spartacus Books. 

Event hosted by the Coalition of Progressive Electors. 

Register here: https://www.copevancouver.ca/_book_launch