so molly hill port is to get information out to the community so if you didn't have an opportunity to partake in this today please take advantage of it see your health care providers come and see us at our one of our meetings so we can give you more information so if you're not on our e mail list serv we can put you on there we would like to have more some people come and partake in our meetings we have a lot of health providers and we're trying to bridge the gap between the health providers and the myself being an immigrant from india i know firsthand the life of an immigrant and how it feels to come to a completely new country with a new language and the difficulties that people face in assimilating themselves into the new community the new society and i think that first of all that having immigrant voices in city government will be a huge step forward for our community as a whole not only for east africans and for somalis and as far as campaign is concerned we are running this campaign for city council because the city has become unaffordable for the majority of people and many of us are stuck in low wage jobs and you know most of the low wage jobs are occupied know just coming from this whole experience of having lived in india and having observed poverty and inequality and and i think that this these are global struggles that we all of us brothers and sisters have to deal with together  the campaign is funded by going to be actions from you know hardworking people who are making the sacrifice to help this campaign succeed because they believe that everybody should have a voice in city government and they leave that everybody should have at least fifteen dollars an hour because the cost of living in the city is very high especially if you look at the cost of housing and you know our campaign is also bringing up a lot of policy proposals to deal with the skyrocketing  cost of borrowing and so you know we are calling for the setting up off a municipal bank they've been saying that the city should bank with a municipal bank that can provide low interest loans for small businesses low interest loans for people who want to borrow money to buy a home by are going though and they're also calling for other measures in order to bring down the rent in the city because of which you know the rent is increasing so much that people are being driven outside the city and if you look at especially the lives of low income people in the when people get full of color we're being pushed out of the city center because we can no longer afford you know the rent in the city and i think it's it's an urgent necessity for the city government to address that ok and also you not a republican and you're not a democrat i'm not a republican i'm not a democrat i'm a socialist i'm a member of a nationwide organization called socialist alternative we are a group of social and economic justice activists we  have an active branch here in seattle but we're also based in minneapolis regular running another candidate for city council yes it's a very strong campaign and our candidate there dime or he's been an activist with the occupy homes campaign which is biting against foreclosures  and we also have branches in boston new york city and even mobile alabama we're also affiliated with an international movement and we have our sister organizations in countries like south africa nigeria a lot of countries in europe and russia  of seattle each of them around one hundred twenty thousand dollars and that's a pretty high salary for you know for a city which is full of low wage workers and i think leadership has to start by personally making representation for ourselves on the city government and there is very little diversity in the city government especially on the city council and i think it's it's time that we said that you know we need our own we we need people from  fast food workers movement that has brung up in many cities in the country including seattle where the workers have courageously walked out to work you know in one day strikes in order to protest for fifteen dollars an hour and the right to unionize without demands that are again pain is also fighting for and and it's important for us that we reach out with our message to the immigrant community especially to the east african somali community because many of us a provide excellent childcare you know as as part of their work and childcare jobs are some of the worst paid jobs and so i think that our struggle to get the fifteen dollars an hour for all workers is directly connected with the standard of living off the somali community in many control means not that rental increase but it will it will make sure that the rents only increase in proportion with the overall cost of living and you don't have this sort of skyrocketing increase of rent which makes it impossible for working families to live in the city and that makes their life harder on the whole because if you have families that live so far away from their place of war that it makes it hard for the better to get for their children makes it hard for them to spend time with their families you know if they're living to one three high because it benefits big real estate developers and real estate investors and though do you wealthy does not benefit ordinary working people and that is something that's very at the very heart of what affects the immigrant community and they're also calling for measure to tax people who are earning over a million dollars because we want to be able to create funding for mass transit and public education and those are two other issues that are very close to the concerns of the immigrant community especially special facilities that we need for the city to make happen so that immigrant children of immigrants are able to get the same opportunities for education for developing their own skills for discovering their talents all of this needs resources and we don't accept this explanation from the existing a government that says that there's no money to do this there is a lot of money in the city it's a question of having the political will to say that you know remede to docs the very wealthy we need to tax big corporations campaign me myself our organization socialist alternative people who have been involved in the campaign we will still be advocating for and fighting for these issues beyond the campaign but right now it's extremely important for people to embrace campaign as their own you know we are fighting for these issues for everybody and especially the immigrant community and i really make a sincere appeal to the migrant brothers and sisters to help our campaign help us get the word out you know contact our office we can give you a nice lets we even have also money language leaflets that will help you to communicate with some of the families and other you know members of your community so they can discuss with them about our campaigning and explain why it is so important for to take home only the average worker's salary and donate the rest to social movements and you know people often wonder what what what what would these movements be what would you donate the money to run and i want to give some examples so if you look at  where you know workers especially immigrant workers have taken the lead in presenting this ballot initiative for fifteen dollars an hour that's the kind of initiative that you know if there is such an initiative in seattle and we would like to present  initiative in seattle as well that mean we would like to use you know the extra financial resources or something like that and recently grocery workers in many members of the you have c w union voted to go on strike and they may still go on strike if they if the grocery store owners don't agree to their contract demands and this is very important note because these are what those who are paid very little for buddy hard work and the grocery chains that are fighting them on this contract battle are you know workers in their struggles and that doesn't necessarily mean only unionized workers you know that's a fast food workers next year decide to go and i demand the right to unionize without retaliation they will need financial resources they will need community support will need a lot of support from everybody you know to make their struggle successful and whatever we can do to support that people be doing and that's where we will be using the spare financial resources that will come from you know the salary that the city council offers and i different think so that's why maybe is that what you think is one of the differences between our campaign and corporate campaigns you were asking you know is that are you dollar you're different from our politicians and that is one of the major things we're not running this campaign you know to further my personal political career you are doing this because we believe that seattle needs a change and in fact king five television you know released a poll earlier this week that showed that forty five percent of people people are overwhelmingly responding to our campaign and that's really amazing for a grassroots campaign with a fraction of the budget that the corporate candidates have and one of the reasons is because they see us as genuine authentic and  different than the every other political campaign that you see and one of the aspects of our campaign is that if i'm elected i will take home only the average worker's salary and place the rest to building social movements and helping workers struggles you know unionized workers if they're fighting for a fair current contract non unionized workers if they are struggling to unionize themselves without it they will need a lot of financial resources they will need support from the community so those to other council members and building you know their support for the things that they're fighting for but at the same time a big part of my job is to reach out into the community so most politicians you know they come to you for their for you for your vote every four once every four years and then they forget about you for the next oh yes yes they come to you and when they and they come to us as immigrants often you know they want to me going to vote but they're doing me a little to support the immigrant community and we are completely opposite of that in fact when people ask me will you remember me when you elected i respond by saying i hope you will remember me when i'm elected because i'm going to need your support to do any of the things that are because to get fifteen dollars an hour to get affordable housing to get progressive taxation we need we are engaging people and not just saying well just give me a road and then you know do everything else and that is why i am appealing to the people who are listening to this and watching this video to please get involved you can get in touch with us if you pro worker campaign for immigrant campaign let's get this campaign to succeed let's get an immigrant war on the city council