Indira Sheumaker, a first-time candidate, will be the only person of color, and the only person under 30, serving on the city council in Iowa’s capital city. ⤵️
The days since the election have been, in a word, “chaotic,” Sheumaker tells. “It is very exciting that we achieved what we set out to achieve in the way that we set out to achieve it,” says Sheumaker.
I would not have run for the seat if I thought that purely electoralism was the solution. I didn't feel comfortable at any point in this campaign saying, “If you vote for me, things will get better.” I only became comfortable with running when I came to the idea of people's assemblies, people's governance, and bottom-up organizing for local government.
That is really what defund means to me. It means not tearing apart communities. It means when harm is caused, we don't go in and cause more harm and trauma, pulling apart families, removing somebody from their support, and focusing on incarceration and punishment, but we focus on victims. It means we focus on humanity, we focus on the causes of harm and how we can repair those things.
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