>> the right to vote allows us

to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. exactly 100 years ago, women were given the vote in california. the battle for women's suffrage was not an easy one. it took more than 70 years. a woman could run for president in new york. >> organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. it marked the beginning of the women's equality movement in the united states.

>> at that time, women were banned from holding property and voting in elections. >> susan b. anthony dedicated her life to reform. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. >> many feared it would be corrupted by politics. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. that woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and

innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. >> leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings -- , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. a specialist in francisco. >> the problem with san francisco is that women's suffrage as an idea was

associated. >> susan b. anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. liquor was the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. >> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success. >> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the

private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign.

what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the

suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going

on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. around 1911, this is how it would have addressed. and here we are, dressed the same.

[chanting] >> we have the right to vote. >> whether you are marching for a cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard. thank you for watching.

>> good morning, good morning. good morning. welcome. one for you. >> good morning.

[speaking spanish] >> we have anna. she has a few words to say. [speaking spanish] i didn't hear you. that wasn't loud enough! [speaking spanish] much, much better. my name is anna. i work at the department of public health and i operate the school program and i am proud to say marshall is one of our stellar schools to show everybody how we can walk or bike to school. thank you for coming to such a

sunny beautiful day to marshall, walking to marshall. [applause] so here's a man that i want to say absolutely needs no introduction, mr. peter avila. >> that wasn't loud enough! [applause] >> i'm not running for mayor so i will not give a campaign speech. i would be number 55 i think. so i live in oakland so it rules me out. thank you so much, everyone, for coming on walk-to-school day. how much kids walk to school every day here? we are one of the schools in the district, i think we might have the highest percentage of walkers to school. now it's real important

walk-to-school day is let us know how you are when you walk to school. because you need to let us know, and then we will let this man know if you don't feel safe walking to school. because it is safe walking to schools. this you so much. all of the parents for meeting us at kid power park. i would like to thank audrey. thank you, audrey. thank you for helping out, helping us organize this. and i want to thank you guys because you are what makes our school special as a kid. so once again i would like to turn it over to mayor ed lee. thank you so much. >> buenos dias. thank you for being here and walking with me from the kid power park all the way to marshall. we're very happy to do that and i was very happy to join your

principal, principal avalos. and i want to thank him for providing leadership and linkage. you know, our school direct is working very closely with city government to make sure there are safe routes in all of our schools. so i'm teaming up with supervisor tim, who's been very focused on school safety, with our school district. the president of the school board is here and we're working with all of the our city agencies. ed risken here. he's the head of muni. you know what muni is? yeah, they drive all of the buses but they're also in charge of traffic safety in the city as well. he's working along with our police department and also along with great organization like walk s.f. they're out here promoting walking. isn't it great to walk in san francisco? marshall is one of many schools where over 60% -- in fact i

think at marshall, over 61% of people live within a one-mile radius from this school. this is prt type of school when we want to emphasize that walking to school can be safe, can be healthy and can be fun. and so we want to do our part. guess what we're doing, this is the 15th school where we are changing the speed routes for the cars all around the radius of the school. and we're lowering them from what we might see to be almost as fast as 30 miles an hour, we want to lower them to no more than 15 miles an hour when school is in session. how do you like that? when the traffic -- when the traffic slows down, then people can enjoy walking to school even more safely. i want to thank the most important people that are here, the most important people are you, the kids and your parents.

because they want your -- we all want you to make sure you're walking to school safely. so you are the 15th school and guess what, we're going to do this type of safe routes to schools in 213 schools all over san francisco. we're working hard to change all of the signs out and when the signs get changed, we're going to make sure everybody knows about it so our public health department and thanks to anna and her great work, she is helping to coordinate the education around the schools with the school districts and we're going to make sure of the education and then we have to have enforcement because there are going to be so many individuals that don't pay attention. our police department is going to be out there and they're going to educate first and remind people. when they see somebody exseeding the speed that isn't paying attention, guess what the police have to do? they have to issue a ticket. the ticket will be expensive but

they're going to make sure people are educated around how to slow down when they see kids around schools. so we're doing everything we can to make sure our schools are safe. and when you have safe schools and safe routes, then we're going to have healthier kids. and i saw -- did everybody get their banana? that's what anita tells me my wife says i have to have a banana every day. that will keep me healthy. but i also think having safe routes to schools will keep everybody's health. i want to thank everyone working together, collaborating. the theme is collaboration. everybody working together to make sure we have safe routes. i want it thank all of the parents for joining us today. the best schools are the ones that are involving our parents. i want to thank you for doing that and having join us and all of our agencies here to keep our schools safe. thank you very much.

[speaking spanish] >> i don't want to forget our great rec and park director and he's the one who let us exercise here this morning on the mayor says, thank you very much for waking us up today and keeping us healthy, rec and park! [applause] and here's victor.

>> buenos dias. [speaking spanish] >> he loves coming to school and walking to school with his son and daughter. >> thank you supervisor to give a special recommendation for marshall elementary. >> thank you, anna. >> ba went dios. -- buenos dias. i feel lucky to be here this

morning with marshall elementary school. previous for being able to represent you for the city of san francisco, i used to also represent marshall elementary school on the school boards with our president mendoza. and marshall elementary has always been one of my favorite schools in our city. thank you for welcoming me here today. we're also very lucky because today is international walk-to-school today. all of the schools in the city, marshall, got our mayor, director of park and rec, director of muni and m.t.a. and president of the school board along with the entire community here today. another reason why marshall is special is because this neighborhood around marshall school -- marshall elementary is also going to be the first test site of the home program that will work to make all of the streets and alleyways along

marshall elementary school safer for you to walk to. so i'm really excited about that. last night in our board meeting to be voted on this roughly around 9:00 p.m. last night. all 11 board of supervisors voted to make today officially october 5, 2011, walk-to-school today for the city and county of san francisco. and i'm going to quickly read accommodation, where as hundreds of children to be safe each year nationally by taking steps to make safety a priority. driving students to school by private vehicles worsens traffic, and that's due to safety and climate change. and protect children from health and environmental risk. shape-up san francisco, who's here today, including department of public health, san francisco municipal transportation agency, presidio ymca, san francisco bike coalition, have secured funding to implement stay safe

at school and has declared october 5th as walk to school day for the city and county of san francisco. thank you to all of the family members and parents and, of course, teachers and principal for making our school so great. thank you for all of the advocates that put us at city hall for working on making streets safer for you. thank you. [applause] next up, we have the director of m.t.a. ed rifkin. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. our job at the m.t.a. since we're the transportation agency for the city and it's our job to make sure that everybody can get around san francisco and do so safely. whether you're riding muni,

whether you're in a car, whether you're in a cab, whether you're on your bike or whether you're walking, we want you to be able to be safe. particularly we want you to be safe to get to school. the last thing we want parents and teachers having to worry about is getting you to school. we want you to be focused on learning and on developing your skills and on being safe and healthy. as mayor and supervisor kim mentioned, we're doing things such as lowering speed limit, calming the streets, doing everything we can do working with our partners and the police department, pauble health department, rec and park and school district to make it so you can all get to school safely. when i saw all of those hands still up, when you were asked how many of you walk to school, it warmed my heart. this is a model of a neighborhood school in san francisco. we want more schools like marshall where people, where parents and students feel safe to walk to school.

congratulations on the great job you're doing here at marshall. we want to take that replicated step in the city. thank you very much and happy walk to school day. [applause] >> next, we have -- he's been working to help make your streets safer. >> buenos deuse! -- dios. thank you very much for being here today. i'm with walk san francisco. we work to make it more safe and more fun to walk it school. not just today but every day. so i hope this is the start of a walking year for all of you. so i just want to say thank you so much for working hard on the 15-mile-an-hour speed limit around marshall and all throughout the city. we're so excited to have that moving forward. thank you so much mayor lee, supervisor kim.

for all of your support making the street safer to walk on and now i believe we have a certificate from the mayor from marshall. >> gracias. >> all right. well, we are so happy, so happy to establish a safe zone around marshall school and we are also very happy to get the full cooperation of the school principal and everybody involved with our schools. we're so happy we're going to give a big proclamation at marshall elementary school. so principal avalos, please come up and receive the city's joint collaborative certificate of honor presented to marshall elementary school on this day october 5th, 2011. thank you very much. it's such a great school!

[applause] >> check is in the mail! >> check's in the mail! thank you. are we ready? >> thank you, everybody, for walking. and buenos dias, marshall. thank you, everybody! impossible. announcer: when you open a book, you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading.

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wealthiest, the most powerful. that really has impacted the planet. it is almost impossible now to go anywhere and had it really be completely dark. there are very few locations that you can find. that means our relationship to the sky, there is a way where we dominate the sky. we cannot see anything really. we are blinding ourselves in a way. >> you can look at the images, they are beautiful.

when i started four years ago, there was a conversation about environmental issues that was very different. this is not being talked about in the way it is now. . this has just been like an amazing growth. i anticipate the project to be something that opens a dialogue to public interest in these ideas. so the work is really made to be seen in this environment. it's been show in museum, in gallery, but never in a public setting. and it's kind of ideal for both myself and the works to have this real dialogue with the