Good afternoon. Everyone seated . All right, can everyone hear me okay . All right, good afternoon, thank you so much, sean, for the introduction. If youre like me youre fascinated by all of the panelists that are here today that have such incredible perspectives on the world and where their jobs have taken them, my goal today and my hope for you is that we are able to take a transcribe trip around the world through their experiences, able to understand the world and which may be pretty complicated and americas role in that, where do we go from here, so lets just sort of do an overview of where we are today. I work in the news world so if you guys think youre being bombarded by headlines, welcome. [laughter] but we have a lot going on, right . I was in venezuela where i covered the conflict there, not easy to see or understand much less explain, we have conflicts in syria, we have conflicts in yemen, and here is whats heartbreaking, we had nearly 70 million displaced people in the worl
Read next speaker please. My name is ivy, im also parent to two Young Children here, and i am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with my team we went to schools to read, speak to immigrant parents, and their schools and reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their opinions about the school. As you know, San Francisco is a city made of many immigrants. Its not that parents do not want to participate in voting, there are one too many barriers that exist for them like language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there are many reasons impacting their decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and informing people of their rights to participate for election, but also recognize that there are many ways to participate in the community and encouraging them to do so. I would like to urge the board of supervisors to continue supporting immigrant families in our community, by restoring full funding for us to continue
This effort. I would like to urge the board of secure supervisors to continue supporting immigrant parents voting collaborative with full funding so we continue to do this work. Thank you. Thank you, next acre please read next speaker please. My name is ivy, im also parent to two Young Children here, and i am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with my team we went to schools to read, speak to immigrant parents, and their schools and reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their opinions about the school. As you know, San Francisco is a city made of many immigrants. Its not that parents do not want to participate in voting, there are one too many barriers that exist for them like language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there are many reasons impacting their decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and informing people of their rights to participate for election, but also recognize that there are many w
Are very important. We need to know our right. And to keep reporting the immigrant vote. Thanks to these fund, and you all, the supervisors, and our Community Organization we can continue to preserve our sanctuary city. With our values, of our sanctuary city. Thank you. Tran16 next speaker please get good afternoon my name is amy lynn im a i am here today to advocate for the budget allegation at 250,000 each year for the next two years to get over the course of the week last week, we have witnessed how an unsettled administration terrorizes and attempt to disrupt peoples daytoday life and make them feel unsafe going to and getting their children to. Moments like this remind us why the work to empower and affirm immunity members that they belong here. They have right in their access to basic services is not jeopardized speak misinformation. I work with a cord group of undocumented parent and empower them to understanding their rights as migrant and as parent two kids in the School Distr
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