No, your friend. Sidney crawford. She was the first fight i ever had in grade school. I was 10 years old and we started throwing rocks at each other. And i called him a sissy and thats when the fight turned on. Why . We learned at an early age that the worst thing you can be called as a boy, is a girl. I just came from Catholic School and here we were, fighting for dominance on the playground. As soon as i evoked gender in the conversation, that from the fight happened. Why did that incident that was you so much that you left it in your book . Because it was, going back to fundamentally how boys learn what it means to be a man and how we learn to juxtapose girls are in our lives. It was that moment. That thing that happened at a very early age. My will is i dont Like Fighting number one. And number two, what me to 10yearold boys start rolling in the gravel, fighting because one of them questions the others masculinity. In your book, you write, we do not raise boys to be men. We raised
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Strong neighborhoods and communities versus financial profit and taxes, the city makes taxes whenever we can. Im here knocking on the door of market rate rents. Overhead, please. 80yearold gal, her market rate rent went up 600. She moved to another building and stroked ten months later. Wonderful little couple. Both of these are the nicest people. This couple, i didnt get a chance to shoot the photograph of that. This is the second rent increase. One of our residents who is still living there, a long time resident, about 20 years, she worked for the giants. She has to continue working for the giants because her below market rate apartment isnt paid for by her social security. Section 8, any unit there in section 8 . Any seniors . Weve four different groups of seniors, seniors that own their own home and cant take care of it, seniors whose legs are broken. We need to move homeless and put veterans in. There are disabled and less fortunate people that are part of our community. A market
Blurry eyed but happy the deal had been done and i want to recognize the giants. I think one of the things missed in the conversation but eluded to is that the giants are very prolabor organization. We have a lot of folks from Labor Community represented in the room. Not only the workers on site but the workers that will build the facility and this is going to create thousands of jobs for them and then also this was forward thinking in the sense that now we have many projects on public and non Public Land Following in the footsteps, i know we spent a year negotiating a project now that will be 40 affordable and so the expansion of that and this was the groundbreaking project in that regard. So middle class and working class families but also the long conversation we had on inclusionary housing. This is not just lowincome affordable, this is really and truly middle class housing that has not really been done. Weve had that conversation and this is all being done on the dime of the devel
Can for our communities. And that type of integrity and commitment and tenacity has brought us to this point here. So supervisor kim, on behalf of all those families that would be living there and attending the mission bay school, i want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. Supervisor kim thank you supervisor fewer through the chair. And i want to acknowledge supervisor fewers work, since 2009 or 10, she has been advocating for a school in mission bay and last year was the sole voice on the board of education to push for dedicated funds for mission bay schools and the bond and i appreciate you being the voice, even though you dont represent our district, last year in those discussions and making sure we got on to the bond and i want to thank the giants for agreeing to committing and supporting the study process moving forward. Supervisor peskin was joking next to me it was only one night, it was more than one night, it took a lot over one night. So i dont see an