coming out and believing and recommitted and address the under lying issues in the city and obviously in areas like the western edition and bayview hunters point and the spirit of what brings us today and what is right and i want to thank for people and the supervisors and public defender and everybody here and making san francisco eye better place and in particular i want to thank all the kids and their imagination and hope and spirit and possibility for being here today. congratulations and have a wonderful afternoon and great weekend and thank you very much for coming out. (applause). >> >> thank you mr. mayor. how about a another round of applause for the mayor and

london breeze. and huckleberry house and who is here ready to come up? is anybody ready? okay. let's hear it for our friends from huckleberry house. >> hello. i am jason martinez and this is victor. we work with huckleberry street clinic and i am a health educator and i found there was a need for a group for young men in the community, so i wrote a grant to youth funding ideas and i got $10,000 to have young men's group in the western edition, and yesterday was actually our last day, and i'm going to have victor tell you a little more about the program. >> we run a group over there at

plaza east. we just graduated eight boys from the ten week program. (applause). >> we run groups all the time, but with this group just a bunch of young men and subjects that affect their lives and violence, sex, drugs and media, and also we also do community projects like we just finished up a community clean up and we had them go around the community and pick up trash and things to help the community and we designed t shirts and hoodies for them like this one right here. (applause). >> yeah. sorry that the kids couldn't be here today. this is a little last minute but we're

glad we could be here to tell you about our program. it was a successful program. the kids loved it. it was a safe space for the kids and kept them off the streets and sorry they couldn't be here but that was our program basically so thank you. >> keep up the great work. all right. so the fun keeps going. now, we're going to hear from our little ones from the african-american arts and cultural center. they're going to recite a poem. life doesn't frighten me at all. a warm round of applause. (applause).

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(applause). >> let's hear it for them. (applause). >> the perfect metaphor for today. so now let's give a warm welcome of applause for carmen johnson and the great organizing work she has been doing at marcos king garvey in terms of the arts and what they have been developing. where is miss johnson? carmen -- there you are, sor

sorry. how are you? >> thank you supervisor ross. first we're going to have our dance group, and then i have something i want to say, and we have a few more activities, and we're going to go real fast and i realize you have a long program, so we're going to have our dance group go. i would like to introduce ep ebony danis and china bridge. okay they're going to do a dance for you.

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(applause). >> let's give the girls a hand. our dance group. now, i would like all of the rest of the group to follow me upstairs. come on everyone that is on the program. okay thank you. i

would just like to say something on behalf of martin luther king and in collaboration with mo magic andella hunch and housing and the african-american arts and culture center. we would like to especially thank miss cheryl davis who has worked tirelessly and the youth program this summer. i mean she stretches herself out and i am one of those and i want you to know we say an extra prayer for you and you really need it. she really works tireless and mr. george smith and london breeze and executive director of the african-american arts and culture center, ross mirkarimi

-- i always pronounce your name wrong. excuse me. and claudia wilkins and district five and sandra bolden from the western edition and collaborating together and organizing a partnership and activities in our low income housing development. this is something new we did this year you guys, and i want to greatly acknowledge the following individuals and teams who worked me at king grafer garvey who mas happen at this site and that is marianne and wa neatia and special thanks to mayor gavin

newsom and the park police station and not last but not least supervisor ross mirkarimi and the many meetings and listening to the needs and desires of the housing development and our community and assisting in developing an action plan that has proven to be beneficial and successful this summer. where there is unity, love, and compassion there is strength. we want to thank all of you for making this happen for our children this summer. (applause). okay first on our -- we will hear remarks by mr. chap man, one of our youths. >> on behalf of the king of

martin luther king and garvey and we are the children participating in the mo magic summer program. we would like to express our special thanks for miss johnson for having to put up with us this summer and also for buying the supplies to work with this summer. this program helps us to stay focus and discipline. it also keeps us from the crime and violence that is impacted our community. thank you and we look forward to participating next summer. thank you, the children and youth of king garvey co-op. >> thank you cliff. beautiful. next we have a poem from alecia

>> good afternoon i am alecia and i attend sa*pbt john's school. the title of the poem is i am who i am. i am a young african-american female and very proud of my heritage. i am a californian. that is where i grow up. i 30 for knowledge and. >> >> share my knowledge with others. as a born leader i live in the western edition. i am a 4.0 student. at 13 year's old i attend college. i am different yet the same as everyone else. i am like a river i go with the flow. i ln of to stories. i am somebody. (applause). >> give alecia a hand. amen. thank you. next we have a

another poem. >> good afternoon. i attend sa*pbt john's middle school. at this point i would like to thank cheryl davis for everything she has done in our community and miss yokmam i am a young african-american woman. i am proud to be who i am. i strife for greatness. i am a 4.0 student. i am a young lady who will fight and strife for a better education. i am who i am and that's all i will be. (applause). >> thank you. and next we have a speech, our fina final partic.

>> hello. i am mr. jones. i am ms. johnson's grandson and supervisor mirkarimi as well and i came to deliver a message; that we were are in the current society that was involved in a lot of things. we have been a part of society that has a lot of crime, a lot of violence and a lot of people going to jail. we have been in the environment that a lot of crime has been in also. i wouldn't want to disclose what type of crimes but all that i know these youths that you see before you are the current generation that will go further and higher; that will not only go to college but own

the colleges and build them as well. we will be ceo's of companies. we will be fbi agents or cia or whatever you want to call it and they will go further and higher, and i just wanted to say that the adults have the children and the youth have the youth. the youth it is time for us to make a change. martin lectur luther king and mx did not fight for us to end up like this and end up locked up and most of our brothers away from their kids. they fought furs and i am. >> >> i am here to say to you today that these youth are the ones that will fight and they will also go further and higher, so that's a wonderful speech.

>> let's give all of our youth a hand class. these are our future leaders and make this city what it's supposed to be and coming up and developing new leadership in san francisco and the western edition. thank you (applause). >> okay. we're going to keep it going. we have only a couple more performances. the video ccoalition and we have voalists coming up here today. where are they? i'm like -- i guess we're moving on. okay. so where is brown sugar? okay. well, i know prince hall is ready. is prince hall in the

house? is prince hall in the house? where is she? what? oh -- wait sister davis. excuse me we have technical difficulties. is the vocalists in the house? okay. come on up. are you ready? all right. >> hi, how are you all doing?

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(applause). >> all right we're going to keep it going. brahma do you guys have a song? we want the kids up there. good afternoon. i am sister keoko and i am from the meditation center and we have these children come over to our center and we taught the concepts of peace, love and respect, so

we're going to have them interview the kids first, and then we're going to sing a song >> hi i am jessica and i go to shandio academy of the sacred heart in nebraska. >> and i go to the school of the sacred heart in washington dc and we're going to do a brief interview with the kids. can you tell us what you learned about love? >> care about people. >> always and do you remember what you learned from them about peace? do you know what kind of star that is? >> peace. >> peace. >> yeah. >> okay what did you learn about respect? >> i don't know. >> do you remember -- do you remember the story about louis

the leopard at all? >> no. >> what do you do if someone is different from you? >> be sad. >> (inaudible). >> oh yeah. >> edward can you tell me what your favorite kind of star is? >> courage. >> a courageous star. that is nice. are you ready? can you tell us something you learned about love? >> hum -- respect people. >> okay. what did you learn about love? >> to share and care. >> good, very good. thank you for your answers guys. (applause).

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