Falling into the wrong hands, so that what happened in orlando can never happen again. [applause] sec. Clinton now, some of you know chad griffin, and others know this issue really is important to me. I have traveled to 112 countries as your secretary of state. I saw how countries around the world treated lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people. And i believe with all my heart, america has to lead by example. I want lgbt people in every corner of our country, because dont forget you have moved far away from a lot of the places where people are still scared to death. Right . [applause] sec. Clinton and we are going to elevate this issue. We are going to talk about it. We are going to reach out. So when you vote in this election it is not just my name on the ballot, it is your future. It is who we are as a country. It is every issue we care about. And make no mistake, lgbt rights are at stake. Dignity and respect for every american is at stake. The future of our economy is at stak
5 53 p. M. I want to start off by acknowledging the tragedy in oakland ghost ship fire at the Entertainment Commission we were fortunate to have a body like us to protect and safeguard all over the place look after the folks coming into San Francisco to enjoy the art life anyway want to acknowledge and accepted our love and respect to the families and victims of this fire i know there is a lot work were leaders in open about night life and how to keep it assessable and how to keep a thriving underground, too, and so thats work i think well be looking forward to doing and so i encourage everyone out there in tv land and the public to really support our commission but also the work in continuing the underground community of artist and musicians here in the bay area and San Francisco with that, well start roll call and go ahead with our meeting. Want to do a couple of announcements. Oh, yeah, he forgot before a roll call a few announcements please turn off cell phones and keep them on sil
Now we will get started. We are so happy to welcome you here. This is just a small sampling it is one of the most musical of others of her generation. She is the author of multiple books in the editor of the anthology did her work is did future publications and currently a columnist at the guardian. With the planned Parenthood Federation of america and makes the case. Fakes for coming not in this is also my neighborhood bookstore. I am excited to read from the book the first just to take a minute to say a few words about womens stories in into a talk about the consequences of women telling their stories because this is what i am thinking about recently the week before the book came about i was having a lot of trouble sleeping and anxiety and waking up with heart palpitations it is a natural reaction they think to have a book come out i has been nervous but not to this level isnt that i am ashamed of everything from or anything is a lot rages or incredible but that to watch what happens
Landscapes. I wanted to write a little pamphlety kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think im in the majority of public opinion. I dont think im a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. I think im in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. So what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame thats been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what were fighting for. I wanted to say that, you know, lets just take one example, health care. So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want with Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. And the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and
Racially integrated community on the south side, and i knew of the civil rights struggles. There is an idealized view of the Family Vacation. Families are not like that anymore. A Family Vacation now might be three generations. It might be having grandma along. As a grandma now, i hope that is true. It might be unmarried couple or a same sex couple. Now there are places they can go and not be turned away. Theres an interracial couple or a single mom with kids. I think its our idea of family have become more flexible. I hope and it seems to me that places are opening up. If you go on a vacation with your one child, to me, thats a Family Vacation. You are creating family time. You dont have to look like ours he and harriet to have a good Family Vacation. For more information on book tv recent visit and the mammy other destinations, go to cspan. Org cities tour. The use of the word manifesto, why. I liked it because its an attempt to write a clarion call. The attempt is to say, all these