Many of you are regulars to the events, history buffs who love to study the lessons of history. I would like to add a special welcome to some of you who are new to the preservationists who have joined us today in the audience. As we have over the decades in our existence, as the museum of the confederacy and the American Civil War center which combined to form the American Civil War museum, we have always thought that it was our responsibility to engage constructively with public issues arising from the subject of the civil war. Whether that subject be monuments, the confederate battle flag, or the discussion of slavery as the cause of the war. Our purpose today is to promote a constructive and civil consideration of civil war monuments. We have organized a program that features scholars who come from diverse academic backgrounds and bring diverse viewpoints to the subject. Collectively they will provide background and perspective on monuments and give us different viewpoints that will
They call sharia law. The protest was protested saying it is antimuslim. I think the stand is to basically say it is not compatible with the constitution. We believe in many places it is starting to creep in. Are you worried it would creep in in california . Yes. A lot of muslims follow sharia law. Our rule of law is the u. S. Constitution. I am horrified to see what is happening because of terrorist actions in europe. Reporter citing everything from female mutilation to recent terrorist attacks. These activists stood their ground on this biddy Street Corner across from the santana row shopping area. Across the haonking traffic wer many who interpret prom a different angle. Even though they are hiding in terms of antisharia this is antimuslim protest. Muslims are experiencing, our civil rights are being questioned. We are standing together in solidari solidarity. 120 area groups organized this counter protest from 11 to 3. Came from San Francisco to santa cruz. Amazing to see so many p
Speakers will look at the history of their construction in the north and south, how they influence memories of the war and how Public Perception has changed. The American Civil War museum is hosting this symposium together of virginia and historyer for civil war. Well, good morning, everyone. Morning. Its wonderful to see you all here because i know we are competing with a fabulous day outside. We are thrilled to have you all with us. For the American Civil War symposium, im sandy treadway, director at the areary of virginia, and we delighted the library is serving as host for the program. Cosponsoring the program with the American Civil War museum is the center for Civil War History at the university of virginia. I know many of you in the audience are regular attendees , but for thosem of you visiting your library for your first time today, i hope on your way out you will stop at the lobby desk and pick up and come back and be a regular for us, too. We have some great womens history p
Public access. Over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. There are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. Eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. Small. Rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. Do they mean we cant walk off trail . The ramp says off trail access isnt allowed in ma 1 and 2. The signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a Walking Group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. When asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. This means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. These maps show two things, they show trail closures and fe
Quality of life issue. I urge you not to allow the forest to be destroyed by mismanagement, dont allow trail tooz be closeed restricting access to parks stop the use of poison in the parks and vote to snd the eir back to planning deparchlt. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, my name is vick malhone a resident of mera loma park and want to underlying concepts that might be influencing how this whole remodeling of the eco system is going on. The conspt of restructuring a ekey system to a prior time may appeal to personal vanity but challenges realty. Applying the label Invasive Species sumes there is a no baseline or eco system populated by non native species. Is this realty . Who defines what constitute said a eco system. What date was choseen. 10 million or 5 thousand years ago or yesterday . We are dealing with a artificial contruckt here and obvious the definition of a native habitat is artificial construct and simply a guess. It also implies