For. Keeping. Good morning and welcome to the grand opening dedication ceremony. Celebration of the internet africanamerican museum in. Charleston, South Carolina. I am so honored be with you this morning. And as i look out into jacksons walk into harbor where over ten 100,000 africans first touched the soil of the United States. America right here where are seated. Its a lot lot. Yes. This location, one of the most prolific slaving warehouses in operation ins in history. But now, today, we reclaimed land and honor. The countless lives lost and enslaved with a monument to our history, our families, our heritage our contributions and our future the waters. The shores here are the same waters that connect us back to africa, the same waters which carried our ancestors and dreams, the hopes and dreams preserved inside the museum above us. And just as the water holds memory and brings alive tide pools behind you ebb and flow across the shadows. Those who did not make it beyond this site, bu
Ohlone, we wish to pay our respects to the ancestors elders and relatives of the ramaytush community. Welcome to the rec and park meeting of september 21, 2023. With the meeting occurring inperson with option to see provide Public Comment inperson or remote low. We ask that you take any conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. We ask for your patience if we experience any technical issues. Unless otherwise announced by the president , each person will have two minutes on each item. We will take comments from people attending the meet ining person and then those in online. For those that would like to join the meeting remotely, you may join live sf gov. Tv. You may proinvite Public Comment remotely by calling 415of 550001 using todays access which is 26618122316 and webinar 0921 when you hear the agenda item you would like to comment. Press star3 to be added to the list. The system will notify when youre in line and waiting during which time
Bikinians say american owns them, and why we havent paid up. Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. It is a journey beginning more than 60 years ago. Yet even in the South Pacific today it is a Community Cast away. First strapped by the Nuclear Ambitions of a super power on the other side of the world, and now by a new threat. The people who began their lives on the bikini atoll are seeking a place to call home. America tonights Sheila Macvicar travelled across the globe to meet them and better understand their hopes now. In the middle of the vast Pacific Island is a tiny coral atol of bikini. Reporter july 1st, 1946, bikini atoll. Here the joint Navy Task Force will conduct a test with the atom bomb. Theres the target, bomb away. [ explosion ] reporter 23 tombs from 1946 to 1958 doubt date. A brilliance of sun lights up the pacific, and a force of a Million Tonnes of tnt is released. Reporter . The u. S. Tested Nuclear Weapons here. The biggest was 1,000 times more powerful than the
Bikinians say american owns them, and why we havent paid up. Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. It is a journey beginning more than 60 years ago. Yet even in the South Pacific today it is a Community Cast away. First strapped by the Nuclear Ambitions of a super power on the other side of the world, and now by a new threat. The people who began their lives on the bikini atoll are seeking a place to call home. America tonights Sheila Macvicar travelled across the globe to meet them and better understand their hopes now. In the middle of the vast Pacific Island is a tiny coral atol of bikini. Reporter july 1st, 1946, bikini atoll. Here the joint Navy Task Force will conduct a test with the atom bomb. Theres the target, bomb away. [ explosion ] reporter 23 tombs from 1946 to 1958 doubt date. A brilliance of sun lights up the pacific, and a force of a Million Tonnes of tnt is released. Reporter . The u. S. Tested Nuclear Weapons here. The biggest was 1,000 times more powerful than the
Bikinians say american owns them, and why we havent paid up. Thank you for joining us, im joie chen. It is a journey beginning more than 60 years ago. Yet even in the South Pacific today it is a Community Cast away. First strapped by the Nuclear Ambitions of a super power on the other side of the world, and now by a new threat. The people who began their lives on the bikini atoll are seeking a place to call home. America tonights Sheila Macvicar travelled across the globe to meet them and better understand their hopes now. In the middle of the vast Pacific Island is a tiny coral atol of bikini. Reporter july 1st, 1946, bikini atoll. Here the joint Navy Task Force will conduct a test with the atom bomb. Theres the target, bomb away. [ explosion ] reporter 23 tombs from 1946 to 1958 doubt date. A brilliance of sun lights up the pacific, and a force of a Million Tonnes of tnt is released. Reporter . The u. S. Tested Nuclear Weapons here. The biggest was 1,000 times more powerful than the