Bill 360 allowing counties to develop and own and operate public Voting Systems and opens the door for Voting Technology used to administer elections publicly available and viewable and by following the open source path we can ensure that elections have more integrity than they also have and less opportunity for fraud and more accurate results so this resolution will move us in in that direction by requesting that lafco study how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and move towards open source. So this is an important step forward colleagues i want to acknowledge that weve all received some emails in the last few days from some advocates expressing concern not with the substance of the resolution i believe theres universal support for the substance of the resolution but expressing concern that one organization is named in the resolution and in the spirit of moving forward in in a united a way as possible because i believe the same goal im going to suggest or make a moti
Flattered and even when this flatter y is degrading. I remember i was no more than 11 years old and it continued throughout middle and high school and i remember not being able to understand why men spoke to me when i clearly was not of age to be listening to be listening to those types of comments. And it impacts every single female friend that i had. Ben called this reaction what it was sexist and critics wondered why he chose to go back to retrieve his wallet they claimed this would not have happened if he had just gotten a cab but people are missing the point every human being regardless of whether they are a man or woman should be able to walk on the city streets free from harassment and violence. Dress is not an open invitation and they should not have further abuse heaped on them by the public for being responsible for another persons crime or abuse. Ben and his girlfriend wrote from the hospital they said now for the folks that have never met us not once have only heard our sto
Throughout middle and high school and i remember not being able to understand why men spoke to me when i clearly was not of age to be listening to be listening to those types of comments. And it impacts every single female friend that i had. Ben called this reaction what it was sexist and critics wondered why he chose to go back to retrieve his wallet they claimed this would not have happened if he had just gotten a cab but people are missing the point every human being regardless of whether they are a man or woman should be able to walk on the city streets free from harassment and violence. Dress is not an open invitation and they should not have further abuse heaped on them by the public for being responsible for another persons crime or abuse. Ben and his girlfriend wrote from the hospital they said now for the folks that have never met us not once have only heard our story via internet and media stations. To those who feel passionate about stopping harassment and feel like woman ne
Will be presented by supervisor kim. Thank you. Were actually honoring a lot of upstanding individuals today while this individual is not an official member of the city family he is certainly a member of our city and a district 6 resident. Im honoring an individual today that many of you have probably read about in the press recently. His name is ben schwart z. Ben was attacked in our neighborhood after taking a stand at the verbal abuse directed at his girlfriend he was returning from a party Early Saturday Morning and passed a man making threats to her and after crossing to the other side of the street and being followed ben asked the perpetrator and punches were thrown and ben ended up being stabbed 9 times in the back, face and neck and arms with the knife narrowly missing his spinal cord but puncturing his lung. While there are many men and women women ben made a Public Statement and he and elevated this issue and in fact one that is so pervasive that theres a consensus not even s
Wells trapped this on america tonight, in the worlds richest nation, why is it so hard for so many to make a decent living . We will look at wealth, poverty and why a minimum wage just isnt enough. Gas is up. Hiring is up but our wages arent up. South of the border, the mexican city fighting off drug and Gang Violence to give its young people a brighter future. And beckham and the boys, the story behind manu and the class of 92. Kiesh good evening. Thanks for joining us. I am joie chen. We begin looking at struggles of cities and workers and the future of both. Money, how cities balance their Economic Needs and can protect their citizens. Case in point, a fight for a living wage which has quietly quietly grown from a city by City Movement putting more pressure on lawmakers in washington, d. C. We begin with a look in the call for a higher minimum wage. It was just over a year ago, when fast food employees gathered to protest low wages. The fervor caught off and has spread to about 100