Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the tim
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
12 years. Theres a lot of issues on the table here today, reparations for destruction of the black community, i support nurses in the e. R. , i support taxi drivers, i still take taxis. I will not take uber or lyft because im a union person. It seems like the people here in San Francisco are hurting. And thats what im hearing from everybody today. So i know that you guys are not god, and you cant solve all the problems, but to the extent that you can, im asking for help. You are probably tired about hearing of city college needing help because weve been at this for eight years one way or another. Ive been campaigning for several things to get more funding for probably at least eight years if not longer than that. But what i want to say is this midnight massacre of this last 300 classes, its like the straw that breaks the camels back. So we really need your help on this. And a lot of other people in this room need help as well. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you for your patience and go
Dyson, u. S. Jeff merkley and washington dc mayor bowser. This is one hour and 15 minutes. Good morning, all. The ariel bowser and i am mayor of the best city in the world and i want to welcome the National Action network to washington, d. C. I want to welcome you all to my hometown in your Nations Capital and i want to thank and forgnize our reverend al his leadership, our reverend al for his vision and our reverend al for standing up for all of us. Over the last several months, we have been reminded of the values we have to fight for. We have been reminded of reverend dr. Martin luther king and what he stood for. How he told us that we had to look beyond ourselves, look beyond our own generation and make sure this was an america that was worthy of us all. In my own hometown that we have to fight on a local level, a state level and a federal level and that is why we are truly blessed that reverend al has called us together. It is not where we start but where we are growing and i am pr
Abused and isolated her. The judge found no evidence of that. Wusa 9. That was a really, really tough day bruce. The medical examiner found enough medicine in his blood to kill one and a half adults. There was more in his stomach. Prosecutors say he could have fought back in terror for some time before he died. Two teens are now in custody for the murder of a promising young rapper in prince georges county. 19yearold brewer and 18yearold watkins are under arrest for death of douglas brooks. Brooks is better known as dirty swipey. He was gunned down outside an Apartment Building. The two suspects planned to rob the rapper and others attending a party in that complex. Bomb threat put hundreds of students and teachers on edge today at two it was part of a series of threats taking place against jewish schools and Community Centers in 11 states across the country. Sot far, nothing has been found. It made a rough start to school as Northern Virginia bureau case peggy fox tells us from fairfa