Thank you. Supervisor mar. I want to welcome all of our guests who are here for our presentations related to black History Month. And id like to ask supervisor cohen if youd actually like to take my gavel and preside over the proceedings of todays commendations. Supervisor. Yes, mr. President. Ill gladly take your gavel. [laughter] all right. Are you guys excited . Because now is the time were going to actually take a moment and honor many outstanding African Americans who have contributed greatly to the city and county of San Francisco. And as we begin to close out our black History Month, well have an opportunity to reflect not only what weve done this entire month, but also what we did last year and in previous years standing on the shoulders of rosa parkses, dr. Martin luther king, sojourner truth, those are leaders from a historical perspective. I and supervisor breed stand ort shoulders of more recent giants, like espinola jackson, like ms. Westbrook, ella hill hutch, doris ward,
And our minds were opened. We were able to support, learn, and be educated in how to stand up for the right things in life. One thing that i can say about the roth family, they didnt stand up for bull s. , that whenever an issue was right, thats what they stood for. Whether it was popular or not popular. A lot of times they caught a lot of heat for it but it didnt matter to them because they believed in doing what was right for the people that were in need of that. It was just again great to see that that name is being honored today. Thank you. applause fred, let me just say that we have a number of africanamerican or black History Month honor aloees in a month coming up in ray moment. I want to acknowledge labor president mike casey in the audience. applause i want to thank you for [speaker not understood] to our doors. We have this coming up on our for a vote. Your oscar time is up. A [laughter] i want to say supervisor avalos and campos are cosponsoring this commendation with me and
In declaring february 27th ucsf philip r. Lee Institute Day in the city and county of San Francisco. And id just like to ask dr. Schmidt, if you could introduce who is here with us, too. Yes. We have here dr. [speaker not understood]. She is the director of the institute for Health Policy studies. Roberta vargas as you already mentioned, and ms. Paula fleichser who is one of our experts. I wanted to make a very brief statement. Its a real honor to be here to speak to this commendation on behalf of our staff. We have over a hundred faculty and staff at the institute for Health Policy studies. Ucsf is by far one of San Franciscos many, many treasures. But the newest discovery for medicine and Population Health often get locked up in the ivory tower and they dont make their way out onto the streets to actually help the population very quickly. So, our institutes core mission is to translate advances in science as they come forward within the university and translate them into policies tha
Fred roth, senior, was an inspiration to many of us, especially those that have been Community Organizers like myself. He trained an army of organizers, not just for the united farm workers, but for many different struggles historically. And its really an honor for me to stand here before you with fred roth, junior, and others to urge your support to join hundreds of other labor and community and civic organizationses and groups in urging president obama to bestow the president ial medal of honor post hume usly on fred senior. His entire life work was spirited and defiant in the struggle for freedom and dignity, especially for lower income workers, not just farmers, but disinfran hiesed and depressed communities not just the state of california, but nation wood. A more proactive struggle for equity and Human Dignity for everyone. I wanted to also say that a little bit of history is important. In the 50s mr. Roth worked in the latino communities and barrios of los angeles, san jose, and