Infered and once they are more nfered they become more involved. They were going door to door and people didnt want to vote. They lost their homes. They lost their jobs. Some of their friends were deported so we had to pull them out and is a its important for you to vote. We did get them out to vote. But it was pulling teeth to get people out to vote. So proposition 30 in california, the reason we are now in the state of california because we passed proposition 30. We passed a law that millionaires have to pay 3 more n state taxes. So we were able to bring in over 6 billion into the state of california. Most of that went to education. How did we get that . Go door to the door to get people to vote for that. And the people we went to to get at margin of victory it were voters that dont always vote. The immigrants who have just recently become citizens and people who didnt vote before. It can happen but it takes an awful lot of work to make it appen. On the 50th anniversary of the civil
Im going to adjourn in a memoriam. Our city and Chinese American Community has lost a warm kind and outstanding when laura lie passed away on december 10th after suffering from liver cancer for over 5 years. Laura was born in china on january 7, 1933. She had only 4 years of formal schooling in hong kong before immigrating to the United States. She went to Washington Elementary School and because of her age she was quickly promoted to Galileo High School and during this time she joined mun shing the Democratic Youth League not too different from the Chinese Association. At the time of that organization mun shing was subjected to surveillance and harassment by the federal government and fbi and elements of the Chinese Community itself. With the mun shing laura became active in drama and theatre and there she met her husband who she married after high school. Laura lie worked for pg e before retiring in 1995. Throughout their married life, she was his main companions and assistant and pa
Members of the Homeless Community to increase safety and awareness for People Living on the street. While lams heinous murder is an extreme example of the dangers facing Homeless People, forced to sleep outside i believe the death of the hundreds of people was absolutely preventable. Well continue to struggle alongside Homeless People until everyone in San Francisco is housed. Today the suspects are at large and yet to be found. The investigation is on going. If you know anyone with information to the case, please call my office. The rest i will submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. President tang . Supervisor katy tang thank you, today i have a package of legislation im introducing to some of the recent changes made at the state level. A couple weeks ago you may remember that introduce an interim goal to deal with some changes and codify our local Public Health code and some changes adopted at the state level. Today im introducing a package of legislation and planning codes that would ac
Many others who worked on the campaign to free him. There will be a number of memorials coming forward to remember chul sue lees live and i want to thank american Asian Studies for being their for him. Lastly i respectfully request that we end our meeting in honor of a man, a homeless man named mr. Tay lamb. He was a homeless person brutally killed on november 23rdrd. 67yearold was beaten to death as he slept in an alley on montgomery street on that late night. He was discovered dead in his sleeping bag monday morning. He was fatally attacked by three men because he had over 1,000 in his pocket but known that robbery was not. He was 5foot 5 inches tall and kept to himself and not a problem to others who frequented the area. All who knew him said he was a very respectful gentleman. However we do know why 67yearold lamb was attacked. He was an easy target because he was sleeping outside in an isolated area. He was an easy target because he was disabled. He was an easy target because hes
Unprecedent Pan Asian Coalition and the movement which i call it represents the Pan Asian Movement in american history. Chiu sui lee came to the u. S. In 64 with limited english ability and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle. Chul sue lee was also part of a small Korean Community and attended many schools in San Francisco. He was wrongfully convicted in 1973 of killing a chinese gang leader and he was very young at the time. I wanted to acknowledge activist yamenta. And i want to mention dr. Ruth and kim from social equality and many others who worked on the campaign to free him. There will be a number of memorials coming forward to remember chul sue lees live and i want to thank american Asian Studies for being their for him. Lastly i respectfully request that we end our meeting in honor of a man, a homeless man named mr. Tay lamb. He was a homeless person brutally killed on november 23rdrd. 67yearold was beaten to death as he slept in an alley on montgomery street on that late n