>> good afternoon, honorable councilmembers. my name is arnold wong. when we heard about the transportation task force we followed it carefully and attended some of the meetings and were surprised that 21 of those members were government employees, many department heads, many reporting to the mayor, about 11 were from the business community. so very lopsided. no neighborhood people, no advocates from your community and week before this report came out we wrote a letter to them and predicted what their findings would be and what their recommendations would be. we said you are going to recommend a $500 million bond, new transportation taxes and a vehicle license fee. well, we were close. there were two $500 million bonds. so the whole process actually everybody knew it was about funding. but yet this report, what's the funding in this report? only 49 percent of it goes to muni which is i guess okay for some people. but the bond measure is even worse. the $500 million general obligation bond has $500 million interest according to the controllers statement

honors polynesian explorers. for more we go to seattle where we're joined by socialist city councilmember kshama sawant, one of thensors of the resolution to celebrate indigenous peoples' day. since taking office in january, sawant has also helped win a $15 an hour minimum wage for all workers in seattle. she is a member of socialist alternative, a nationwide organization of social and economic justice activists. welcome back to democracy now! talk about this resolution that you got past in the seattle city council. >> thank you for having me here. first of all, should say all of the thanks for the amazing resolutions -- for all of the amazing resolutions, those who brought it forward. it is an amazing milestone we have had. sure that we acknowledge the absolute horrors of colonization and conquering that happened in the americas at the hands of the european so-called explores. and columbus was one of the primary instigators. he was a prolific slave owner. he was that only single-handedly but a part of the european mission to plunder and pillage, responsible for mass enslavement and genocide, which reduced the pop

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