if there are no other members of the public who would like to comment anyone else, please come forward. how low. i just wanted to quickly say that i mirror the sentiment of my colleagues. thank you. supervisor avalos: ok. seen no other member of the public who would like to comment on item number one, we will close public comment. supervisor campos, any other comments? ok. this is before us. can we move it forward with recommendations and take that without objection? this will be moving forward as a committee report to tomorrows full board meeting. very good. thank you very much. [applause] madam clerk, please call item number two. item two, resolution supporting the occupy wall street protest movement and urging major lead to a poll people s right to peaceful assembly and collaborate with occupysf to ensure the safety of the protesters, their supporters, and a greater public and the city and county of san francisco. supervisor avalos: very good. thank you, madam clerk.
police chief in san francisco. i support the movement. it is not like it is necessarily a bad thing. but we have to figure out as a city how we re going to accommodate and work with and cooperate with this movement that is not just based here in san francisco but is based around the country and also at around the world. last wednesday night, october 26, and thursday morning, we had the occupation in justin herman plaza about 1000-strong. we had members of the board, department heads, and many people in the city heard indications that the police was going to take action with forced to root move people from the plaza, citing concerns about sanitation and public safety and health concerns. and i saw that if there was going to be movement a police force to dislodge or attempt to dislodge the occupation, either when the occupation was standing together in a peaceful demonstration that it could lead to people getting hurt, could lead to the violence that could harm them. police off
of the leaders of occupysf, labor, social justice, and clergy associations last thursday with the mayor s office, and there has been increasing communication with the choosing of even liaisons with different organizations. that is a big step forward. there is better communication so we can stop a crackdown. at the resolutions like this are important symbolically. i hope we can pass this quickly and organize our communities. when supervisor at a los and i were at ocean beach in my district on saturday with thousands of people spelling out the 1%, there were many families from richmond and sunset. adding to read autonomous activities like that get more people involved. or when supervisor avalos, jane can, and i were in chinatown with hundreds of families which marched with the occupy chinatown action to join in solidarity with occupysf, that was an amazing ever to be more inclusive of the broadening movement as well. my hope is that this resolution, along with organizing our c
increasing communication with the choosing of even liaisons with different organizations. that is a big step forward. there is better communication so we can stop a crackdown. at the resolutions like this are important symbolically. i hope we can pass this quickly and organize our communities. when supervisor at a los and i were at ocean beach in my district on saturday with thousands of people spelling out the 1%, there were many families from richmond and sunset. adding to read autonomous activities like that get more people involved. or when supervisor avalos, jane can, and i were in chinatown with hundreds of families which marched with the occupy chinatown action to join in solidarity with occupysf, that was an amazing ever to be more inclusive of the broadening movement as well. my hope is that this resolution, along with organizing our communities, helps to prevent a crackdown, improves communication with nearly, the police chief, and other department heads, and we ke
think that things are going to change. thank you. [applause] supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. if there are no other speakers anyone else who wants to speak, please come forward. thank you. good morning. i am a patient advocate. i am also a part of the 99%. my comment is that directly to the federal government. we have a lot of low-income disabled veteran patients that are going without, and we stand here today to make sure that does not continue. i have been sleeping at occupysf for the last couple of days, and i see patients literally hurting because there is no safe access. we need the safe access. this is not a drug. this is not a prescription. this is life-saving medicine. we needed to get to the patients in the people who desperately needed. thank you for your support and your help, but we need to do a lot more. it takes all of the san francisco. it does not just take the advocates to stand up for the people. it is all of san francisco. a