And dance. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Maxine waters, the most powerful black woman in america from the 43rd congressional district, lets give a big round of applause to maxine for her time. Wow, lets give a hand for everybody. [applause]. Icht im so proud to see all of you here. We have been presenting young gifted and black for many years, but i wanted you to know this is the 50th anniversary of hiphop. I also want you to know im the oldest person in america who loves hiphop. [laughter] and so, this is happy 50 years this anniversary, to an art form that has inspired us so much and inspired so much of the world. Now, ive had to defend hiphop and rap since long before it became this global phenomenon, since infancy, and when i was elected to congress in 1991, many politicians, including black politicians were either distancing themselves, or trying to sensor rap music. The same year, during a senate hearing, there were members of congress wanting to sensor rap music and so i decid
Reaching out to absolutely everyone in the area. Plus weve learnt that girls as young as nine are seeking surgery on their vagina because they are distressed by its appearance. Some critics say it is similar to fgm, but not everyone agrees. Female genital mutilation is clearly not a procedure that we can support in any way, shape or form. Procedure that we can support in any way, shape orform. To even use it in the same sentence as libya Plaster Surgery is not only unhelpful, but it is unfair. Labia Plaster Surgery. The law is very clear. I see it is the same thing. We should not be mutilating bodies for cultural reasons. Our full exclusive reporter after half nine this morning. Hello, welcome to the programme were live until 11. Throughout the morning, the latest Breaking News and developing stories. A little later in the programme well hear from a woman called laura, who was a victim of the rochdale paedophile and grooming ring from the age of 13 until she was 17. She has never spoke
Good evening i am. Order of the bookstore tonight a like 2. 0 so we do ask that you silence your cellphone and since it is being filmed q a then i will be around with the microphone. To have a fantastic event called here we are. If you have a young feminist in your life to have every essays from everyone as one of the most incredible young adult riders. And tonight we are thrilled. [applause] and Alyssa Mastromonaco book is called who thought this was a good idea . And other questions you should have answers to when you work in the white house the chief operating officer at price media serving as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff under president obama. Director of scheduling for senator John Kerry Campaign and serves as the board of trustees jfk center for performing arts. She will be signing books so be sure to grab one. Alyssa mastromonaco. [applause] it is clear that i peeked very early about it would read from the book then do some q a. My selection was picked by
Nevertheless went into our budget season 66 million in the hole and so we still have to make difficult decisions. But excited about where we came out. You know, the mayors budget of 8. 6 billion focus on a lot of things and i think he prioritized a lot of great things in his budget. He mentioned just earlier during this Board Meeting 94 million towards affordable housing, 2 million to rehab the s. F. Housing authority units that i think are an incredibly big deal. Investments in our public infrastructure, continued our Public Safety hiring plan, and numerous other things and item that and priorities i think a number of us or most of us would agree have been tremendous. I do want to thank the mayors team in particular, kate howard, the mayors budget director and her entire staff and certainly Ben Rosenfield our controller who played such an integral role in our budget process, we wouldntible able to get this done. [speaker not understood] our work began in march as always, and met with
I released a 7point plan to stabilize and protect existing housing, streamline the creation of new market rate and affordable housing. Because, supervisors, i believe there is a direct link between new market rate housing and new onsite and offsite inclusionary housing and land site control. We have to develop new units at all levels to ensure we have adequate low and moderate Income Housing to meet growing demand. Supervisor chiu, i am deeply commit today this issue and i will support any proposal that includes public housing, affordable housing, and stabilization strategies. Again, we need to focus on Revenue Strategies in the coming years. Thats the only way we can build more housing thats affordable to more families and keeps San Francisco affordable to the 100 . I hope we can all Work Together on the common goals that we all share. Thank you for your question. Thank you, mr. Mayor. And our final question for the day will be asked by our district 11 colleague, supervisor avalos. We