as you all know news production is critical to the life blood of the possibilities of democracy from the news we gain much of our primary knowledge but news production is also a forum for airing different views and different understandings about what's going on and we're all aware that news industry has become increasingly corporate privatized commodified in recent decades and the events  that will be discussed tonight and which are quite disturbing represent another stage in that further privatization and arguably diminution of news generation and so i welcome you here and look forward to hearing our presentations and to the lively discussion that i'm sure that will will follow so thank you my name is dave tweed l l i am a business representative with the local six hundred i mean the master of ceremonies for tonight we will be talking a little bit in a few minutes but for right now i would like to  just share with you how things are going for us in the city of portland where we're having the exact same conversation that we've been having here we call this meeting today because we're sounding the alarm  sponsoring what's called the spectrum auction and the idea is now that we're in the digital age the signal coming out of an antenna is far too valuable to waste on television if you add up all the commercial value all the economic value of the bandwidth that is operated by television stations comes to sixty seven billion dollars a very formidable thing in television stations been hugely profitable for a long time but as the signal that you used to broadcast is a very low frequency going to penetrate through walls and travels farther then the left the very high frequency that they use for cell phones and internet providers and wife and that sort of thing so they calculate that all of that bandwidth is worth not sixty seven billion dollars is worth wrong we need to have this as part of a basic understanding of what's needed in our community and it is not just how much we can sell it is how much we are par jurisdictional contract and it just says those words you will not have any exclusive jurisdiction to represent the people who work for the t v station we asked point blank at the bargaining table is any you're saying that you want to hire other people who are not represented by the union to do photography engineer on our work the answer is yes this is a new see it in this struggle with sag aftra forty eight of my v w working together in solidarity and bringing all of labor together and then the icing on the in television station a deeply involved in this community the new owner wants to eliminate protections for the skilled workers at the station by allowing any person they desire to come into the studio and try to  we have a problem and we're asking for help the problem we have is the employer in this case the company which now calls itself has bought a bunch of t v stations doubled their fleet of stations in one fell swoop and they are now turning those stations into a new version of usa today and it is something that the professionals that we represent the members of our coalition don't want to work for a wal mart t v station they don't want to live like that and most importantly they don't want to lose their jobs and it appears to us by how they are presenting themselves to their unions at the bargaining table that their real agenda is to get rid of all of us and that's a pretty bold statement but let's take a look you heard what i said important i read from the actual contract language they're proposing we distributed in the papers tonight and it says very simply that the union will not have jurisdiction over tasks that anybody who we choose to assign the task to will do is do the job and they won't be represented by your union don't worry about it because we'll do we don't really mean to use this the way it could be use we just we just want for our managers to be able to make the best decision possible when assigning somebody to do a given task well this state both of these stations led the respective markets for decades i mean i shouldn't say decades but for many many years they've led their markets for years and years and years and there's a crew of people who work here who built these number one stations and they just completely ignore what we say so that puts us to our problem how do we change this company's mind so we began doing some research and that's when we tripped over something that was shocking and i have to say even though you know as the bard representative i'm trying to help our folks get a contract what i'm about to tell you next is far more significant than our contract the federal communications commission at the direction the congress is going to schedule a spectrum auction it's  currently set for the spring of two thousand and sixteen and at that time every station in the country will have the option of selling all or part of their  frequency they will take that money that they get from selling their frequency and you heard this analysis from the cell phone industry they believe that it's worth a trillion dollars or fifteen fold increase if they just sell their frequency or use their frequency for something other than television they will make a killing they will make a killing off of what that would be the air that would be the way  and that is a common property of the united states so our federal government is now sponsoring a giveaway to whoever is the smartest manipulator of our air we believe that explains why a company like good net at the time is now you know how they call themselves that's why they bought twenty three stations and doubled their company size because they're speculating on it and there's been in the wall street press there's been talk about spectrum speculators we're really surprised as we bring up this issue of you know the future of local television at the bargaining table and also they've seen the pronounce we've been making and they just completely ignore it they absolutely refused to answer the question they said it isn't having to do with collective bargaining we'll brothers and sisters here is the nub of tonight's meeting we believe that the federal government has let us all down by allowing speculators to buy up t v stations and then in hopes of flipping them this is a terrible disservice as i say every time i discuss this with people television is easy to mock everybody who works in television will agree with me when i say it's easy to mock there's a lot of crap on television but television also is a vital public service in times of flood fire riot whatever television is the way that we find out what's going on we can find out whether it's safe to go out we can find out whether we can make it to work we can find out where their kids are going to go to school that all of this information is only available through television and there has to be an infrastructure of qualified people that's who we represent qualified people so yeah we're fighting for our jobs and it's selfish for us to fight for our jobs but we're fighting for your right to have a public service which is by federal law defined as a public service well the f c c is walled off against  die what we're doing is something it's kind of out of style it's called democracy we have invited a couple of we invited members of the seattle city council and we're going to be presenting to them tonight a request that they advance a city council resolution to cover some ground and i'll be talking a little bit more about that a few minutes but for now i want to shift gears for just a moment and talk about the collective bargaining aspect i started with that i want to get back to it now and that is they have told their unions at the bargaining table that the reason why they want to get union jurisdiction back and not have union people do the work is because there are people out there young people she even has a name their company representative in fair game for the apocryphal name of chelsea chelsea is a millennium who has one of these things and one of these things she can tell great stories and that's going to solve the riddle of how to get younger people to watch television we'll put  chelsea the air this sounds outlandish i want to show you something that has come from usa today this is the people we're fighting and this is something they posted on their website get this done using a smartphone a tripod to fit the phone on a tripod and a good like syria doing what's called in the news business a stand up in front of a new setting like a crash or a fire now i'm here in front of the police department here's all set up the shot open the tripod screw in the adapter and set it up now make sure you shoot in horizontal mode because if you shoot vertically you'll get huge black bars on the side of the screen you also want to open up your camera app and it just it so the you get the front facing camera this way you'll be able to compose your shot with you in it now before we start shooting let's talk audio sound for these built in my something i'm going to run if you're going to be a pro you need to use an external microphone my favorite mike for the i phone is the i really h d from i came to media it sells for around one hundred bucks and it connects directly to the lightning port i k also makes an android version which connects to the headphone jack now you know there's always the selfie stick my worry is can you keep the image steady but frankly with the image stabilization on the newer smartphones it's pretty good and i certainly think it's usable though i do prefer the tripod here's a great solution on how to keep the selfie six steady put it on a ledge like i did right here and i've got the same tripod like a fence hand held mikes work great for stand ups and for situations where you interview a lot of people like a man on the street piece but what about for an interview for that you'll want to use a clip on  microphone there are several that are available and just like with a stick mike plug it in and from there to your audio test and then start recording that smartphones are great when you have to reflect lighting offices lighting can be a little rough which is why i always recommend getting as close to a window as you can so that's the primer on shooting with a smartphone in part two of this video series we're going to show you how to get your footage off the phone and how to edit have questions about how to make videos with your smartphone it back so that's the future in news as conceived by the company we're negotiating with they steadfastly refuse to  give any rationale for that and this is what you what we've got to look forward to well the traditional thing for union do to do is go out on strike i have a problem with that as a union representative  the employers generally have so bastardized the labor laws over the decades that if you go on strike what happens is somebody else takes your job the company waits you out and you're just done and that's how come organized labor is doing so badly these days because the strike is not the tool it used to be so what tool do we have well in this particular case they operate by law under they operate by law in the public service they have to serve the public the federal government is let us down so we're calling upon we've got a city council member here this evening who will be calling on to speak soon tonight what we're doing the sponsors of this event are presenting to our council members a suggested draft of a city council resolution and if you pass that  bear with me for reading all the way through it it's fairly lengthy but it is something we hope would be someday become law in the cit whereas broadcast television stations use public spectrum owned by the people of the united states under license from the f c c and as such are required by law to broadcast and conduct operations in the public interest as trustees for the public whereas citizens and local governments rely on professional local broadcast television personnel to collect and disseminate violin for ration to the public including to provide real time information during public emergencies earthquakes wildfires and increasingly frequently extreme weather events when other wireline and wireless communications and or electric power distribution facilities may be disrupted whereas te ownership of the below corporation including king as introduced significant changes in its news operations including a focus on generic news and demanding a non exclusive jurisdiction contracts demanding non excuse exclusive jurisdiction contracts tending to undermine professional journalism as you saw in the video including representation by organized labor in order to reduce take his cost into service take his owner impose load by replacing professional journalists with amateur producers of generic content for newscasts whereas take those plans in a mans for replacement of professional news gatherers with commodity news amateurs appears designed to undercut and potentially eliminate the expense of traditional local broadcast news and if successful will likely be imitate imitated and implemented by other seattle area broadcasters severely undermining the critical role of local broadcasters as first informers in public emergencies whereas in two thousand and sixteen the f c c plans to conduct an auction that will allow broadcasting to sell all a part of federally licensed frequencies to die as bitter potentially allowing venture capitalists to take control of broadcast licenses for the purpose of profit maximisation rather than to serve local communities and the public interest over publicly own federally licensed broadcast frequencies whereas the city of seattle has a specific interest in public safety and ensuring public property including spectrum serves the public interest this includes ensuring that all local broadcasters are capable of meeting their responsibilities whereas the f c c should to delay or halt the planned two thousand and sixteen broadcast spectrum auction in order to establish a system of spectrum distribution that serves the public interest rather than the private interest of venture capitalists and spectrum speculators whereas all seattle broadcasters should fully disclose their plans for the two thousand and sixteen spectrum auction and the future of professionally produced local news in alignment with their legal responsibilities and where it is the vital function of professionally produced local broadcasting news and the role of local broadcasters as a  informers in public emergencies should be preserved now therefore be it resolved that the city council affirms the city's commitment to localism and the public interest in broadcasting as an industry independent it upon use soon industry depended upon use of publicly owned electronic spectrum the it further resolved that the city council recognizes the critical role of local broadcasters as first informers in public emergencies when fired when wireless facilities and likely power distribution facilities may experiences russian be it further resolved that the maintenance of professional trained new staff at seattle area local broadcast stations is critical to enable adequate coverage of local news and information particularly in times of public emergencies and that any planned substitution of amateur commodity news gatherers will undermine this critical functionality be it further resolve that the planned two thousand and sixteen federal spectrum auction should result should not result in windfall profits to venture capitalists and spectrum speculators without providing for adequate reinvestment of the crusades on behalf of the public interest be it further resolve that the city government is directed to monitor the ability of local broadcasters to persist of pay as first informers in the event of public emergencies and report to the council regarding any adverse impacts to public safety potentially resulting from the absence of professional broadcast staff due to changes in ownership and labor practices finally being further resolved that the city government shall monitor and participate in f c c proceedings in coalition with other interested local governments where feasible with a view toward urging that the proceeds of broadcast spectrum auctions serve the public interest including localism and public safety and broadcasting not private profit thank you for bearing with through the long recitation of that but i thought it was important because this is democracy at work and these are the words that we're going to ask our elected leaders to put into law we're ready to alter this we're ready to have any kind of community input we're ready to deal with our elected leaders to make it more palatable or stronger or change in every which way but it is ridiculous in this country for the citizens that will have real life and death effects on people these decision to be made by zillionaires behind closed doors this is our collective problem as a society that the billionaires have gained control of just about everything luckily they haven't yet got control of the seattle city council and that's we've got some speakers tonight and before we get to our first guest speaker i would like to put it open open it up for questions if any would like to come over here and ask me questions if there are any i'm not going to wait around all night for it but i'll be glad to deal with any questions you have i just have a question about tying the two things together about you know not wanting to have a decent contract and selling the airwaves i don't i just don't understand why they even care about your contract if they're just going to sell it all the answer is they are going to continue operating something and this employer and several others are using this jurisdictional argument to set up a scheme or other the other let me put it this way other companies are laying it out differently but the scheme is eventually the antenna that broadcast a signal will be totally obsolete no shutting down and you will get your local what used to be television you'll get your local information in whatever form through the internet or through broadband and what they want to do this implore and all the others is use the union contracts now as a way to get rid of all union representation in advance of the train transfer to the new format very specifically the other employers are saying when we change our mode of operation you have no jurisdiction over that this variation of ways these are just another thing i have one other point to make about what i think they're doing they're going to continue to operate t v stations for the short intermediate term and they are doing familiar union busting to squeeze the the cash flow another thing another good example a really radical thing celebration of martin luther king holiday and the first thing that these guys did on taking over king in the i b e w contract was cancel the martin luther king day holiday  this is the mentality of these people and the other questions what is the story from the federal government and from these gannett like companies about what they will do during is no stated plan it is completely under the radar that's the most frustrating thing for us that's why we're running our campaign the way we're running it we want this to become a topic of discussion as to who will be responsible for informing the public when this bandwidth is sold out and used for something else when i am one of the points we're not trying to say that the analog scheme should stay intact forever that's not the point we're making we think the f c c should facilitate the reallocation of that resource to be more efficient for the public but it's not reallocating resources when you just hand it over to his zillionaire you take public assets and just say hey zillionaire what was once ours is down yours and that's what we want people to focus on yes ma'am he says remind us of how all the station owners got to their stations in the first place and whether they indeed own it or it just sort of the shepherds of it right what they own is their studios their cameras the vans the airwaves they get my license from us and it's not just something that's that they say hey can i put on t v they have to sign off and they have to commit and it's a deal it's an agreement between the public  them that they will depict this publicly owned asset and operate in the public interest the best comparison i can think of is the governor of new jersey ever heard of this guy chris christie he's got a new idea why don't we privatized water you know instead of turning on the your sink in just getting water that you build for how much water you drink from the public you know let's just sell the waterworks to some other zillionaire so that we can have variable priced water  what other benefits can we get from it the other question thank you this is and brothers for holding this event and actually this event is an example of things that we should be doing in order to raise awareness on in who have played a role so far in bringing your your struggle to the forefront to day even angelo for putting this event together and i'm going oh i want to come back to the point about whether or not billionaires control seattle city in society everywhere and what we've seen is attacks on so many fronts one we've seen really just tooth and nail attacks against unions a real concerted systematic effort to break the backs of unions and we've seen that in a number of professions we've seen the real you know nationwide attack on public sector unions in general you know  who who went on a real frontal assault on the public sector unions and wisconsin and although we didn't really win that struggle i think that was in many ways one of the starting points of what i hope will be a serious fight back from unions but that was just one example we've seen nationwide an attack on teachers unions and i speak from personal experience i am a teacher and a member of the american federation of teachers local seven hundred eighty nine which represents the community college teachers and now they've taken the word community out of the colleges and really they're trying to take the community itself out of the colleges by making the most basic education more and more inaccessible to young people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds which is the whole purpose of the community colleges and we seen that attack into on teachers unions administration and his department of education and so we see these attacks on unions happening almost as a continuum throughout republican and democratic administrations who is really on our side and i think that ultimately events like this have to raise the question of independent politics which is where we come in and i think that's very important but the adults are not just on unionized workers we already four decades after after decades of attack since the nine hundred seventy s on unions we've seen a decimation of the unionized sector in our entire nation and now we're seeing more intensify attacks on non unionized workers you know the it's a it's a it's a creation all across america a creation of what you might call the precariat where workers don't have union protection to begin with but then they're made more and more and more vulnerable corporations chip away slowly but surely at their most basic rights and so in seattle actually today the city council discussed an ordinance to give and we've seen attacks on just about every sector of the working class and that is why the fifteen dollars an hour struggle while it is not by any means the end of our battle was very important because it gave us a historic victory for the first time after decades and we were seeing that victory being translated into the trees in minimum wage across the nation including in cities like los angeles and san francisco and s your struggle is not only of consequence of the outcomes rather of your struggle are not only of consequence directly to you obviously to your livelihood to your experience in the workplace and even whether some of us will have jobs or not but outcome of your struggle will have consequences for workers overall and that is why we all have a stake in this whether we are in one of the you know television unions or not and just to quickly now you have you know something that we're seeing appear in many new contract negotiations something that they call non exclusive jurisdiction contract where they are they can bring nonunion labor an untrained labor to present a direct threat to your your to your positions and not to mention the impact it will have on the quality of the journalism that comes out of television and a lot of has happened also in a more direct material way where they have cut jobs and are forcing a smaller much smaller shrunken workforce to do all the job and actually just a small tidbit that i have seen directly so i do a lot of interviews with local television reporters and some of you are here in this room and you know it's only a year ago i used to see you as a reporter scum great a cameraman who our camera person who would be responsible for dealing with the equipment while you dealt with the journalism aspect of it now i see you coming with the entire equipment yourself and having to do all of it yourself because that's what's happened and you know that's another maybe less visible more subtle way in which they have really impacted our workplace rights they've also mentioned the spectrum auction which and i think that you know i don't want to go into the technical details of it you know obviously you all are much better experts i'm not an expert on these questions but i think dave made a very important point which is that motivation for technological innovation but as dave correctly said selling the airwaves to the highest bidder today you know next multi billionaire is not going to promote technology i mean obviously going to have a grave impact on workers rights but it does not promote technology i don't know and one allied example of this kind of contradiction between who owns a certain resource and whether or not th technology and we don't think so as a matter of fact the massive outage that happened in april where you know large parts of capitol hill experienced an outage internet access outage and not only individuals but businesses were impacted one of the reasons those kinds of massive outages happen when the when broadband is in the is in control of big corporations whose only aim is private profit making is that they have no fiber optic cables but they don't have an incentive to do that because they all day care is that you are price gouge on your monthly bill and they are not accountable to you because you are not able to hold accountable to them you know i am a customer  in my neighborhood we experience outage on a regular basis but it doesn't matter that they have a customer service number in reality in political speak they have they are not accountable to us that's just our reality and that is why i think we have to frame the vocabulary of around our struggles away from a question of technology because we are absolutely for technological innovation but in political terms because these are political questions that impact how technology is deployed and that is why in every example but there you can see you see that if resources massive resources like natural resource our technology are in the hands of the public and are run by public utilities that have a unionized work force and the end of the day have to be accountable to the public they end up performing much better seattle city light which is the energy provider for our city and  i oversee the energy committee so i've learned a thing or two about it is a public utility and just you know just any history lesson it didn't come about automatically because having a public utility isn't rational idea workers under two years ago fought for it own metal community took a lead on this and fought for it and that is why we have a fantastic example of a really well run public utility that delivers electricity at very reasonable rates there are issues with that too in the  fact that you know for example boeing corporation base less per kilowatt hour than you and i do and that's something we're trying to address but at the end of the day because it's a public utility it is able to do certain things that you do you cannot accomplish as public members when you don't have a say in it and if billionaires own resources you and i don't have a say it's as simple as that no matter what resource we are talking about and so i think that one of the messages that we would like to help you deliver to the public is that th is absolutely about technological innovation it is about workers rights it's about protecting resources that inform the public as you said of the public relies on local television for various needs and we need to protect those needs and there is no guarantee and in fact there is there is no guarantee that it will will will protect those those you know will deliver on those needs in fact i would say that there's almost a guarantee that they will do something that is contradictory t needs of the public and i'm sure others will be talking about how i can i don't know how to pronounce his last name who you know took close to a billion dollars when he liquidated transworld airlines  now involved in the mix so it's really no mystery for us where this is going both on the specifics of your issues and also what's happening on the whole on labor and i think that we have to be clear that we're you know we're  here you and as dave tightly put it you know this is a fight so we want to build public support for you and public pressure against the corporations in order to be able to win this battle for the union and and make sure that the unions back is not broken i also just want to add a few things in terms of what you know what what could be the next steps for what how the public can play a role and what what i could do as an elected official and so on you know i don't think you know just in reference to something that dave said about strikes i don't think that strikes are are going on strike is the only thing or the best tactic al and certainly when you look at though the trajectory of labor struggles it is not the first act that we use however it is still a powerful tactic we have in our hands and if you look all around us even in the recent days in seattle know as we all know even though a lot might have changed in the last hundred one hundred ten years it's still capitalism we still go to work in order to make profits for the bosses and still if we st going to work their profit much machine comes to a standstill and that is the power of the strike and in fact we see some inspiring examples even from non unionized workers who went in to work work stoppages in order to win some victories and we don't we don't they're not guaranteed that we will win but there are inspiring examples drivers and taxi drivers i'm not going to strike but they have used the tool of you know gumming together in solidarity in order to put forward their demands but just a few years ago in two thousand and twelve poor drug drivers engaged in weeks the work stoppage and that was the first time many members of the public even knew the dire conditions in which they live and still the port hasn't given them access to bathrooms still they're fighting for the right to unionize so no one single tactic is going to assure us victory but we need to be in struggle because we know one thing is guaranteed unless we are in political struggle we will not win and in fact we will we will we  a backslide and as as far thus it city council is concerned i really appreciate you putting together language for the resolution and needless to say i will of course put this forward for the seattle city council and we will be looking be we will be looking to you for help you know in an ongoing basis until it is finalized so that we we know we are getting the language correct but as far as the political council and whether or not it is controlled by billionaires i i have to say very honestly that you should not look at me and believe that robert that is representative of the majority of the city council we are not there yet and let's be let's be very clear where the city council or the majority of the elected officials of the city stand this is the same city council even though we don't really have a republican force to speak of this is the democratic party establishment this is the establishment that has been responsible for a real be worsening of the day to day problems that people face in terms of low wages housing skyrocketing rents lack of basic services and it is not just a city council this is happening at the state level and at the national level as well all i'm saying is that i don't think things are fundamentally different at a city level simply because it's a city you have the same kind of political dynamic where the majority of the elected officials are primarily because of their campaign coffers responsible to big business to big developers and i can tell you when we were passing we were trying to pass a deep resolution against the d p p and fast track my office was trying to put that forward for over a year we didn't get any movement on it why because the billionaire lobbyist from corporations like microsoft be honest amazon dot com and s s a marine you know you name it and that company is in that list they all the out do was make  around zero phone calls to some of the council members mysteriously enough i didn't get those phone calls all they had to do was make a round of phone calls and that was stalled and the only way we were able to get it forward and ultimately win a unanimous vote was struggles on the streets but we need to struggle to be translated into independent working class candidates being elected to office at every level so that we have our own ways in government so we have people when you going to their office you don't have to convince them to at least pay lip service to your issue but the real officials who say i am a worker what should we do here together you know that's what we should be aiming for thank you brothers and sisters and friends for being here tonight on this important topic of our public property and what's happening to it my name is nicole graham executive secretary treasurer of the martin luther king county labor council and i am myself a member of the international brotherhood of electrical workers local forty six and the search so hard to put this together and to bring quality news production our city and across our state well this come in and is threatening channel five seriously and growing up in this city i'll just tell you that i will never forgive gene or since face until the day i die  and the role that news has played in our culture is pretty important when a kid down the street from my house get got run over recently you know i want to know what happened and amanda grace was there on channel five you know reporting on it and you know i know but i don't think that anybody feels like the news is high art or anything but it's a valuable cultural and especially for the generation that grew up with it in relies on it i can tell you my grandmother doesn't use you tube she does watch channel five the threat to this channel and to all of broadcast journalism in our city is serious they're talking about taking something that been reliable for generations and turning it into something that's completely alien so that they can save some money so you talk about commodity news this is basically saying that instead of talking about what happens at our city council council what happens on our streets they'll have some factory in some state with a horrible economy one of these so called right to work states that turns out puff piece after puff piece after puff piece that is so generic and so banal that they can sell it in any market and call it the news and that's what they're calling commodity news the corporation comes into king five contract negotiations they're saying hey we don't need you but you are not valuable to us as a professional because we have come oddity in news now we don't need real news the other thing that they're saying is we don't need production workers we don't need the talent you know the gene or sins of the world the dan rather's we don't need a good camera people we don't need  because we're going to have multimedia journalists they think that there's somebody out there that's equally smooth with a camera and also has a really perfect nose that's going to look great on the camera and it's just not true so when they talk about multimedia journalists what they're talking about is destroying professionalism in the industry a deep professionalisation and i watch the video with some entertainment of the man saying hey you know anybody can be a broadcast journalist now you've got your i phone and it's basically you do your two minute selfie and recall in a news but i don't care how you like line yourself up against the sun or how you hold yourself a stick with out your i ought see professional putting makeup on your face you're going to look like the dead body that you were reporting on feel like there's always an element there's a strong element of sexism to this stuff and against young people because they say you know like today you know we don't need to have these high paid specific professionals we can have chelsea the fictional girl out there doing it all and what they're really saying is let's do this because we don't think we need to pay chelsea you know and chelsea doesn't need a union we can she can be a freelancer we can kick her down twenty bucks she's a go getter she'll be fine is making it so that it's not a career anymore so there's no future in it and who wants to put themselves through university getting that degree knowing that when they come out on the other side there's no career for them we're going to have a dearth of talent in people that are attracted to what was once you know a glamorous  with helicopters for god's sakes and everybody here has mentioned and it is just so important not to think of this is the birth of one more industry we're going to lose jobs in the hotel industry to air b n b we're losing jobs in the transportation industry to are we're going to lose good postal worker jobs to  amazon now and it's not something that has to happen and it's not something that we need to tolerate i know the drivers who are involved in the app based drivers association certainly are they're fighting back and they're going to win because dignity just never goes out of style and that goes for broadcast professionals too and ultimately when i want news i could already just go to you tube now and get some news but i don't because that would be ridiculous and that's what they're talking about trading in our channel five news station four is just more you tube which we already have which we already know is horrible the other thing i want to talk about with you tonight is that these airwaves really are our asset these are our property these are like our public parks and our forests and our air space it's ours when i swim in lake washington in the summer i'm some of them i like so it's especially horrifying to hear the there's a trillion dollars in the us and somehow it's not our trillion dollars and you would think with all this profit th good decisions could be made they could choose to pay i b e w forty six production workers at channel five a million dollars an hour because shoes they've got a trillion dollars i mean here is more entitled to it than the person doing the actual work or since they're going to use the bandwidth for cell phones why don't our cell phone services become free how about free cell phone services  with trillion dollars or i hear that america has a trillion dollar education problem we're not investing in our kids schools and in higher education let's start a trillion dollars of that and try to get our state legislature out of contempt but instead like with the goal is to take every last cent out of any given situation and hoard it at the top in the elite and that's really what we're talking about here i think a good comparison is the privatization of the washington state liquor stores the year that they privatized those liquor stores i believe the state of washington hundred and sixty five million dollars of revenue from liquor sales and you know you hear this  justification for it happening like oh but you know we're still going to pay a lot of taxes on the liquor it's like taxes our state was getting the profit on the liquor we're going to you know and so we settled and i think we're risk of this happening here and i want to emphasize that it's a risk because nothing is a foregone conclusion ever and this auction hasn't even happened yet but it's so gross and it's so wrong that i think the only answer is to stop it and to not stand for it and i hope every person here tonight comes away from this as a preacher on this issue and that we're using all the media devices at our disposal to communicate with our friends and our networks and our coworkers and stay in this horrible thing is happening and broadcast where we're going to lose a trillion dollars a public asset that's at risk and in the mix we're going to take a service that we have in our broadcast journalism and all but lose that too because they're going to dumb it down to such a sad level that it's going to be worthless and i think that that's a message that resonates with people and i think that it's time to get momentum building on that in the way that we built momentum on the campaign and we've built momentum on the fight against the p p and our goal should be to stop it shut it down stop the auction thanks