Bernal go team whose aim is for neighbors to come together to advocate for concerns together and to launch any Community Collaboration opportunities such as Community Cleanup days. Ilid along with many other filipino leader in the city has also advocated to make tagalog the lang warren buffettv certified in San Francisco, a great achievement for the Filipino Community and a necessary and important Language Access issue. When looked at in its entirety, it is clear that ilids organizing work is not just a job for her. It is truly a passion. It is something that is deep, genuine, and personal. Lift as you climb has always been her motto, lift as you climb. She is a true daughter of San Francisco and our Diverse Community and i want to thank her for everything she has done for district 9, for Bernal Heights and i am honored to have worked with her, to call her friend, and i know that she is here surrounded by community, the community that she continues to impact on a daily basis. Congratul
It makes the Filipino Community center really stand out. And just this year the fcc was instrumental in the timely certification of filipino [speaker not understood] to be required to be provided for city services. Lastly, the fcc has help build grassroots leadership in the neighborhood and multiracial solidarity with various organizations in district 11 to fight for Affordable Housing in the upper yard site, at the balboa park station, city investment, in workforce and economic programs, and more for youth, family, and Senior Services in the district. Terry ballan is here as a representative from the Filipino Community center. If you would like to share a few words and i want to thank you personally for your great work leading this organization of many, many leaders, many staff, but many more volunteers who really are the glue to the Filipino Community in San Francisco. Thank you, supervisor avalos, and thank you to all the Board Members for honoring the filipinoamerican History Month
Advocating for change. ~ while still a student at Balboa High School, ilid organized students and parents to fight against the reconstitution of Balboa High School by at that point the board of education. She advocated for the teachers that she loved. Being a daughter of a migrant farm worker, she was raise today appreciate the importance of hard work, the importance of family. Her motivation and drive helped earn ilid a place at u. C. Berkeley, becoming only a few balboa graduates that at that time moved on to higher education. While there ilid joined the filipino academic student services, pass and for four years worked to recruit and retain dedicated filipino students who had gone through the same struggles that she had gone through. In 2009 ilid found herself working for the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center where she has worked in a number of capacities including as a census worker, a Public Safety coordinator, a program manager, and now as the director of community engagement. T
Hotel heart. applause thats tony robles poem. Tony is a true revolutionary, worker scholar who always maintains a humble level head, even in the most crisis oriented situations, even when fighting for the people in the most charged issues like housing justice, and the fight against displacement and gentrification in San Francisco creatively tony writes poetry and stories that inspire hope and struggle of our communities. Im proud to honor him today. I think he uses his mind, his heart, his hands creatively and lovingly to inspire Filipino Community members but also all of us. And i wanted to say again that i believe hes an empowerer of those that need to lead our struggles and for me as a member of this board of supervisors and our whole body, its my honor to recognize brother tony robles as our honoree from district 1. Tony . [cheering and applauding] thank you very much, supervisor mar. And to think that i thought you were going to take me out to joes ice cream. [laughter] i didnt ex
From my own head, but from filipino scholar oscar [speaker not understood]. I want to say we got the world series happening. I tell you, the world San Francisco giants, ive got to tell you, those kids out on the Mission Playground standing up and standing and holding their ground. applause those are the real San Francisco giants. Ill tell you some other giants. The kids who are at west bay, the way they comport themselves, the way they behave with such class and the way they behave around their elders, those are the real San Francisco giants. I take my hat off to them. Those are the real San Francisco giants. My work in the housing organizing is inspired by manila town. Its inspired by my uncle al. I work with senior and disability action. Im the president of the board of manila found heritage foundation. What ive seen in San Francisco, it breaks my hardththv. Ill be honest with you. The eviction crisis that were in, being born and raised here, its heart breaking, you know. It really i