Indigenous remove or remove to defund the pipeline is violates the Standing Rock sue and will at that time theyre Drinking Water on behalf of the owner police are brutal lists and violated basic civil and human rights of protesters me growing up in the closet in the suburbans of Baltimore San Francisco has a light in the darkness when this city moved tarots towards marriage quality that gave me home when San Francisco refuses to do business with corps that discriminatory that gives hope to millions of people across the country and today San Francisco, california take a small step to a lot account the rights of beginning against people and other people of color and raise our voice against Police Brutality and today San Francisco, california take a small step with a future of out you brutal and ask you to update the matrix and ultimately to join seattle and somcan and at the devest from banks thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. A lot of people i ask in this land i live in the lands in terms of spirit and in terms of people that are known as december sent and acknowledge mayor Edwin Lee Ann are chesters and everything has ann chesters and hope like this is now first time seeing everyone behind us and i want to say like i hope that these wisdom i see a lot of the people prepared and i also want to be aware the river by Standing Rock and about his mark is not the only river on mothered architectural plenty of rivers and just like keeping it simple and makes me question the priority of that house here in terms of San Francisco and what is you all doing and i hope that all the efforts my relatively putting into the speeches has a lot of good information we shouldnt you guys are the politicians so you know definitely use it from you all about the light about the change and i know that you know your power is limit you have to answer to people and devest in bank of america obviously the bank of america is in the not the eat thing to do but it is doable so, yeah i also want to thank you for your my voice thank you for your comments next speaker, please. Hello, im speaking today as a 35 residents of San Francisco and a retiree from the deducting and a citizen the world and a fellow stuttering on the praents for future generations im of native an chester but calling me relative we share the responsibility to be protectors of clean water, clean air and the earth itself im urging you to join that important work as our elected representative you have the pour that make San Francisco a leader in the Worldwide Movement to repudiate the profiting if the wreckage ever clefks by withdrawing Financial Support from fossil fuel industries in the Financial Institutions which finance them in this case the bank of america this growing movement already dmudz seattle that voted to withdraw funds from wells fargo and oakland and bolder and portland and minneapolis has considered similar action in this dark area of trump the role of cities and states to lead this fight it for critical than ever clearly we cant rely on washington and the scott purporting that joined the administration Disinformation Campaign by pubically denying the human activity as climatic change what we can do is join with cities like seattle and universities and museums and Pension Funds and other institutions that are voting to devest we can make our own strong statement saying not to delay fossil fuel and cutting financial ties with the bank of america. Thank you for your comments next speaker, please. Im here with the california indoors association and we are here to proudly support indigenous right and Indigenous People and inagainst health and asking the board of supervisors to newsom vote yes to devest San Francisco is a great city ive been here 2 two years for a city that is tried or prides itself on hispanics, however, we cant complain that we do business the corporations that finance the destruction of Indigenous People and their land it is time to stop this and do the right thing and it is time to do it now and wahwahwah overdue for the Indigenous People of the land who again, were here today to urge the board to amazing vote yes to devest thank you very much. Thank you for your. To share the life and i liability and the pursuant of happiness my farther part of constitution 2000 meetings in peoples homes and across america it included 200 thousand folks one Million People have viewed the footage from the live stream ill encourage this is our homework to go to people power. Org watch the live stream dont wait for us activist in the community to contact you to embedded on on board a 9 point plan in that the aclu is advocating for remeeting with the sheriff hennessy the sheriff hennessy is putting the attorneys a that 9 point plan to see what they agree or not and be part of people. Com movement that will elect the lgbtq i plus and womens respect to bear bodies i know those are all important issues to every single one of you on this board and again your homework is dont wait for us to contract you go to the website brush up on the 9 point and see what you can do to help us help you because aclu has three hundred lawyers and hire one hundred but the federal government hats 19 thousand lawyers and trump 11 thousand lawyers the aclu membership if 4 thousand to 1. 2 million since the election thank you for your time and ill be following up with you thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Board members im haley clark i live in district 5 opted out territory my parents are immigrants and im indebted to native people and the malone i was a bank of america member for half of my life and finally left the bank i seen with my eyes people a mass i was tear gassed green before shot with rubber bullets and clear that native people and people of color were established on the front lines what is happening on the burial grounds is disgusting where the pipeline is on the Mississippi River a leakage will effect 19 Million People down stream as the zero supervisors in the city for over a half of decade i spent a lot of time cleaning up and concerned about the future of our planet im personally front ya front yard it was exacerbated a pipeline burst and over one hundred thousand of wastewater into the ocean i cleaned mortar off the morning than 20 men in hazmat suits in an entire can i they that well wait for it to into dgo the ocean San Francisco has blood on his hands we need to send a message of solidarity to trump well not continue it against the Indigenous People thank you. 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Hi for the most part id like to say i find it quite rude and disrespect to see how many of you have been carrying on conversations and looking our phones while you have people the public especially native americans like myself and friends have been here sitting here pleading to your attention and hearts and minds with that said, i personally took my money out of bank of america years ago during occupy when i was another will Standing Rock for two weeks through december it was hearted breaking to know that my proofing city the city it is so advances that leads the nation and month plastic bags from the Grocery Store is literally taking my money and giving it to the people that who are standing on the odds shooting water and bullets and macys innocent protesters we should step forward and lead this freaking country it is ridiculous almost ridiculous santa monica let them take their money out of bank of america and San Francisco is hands are in their pockets that disgusting we talk about helping low income but how about the native americans we are before we got here what about our future children no point in building hours if there is be no clean freaking water, please for the love of everything and my other day people come and speak stop the damn conversations and listen to the people that is the democracy; right . Thats all i have to say. clapping. thank you for you comments. Madam president if i may say with righthand turn to the last speaker that number one, i think this board and its evidence by the fact that 8 members of this body have affixed their names and support to to resolution number 2, i say as somebody who for most of my adult life has worked for the tribe helping them acquire land and water rights there is another thing going on that is which actually as constituents are contracting us and listening to them an email and were dealing with other things were actually capable of listening to you and called misrepresent tasking i say with with all respect im completely focused on the speakers and the other things theyre not maturing exclusive. Thank you supervisor peskin. Next speaker, please. Im a member of technical employees im a union member and went to Standing Rock as a member and many Union Members from california from all over the countries and lowers of solidarity as well as presence that put supplies toward the mobilization and also had to deal with the incredibly devastating effects of Morton Community and i also want to mention there was a Organization Called organization for Standing Rock that was there our Union President also sorry he also sent a letter in support of this particular ordinance and from the board of supervisors but last january also this past january an annual convention we passed a resolution to devest from the Retirement Plan for the partners from our university of Retirement Plan and is bank that funds displace he will that comes as people are becoming more and more aware of how devastating to have to participate in an economy that kills people and take away peoples human rights and takes away union rights as well that is not helping Union Families at all this levy of inequality in our wake thank you. 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Im a resident of district of and want to express gratitude for supervisor fewer to be responsible for matrix and supervisor ronen and all the cosponsors thanks for hearing our voices and deciding our city will join many of the cities with the enormous financial cloud against the energy folks if so a great first step were here to make sure that the promises are kept and well keep on pushing for divestment from bank of america we understand the process is extract but were not looking at for victories we are looking for the contribution to have public banking whether investments with the nativeamerican and the destruction or any other injustice this conversation about ethic conversation is Getting Started the waters to Life Movement was started by young people that want a liveable future with hope and trees and abundant wildlife i want to future for this is the risky to prevent that the City Partners with the honorable institutions that make divestment urgent on after the 2008 crash none from the responsible banks was pushed one of the first things from the trumpet to wane the say we cant count an scott to protect our planet more due regulation that should concern us all with that the oil is about to flow that the silence of many of our national and state. Thank you thank you for your comments next speaker, please. Im a little alabama and Caesar Chavez i encourage you to strongly consider divestment and devesting from extravagant industries and were at a critical juncture worldwide and north america has think ability to set the example instead of trying to be exporting country of oil where before it used to export oil there is a big effort here to reembark on the art of civilization which is cultural industry a big push and we like to see that you help to stop that the cities across the country including seattle as you may know closer here the city of davis has dug us in downtown in california and across the country and minneapolis and youre at a critical juncture you are to setting the tone of other cities across the country and almost the ceos of the industry of oil and gas like shell have said theyre now going to close their portfolio as well as phillip 66 and chronicle in the last past week announced thanking theyll be closing their portfolio on oil as well so i urge encourage you be part of movement to divest. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon my name is madonna im an elders elderly from North Carolina from the came that was there and ive come here just as a regular person but i was amazed a thing as divest and years and years ago i came out here to San Francisco on a federal program that removed indian people from the reservations and sent them to the big cities hopefully e hoping well metal away we turned around and went home i thought i was coming to San Francisco to talk to you but also to the young people that were there that came by the hundreds to support us we dont have this kind of idea that divestment or bodies of important people that can make those important decisions thats why i came this far thank you and thank you all the young people that came water protectors thank you thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Before the next speaker i want to predict the members in the audience for using our supportive fingers rather than clapping thank you. Hi, im thank you for the opportunity i want to address that it is really a constitutional crisis there are two treaties that the pipeline is violating another reason it so concern you article 6 is a laws of the supreme law of land and the army corp from the nation amounts to a violation of supreme law of the land and want to say we want to see the board show moral commitment and from many familiar faces that showed up the last time were not expecting like you i dont know how to do it and good luck were here to try to offer any kind of research how exactly it what work to devest the money thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments next speaker, please. Hello, im kelly lived in San Francisco im a Small Business owner and here in solidarity with the stavrnd rock the native nations of os countrys and all around the world and 7 young people one baby to be im here for the water as a water protector on the front line to see where this money is going and the brutality from the investment this city is putting into bank of america so i strongly support this resolution to seinvest in bank of america and i im here a commit motorbike member of this city to a more just and sustainable economy thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im tom district 11 im reminded of the fable of the hours and the hours seize the spar are with his feet in the air the spare our says the sky is failing im helping by having my feet in the air the hours said what can you do the sparrow says i do what i can supervisors the National Park services has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and years debating and studying the Environmental Impact of dogs working class in the ddg r a at the same time, a pipeline that will pump millions of dark sledge everyday underneath a reservoir of fresh water Drinking Water is going virtually unexamined and that to me makes that abundantly contrary that certain evictions of government will not respond when we asks inform prudence and them to for a second the realties of science therefore i reprimand you theyll alone listen to the sounds of money to like the sparrow says the great sparrow we must do what we can thank you thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good investment i got an mba in 2013 and fossil fuel are the future if youre not concerned about the future putting money in a pipeline a huge amount of political opposition and probably a carbon tax that reduces the profit if you dont say where children or dont bring water or breathe air the opportunity to make the smart more conservative less risky investment are you numbers are making a rupture and hopefully, your existed to do what i think you are already doing in our heart tshs and your service thank you for your comments that would help fund people who wish to hurt more native americans. The symbol of it would me so much for me a city i had so much faith in growing up who stand for so much of my loved ones. Please help me keep hope. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello again. Um, i have a friend who contacted me about 4 years ago and he lived in the midwest and he is transjnder and he said i have taken my savings of 200 and bought a plane ticket to San Francisco and he moved here and he lived in a shelter in the tenderloin and wnt to city college and he got ssi and now he is a undergraduate in another school in another state thmpt reezian use his story because for him San Francisco stood for hope and safety in a world that was much darker and didnt have that for him. In a way, the world has become much more dark and difficult for a lot of us and im here to speak to the name and the symbol of San Francisco, my home such that i can have confidence that when i tell people im born and rai