departments are accessible to limited english speaking persons and everyone. thank you >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and bay we are noteding with each and every you have a board of supervisors they fighting with you i'm excited to be part of this because first and foremost today's announcements is an credible vishgdz for the filipino community who has make sure in working with your policymakers we have a city government that's responsive to all of our community. i'm also excited like supervisor avalos and supervisor kim i'm the first childhood of a first-generation immigrants english was not they're first language as a civil rights

center this is what we live for. when i came into office in 23450b9 i took the office of the coalition of asian-american that came to me and asked how can we moved with the ordinance in san francisco. in 2009 we made many changes to make sure our city was truly accountability with the vision seven hundred 9 billion government would be responsive for all residents we put in a process that we knew was going to lead to today where community will come down and we'll make and certificate another language to transfer our materials to this is very special for me when i was in college i studied luke like all of us.

it was amazing i get to represent the neighborhood where the former manila was there was a dark time in the 80s we were concerned with filipino and asian-americans being pushed out of our city years later that's changed to where we are today authenticity incredible we're here celebrating filipino-americans and other san franciscans. i want to thank you you and end with one word that the mayor said. thank you very much >> thank you supervisor chiu. next i'd like to introduce supervisor jane kim who represented district 6 where we are today and she's been working diligently with the administer

and the office of the k3w7b9 affairs to make sure we got her today and make sure we were able to certify to log as one language today >> thank you new mexico and welcome to the south of market it's important we celebrate this to log and filipino i'm here as a community that has celebrated the home of betsy carmichael and this the the first school in the country to have a bilingual to log center. we represent the largest number of filipino-americans in san francisco. we're a little bit closer to

city hall and it's great to be here at the center. it was really the community that pushed for the recognize of this community and to have this language recognized as one that all our departments should have to our of times could be included i want to recognize terry from our filipino center with rudy and he's here in the south market we have many south market leaders and, of course, jess listen and mayor one of our residents long term leader. the mayor ed lee brought up the hotel. i was born the year of the fall of the eye hotel. i think everyone in the room has seen the documentary not only

because asian-americans were leading the structural and have been an advocate whether voting and housing but amazing to see the coalition that fought for that hotel and chicano-americans who lived there the black panthers for our seniors to have a place to live we rebuilt this for citizens and the one thing i can say about the community they persevere we're fighting the displacement again and the filipinos are leading this so the fight never dies and the leadership and advocacy still sustains so congratulations to every one i want to thank the

mayor and naomi kelly we couldn't have done that without you and thank you to everyone. (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor kim next i'd like to introduce supervisor avalos who represents district 11 we can clap for that (clapping) district 11 has the largest number of more than 3 thousand tagalog speakers and supervisor avalos has been a strong leader for tagalog. supervisor avalos >> thank you naomi was going to do a hearing on the certification of tagalog harassing as part of the language cease program and yesterday supervisor chiu was

throbbing how many hearings we've been doing now i don't have to do a hearing because of the great leadership of the filipino community but all across san francisco i represent district 11 naomi said we have 3 thousand tagalog speakers and many more filipino speakers and in district 6 supervisor kim rival yaech in the filipino population but your government should be responsible to everyone and canoeing had k347d in 2009 was about that it's lived up to the promise we want to make sure that the residents can take advantage of the federal benefits and the determination that wouldn't have come about without the support

of the mayor and naomi and one who wasn't mentioned was a gentleman who (clapping) has done a lot of outreach in district 11 and in the filipino community and the young people that's served and thank you naomi and the may it's been a long time coming it's a great victory all the major victories that happen in the working with communities this is one and many more good things to come. thank you >> thank you supervisor avalos. so we're here at the bye hi, 91 had an center. one the programs is the veterans equity centers to honor the veterans in world war ii to provide culturely and listen

giving justice. the leaders is a woman that should why in the community for many years please welcome the director (clapping.) thank you frrment i would like to thank the community for role moving this issue forward in a bye tin spirit we are resilient and making sure that everybody comes together in moving forward. i want to thank did leadership of the board of supervisors who are present karen downey. supervisor avalos and supervisor kim for listening to the constitutes and your responsive to whatever they're asking for the language access.

we thank you to our mayor, mayor ed lee for making sure he supports our community. i know about decades it is so telling how will i other people but a service provide out of market inform 23 years and i see the mayor smiling because i was the interim he always mentioned that but thought 23 years in my previous life i was working with at risk youth in the juvenile justice system you don't know how it's been difficult to to the parents who are responsible for the courts system. there are at that time, i believe there was only one filipino probation officer at the center so you can image

there's a lot of them and few of us to speak tagalog. let's fast forward to my work of the 15 years. language has been very, very important because a lot of them have been fighting for their benefits, a lot of them have's have been denied their benefits and going to hospitals and that's been difficult to get the service because it would in their language. and even if they say do you speak english they'll say yes, but when it comes to an official document understanding the system they revert to their and a half tongue and a lot of them them speak tagalog what does it mean it have thank god for our languages for our immigrant community in the area of housing

what side if mean how many people have not applied for available housing because of the language how many people have not been able to voice, you know, a lot of the, you know, if they have housing they don't understand there are laws and ordinances that protect them. for workers how many actually have been very silent sb about injustices in the workplace because they don't speak the language. so today is a celebration it maybe like we said it came a little bit late but in the near future once we get a lot of the services in the city in los angeles materials in los angeles we open a lot of gates and hopefully, the number of people who are not can you tell me services in the city will come

forward and that's a victory because we're truly responsive to the needs of the filipino community. thank you (clapping.) thank you luis. next i'd like to have - say a few words is the filipino consul general (clapping.) thank you administer kim and mayor edwin lee and supervisor chiu and supervisor avalos and supervisor kim and the members of the filipino community. i would i want to say you can't imagine how appreciative we are and i'm sure it's significant for them because right here the very core and home the filipino community of san francisco we've started to take tagalog lessons

from everyone starting with the mayor. serially speaking mr. mayor, we take great pride in being in the city of the care of the community. san francisco as you said is a city of diverse community. very the ordinance that's being passed rec the filipino has a third language is certainly a recollection of the transcribes of this great community the filipinos. and certainly its very significant for them because not only is it access to language and services because it makes them open up the city to themselves and feel like a home to them. certainly for any filipinos for the first time in the bay area this is wonderful and truly

different when they're far away from home. i want to thank you. again mr. mayor and supervisors ms. city administer ms. kelly for the camp poosht timing for the community >> (clapping) >> thank you next i'd like to introduce terry valencia who the founder the community center terry served as the national alliance for filipino concerns and a great partner with the office of urban affairs part of the network and was helpful during the 2010 consensus so terry (clapping.) thank you all for being here today for spornl this press

convention and i went talking about this specific, you know, issue in our community and i thank you, again, for lending our area in moving this forward. i forgot to say (speaking foreign word). i'm not a fluent tagalog speaker i want to ucla but with my limited focuscy i had to do we have to help our filipino members access service and helped people to get food stamps and get legal assistance to fight for their reporters. a lot of the folks are doing this in district 6. i want to thank you naomi kelly

for your work and supervisor avalos for proposing the amendment and passing it in 2009. your staff amy and so many folks to thank supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and april and supervisor avalos office staff and also a couple of supervisors not here supervisor campos and his office and supervisor ed mar were helpful in the process. there are so many people that helps to make this happen we're standing on the shoulder the filipino community that's been here almost a century fighting for housing and workers to live in san francisco. i i know supervisors that have been representing their

districts 6 and 11 we know we've hit the 10 thousand folk people saipg i don't speak enough english and the united states is so important there is an under count of folks so we're very happy to get thirty to this point it took sprierns are pioneers of the community we're happy we're here today. i mention everyday nonprofit staff nurses and government employees and even school acknowledge children have translating for their parents and grandparent and they're not being recognized but they have to the tagalog the official language in the philippines is a

great thing it's a city of gunpoint and welcoming of immigrants and all those english proficient consultants. the filipino center is a proud member of the language access network and we're proud to work with the network with adrian and others and our new speciality santa draw who will be working with (clapping) going forward so. the process is new this is the first language certified under the language act and we look forward to working with other community partners to certify other languages and hope to backing make the process better so we can make it a strong step forward as possible. we looked at to working with sandra and with the burn heights

center and f ad s when is our sponsor today and bishop there are members of active leadership and grassroots we want to thank everyone for coming again, this is a big step forward a century of filipinos in the united states and this is >>right. step to recognize the contribution and the strength of our community in san francisco. thank you all for coming here today and all your work (clapping.) thank you terry. i would like to introduce grass lee for affirmative action dpras focuses on racial justice issues. c aa is part of the language

access network and is with the immigrant affairs. grace (clapping.) so i'll try to make this quick i, you know, today is wednesday i'm thinking of the irony because the staff is asking for the reform so today is a wonderful celebration of how lucky we are in san francisco is have so many supervisors and mayor here in support of the community. as was mentioned we were involved if the effort of the access language and all those were in putting in place a policy that would allow our city to adapt to the changes here we are today, we have partners with the access here the burn heights

center and we have a new partner we know this work is difficult it's resource intensive it takes time and money and train but at the same time the community partners we're going to go back to our offices and continue the hard work to work with the community they feel awe ashamed or whatever in light of that today there's no important, important to recommend that. today is exciting and as terry mentioned the community has been doing this work for a very long time. we have our elected officials it's san francisco at its best today. so thank you (clapping.)

all right. well, thank you this ends our press convention and the mayor and others are here for limited questions. >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only

location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the

spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program

since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use

cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet

michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively

very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last

people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do. stand for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty