since 2006. i have had poetry spoken inside city hall contribute to civic engagement for youth and elder and contributes to the increasing awareness of ourselves that we must be that we must achieve to be creative, informed, and active members of our local and world communities. especially in the face of violence and inequality in the world. in thanks, i m going to offer you a poem. and i am a public school teacher, so, this is something that i wrote for my students. it s a dirty job, but somebody s got to do it. our deepest communications are via metaphor. the meta poor are always at a disadvantage when the word don t mean what the words mean together. teacher, mulch my imagination so brain flowers bloom, butterflies migrate ear to ear and bees bring pollen out of my mouth. thank you all so much for your support. please come downstairs at 5:30 on april 18th for poems under the dome. thanks. thank you. next speaker. hello. my name is valerie ed bera. i m a poet, a fifth
violence and inequality in the world. in thanks, i m going to offer you a poem. and i am a public school teacher, so, this is something that i wrote for my students. it s a dirty job, but somebody s got to do it. our deepest communications are via metaphor. the meta poor are always at a disadvantage when the word don t mean what the words mean together. teacher, mulch my imagination so brain flowers bloom, butterflies migrate ear to ear and bees bring pollen out of my mouth. thank you all so much for your support. please come downstairs at 5:30 on april 18th for poems under the dome. thanks. thank you. next speaker. hello. my name is valerie ed bera. i m a poet, a fifth generation san franciscan. i went to [speaker not understood] supervisor farrell stepped away. my brother went to sacred heart, my mom went to rear don and [speaker not understood]. i want to read a poem today and thank you for welcoming the poetry community into city hall to celebrate national poetry mo
education, schooling, work is based upon capital currency [speaker not understood]. monopoly capitalist, imperialist, racialist, [speaker not understood], surrounding planet earth sovereign nations with military basins defending its interests. witness 77 6 victory of african-american negro slave owners, declaration of independence, [speaker not understood] amendment of the constitution, fortification of the nation. this is such a timing for heart beat cloaked, environment review with this media entertainment, advertising industry, supernatural in party, opposition, an aura of fascist language, inflections, market speculation, 2013 pitch, who s who, mental health, george washington, and thomas jefferson, african negro slave owners, presidents, [speaker not understood] democracy dictatorship. 17 76, 2013, this reading given two minutes. thank you very much. before the next speaker, we have a 3:30 special commendation, and i d like to acknowledge deputy sheriffs. thank you, ev
don t accept money from the friends of the library. most of my presentations are about current problems in the library, but the long history of graft and abuse is of the essence. tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, april 18, will be san francisco disaster day. it is the 107th anniversary of the great earthquake and fire and the 17th anniversary of the public private partnerships of the new main library. for 30 years they intentionally degraded library service in san francisco to ex tort the city [speaker not understood]. there were three separate distinguished city librarians who were let go because they couldn t stomach is. the a civil grand jury found claims to induce the bond issue for the new main library constituted fraud. the citizens were told that the old library didn t have enough room for books and we ended up with less space for books than we had before. the new main library was designed to raise money for the friends [speaker not understood] found to be a disfunctio