Speakaries question, you can do so in either the chat or Comment Section of the live stream youre watching. The Commonwealth Club has suspended in person event but to keep you informed were going full speed ahead with a full sleighed slate of live online program. Mose conversations are free to the public so we ask you consider donating to the club to help us continue our work. Please visit us out Commonwealth Club. Org something or text donate to 415 3294231 during this program. You can find this information in the description becomes. Now, please join me in we canning shawnking and jane kim. I served as a supervisors here in the city and county of San Francisco, and most recently as the california and National Regional mit political director for sanders 202. And im mealed to be here today. Im so excited, shaun, what an incredible feat. Congratulations on writing your first book. Thank you. Only there are not too many things that scare me more than writing a book. And so i would love t
The chat on the lights in your watching. The common with clovis tempora suspended in personal events but to keep you informed during this pandemic we were going full sd ahead with a full slate of live online programs. Most of these conversations are currently free to the public so we ask that you consider donating to the club to help us continue our work. Please visit us at commonwealthclub. Org online tool and more and you can also text the word donate to 415 3294231 drink this program. You can find this information in the description box below. Now please join in welcoming shaun king and jane kim. Welcome to todays Virtual Program with inforum and the come with club. My name is jane kim. I serve as supervisor here in the city of San Francisco and most recently as the california and National Regional political director for bernie 2020 2020si got to work very close with shawn campaigning for senator sanders. And really pleased be here today. So excited. What an incredible feat. Congrat
With life programming. Please consider donating to help us continue our work. Please visit us at commonwealth club. You can find us and the description box below. Welcome to todays virtual program. I served as a supervisor in the city and county and most recently at the california director for bernie 2020 where i could work very close with sean campaigning for senator sanders. Theres not too many things more that scare me than writing a book. [laughter] and how to fight injustice. Sean will share with us a little bit about his journey and if you have a question and then reserve time at the end. And those that can order on the link that commonwealth put up but we encourage you so what the process was like theres nothing more difficult than telling your own story. We originally planned on doing this as a live event back in may with my book coming out in april. I love the bay and so many of my closest friends are there. We have five kids. We had all taken off of work and school and going
Christien kafton. Reporter city leaders say they see an increase in the infection and hospitality hospital rates. They said to do that they need to help of every resident. Despite early success in flattening the curve. They now find the curves trending in the wrong direction. The Public Health Department Said it took 38 days to go from 2000 to 3000 infections and 13 to go fr 5000 cases diagnosed every day. Dr. Colfax said the city could be seeing a crisis like what unfolded last month on the east coast. We talk about the curve. Its implausible that we could get in a situation like in new york. Reporter is a part of the way forward is expanded testing. Ordering medical providers to step up testing. In total we will have an additional 1400 testing slots per day. Thats a 45 increase over what we are averaging over the past week. Reporter the mayor discussed a topic, what school will look like with the distance learning. The mayor said that they are working on opening learning hubs to prov
For the past two decades, david troop watched the triangle change as neighbors have been priced out. Affordability for housing has gotten worse. And theres a shortage of it. When a local developer announced plans to build market rate apartments on market street. He didnt fight it. Instead, he and his neighbors fought for an affordability component. The neighborhood is pushing for as many affordability units as we can get. Neighbors endured six years of construction only to find out they werent going to be the apartments they expected. Saunder, a Hospitality Company leased and furnished a majority of the units, turning the building into a corporate rental. Neighbors were furious. We were shocked as an organization, and as a neighborhood. It felt like a real betrayal. Then the pandemic hit. Now saunder wants out. In a lawsuit against the developer, the 1. 3 billion company says regulations put in place by the city and the state are crippling saunders ability to make money. The lawsuit si