So proclaimed altright movement in the United States. Then there is growing resistance to trumps vow to detain and deport millions of people from the United States. Mayors from new york to chicago to seattle say they will refuse to cooperate even as trump promises to cut funds from socalled sanctuary cities. Meanwhile, the movement is growing for a sanctuary campus. Make e our school is into eric campus. And also protect the financial aiaid and their ability to work. Juan well speak with several immigration activists. We will hear from the father of three u. S. Children facing deportation. And well look at a sweeping new report that reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the native americans at one of the countrys top colleges 250yearold rutgegers universi all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am juan gonzalez, in for amy goodman. Amy is on assignment. President elect donald trump released a Youtube Video monday
Coming from San Francisco over time as the result of the funding constraint and sort of the lack of clarity of go solar s. F. I really am appreciative of the supervisor chiu for calling it and supervisor breed for holding the hearing so that we can talk about how do we get funding to enable this program to continue. To your questions about csi and the california Solar Mission may i have a couple more minutes seconds . Why dont we ask you a question. Could you answer supervisor tangs question around csi . Yes. Californias Solar Initiative had been had the desire to drive down the cost of solar. It did not have a Work Force Development component and it had a 10 lowincome component. When go solar s. F. Was started, go solar s. F. And if you see the chart, if you refer back to the chart that amy hale showed about how the money has been sent and how weve driven solar in San Francisco, weve really driven solar in terms of job creation and in terms of lowincome installations and in terms of n
The public understands of what youre able to provide, weve all seen the benefits of this and hopefully we can think about that as we consider our budget priorities. ~ suspect and with that i know supervisor tang has a few questions. Great. I just wanted to followup again about the California Solar Initiative. I do want to know and i think its great puc is really working on trying to identify additional Revenue Sources and all that, but it does seem like from a customer standpoint or a that Rebate Program is really a huge incentive. And, so, what are [speaker not understood] that puc is working on to connect with some of the folks who are responsible for that program to say, well, you know, maybe we should continue this, bring it back up, just kind of want to know what the future of a Rebate Program might look like. So, we are active participants at the California Public Utilities Commission and we do regularly monitor legislation in sacramento and at the federal level that affect Energ
Little office on 4,000 irving which is three blocks from my home to now 13 20 potrero. We have hired a number of asian neighborhood design students. We support the program. When we invest in the training of individuals, when the young men and women who are here today invest in themselves in a 14week Training Program where they show up every day and work really hard, we should have opportunities for them when they graduate. The opportunity is created when installations are going in, and that requires budgetary certainty and that requires the commitment by the city to enable us to be able to offer opportunities and jobs for folks. I have commitments to people that we already employ. We employ 23 people in San Francisco, 23 families live off the revenue that lumina generates. Less of that revenue has been coming from San Francisco over time as the result of the funding constraint and sort of the lack of clarity of go solar s. F. I really am appreciative of the supervisor chiu for calling
A program that while low in dollar amounts has generated an enormous amount of Community Support for all reasons that we talked about today. Street lights might be in that category as well. But if you look at all the different needs, i sub petctiontion this has from what the public understands of what youre able to provide, weve all seen the benefits of this and hopefully we can think about that as we consider our budget priorities. ~ suspect and with that i know supervisor tang has a few questions. Great. I just wanted to followup again about the California Solar Initiative. I do want to know and i think its great puc is really working on trying to identify additional Revenue Sources and all that, but it does seem like from a customer standpoint or a that Rebate Program is really a huge incentive. And, so, what are [speaker not understood] that puc is working on to connect with some of the folks who are responsible for that program to say, well, you know, maybe we should continue this