Community and your trust in us and our work in nonprofit in serving the broader community. Thank you so much. applause applause now up in the batting order, supervisor farrell. Thank you, president chiu. I believe my honoree is still running in the building, if you will. If we could skip over. Sure, thanks. Slide to district 1, supervisor mar. Thank you. To all the honorees, were really lucky to have such an amazing array of different types of leaders from the Filipino Community. The choice for the Richmond District today is i think one of the most inspiring and creative people that helps to build our movements with his messages of hope and struggle. I wanted to say the legacy theme, id say that tony robles, if tony can come forward. [cheering and applauding] understand why im saying this. There is a mural at San Francisco state that the league of filipino students and filipino activists created and artists. It shows the struggle in the philippines and the connection to the u. S. , peo
That were very proud of. Im honoring him for his social justice work. He has been active in the Asian American community for over a decade. I know he looks a lot younger than a decade, but he has been extremely active. Hes been involved in grassroots activism in the Asian American immigrant worker and lgbt communities on both coasts of the country and his vision for social justice is grounded in the realities of those communities. After graduating from Brown University and ucla law school, chris worked as a Ford Foundation new voices fellow where filipino advocates for justice in oakland before joining the positive Resource Center in San Francisco as a staff attorney representing clients living with hiv. He is currently the executive director of the asian law caucus which works on housing rights, immigration, labor, and employment issues in the Asian Community and ha been very active in effecting positive social change on the policy level here in San Francisco and right here in our own
This is an organization that promotes healthy children and families by providing services to prevent child abuse, Domestic Violence and ensuring that our families are safe. And i can certainly tell you, colleagues, and i think many of you know amors work. He has been able to impact hundreds of families and children in ensuring that the city of st. Francis really takes care of her own. With that in celebration of filipino History Month i want to thank amor and i see that supervisor cohen would like to add a few words. Amor on behalf of our constituents in district 3 and many districts around the city i want to thank you for everything youre doing. Supervisor cohen. Thank you for allowing me a moment just to also lift up and honor amor sanity whition owe. ~ santiago. Youve been incredible to the valley since you stepped n. I think your leadership transcends any kind of ethnic boundaries, any kind of class boundaries. You have a good heart. You have a wonderful nature about you that reall
Hotel heart. applause thats tony robles poem. Tony is a true revolutionary, worker scholar who always maintains a humble level head, even in the most crisis oriented situations, even when fighting for the people in the most charged issues like housing justice, and the fight against displacement and gentrification in San Francisco creatively tony writes poetry and stories that inspire hope and struggle of our communities. Im proud to honor him today. I think he uses his mind, his heart, his hands creatively and lovingly to inspire Filipino Community members but also all of us. And i wanted to say again that i believe hes an empowerer of those that need to lead our struggles and for me as a member of this board of supervisors and our whole body, its my honor to recognize brother tony robles as our honoree from district 1. Tony . [cheering and applauding] thank you very much, supervisor mar. And to think that i thought you were going to take me out to joes ice cream. [laughter] i didnt ex
[speaker not understood]. So, for all the honorees and their family and friends, i hope you can also stay to join the Program Later in the reception. As you know, the theme for our commemoration is legacy, celebrating the contributions of the Filipino Community in San Francisco. This event theme draws upon the deep history and rich legacy of filipinos and their contribution to a tradition of education, service, community organizing, to up lift all communities in San Francisco. Filipinos are known for their people power and here in the u. S. They have brought this tradition, organizing towards building multiracial solidarity with many communities. From the united farm Workers Organizing starting in the 1930s towards the historic boycott to the third world strike of the 1960s, the hotel struggle of the 1970s, the martial law protests of the 1980s, and the justice for [speaker not understood] Campaign Starting in 2000, a rich legacy of filipinos working with other communities to address i