Canisters for those who need food for this season, also if you would join us in the weekend of december 15th and 16th, we are going to have family orientation outside with snow day here in city hall. We are bringing snow in again. And we are going to enjoy this with our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring the kids and all of the extended families. And if i may say again, these holidays and what the tree represent is the best hope and wishes. The holidays should never be about ourselves. What reminds us and what this tree will continue doing, is that you have to remember others that are less fortunate, and share our hearts and our minds and our resources with them. And it is just like japan, for what they have done. If you read the papers recently, you know, that japan suffered a very harsh earthquake and tsunami a while back. And they could have easily said, that we are victims of a national disaster. But, when the country heard that the debris was c
Canisters for those who need food for this season, also if you would join us in the weekend of december 15th and 16th, we are going to have family orientation outside with snow day here in city hall. We are bringing snow in again. And we are going to enjoy this with our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring the kids and all of the extended families. And if i may say again, these holidays and what the tree represent is the best hope and wishes. The holidays should never be about ourselves. What reminds us and what this tree will continue doing, is that you have to remember others that are less fortunate, and share our hearts and our minds and our resources with them. And it is just like japan, for what they have done. If you read the papers recently, you know, that japan suffered a very harsh earthquake and tsunami a while back. And they could have easily said, that we are victims of a national disaster. But, when the country heard that the debris was c
The one that waits for the one in jail. And for the one who never had a chance to speak and found guilty. For the lovers torn apart and for the ones kept apart by, laws and prejudices. For the spare rows and the humming birds and for the weeds and the hararas and for the women of gaza. For the one tortured in the darkness. For the refugees wrapped in barbed wire. For each and every human being who sleeps tonight out in the rain. For shelter, for every human being who sleeps tonight out in the rain. For the child with nostalgia to be born, for every child to get home safe. For the elderly alone, for the worldwide end of hate, disease, and poverty. For a just world still to come, where no one goes hungry and the water is clean. And prisons are outlawed and schools are free. And exciting. And poetry, mandatory. For police and politicians. For the indians of the amazon and for the jaquar faced for extinction and for the battle to stop and for every last gun to be forged into a pen, and for
Thank you. And have a beautiful holiday season. [ applause ] this is how we celebrate the holidays in San Francisco, you are not in kansas any more. Lets hear it for the sisters. Before we go any further we have one more speaker and some of you have been siping wine, barefoot and bubblely, lets hear it for barefoot and bubblely, afterwards you will be enjoying food was donated by restaurants and asked again and again by so many organization and events and i want to recognize them with lots of enthusiasm, cafe, floor, hot cookies, bomba, garden, and paxis. I am sure that i with missed somebody and before we close out we have one speaker that impersonally looking forward to, this is going to close out the program and at the close of those programs we will do a count down and if you think that tree is pretty now, wait until you see it lit. We are honored to have a special guest tonight, isabel ayunda, the best selling author and considered to be the worlds most widely read Spanish Languag
Canisters for those who need food for this season, also if you would join us in the weekend of december 15th and 16th, we are going to have family orientation outside with snow day here in city hall. We are bringing snow in again. And we are going to enjoy this with our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring the kids and all of the extended families. And if i may say again, these holidays and what the tree represent is the best hope and wishes. The holidays should never be about ourselves. What reminds us and what this tree will continue doing, is that you have to remember others that are less fortunate, and share our hearts and our minds and our resources with them. And it is just like japan, for what they have done. If you read the papers recently, you know, that japan suffered a very harsh earthquake and tsunami a while back. And they could have easily said, that we are victims of a national disaster. But, when the country heard that the debris was c