[inaudible] might be required at school so they can understand because when i did last time they changed the paperwork on me so i had to pay for it all and i didnt have the money. I was broke and [inaudible] that was kind of revenge against women to be in that situation. Next speaker please. My name is gene b chan of the [inaudible] coalition. Cofounder in 1997 by the late doctor [inaudible] japanese American Humanitarian and group of diverse individuals of chinene, korean, jewish and japanese descent. Board members included fred [inaudible] gordon [inaudible] and ron [inaudible] we miss them very much. They passed on but their legacy of justice and fairness will live forever. I will speak from a very personal pir spective. I lived through the japanese invasion. I ran away from the japanese invasion. I was in the chinesevilleolog, but the japanese soldiers came every night to threaten us. I had a little brother who got sick and didnt have enough food, he didnt have enough medicine and
Do not rights as a community to return to where we live today and that is distressing as a community. We would like the right to return to Affordable Housing that we have today and in the future when the island is redeveloped. ; so to summarize please we would like to see if you can provide temporary relocation as well as a right of return for the residence of [inaudible] to our island when it is redeveloped and in summary, we would like to make sure that the currents Development Agreement is reviewed. There is lots of changes and never told how they bifurcated the process. Thank you sir. Next speaker please. Good afternoon madam president and beard of supervisors. May name is betty macy and 11 year resident of yerba brena. [inaudible] Treasure Island by the city of San Francisco to clear the way for lexerary development is unconsciousenable. I work for a start up and with my quite good salary i can not afford to move to market rate housing in San Francisco. My job depends on the livin
Memorial glorifying u. S. Empyrealism in the philippines . Union square, 100 feet high. 200 thousand filipinos killed by u. S. Empyrealism. Lets build a monulate to all victimoffs war crimes not just by japanese but our own troops and military system. Thank you. Thank you next speaker. Thank you supervisors. I wasnt planning to speak but i just saw this resolution. What in the world in San Franciscoim referring to comfort women. What in the worldi am a [inaudible] this setting up a statue or whatever it happened in some city and that reinforcing something negative not something happened in the past, lets not forget about the history rsh bet think we need to move on. Yes, it happened. San francisco and 8 other cities somewhere in parts of the world, it happened, but kids who have to hear this like myself hear people elder age people experience it, but i would prefer something in the City Council Members speaking something win not hear the memory like the gentlemen said maybe we need oth
Panel, the will make their way to the authors ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. Our moderator is timis bell. During his 30plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. He researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. Id like to thank all of you for coming. I was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. Any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. The civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. Its necessary if youre going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. The crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. Id like t
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim