Good evening from the KYW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy. Here are today's top stories. It's Wednesday, May 22nd.

Amazon investors voted down 14 shareholder proposals at the company's annual meeting today, they would have required Amazon

to study and report on its role in a range of social and political issues like climate

change and the conflict in Gaza. Monica Nicholsberg has more.

Big corporations are in the spotlight right now thanks to high-profile protests, but activists

are also taking the fight to company boards.

Nadira Nareen is with the Interfaith Center on corporate responsibility.

It's a coalition of activist investors behind several of the shareholder resolutions that were voted down at Amazon.

Noreen says, shareholders file these kinds of proposals when they don't feel a company is willing to engage in good faith on the

issues. So there is a bit of a frustration on this lack of engagement and investors really are

seeking to have a constructive dialogue with the company on the issues. These types of resolutions

are a symbolic gesture, but they don't typically pass. Amazon recommended shareholders vote

against the proposals. The company says it's already making progress on many of their goals.

Monica Nicholsberg, KUOW News.

The campaign to defend the state's capital gains tax from an effort to overturn it kicked off today.

Deana Janes runs a bilingual child care center in Burian.

She says a repeal of capital gains taxes could hit the state's child care industry hard.

Not only the parents need the child care, but if the funding ends, I will affect the families

and will affect my own business, my small business, and I won't be able to provide work for my staff.

Revenue from the tax helps fund school construction, early learning, and child care programs.

It's paid mostly by about 4,000 of the state's wealthiest individuals who profit off major sales

of long-term assets like stocks and bonds. Advocates seeking to repeal it say capital

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