Was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and that morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of california. Still has a gas chamber which is ok its that quick prison and the site of many demonstrations over the last few years precisely because of the fact that prisons and and courage the spread of covert 19 to oakland where your speaking to me from known quite pretty as a progressive place around the world spends an enormous proportion of its budget on police and Police Activities who what do you think baldwin may meant when he said he could gauge
Participate to the same extent as if physically present. Put lick comment shall occur at the recessed meeting august 24 at 10 00 a. M. You may send it in the following ways. Email to the budget and finance committee clerk, and it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Thank you, good morning. We are reconvening our meeting from yesterday. This weeks hearings are focused on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like to make to department budgets. A few things i want to know. There is no trailing legislation today. Reminder to new members. The hearings are noticed separately. This is all one meeting. We are taking up the following day at 10 00 a. M. One meeting for wednesday, thursday and friday. No Public Comment this week on the budget, which is items one and two. All Public Comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10 00 a. M. There. Is no other business on monday except for the comments. The budget and Appropriations Com
Theres eight. Two teams have been funded in the mayors budget. Thank you, supervisor mandelman. Four are in the mayors budget and were working with dph to add two additional ones. And so, first question about these additional teams. Do the firefighters have the ability to 5150 someone if they believe it is necessary . At this time, we do not. However, simon p arang, in chare of community paramedicine, is here, and hes done outreach with dph and thinking about this and talking about this for a long time. So simon, can you please chief pang, can you please speak to that . Hi. How do you feel about us expanding ems six by six . Well, ive very grateful, but also, you know, anxious because i want to make sure that we dont oversell what we can possibly do. Although, its full steam ahead for us and we want to help the city in nr any way we can. If we wer would to get extra mo, it would start with hiring and training and we would get that done right away. I want to make sure i dont make any un
Russian vaccine. Yeah. Which i guess is, i dont know i dont know are you going to take a russian vaccine . Thats about now, were really talking about a tremendous leap of faith a russian vaccine which i think theyve dubbed did chernobyl ii. Im going to pass. Is that a hard pass yeah, hard pass chernobyl its been approved even though its had trials. Easy come, easy go. Remember, they spent a fortune on the trial and a couple people died i dont think thats the russian way. Nor do i think when 28 people died in world war ii did necessarily everybody come to a fight with a machine gun fight and they have very little fear and its demonstrated in certain trials, really well, listen, we can hope theres great science there and there is something well, they used to have great science. And plenty of scientists, no doubt. And rockets they stole a Hydrogen Bomb from the rosenbergs, they can do that. Lets read what putin had to say, as far as i know a vaccine against a new coronavirus has been regi
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