Fundamental. Joining me are two of the most revolutionary food activists in the bay area and dare i say the nation. Outspoken mavericks in both their field. Saru jayaraman is the coeditor of the new book people taking on corporate food and winning. Shes leader of the Food Research center and founder of the Restaurant Opportunity Center and president of one fair wage. Our founder is the founder of its 49th year and the schoolyard project, now in its 25th year, a program that has ignited a network of some 7000 education projects around the world. Alice is also the author of 17 books including her upcoming manifesto about the power of food and a recipient of thenational medal of honor frompresident barack obama. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Alice, lets start withyou. If food is fundamental what is the prominent issue to you now . I think that we have a Silver Lining possibility. Because we do all eat. We all eat. And we have the possibility of eating with intention. We could buy our fo
[gavel]. President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to our october 27, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll . Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefor
Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy
Contract that has no Harm Reduction efforts . The community is paying attention and we know that you have yet to take a stand against police brutality. Its your chance to stand up for the people and to take a stand against police brutality. It was renegotiated behind closed doors and subverting the power of the public to weigh in on our most vulnerable. Cities are Holding Police fraternities accountable. And in chicago, they are asking for 40 disciplinary reforms and had all negotiations in public. Philadelphia even passed a law to prohibit talks with their Police Fraternity until the Community Demands are incorporated into the negotiations it is your responsibility to prevent it from operating in the shadow. Mayor breeds threat to layoff workers if this is not pass side unimaginable. A shortage of funds in the sfpd workers would lead to workers being laid off. I want to remind that you these negotiations arent just about money. Theyre about lives lost on San Franciscos streets, about
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