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 opinions and concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. The office of Small Business is the faster place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco during the local eme
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 Businesses in San Francisco. The office of Small Business is the faster place to get answers about doing business in San Francisco during the local emergency. If you need assistance with Small Business matters, particularly at this time, you can find us online or via telephone, and as
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 schedule, haymarket books. Org. And this friday so tomorrow at 7 pm e
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 discussion, and there will be information on the screen abou
A 20 year period. And the forthcoming book about fascism which concludes with the essay the pandemic is the portal which is the conversation today and haymarket publishes critical radical thinkers such as angela davis and so many others. In this moment in this crisis with deep injustice it is especially important to support Freedom Fighters and part of that task i encourage you to buy books from haymarket book club and inviting people to make donations and there will be information on how you can do so. And to be recorded on haymarket books Youtube Channel you are invited to subscribe and on that channel you can see a number of different events that have taken place and there will be a special program on may day 5 00 oclock p. M. Discussion between a workingclass vision for the future and at 7 00 p. M. May 1st to host a special may day Poetry Reading online. So now little more housekeeping. Was so many people joining the call today we may need your forbearance if we have technical issu