to have that baby. i ended up having that miscarriage in a public restroom in a hospital, and i was all by myself and no one came in, the baby came out in my hand and i wanted to run down the halls and say, this is a human being. and i wanted it. it really upsets me. >> thank you very much. the next speaker? >> one speaker in the chamber and that is the next speaker at the podium. >> i am ryan, i was occupy wall street from the 17th to the 19th. i love everyone who is there and everyone who is organizing the

marches and the other actions that they see themselves doing. my concentration is on building a structure to meet people's needs for free and we are providing food for people, with three hot meals per day, giving people access to cellular phones and the internet, through direct democracy and voluntarily. i would like to make this a sustainable model, with community pizza ovens, where people can meet each other's needs and we ask that you do what you can to make certain that the police don't come in and destroy what i will try to make in the next few weeks. if you would like to help me do that, or other individuals to build a sustainable model of living, please get in contact

with us. thank you very much. >> i am terry jones and i have been marching with occupy san francisco. i am so happy after going to so well arranged demonstrations against the invasion of iraq, all of those demonstrations did nothing. i am in all of the members of this movement that just take the space, and take the time at a time in history when corporations and the rich are taking all of the space, and taking all of the time away from us. i am just amazed by the members and appreciate listening to all of them and have been so deeply

shocked at hearing what san francisco, the rulers of san francisco are doing. it is out of the spirit of san francisco. these people need our support. these people need to be nurtured. they are involved in an beautiful experiment, trying to envision a just world and they need to some support, and they need to have a roof over their heads, even if this is just fabric. it is shocking that our city will not allow us to have this, and that the mayor, who is responsible.

whose side are you on? >> the next speaker? i am carolyn miers, a citizen in support of occupy san francisco. we saw all over the world how the people of the world were rising up and they were fighting for what they think we have here, which wheat -- which is democracy. it is something that all of us want to have here. what i would like task is, everyone involved in a political party, urged them to stop taking corporate donations. but i look at congress and i

feel like they are too far gone, the two main parties -- when you have someone you love, democracy, they are a drug addict and you have to have an intervention and occupy san francisco is that intervention. i joined the green party, the party that takes no corporate donations. like many people of my generation who are activists -- we got stuck in protests and they are moving beyond just protests. i hope we recognize that we have the right to real power, to have the elected represent us and represent our people. what stands in the way of that is that we are afraid of what the monied interests will do to us and we all have to support each other until we are no

longer afraid. >> the next speaker? >> no one has come to me. you have spoken to everyone and made a mess of things. what do we hear from the mayor and the police chief and everyone who says anything. we have the first amendment rights, but what? we have been treated to a system that is broken, through nepotism, and this is in the tail on the mayor day. this is executive. and this is failed. not only is this an executive's failure, but the police can go robe, where every change of the

watch as their own rules. they come down in the middle of the night based on their own desires, causing these things to go on. i have been there, watching this. my take on this is we have a first amendment right. griswald vs. conn. this gives us the right of privacy. you cannot have reproductive rights if you don't have a place to reproduce. we deserve all the public services and we are no longer asking, we are demanding. you see to apply for permits. and we did. what is the answer that came through today. we have no process to give you a permit for this demonstration.

when are you going to start acting like the legislative body that you are, instead of the self credit -- congratulate people that you have become to me over the last year and a half. >> thank you very much. and the next speaker? >> i was attorney in this town for almost 20 years and i know what this town is. this is a town that hates poor people and does everything it can to incarcerate people. i would like to give props to terry. the best thing about her is that she is not a democrat. will not endorse you or endorse candidates, we are non- political. please do not use footage from occupy san francisco in your ads.

thank you, councilmember, for appearing at the protest. i know your history as a radical, and i wish that he would return to this. mr. we know -- mr. wiener and mr. compos, i did not appreciate you laughing when the man was talking about 9/11. i would like to say to my people that it is never appropriate to say that someone was just following orders. that is what the nazi guard said when they killed the jews. this is not an acceptable defense under any law and the human rights intervention. and this is for certain. i would like to read as much as i can from thomas jefferson.

if the american people ever let banks control the currency, the banks and corporations will deny the people of all property until their people wake up homeless. thomas jefferson. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am here as a member of the -- >> i am here to support the protest against police repression, and the criminalization of police brutality. i am moved because another world is in birth. this is what is happening. people are taking back the world.

we have to see the connection between what is happening, the people who have occupied san francisco, we want to see the connection between what is happening there and what is happening in the black community, where there has been occupation of people's lives. we talk about the killing of can if harding, and the killing of charles hill and what has been going on daily in this city and across the country. we need to draw connections between what happens in the occupation of san francisco and what happens with a different occupation in the bay view and hunters. . we're asking people to come out to this area to support people of the bayview, and people around san francisco will have a protest against police brutality. we will have people supporting

the occupation, with the bayview district as well. and i salute you. >> the next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public. i think this microphone should be adjusted so that they can turn around so people want to speak to the people who have come in here to the people who have come in under their own time, they should do this. i would like for you to adopt question time for the public, to force the mayor to come in to have direct questions, the public should have the ability to make you answer direct questions from the public. this is accountability and democracy.

a lot of you have said good things about occupy san francisco. on behalf of view -- the libertarian party of san francisco, i thank you for your support of the party -- but i want for it -- i want for you to tell that he did not act against occupy san francisco unless there is a complaint from a member of the public in you will look into that documented complaints and that complaint should be delivered in writing to the protesters. and the protesters should act on this before any police action. and people need to be able to express their sentiments in this room. there should be no prohibitions on people clapping were expressing their sentiment. and we need to take the money, one of every three city

government employees, according to the san francisco chronicle -- make over $100,000 per year and the rank-and-file police officers make $92,000 per year, not including overtime. it is probably higher today. jeff is right, we need pension reform to get the money back. >> thank you very much. next speaker? >> the best message i can think to communicate through this particular form is to the people of san francisco, in north beach, the financial district and the embarcadero and all the other areas of the city. come out of your homes and down

to this area, so that we can communicate compassionately and understand what to do with this extremely dangerous situation. this is a global resolution for peace and direct democracy. when the police were wearing riot gear, beating us, some of them were weeping, and that shows me the possibility that people can change in their hearts and we can change minds here and get together and heal this thing. we don't want this to get ugly. as far as the people in this room, you people doing things with these particular rules is not democracy and has caused the extreme poverty in specific neighborhoods, and others have an extreme abundance. the model for the true form of democracy is taking place in

occupy san francisco. we're asking to help us fix this thing and save the planet without any more violence. >> the next speaker? >> i, on behalf of the president of san francisco and i am a supporter of occupy san francisco. there are questions about what these demands are, corporate greed and unemployment, the corporate influence on politics and the war. these are symptoms of the madness that the political system we have has given birth to. there are no demands or compromises. this is about the love we have for each other and the needs we have as human beings. greed is squeezing the life out

of 99%. we have to show the world that we are progressive or as progressive as we claim to be. occupy must succeed. this board and the people of the city, please support these efforts. >> i am eugene gordon. the nations of planet earth should the constitution of exchange for labor and basic needs, called capital currency which gives people the ability to meet and impose life, with financial cause. the antagonist of class rank divide for using security forces

and the protection of these means, with the exchange -- human rights are speculation market, thinking to labor with the class rank divide. law enforcement and the contradictions with the political economy exposed peace and friendship, and the geography needs to find natures need for a safety security force, not interfering with the mutual labor exchange for basic needs, about planet earth interacting in intercourse with the capital currency as a means for label -- labor needs exchange challenges public

ownership of means of production, which approached the collective community labor, and the united effort to resolve conflicting movements. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i am part of the 99% and so are you. i have been down to occupy san francisco every day since october 6, and also occupy san francisco and santa rosa. this is through the union that was supportive of the union. i want to speak directly to what i have seen in san francisco regarding police conduct. this is about intimidation. i was there october 6, and thank

you, john of -- john avalos. there is nothing not intimidating about showing up in riot gear. and then walking over people and separating people from their belongings and not allowing people to get their belongings. my housemates and i slept over there on saturday night. these were not blocking any pedestrian flow and then we were locked -- woken up to remove these. and i was not present for sunday's action but would like to speak for today. it has been very polite here, but if you step outside the door as you will see something i have never seen, which is right here, and when i walked into

day, there were sheriffs in black uniforms and i have never seen this. throughout the entire city hall, locking arms and people have been trying to come in. if this is not about intimidation i do not know what is. i have never seen sheriff's blocking this and not allowing people to come in. [applause] >> thank you. >> i am the native of san francisco in solidarity with everyone in this room but i am here to talk about another subject, the medical campus task force and i am here because i need your help. in 2009 i thought with new federal leadership i would not have to worry about helping

patients find medicine the following week. i was hoping i would stop getting phone calls of rage that friends and acquaintances were providers and being dragged into federal court to show that they were legitimate. these worries and threats are just as prevalent today. we have seen federal movements against doctors and dispensaries, landlords and banks and city officials, newspapers and media, testing labs, and the recent announcement targets the dispensaries that are permitted by our city and county. staying silent means that we are ok with people who have never touched the medicine. by staying silent, i am sang it is ok to permanently close these, and buying staying silent

we say it is ok to go back to the black market to get the medicine. i am begging you to stand up with me, with myself and the state legislators of the city of san francisco to say that we will not let this happen in our city limits and help us pass a resolution to protect the community. we have a resolution coming before the task force and we expect some changes and i will present you with what ever changes we agree on but i hope that you will stand with us to pass this resolution. thank you. >> the next speaker? >> good evening. i am here before you as a medical campus patient and worker as well as an advocate,

locally. i want to say the same thing, we want the board of supervisors to reaffirm the sanctuary status for medical cannabis, not just for the dispensaries but the community and would like for you to send a message to the department of justice by doing so to say that state rights should be upheld and she should preserve safe access for the medical cannabis patients. >> the next speaker? >> i am one of the owners -- who recently received a letter from the federal government, our landlord did, threatening them with imprisonment. we offer dental insurance and -- people in the streets don't

have jobs. we have donated over -- over 140 charities. and they are trying to put us out of business. the state factors -- we need your help. >> good evening, supervisors. the medical campus task force will be meeting on friday morning for the resolution declaring san francisco a sanctuary city for the medical campus community. after operating with absolute transparency and standing in our community and in total compliance of local and state law holding a permit to operate by the san francisco health department, we are now under attack from the federal government and we need your

help. please vote on that resolution. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. supervises or. i'm corey doningham and i'm damn proud to be a part of the family of occupy san francisco. i came just days before the occupation of wall street ended. i got here almost two weeks ago. i am proud to be part of a family that is creating a new world for everyone. we need you guys to stand up. we need you guys to be the politicians, the leaders of this community that we elected you to be. i believe you john avenue lose, i believe that you tried everything you could the night of the riot, the night that the police went against us. i believe you tried to get the mayor on the phone to get to stop this. i understand that you don't have the most influence -- you weren't able to stop it. i get that. but all of you, the 10 of you,

no, the nine of you, you have the power to stop what they're doing to us on a daily basis. please stand with us. we are growing daily. 1,500 cities nationwide. thousands worldwide. we are getting bigger by the day. we will do nothing but get bigger. we will not stop. when we win -- when we have taken our power back and we have changed this world, where do you want to be? where do each of you want to be? i would like for you to stand with us. thank you. [applause] >> next speaker. >> i was going to say good afternoon. but i think it's good evening, supervisors. >> my name is rachel achison. i wrote a short statement so i wouldn't ramble on. i grew up in the city.

and i love san francisco. but right now i'm a shamed of this behavior towards this peaceful group who are showing the courage to finally speak truth to power. we must show the same level of respect for voices of defense that we have done for corporate and other interests. video footage from s.s.p.d. raids on october 15th and 17th sickened me. i would urge you all to pressure the mayor for greater restraint and to show more open mindedness for the elements that constitute illegal protest actions. there should be no curfew on free speech. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is joseph demarius. i'm from the twin city and a current resident of san francisco and an employee of the city and county of san

francisco. i'm a member of s.c.i.u. 1021. i'm sure if not all of you are bored out of your minds right now. but my friends, i worked on the re-election campaign minnesota senator of paul well stone before his untimely demise. i mived to this city with my wife in 2010 because i believed that the city would be a great city to raise a family in. with a virtually unrifled record in human rights and i appeal to you, i implore you contemplate the worsdz of the late senator wellstone a politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, apolitics that does not speak to and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics and deserves to fail. do not be arrogant. you've been placed to do good for the people you respect. and to fail to do so woul