Commission neighborhood sites coming up next week, is that right, joanna and our art list is on that website and the exhibit at the ed roberts campus. That event focuses on first person account of the 504 occupation of the Federal Building back in San Francisco in 1977. The list all the supporters and on the political side we have the board of supervisors, we have the mayor, senator mark leno, assemblyman, tom yann oh and administrator and we have 20 different disability advocacy representation and also things as widespread as our local independent Living Centers and the california cfilc. California foundation for independent Living Centers. So its very impressive. It changes as i say daily. So i encourage you to visit the site. It has some disability history and links to ada resources. The address is ada 25 bay area. Org. My Deputy Director joanna reminds me that we encourage everybody to tell us about events that you know about so we can list them on our website. Anything that has a
On given there are many bart stations in San Francisco. But every person who ive experienced with has come to take a look at it who uses a wheelchair, everyone has walked away saying the same thing. Wow, i knew that there was a problem because everyone was upset about it. I had no idea how bad it was until i actually tried to use it using my wheelchair. So, weve got to keep up the fight and weve got to let bart know this is important to us. Okay. Roland, do you mind if i give out your phone number and website address to the audience . Yeah, [speaker not understood]. Thank you. So, rolands phone number at work is area code 41554 362 22 ~. You can email him at roland, roland at ilrcsf. Org. And the organizations website address is www. Ilrcsf. Org. And if you want events, you just add back slash events to that address and youll get to the events page. Thank you. Youre welcome. Are there any other councilmember questions for ms. Lorenz . Staff . Through the chair, carla johnson. Jessie, i
Come before this council are issues that also touch our agency. So, housing and access to housing is for folk who use wheelchairs and also folk that have disabilities meaning they are only able to afford housing that is affordable for someone on Public Benefits such as social security. Housing is a big issue were involved in. Technology, and peoples ability to access Assistive Technology. So, that may mean a really cool wheelchair. That may mean technology that allows you to read braille, or could also just mean a computer with skype on it so if you have a hearing loss, for example, you can actually see the mouth of the person youre talking to as youre having the conversation. My organization operates a device lending library. Actually, one of your councilmembers, derek, is the lead on that project. And we have technology that people can essentially try before they buy. One of the big equalizers, i believe, that does allow folks with disabilities to function and live life of freedom, c
Federal buildings that were either occupied or people protested in front of them across the country. Everywhere else, they were starved out. New york, washington, whatever, the police came in or the people in the community refused to help them. In the bay area, what was amazing is you had this coalition of community groups, of politicians, of people that really cared about disability rights. Or if they didnt care, they learned to care. And this was partly because of activism of the disability rights, the organizers at the protest. They had sewn seed all over the community and the bay area. So, you had this amazing phenomena where youd have like the black panthers, ~ safeway, mcdonalds, glide memorial church. All these amazing bay area institutions contributing to the protest in some way, bringing in, in the case of the black panthers, they brought in hot food. They brought in politicians had showers brought in. So, it was possible for it to happen because the local political people rea
Consider different from you. And we thought its best to, you know, implement a curriculum that will educate them and actually met with derek wednesday. And i got a lot of great feedback from him. And, you know, at first i even made a mistake. We were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. I was so happy he did because we want to make sure were making everything correct in our draft once we present it to the board of supervisors that we have everything correct. And i have some copies. I dont know if i handed to you guys yet. So, it really is just a draft and its just talking about how we want this to be implemented. We do have some student advisory councilmembers in our committee. So, they get to theyre going to be able to present this to the board of education while we present it to the board of supervisors, urging them to, you know, pass this. We just think that this, even though its a really small