It was left out of the platform in 2012. There was a big campaign with it. They tried to get the people to vote for it. It took three votes. All of them were saying no, no, no. Finally, the chair said, i say it was yes. It was an oral vote. I dont have too much time. I am not going to go through all the members. There were polls. When 60 members of congress skipped the speech of the israeli prime minister, that was sanctions israel. It was because of bds that it made it possible, because there were movements out there. The policy again has not shifted but the political shifts press forward the work of those movements that have made these broader shifts possible. Why now . Because the israeli violations are more violent, more visible, partly because of social media. More people are aware. The political situation of the world is different. Young people, not only young jews, young palestinians, young people in general are not accepting the socalled conventional wisdom that led to single m
Some of his points about how important it is going to be moving forward i want to really hold that up because you know, palestine and my view will continue to be a central issue, but we are going to see so many communities under direct attack and what has happened with the Real Movement for a cognitive real organizing between communities will demand this kind of support, this kind of standing up for the most vulnerable among us. And finally common you know, eds is a tactic i shifted the way folks here are active on the issue of palestine. So i will talk a little bit more about bds specifically in the u. S. Its global and theres a lot going on all over the world. We know that boycott are not a new tactic necessarily. Palestinians have used it before and during the british mandate during the first thing to fontana, et cetera. The bds movement which dates to 2005 in the calls from over 170 Palestinian Civil Society organizations to the International Community has created an a new level of
The 2013 county wide trands portation plan and mayor lees 20 30 Transportation Plan. The plan by the mayors working group called for 3 part strat agcomprised of the transportation bonds, a sales tax and vehicle license fee. The first leg of the strat agis noted, transportation bond passed already and focus on state of good repair and safer streets. This is only a downpayment of a dramatically larger fundsing need and need to follow up with the second leg, a transportation sales tax. By extended from 15 to 25 years we can address several additional priorities such as vision zero, munis equity strategy, muni vehicle and Facilities Needs and regional investment included cal train electrification, bart vehicle needs as well as 101 corridor managed lanes for buses and carpool. On the topic of regional investment Contra Costa County decide today move ahead with revenue measure and santa clara is on track to make that decision in june. Alameda passed its half cent sales tax in 2014 so it is c
Orders of magnitude increase for people participating for relatively low cost and people participating who normally dont. I got a call on one of these and was able to do it during dinner and while doing homework. Last but not least in the short term and longer outreach we would engage in various strategy tooz reach out to communities of concern with multilingual and other and welcome input on how to do that. I guess that, if you want to add anything, otherwise that is all we have for today. I think that is it. Well take questions. Colleagues any questions for staff or comments on item 8 . Seeing none rsh move to Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Please come forward, i see a few people. Good morning Peter Strauss boferd San Francisco transit rider jz part of the transportation Justice Coalition. We are herethis is a information item but here to strongly support this process of developing the transporitation expendsture plan. It is a continuation of the unmet needs identifie
Im scott wiener, the chair of the authority and mr. Clerk can you call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, absent. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. Commissioner breed, present. We have quorum. Thank you very much. Item number 2. Item 2, chairs report. This is a information item. Thank you. I was pleased earlier this month to join with mayor lee and Transportation Authority to welcome anthony fox to San Francisco. San francisco is among 7 sit ease for challenge grant offered by the department of transportation and volcon transportation and delegation including secretary bock was in town to demonstrate new ways to manage transportation mpt secretary fox is a former mayor taking initiative particularly regarding funding given the political realty