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I [inaudible] clerk this is the regular meeting of the Small Business commission on september 28, 2020. The meeting is being called to order at 5 35 p. M. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4156550001. Again, the number is 4156550001. The access code is 1464160228. Again, thats 1464160228. Press pound twice to listen to the meeting via audio conference and press star, three when you are ready to give Public Comment. Speakers are requested but not required to say their names. Sfgovtv please show the office of Small Business slide. Good afternoon, everyone. In commissioner laguanas place, ill be presiding over todays meeting. Today, well begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinion ....
Order at 5 35 p. M. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4156550001. Again, the number is 4156550001. The access code is 1464160228. Again, thats 1464160228. Press pound twice to listen to the meeting via audio conference and press star, three when you are ready to give Public Comment. Speakers are requested but not required to say their names. Sfgovtv please show the office of Small Business slide. Good afternoon, everyone. In commissioner laguanas place, ill be presiding over todays meeting. Today, well begin with a reminder that the Small Business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Busines ....
Joining us today from around the country and around the world. For those of you that dont know me i am jen johnson, currently chief of staff at Chicago Teachers Union and also a history teacher, missing my classroom but grateful for the work im doing today and ill be moderating our conversation but before i introduce the amazing eve ewing we have to thank the organizers of this event, haymarket books. Theyre amazing, theyve been doing so many fantastic events and something really exciting going on right now is there having a 50 percent off sale on their website so you can go to haymarket books. Org and purchase eaves poetry books collective arches and 1819, this is critical reading and its 50 percent off right now and what else are you going to do but be at home, read, turn off the netflix and read these books. Haymarket has other events lined up coming up this week and next week so check out the website for the full sched ....
Before introduce Arundhati Roy, i want to tantillo business. I want to thank the organizers sponsor of this teaching, haymarket books. Haymarket is a publisher of a number of books including the absolutely extraordinary collection of nonfiction essays written over 20 years. My seditious heart and a fourth coming book, azadi freedom. Fascism. Fiction which concludes with the essay, the pandemic is the portal which is the title of an foundation for our conversation today. Haymarket also publishes other critical radical thinkers such as angela davis, naomi klein, and so many others. In this moment in which we are reckoning with crises, with suffering, with deep injustice, its especially important for us to support critical thinkers, freedom fighters, and as part of that task i would encourage you all to buy books from a market, to join the haymarket book club. We are inviting people to make donations to the publisher during this discu ....