College. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, there. My name is hawn. I teach at city college in the english department. I also want to thank the Community Members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. And thank you for bringing that forward. So i am a lifelong student educator and Community Member in our Public Education system. And Public Education is the best thing thats ever happened to me and my family. And i want to just affirm that education is our right. I tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. They just dont have the same resources. They deserve a library thats open till midnight. Their Library Closes at 6 45. And weve cut back on librarians. I want to talk about love. Because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class, we read bell hooks all about love. We do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. We learn that love is a choice. We
That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city.
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in
There. One is the regular commute at the bay bridge is getting busy if you are coming up on 6 00. We can go to the bay bridge and you can see that traffic is going to be busy which is very typical. I want to tell you about it anyway. Then we have to go to the far east bay to the byron area because there is a grass fire. Camino pablo. There is one way Traffic Control in the area. If you take bascom road you will see it and its going to add to your delays getting out of the byron area. If you are driving out of the tracy area you will see that traffic here is going to be okay if you are driving through. I want to mention on the Golden Gate Bridge approach, southbound 101, there is a crash just outside the Robin Williams tunnel. Southbound onetoone traffic is slow and if you are coming to the Golden Gate Bridge need to add an extra 10 or 15 minutes at least. Lets go back to the desk. Today marks 30 years since one of the most devastating earthquakes hit the bay area or in this country for
[applause] please welcome our county chair. Hello, iowa. Fellow democrats from across america. All 50 states of america, welcome to polk county. Celebration for our Democratic Party. Together, we will get to meet 17 candidates who are leading a conversation about the future of our party and our country. One of these 17 people will be our next president. They say bad weather brings good luck, and it rained like heck at last years steak fry, and then we won back the congress. I hope the weather we have today is going to win us back the white house next year. Before we get started, please join me in welcoming the elected officials and candidates who are here today. Usually, we read all their names at our events, but obviously this is a little bit eager, so we are not going to go through all hundred of them. Please join me in welcoming them here today. Welcoming join me in five of our newer steak fry leaders. Lindsay paulson and peter crane are our steak fry chairs. Our executive director