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profession folks to gather around the mayor for a group photo. please gather around, thank you. and we need to back up a little bit, thank you. all right. is the mayor a great dancer or what? we need to get him to boogie down at his campaign. a reminder, pick up your ticket, please, as you had upstairs to the green room, at the reception, and i will see you at 7:00 p.m. weeknights on channel 5. have a great time tonight. thank you. enjoy, mental, eat. -- enjoy, mingle, eat.

but good morning der community members, like the officials and colleagues. we are here to celebrate a day that san francisco should be proud of, a day that we should all be proud of. the san francisco civil rights ordinance is officially signed into law. i have been the coalition coordinator for the past two years and have seen firsthand the committee's efforts and inspiring bravery to bring us here today. i have also seen as support of elected officials and allies in the community. please help me in welcoming a few of these people to share this perspective today. help me recognized supervisor jane kim, the sponsor of the organizers -- of the ordinance. [applause] >> thank you. i cannot believe we are finally here. it has been a really long journey. the for our office, i know we

came on board in august when we started working with the saved san francisco coalition. but for the coalition it has been an even longer journey. the starting in 2001, but really, the organizing that has happened in the last couple of years working with the police commission, the human rights commission, and organizing amongst community residents and community leaders that you see here today. we are taking an historic step here in san francisco. we are now the second city to put into ordinands that racial profiling is something that we do not do. for the sake of national security. this is already something that our police chief, our elected and community leaders have said and sat again. but we have now put this into ordinands. it has been a really long passage. i do not want to gloss over it. this has been a really challenging process for all of us. our community leaders, our

office, the mayor's office, and many of our elected officials. we had many conversations. i know the chief and i have engaged a lot in what it means to keep our communities safe, but also how to create trust. i am proud to be standing here today. to the effort of so many people like those that want to recognize who helped push this along to the end. we have the department of public works. and standing behind one of our small business leaders here in san francisco that helped us get to the point that we should compromise around a solution that will work for everyone here. and i want to recognize our police commissioners in the audience today, and our human rights commissioner, who helped advise us in this process. and my elected leader and co- sponsor, president david chiu at, and supervisor christina olague.

we have people who want to speak, so i don't want to belong. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way -- so i don't want to be long. but thank you for holding with us every step of the way. [applause] >> our next speaker is a coalition member and community member an active in the community. [applause] >> good morning, respected officials, honored guests, friends and family. i would like to greet you with the muslim greeting of peace, love, and justice. i am a proud member of the coalition for a state san francisco. and i have been working with the coalition for the last two years to address racial and pulled -- and religious profiling and discrimination of arab, middle

eastern, muslim, and asian committee members here in san francisco. my family and friends and fellow classmates have all had to deal with this type of discrimination. after september 11th. it all boils down to the point where eight city officials may discriminatory comments about our -- as city officials made it discriminatory comments about our community. and these comments were very frightening to community members to get it showed my community as a very scary community. we felt that we were second- class student -- citizens and we have lost some of our dignity and human rights. it has not been an easy road for the members of this coalition to get together. before this work, i had never set foot in city hall two years ago. i had never had the opportunity to work with such a broad based

group of grass-roots community organizations. asian-american communities, latino communities, african- american communities, and different communities here in san francisco. it has been a great and i opening experience for me. at the member of the community, i am thankful and proud of the many organizations that have come together in support of this. i am thankful and proud that san francisco has come together to speak for human-rights. i want to thank the council for their help in this struggle. for the mayor and his support. and all of the community members that will be working to support this. it does not matter how many pat downs, where checks, gps tracking devices -- why your checks, gps tracking devices. these are not going to keep us safe. what will keep the state is

community coming together and working together side by side. at the end of the day, we're all here and we are all equal. i am proud and thankful to have been part of this community. my mother is here and it is her first time to be in city hall. this whole process has been a great and wonderful experience for me and my community members. i look forward to the future to come. it was decades later before some supreme court decision finally apologized and passed something similar to this, but i'm so thankful and i'm proud to be san franciscan and part of my community. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much. our next speaker is the executive director of the asian law caucus. [applause] >> good morning. i'm the executive director of

the asian law caucus, and we are also a proud member of the state coalition -- the coalition for a state san francisco. i want to thank supervisor kim in setting the standard against racial profiling. and in support of transparency and local control of our own communities. and our sincere -- sincere thanks to merely for the civil rights ordinance. in the coming months and years, part of the coalition will be working to ensure that the standards enshrine in the ordinance are in a way that protect our communities and shared values. in particular, will be addressing the impact of the ordinance on the existing agreement between the sf tv and the fbi. we plan to meet with various stakeholders how best to meet the ordinance. and lastly, we work to bring the community leaders together as we have been to be sure that the

ordinance robustly fights racial profiling. many of the people we will be reaching out to are in the room today. be prepared to our -- for our calls. we look forward to celebrating with you today and working with you tomorrow. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. and our last -- next speaker is the president of the arab cultural and community center. [applause] >> good morning. i am the president of the arab culture and community center, a member of the coalition for a safe san francisco. the center has been working for a safe the san francisco for the last two years. to address very important issues of racial profiling and transparency in san francisco. many of the organizations and individuals that are working with the coalition are not new

to this issue. our community has faced many difficult situations regarding our place in the city for many decades. each of us has tried to work to bring understanding, knowledge, and representation of our community. the center has brought to our communities old and new, and to the issues old and new, and to bring about positive change in the san francisco civil rights honors. because of this board and the mayor's support of this ordinance, it is clear that the city of san francisco stands with our community and working against religious and racial profiling and transparency. again, i would like to thank the mayor, the board of supervisors, especially supervisor kim, the sponsor of

this, and the police chief. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. i just want to say, we appreciate you coming out today, especially in light of the tragic fire that impacted a few of the buildings that you manage. i know -- our next speaker is mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming today. it is a very, very happy day for a lot of people, for our city. i think it is true to say that every city on this side of the world, i think, are challenged with this a very basic conflict these days, that conflict that we see and read about almost

every week between our civil liberties and public safety. and it is different in every city as to how it has been handled. and we see different examples of what we fear having happen here. and then we have examples of what could happen. i want to thank the board of supervisors, particularly supervisor kim for her persistence and persisted -- or her persistence in moving this forward through the legislative process. i want to thank the chief of police and his commission to buy because they have also move this conversation forward. but most important and i want to thank the members of our community. they feel the sting or they feel the level of safety and care that the city might have with them and for them. it is in this spirit that we wanted to make sure that we would not end up in the days of apology. that should be long gone. we should not be apologizing for things that we do.

we ought to be moving every community in our city forward with their civil liberties, and enjoying the basic freedoms this country has to offer. it is why everybody who has found a way to come to america, and especially to san francisco. i want to especially thank f ouad, because there were moments where we were not sure what the basis of the relationship would be and what would be its foundation. he has been with us from the very beginnings of the human rights commission servicing the city. and we worked together to deal with other challenges we have had in the city. and it has built upon always a trust that our interfaith community is always helping us provide for committees of both

faiths and immigrant communities. -- for communities of both faiths and immigrant communities. we never want to say we are sorry for something we could have prevented. it is with this legislation and i am proud the today's signing -- proudly today signing that makes people want to enjoy their civil liberties and for generations to come, as well as feel that their safety is also the priority of our whole city family. safe and joins the liberties, where else can you see that happening? and i want to signal my appreciation to the ongoing asian law caucus. i know you are proud of your work here, proud of the bases

upon which we do this. and for me, is always about putting the community first. and all two men become i believe this is the best legislation and one that balances the right tone for our city, but also, that protects these basic promises that we have made for generations. it is my pleasure and my enthusiasm to sign this legislation that you are witnessing. let's do that. [applause] > > are we ready? there, it's done. [applause]

>> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement.

stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of

the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of

shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard. in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist

dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at >>.

touring england was a time when robert as mentors were being challenged by a quickly growing middle-class. for endeavour's crew of new artists began to assert themselves, offering new definitions of the athletics of arts and beauty. over 180 objects of avant-garde design and art from the victorian england has been collected inside the legion of honor snoot exhibition, it's the cold of the ec. -- the cult of beauty. >> there was this group of artists that were not only revolutionaries in their artistic expression but also in their personal lives and their interest in democratizing art in introducing beauty into the growing middle-class. >> one of the inspirations for the victorian avant-garde was the industrial revolution. quality household goods were now

being mass-produced. artists responded by either creating elaborate unique court or by embracing technology and trying to share a beautiful creations with as many people as possible. >> william morris was in a difficult position, because he wanted the middle-class to be able to acquire really beautifully made objects. but the piece is that he actually made, you know, took so much handcrafting that there were quite expensive. i think he would have been pleased to know that there are things like restoration hardware anne craig and bare all that tried to make available to the middle-class -- and crate and barrel that tried to make these things available to the middle class. >> over 60 lenders contributed art and craft to the exhibition. one of the partners is london's victoria and albert museum, which has been collecting the finest examples of victorian

craft since queen victoria herself attended the groundbreaking ceremony. the artist of the victorian avant-garde believe that every object could contain an expression of beauty. the attention given when creating a towering sculpture should be the same as when creating a simple cottage gate. they embraced arts for arts own sake. whether in the curl of a flower or a stray lot of unpin hair. surprisingly, sensuality returned to public view during the victorian era. albert moore and others were inspired by ancient greek sculptures and found new uses in modern times. >> many of these paintings are large. when you get close to them, they seem to wrap you in this luscious colors. there's a great sensuality to the paintings, even though there's nothing sexual going on in the pictures. the artists just took delight in

luxurious fabrics and colors and beautiful women. >> symphony in white is a life- size portrait of the immense stress of james wisler. it is featured prominently in the exhibition. harmony in gray and green was an of socially judged as a disagreeable presentation of a disagreeable young lady. the first public reaction of this series was so divisive that led to court proceedings. today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862.

>> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined -- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among the luckiest professionals, becaus