Board will not take any formal action but looking forward to peoples comments and questions. Any people on the line, moderator . You have seven questions remaining. Chair borden okay, our first speaker, please. Caller hello. My name is joel kamisher, a School Crossing guard and a member of the sfciu 10 to 1 bargaining committee. We have been trying to talk about not outsourcing people to protect the city workers and im hearing that discussion about the flaggers and the pedestrian monitors. I wonder if we could use our own workforce, the parking control people and the crossing guards instead of having the contractors hire private people. I realize that the flaggers might have their own union, so maybe thats a problem. But im hoping that we can do other things to reduce the need of contract people to prevent layoffs . Thank you. Chair borden thank you, next speaker, please. You have six questions remaining. Caller hello, members of the board, my name is Hector Jimenez and im with the loc
Statues were ripped from their pedestals and covered with graffiti. This was after a night of protests. Wilson walker is there. It is clear why some of those figures were targeted. Others however it is not so clear . Thats right. So where is the line between protests and destruction of public property . Thoughts on that from the mayor coming up. But two of those three statues are men who are now notorious for their existing as slaveowners. Another was famous for accepting the surrender of robert e lee. All morning and throughout the afternoon, they worked to clean up after the scene here in the music concourse. This is just the aftermath that many had to come and see for themselves. Among the empty pedestal, one that held Francis Scott key. A man who did owned slaves. And another was the founder of California Missions was also a slave owner. When i was here last week, i noticed it was still up. And i just thought it was surprising to have him so prominently in the park considering the
Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around. And probably among the folks who are being honored tonight. What were going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremony since zoom is not a capacious place to exchange awards and the like so we will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then walk us through that, when we are done we will take your questions in chat and we will try to wrap up in an hour using the
At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
Comes to mind, and probably comes to most everyone elses mind, is the 1918 influenza pandemic in terms of its rapidity, how fast it spread across the world, and its scope and span. In the 19 century the cholera epidemic would be the most, the clearest analogy. Susan we are going to have an opportunity to dig into some of those lessons of history a bit more, but when you look at the response, of course things are so much different for society now. You talk about how important it is to learn lessons from past pandemics and epidemics. What lessons have we clearly learned . Christian what lessons have we clearly learned . That is a good lesson. Im only smiling because as an historian it is not a was clear we have learned lessons from the past. The one lesson we probably advise and envisioned most is to roll out things as methodically as possible, to Pay Attention to reliable news holdes, to do our best, to certain sectors of society from spreading pandemics. We are not seeing a tremendous