I will be reading wishes tonight and alternate. The first is from sisters in gramic of the sisters of loreto my wish is that we achieve Marriage Equality in every state and we resend doma on the federal level to achieve full quality for lesbian and gay relationships across the land. I wish that the bees were not dying from. That is a good one. My hope is for improved Economic Conditions for my countrys most Vulnerable People that we create healthy environments and green spaces and by country men and women become fully conscious of their ability to change things for the better. Baptist from haiti. My wish is for more justice, economic as well as social justice, starting with the recognition that poverty is not a sin. I wish for wish for a World Without boarders and walls, age 53, argentina. [ applause ] i wish for a world where the children are more just and more kind and fair in the world than the one we know. President , barack obama. And now, this is a good one, that donna and i can
Hang a shining star on top of the highest bow. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas now. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Let your hearts be light from now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight have yourself, a merry Little Christmas. Make the yule tide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles, miles away. Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Happy friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates allow. Until then we will have to muddle through somehow. And have yourself. A merry Little Christmas now. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. I am in the holiday spirit now, arent you . Lets hear it for tammy hall and veronica klaus. I got jealous for a minute there, some of the members of the San Francisco boys chorus are getting more pictures than i am. As you look around this room, think about the events that you have been to in the city hall in this one rotunda or one of the offices and so m
And as we raise our communitys consciousness, we fund and we raise funds to support relief efforts all around the world. Our projects focus on, education, hunger, safe drinking water, and disaster relief, and all kinds of different ways of helping people. We have ongoing projects in cambodia, haiti, and south africa and helping out in areas just as the tsunami in South East Asia and the earthquake and tsunami in japan and last year, and during Hurricane Katrina we tributed one mill object pounds of food aid. [ applause ] and all of that is coming from the lgbt and friends community. So we work as ambassadors for our community and we help change peoples minds and hearts about who we are and what we care about. Besides providing humanitarian aid, we try to inspire hope in all of our projects and we have found that hope is really just as important as aid, if not more so. And we have worked with a lot of communities in desperate situations arounded world and we found that providing a littl
Project. Each crane takes about 30 folds to create. And we have over 10,000 ornaments on this tree this year and this years tree is 23 feet tall, and it is four and a half feet taller than the white house tree. And it is the Worlds Largest oragami tree. [ applause ] and it took 250 volunteers to prep the models everything has to be hand folded and wired and fire proofed and then, of course, decorated or placed on to the tree. It is really an amazing thing to look up close and think about what your hope and wishes for the world. We have given all the wishes wings and we hope that all of the wishes come true, especially the wishes of the children, thank you very much. Anybody else just get chills . It gives so much more meaning to the tree. Wow that is a lot of hours and i am not good at math but i think that it is a lot of hours, i cant imagine. And you have to love what you are doing. One more hand for linda and she does a wonderful job. It is really do get wishes from all over the wor
Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yule tide bright. From now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away, miles away. We are in older day, happy golden days of yore faithful friends who are dear to us will be kneer to us once more through the years, we all will be together. Hang a shining star on top of the highest bow. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas now. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Let your hearts be light from now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight have yourself, a merry Little Christmas. Make the yule tide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles, miles away. Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Happy friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates allow. Until then we will have to muddle through somehow. And have yourself. A merry Little Christmas no