Seattle’s Worker Revolution Is Bigger This Time

The march on Broadway. Photograph by Benjamin Cassidy. 

Horns honked. Heads swiveled. And though passersby donned capes and space boots, all eyes were on a swirl of baristas outside the Starbucks on Fifth and Pike.

“Hey hey, ho ho, union busting’s got to go!” the group chanted, circling in a tight formation on the sidewalk and jabbing red signs in the air.

It was April 16, halfway into a Starbucks worker strike and Sakura-Con, the anime convention up the street known to draw more than 20,000 people to the city’s core. Those ambling in cosplay toward the convention center that Saturday morning could still power up with ventis—managers kept the

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