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The historical moment in the contradiction that we currently have. In your research it seems that the young man that you talk to have at least the beginnings of an understanding of the changing Politics Around sex and gender. A lot of them go so far to offer pronouns, they talk about feminist concepts such as consent in these changing conditions but they all seen haunted by past ideas and masculinity and sexuality. In one case she wrote that the young man was critical of the classic markers of masculinity but he aspired to them. It feels like theres a ghost of masculinity and sexuality following the young men around them can you talk about that. Yeah, its actually almost as if a layered all the new expectations on thoughts of the old ones without really challenging or looking at or eliminating the old one so that in the real state of conflict. On the one hand, yeah they see women as deserving of their place in the classroom and d ....
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Joining us from the headquarters of the aflcio is the president of that organization, richard trumka. You about this moment in our countrys history. Lives have been upended. The stock market has seen a whipsaw. Lives are uncertain. What would you put this moment, now . It is a very serious moment for everyone in the country and it is probably a new chapter in our history that is going to be rewritten. We have things that have never happened before on a scale that have never happened before to this country. And we are going to have to get back the way we did during the world wars where we all started pulling together, to try to solve a common problem. That new chapter would begin with what . All, we hadst of several things that need to be done now. Threat of the virus itself. You have the threat of fear that everybody is going through. We have to overcome both of those. The first thing we should do, is to adopt a workplace contagious disease standard. So every employer knows what they h ....
In isolation. We are working with the Behavioral Health system, and as i said time and time again there is a real issue around equity. Around those 4,000 people that we know we are not serving properly, 35 of them are africanamerican. We need to call out the injustices in these systems and make deliberate investments in targeting the population that continue to get left out when we propose new solutions to support the communities that we know are most vulnerable. So we are going to be making deliberate investments around making sure that africanamericans are supported as we move this process forward. [ applause ]. Mayor breed i want to thank dr. Nigusse bland and dr. Colfax because you have been doing the difficult work of managing the system with the resources that you have and not necessarily getting the support that you need to do it and that change starts today. That change wont happen overnight. We will be working towards ....
Mayor breed hello, everybody. Im london breed. Im mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, and i am so excited to be here today. We all know that there is a real crisis in our city, and i know that we hear that word used on a regular basis. But in this particular case what we see happening with those who are struggling with Mental Illness and Substance Use disorder and chronic homelessness is something that we see every day and we need to take aggressive action to address that issue. I am standing here with supervisor Hillary Ronen and mandelman to announce that even though we have had two competing measures, we have come together to do what is in the best interest of this city to introduce today at the board of supervisors a compromise that is going to help us a ....