Saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want to say thank you because the most important thing we have is a recognition that you understand that this is indeed a National Issue for us to deal with. Im looking forward to the rest of the day, i appreciate your presence and i appreciate your leadership, melinda, and lets get on with it. applause . I have the honor of sbre due
Their children watching on. His actions in 2004 thrust this civil rights issue into the National Spotlight and cemented his reputation as a fearless Public Officials who does what he thinks is right. Under mayor newsoms energetic leadership the economy grew and the city became an Economic Center for biotech and clean tech. Gach newsom has been a trail blaitzer on combating homelessness and protecting the government. In 2007 he was reelected as mayor with more than 70 percent of the vote, which is unheard of. Please welcome our lieutenant governor, gavin newsom. My role was to get tom to speak. Im just going to jump in because i want to keep you all on time. Youve got an agenda packet and im going to be held accountable if you dont meet it. Roslyn, lets pick up on toms passion. He told me a couple points that are important, that is the consciousness awareness, this growing consciousness around bullying. And its a question i guess that requires, has bullying gotten worse or have we gotte
Eric holder is my Favorite Department of justice official. Tom perez is my second Favorite Department of justice official. We are very honored today that tom perez has come from washington, dc, to give welcoming remarks here at this summit. Tom perez is the assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in washington, dc, he was nominated for that position by president obama and sworn in in october of 2009 and we are all the lucky we are all very lucky that that happened in october of 2009. Tom has spent his entire career in Public Service and on protecting the civil rights of our most vulnerable people. Tom actually joined the Civil Rights Division as a young lawyer and while he was there he prosecuted some of the most significant cases in the country. Lawyers in the Civil Rights Division get fanned out to places in the country to handle cas in mississippi and alabama and california and all over and tom was one of those people. He was sent to texas to handle a very significan
Of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know that old addage, sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me, i categorically reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this si
Reject that. We have seen kids quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will indeed all follow the lead of that student, walk out and say what are one or two things im going to do differently and better . How are we going to improve this situation . I hope if you take one and only one thing from melinda and my and ruslyns remarks today, if you have an idea, please bring them to us. We want to learn from you. We are in this together and i want t