Located in the chat. Theres a link to purchase it from politics and prose bookstores website. To be highly encourage everybody to purchase this book. Giving 5 for outreach and were also doing Curbside Pickup targeted the other thing that i would like to draw your attention to is the latter portion of tonights event is dedicated to your audience questions. And to ask a question from the screen they talk to the bottom of your screen. You click on that and type in your question. Will try to get to his many of those as possible. There is a check for you guys but if you could keep all of your questions in the q a, makes things a little bit easier. So with all of that of the way, is my honor to introduce jean guerrero, and invesco dave reporter contributing to mtr, the is our and their public media. In the other of the cross for memoir. And shes an enemy in a series of americas wealth. Tonight shall be trusting are book, hatemonger and donald trump and the White Nationalist agenda. Its at th
This meeting will come to order. And welcome to the september 25th special meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the City Employees and the public, the elective chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken to the local state and orders and directives. The members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. However, Public Comment will be available on each item of the agenda. Cable channel 26, 78 or 99 as well as sfgovtv. Org are streaming the callin number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And comments are opportunities to speak during the comment public via phone by calling the number 1 415 6550001. Again, that n
In the ways memorializing Founding Fathers difference from differs from confederates. President lincolns cottage in washington, d. C. , provided the video. Tonight is not unique in that we will be focusing on preconceptions on memorials, but it is unique in that it is not just a conversation in response to recent events, both the killing of unarmed black citizens by mostly White Police Officers or ex Police Officer as well as the protests across the country and around the world, which have called for both systemic change and a reckoning for the symbols, monuments, memorials and flags of white supremacy. Many of which relate to the civil war era. What makes our conversation tonight also different is that weve already had it. Five years ago, in fact. I want you to all think back to think about where you were in the summer of 2015, vergne and edna you gave us your time back then and you spoke in the rake of the Confederate Flag being taken down following the murder of nine parishioners at
Talk but it is unique in that this is not just a conversation response to recent events, both the killing of unarmed black citizens by mostly White Police Officers or expolice officers, as well as the protests across the country and around the world that have called for systemic change and a reckoning for the monuments memorials and flakes of White Supremacy, many of which relate to the war era what makes our conversation different is we have already had a. Five years ago. I want you to think back to where you were in the some of 2015. Us yournd edna you gave time back then and you spoke in the wake of a flutter at flag intake down at the stake at house a Confederate Flag being taken down at a steakhouse in north carolina. At a state house in north carolina. One of the things you said in 2015 was that you were encouraged by the change in the flag coming down etc. , but you i i think this movement but i am afraid it is not parliament not permanent. Im afraid people thought it was the ri
Being detained because they were not willing to leave the street behind me so you can clearly see that specifically here where we are is it just the situation is very tense in other parts of the city they have also been reportedly some incidents on the police was also forced to bring a helicopter into operation you maybe hear the helicopter right above where we are in order to get a full picture of what is happening now in central berlin tell us this move to disband the protest doesnt actually allow this rather motley crew of groups to build a one perhaps unifying narrative that the government is imposing too much power. One of the elements that most people here have told us when weve spoken to them is that they wanted more freedom that they believe the coronavirus pandemic and in particular the reaction by the German Government to the coronavirus pandemic has not been good that some of their freedoms have been restricted and one of the freedoms that they want or they have wanted to ge