Our success. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the board of supervisors of monday, november 1, 2016, madam clerk call the roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener not present supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam clerk any communications yes. Madam president by a memorandum on october 1, 26 in receipt of cornerstones if mar communicating his veto of legislative that established the neighborhood property be crime unit in the Police Department pursuant to the charter the board any veto with not less than twothirds and if i member wants to schedule and vote let me know by 5 00 p. M. Colleagues by changes to the september 26t
Policy. And i also wanted to say that a lot of the tours were Pretty Amazing for the visitors from around the country as well. And a great panel with Christie Wang from spur on housing and how we merge Housing Developments that is equitable with the transportation policy as well. And i wanted to last say that was a fun conference, and they, kind of wonky but building in lots of interesting ways to talk about complex and challenging policies. I think that kim, from the tech crunch to many of the others, talked about the challenges with the innovation capitol of the world. The San Francisco sil con, valley, bay area, but many other regions are looking towards us for how we do it right. And i wanted to at last say that i think that conferences like this are great for the networking but for me, it is like the synergism and the intersectionality of the work that a lot of people are doing and hats off to the organizers, especially the low Income Investment fund and others who really insuring
Supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam clerk any communications yes. Madam president by a memorandum on october 1, 26 in receipt of cornerstones if mar communicating his veto of legislative that established the neighborhood property be crime unit in the Police Department pursuant to the charter the board any veto with not less than twothirds and if i member wants to schedule and vote let me know by 5 00 p. M. Colleagues by changes to the september 26th you can 2016 Board Meeting minutes seeing none, a motion by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor farrell colleagues those will be approved after the Public Comment. Items 1 through 5 the consented as a whole and not to individual Board Members, no one is required to comment on your matter. Unless a member of the commission, t
Supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam clerk any communications yes. Madam president by a memorandum on october 1, 26 in receipt of cornerstones if mar communicating his veto of legislative that established the neighborhood property be crime unit in the Police Department pursuant to the charter the board any veto with not less than twothirds and if i member wants to schedule and vote let me know by 5 00 p. M. Colleagues by changes to the september 26th you can 2016 Board Meeting minutes seeing none, a motion by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor farrell colleagues those will be approved after the Public Comment. Items 1 through 5 the consented as a whole and not to individual Board Members, no one is required to comment on your matter. Unless a member of the commission, t
At www. Commonwealthclub. Org. It is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker, a veteran of more than 20 years of Human Rights Research and activism, a professor of law at ucdavis, she grew up in algeria and the United States. She served as Legal Adviser at Amnesty International and has taught at rutgers and the university of michigan, she is widely published on the issues of fundamentalism and counterterrorism. Would you please welcome professor karima bennoune. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Is an honor to be here. I thank the commonwealth for inviting me, for coordinating this event and for the lovely introduction. What i want to do today is share with you a few excerpts from my book your fatwa does not apply here Untold Stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism and i want to explain as well why i wrote this book. It was a very big project. I interviewed about 300 people at muslim heritage, 30 muslim majority countries from afghanistan to mol