Weeks that has been truly impressive from the website that is occupysf. Com or you can actually donate contributions to the organization to other efforts of solidarity from labor organizations. I do see others here that have been a part of this, giving support to the movement. It has also been significant that when supervisors campos, at the lows, kim, chu, and others were out with many of you in the audience that wednesday morning, we saw the growth of thousands of people there until 4 00 a. M. Or 5 00 a. M. In the morning. Being part of the general assembly, i have also seen incredible democracy. I think a lot of the slogans that this is what democracy looks like you do not really understand it until youre there participating in peoples democracy of the occupied movements. I also want to say that i am impressed that in the meeting, a number of us were with a number of the leaders of occupysf, labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayors office, and the
before i make this point that i appreciate the fact that there s more dialogue, and i encourage that the dialogue continues. but where i fundamentally disagree with the approach that has been taken by mayor quan and mayor lee, and it is interesting that the two mayors have taken similar positions is this notion that somehow it is ok for us to spend the very limited resources we have on police action. even though in san francisco we have not had an air raid, we had a large number of police officers and mass that evening when the rate was expected. i can tell you that i wonder how much money was spent on overtime. i wonder how much money went into that. because as the supervisor for district 9, i know many places in my district that need more attention from the city. i would rather have our limited resources be spent on those neighborhoods, on those districts. i think that we have to be very wise about how we spend their resources, and i hope that we do not have a situation aga
labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayor s office, and there has been increasing communication with the choosing of even liaisons with different organizations. that is a big step forward. there is better communication so we can stop a crackdown. at the resolutions like this are important symbolically. i hope we can pass this quickly and organize our communities. when supervisor at a los and i were at ocean beach in my district on saturday with thousands of people spelling out the 1%, there were many families from richmond and sunset. adding to read autonomous activities like that get more people involved. or when supervisor avalos, jane can, and i were in chinatown with hundreds of families which marched with the occupy chinatown action to join in solidarity with occupysf, that was an amazing ever to be more inclusive of the broadening movement as well. my hope is that this resolution, along with organizing our communities, helps to prevent
plaza, citing concerns about sanitation and public safety and health concerns. and i saw that if there was going to be movement a police force to dislodge or attempt to dislodge the occupation, either when the occupation was standing together in a peaceful demonstration that it could lead to people getting hurt, could lead to the violence that could harm them. police officers would certainly our people and the public or part of the occupation movement. i also felt that is not the way that san francisco should be responding. san francisco, which has a huge history of free expression and free speech, just like around the bay area and berkeley as well. we have a city that has been demonstrating for years the ability to promote free speech. a police force, moving with force against the occupation would be something that would be very harmful to overall our image of san francisco, as well as the inhabitants of the city. i have seen very mixed messages come out of the administrat
democracy of the occupied movements. i also want to say that i am impressed that in the meeting, a number of us were with a number of the leaders of occupysf, labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayor s office, and there has been increasing communication with the choosing of even liaisons with different organizations. that is a big step forward. there is better communication so we can stop a crackdown. at the resolutions like this are important symbolically. i hope we can pass this quickly and organize our communities. when supervisor at a los and i were at ocean beach in my district on saturday with thousands of people spelling out the 1%, there were many families from richmond and sunset. adding to read autonomous activities like that get more people involved. or when supervisor avalos, jane can, and i were in chinatown with hundreds of families which marched with the occupy chinatown action to join in solidarity with occupysf, that was an