Good evening and welcome to San Francisco 20th annual aapi celebration. My brother from another mother al perez and thomas. [applause] im also help over see theso just want to put a plug in. How about a round of applause for the dancers from the legacy of the pacific and Polynesian Group for opening for tonight program and dancing. Big applause. [applause] the Pacific Islanders are made up of diverse ethnicities and the dance we saw celebrates the spirit of the tribe. What a treat and thank you. Thank you grace. Good evening. My name is al perez from the filipino parade and festival. Excited about this years celebration because it is the 20th anniversary. Im proud to be a Filipino American and working toorgt with all my aapi brothers and sisters able to put together a Community Celebration year after year for the aapi family. Tonight we are going to honor two amazing organizations for their milestone achievements and two Exceptional Individuals for their impact in our city. It is just
All of you. My name is george rivas. I am the director of the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs, i am joined by my colleague chloe noonan, who is our policy and engagement officer, who oversees our Language Access efforts at oca. I am looking forward to sharing. I am looking forward to sharing more Background Information about our office and then chloe will share more background on the lao report from 2024, and will walk us through the contents of that report as well, ill take next slide. I will take a moment to share some background about our office. The office of Civic Engagement and World Affairs was founded in 2 in 2009, at which time it was designated to oversee implementation of the equal access to Services Ordinance and with time, as you all know now, its become the Language Access ordinance. Today, eoc has a policy compliance, direct services and grant making City Department. Our mission is to promote inclusive policies and foster immigrant assistance programs th
Where does the white house stand this hour and is the Biden Administration going to push our closest middle east ally into brokering some kind of a deal . Lets bring in brent souther. He joins us with his thoughts on the current breaking news. You had a guest on earlier that is calling thats what it is. Its a ruse. Its a gamble by hamas right now to buy for more time into set up for political circumstance. No matter what happens, israel goes in or israel delays, they still make israel look like the aggressor in this case. Anything is further from the truth. It is only delaying the inevitable destruction of hamas. John we had senator John Cotton On and he looked back at the world war ii experience. There is Unconditional Surrender by germany. Unconditional surrender by japan. Why isnt President Biden calling for an Unconditional Surrender by hamas and a release of all the hostages . End of the war right then and Work Together with the arab nations on putting the pieces back together aga
Welcome to the heart of diversity and night San Francisco celebrating too decades of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration as we reflect on the path and look towards the future at the craze roads of moving forward together. Welcome, everyone to city hall peoples palace the first celebration at month of may is asianamerican Pacific Islanders heritage month may 4, 1979, when jimmy caterer to commemorate the electrification of asianamerican and for the first years was one weeklong to the entire month of may in 1991 it was watched in it 2005 when the idea of a collaborative a establishment of a community celebration. The action consideration community the opportunity to showcase the uniqueness of at the same time strengthen the Apa Community as a whole. There we go clapping. apa heritage month is special during which we pay contribute to those who that paved the way. It is great to be here to celebrate the many of may and for many reasons why our city is zoned spi3 and have a g
Persons could not return to the territory of the country, the airline did not bring, uh, citizens of belarus in fact then, if these reasons are, in fact, compelling or a business trip or some other legislative circumstances and may consider the issue on an exceptional basis and such persons can also contact the acquisition of a civil republic, the city of nu in addition, i want to say that, most likely, the terms and unified deadlines for consideration of applications for admission to the civil republic of belarus and renunciation of the citizenship of the republic in russia have been adjusted ; now it is exactly 1 year in order to actually not discriminate against those persons who , lets say he applies for naturalization, and who wants to renounce citizenship, because previously there were different deadlines, in addition, the period for consideration of materials on the acquisition of citizenship of the axis republic, simplified, has been reduced to two months registration procedure