First off, i want to give a huge shout out to the Domestic Violences consortium and fearless leader of the event, beverly upton. [cheers and applause] Domestic Violence is an issue that spans many departments and agencies here in San Francisco. As a safety, we have worked very hard to develop strong partnerships. I want to welcome supervisor Catherine Stefani. [cheers and applause] supervisor safai, City College Trustee i. V. Lee, fire chief janine nicholson, we welcome her david lazar. Representing San Francisco airports, front seth francesca garcia, and on her way is the sharp director Kelly Densmore who is the new director of the office of Sexual Harassment and assault response and prevention. So tonights theme is building pathways to safety. We recognize that Domestic Violence is an issue that impacts every gender, race, sexual orientation, immigration status, and we need to meet our Diverse Community members where they are. We are so proud of our Partner Agencies that work so hard
Commission on the status of women, the strongest Womens Commission in the country. Lets give that a cheer. [cheering] the president the lifelong advocate for women and girls and has acted as a champion for policy change in education and community and economic development. She just stepped off a plane from india, so please help me welcome president rhianna zawart hi, everyone. I am very honored be here and to represent the strongest commission in the country. Im joined tonight by our Vice President , commissioners. Can we give it up for our commissioners . [applause] the reason why this commission and this department is so important is because every day we live the theme of this month which is building pathways to safety. According to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, an average of 20 americans experience Domestic Violence every minute. That is 10 million victims in a single year in the u. S. And according to the coalition, Domestic Violence survivors receive 8 million l
Have to be really confident and sure about what we are doing, and we are. Theyre still people in forces out there who are perpetuating myths about Domestic Violence and to need our help to become more aware. They still think Domestic Violence isnt actually that big of a deal, that it is a contained issue, that it is special interest or it is private or it is personal, it is about anger or it is about alcoholism, and that theres nothing we can do because its about individual people and individual people are who they are. Some people are just inherently more violent and others are inherently more submissive. We are here every single month, and especially in october to take those myths and grind them to a pulp and flush them. We know they are not true. We are here 30 years later using this platform to say Domestic Violence, it is personal, it is private, and it is social. Is political. We are showing that this is an issue that we pay a tremendous price, an unacceptable price for allowing
Worlds. A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron. Well more than a year since the u. S. Quit the Iran Nuclear Deal President Donald Trump has said making an agreement with to wrong could be a good thing he also commented on his reasons for sacking his National Security adviser john bolton they are a much different country right now than they were 2 and a half years ago when i came into office. And i do believe theyd like to make a deal if they do that its great and if they dont thats great too he made some very big mistakes when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong il and that was not a good statement to make you just take a look at what happened with gadhafi that was not a good statement to make and it set us back and frankly he wanted to do things not necessarily tougher than me you know johns known as a tough guy hes so tough he got us into iraq. For more than a year since the u. S. Quits the Iran Nuclear Deal President Donald Trump has that mak
World. A warm welcome you watching r. T. International with meaning to arran. More than a year since the u. S. Quit the a wrong nuclear deal President Donald Trump has said making an agreement with 2 wrong could be a good thing he also commented on his reasons for sucking his National Security adviser john bolton they are much different country right now than they were 2 and a half years ago when i came into office. And i do believe theyd like to make a deal if they do that its great and if they dont thats great too he made some very big mistakes when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong il and that was not a good statement to make you just take a look at what happened with khadafi that was not a good statement to make and it set us back and frankly he wanted to do things not necessarily tougher than me you know johns known as a tough guy so tough you got to send to iraq john bolton was well known for his aggressive hawkish approach to Foreign Policy he was adamantly against t