Of victory over japan day. Or vj day, the allied victories in the pacific and the end of world war ii, the deadliest conflict in Human History. 75 years have passed since millions of people around the globe celebrated the end of world war ii. Thank you for joining us to celebrate our world war ii veterans who served overseas. All of those who served on the home front and our allies who together helped defeat tyranny, preserve freedom, and literally save the world. Of the National World war ii memoriam, your friends online commemorations is a Small Nonprofit Organization Whose Mission is to honor and preserve the National Memory of world war ii, and to create the next greatest generation of tomorrow. The ceremonies taking place throughout the day today are part of the friends four year world war ii 75th anniversary commemoration, which began on pearl harbor day 2016. Friends is the only organization to have hosted a full four year 75th anniversary tribute, marking every major battle in
This is what they did to me, i am at the hospital now. Reporter philip anderson, the organizer of saturdays rally, posted a video of himself in a hospital bed, missing his front tooth. It was knocked out during a fight with counter protesters, anderson is with team save america, a conservative activist group, they held a rally at San Franciscos plaza to protest censorship. The conservative activists were outnumbered by hundreds of counter protesters, many were allblack, held antifascist signs and some carried pictures of black men and women killed by police, they carried shields as they marched down Market Street. No matter what, we are all going to stand together and be strong, we are going to stand together and be strong together. Reporter he took the stage and criticized those who opposed the group and injured him. Look at what you did look at it you knocked my teeth out for no reason. Reporter there was heavy police presence, officers in riot gear put up your kids to try to separat
You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Unmute, director tsen. Yes. Present. Clerk director dunlop. Present. Clerk director richardson. Present. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shiffrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you. Im sorry were still meeting remotely. But anyways welcome to the public at large and thank you for being here on a beautiful, very hot San Francisco day. But at least its clear. It means we all have found out how important clear air is to all of us. But welcome. Well go to the first item, please, kate. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item so to allow the members of the public to address the board within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the the public may address the boa
The making. Thank you. [applause] announcer youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums, archives, and historic places. The National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture opened in september of 2016. Located on the National Mall near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the Nations Capital with capacity crowds almost every day. Up next, we visit the museum to tour the history galleries which begins three stories underground. Mary welcome to the exhibition. My name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the slavery and freedom exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions in the history gallery. We actually have three exhibitions in this gallery and those exhibitions cover 15thcentury africa and europe all the way to today. Some of the themes we cover in the exhibition include holding onto humanity under some of the
I just hope the clerk next caller. I am a black woman that works for the department. I would like to thank the supervisors for bringing this issue and bringing awareness to the concerns and these issues. I am also in support of the black employee alliance. We need the tangibles and the demands listed specifically in the letter. We need a supervisor to focus on racist bias and racism [indiscernible] this person should focus on the departments where there are racially bad actor acto actors [indiscernible] terminations and medical releases. The Inspector General should or could also lead efforts on the following examples. One important one would be to abolish the d. H. R. , e. E. O. System [indiscernible]. Clerk could we have the next caller. My name is marco reed, an employee at the San Francisco m. C. A. I want to bring us back to some of the points around apprenticeships, pathways, and pipelines. M. C. A. Has embarked on an Aggressive Program to bring to light some of the things that w