(clapping). >> all right. bev thank you for your introduction good morning everyone welcome to the people's palace are you ready are you ready to rise are you ready to join the boil women cries the world to stop violence yeah. i want to welcome you all to city hall want to thank the b day organization bevy at commission on the status of woman to my wife anita that joined us today and the elected officials and supervisors our da our pd and everyone that is joining together this is issue cuts across alu of our work no more than should work in a sill low or trying to end violence against women and girdles earlier this week you

heard it if you w567d said grammy awards or president obama shared a message of the inare tolerance violence against women we echo that message today and it didn't matter if usual in entertainment or a professional athlete or others we have to have better role models across the board we've got to insist think outside the box that and demand on that everyone has to contribute to end this violence >> to our administration here in san francisco i want you to know by the way i love those signs aren't they great their personal commits commitments what can i do to join the revolution thank you to the girls and others wrooik our messages of how to contribute here in san francisco i made a personal commitment along with

all the other department heads we have a program called interrupt to predict and organize against violence in the city we want to make sure we end human trafficking in san francisco every opportunity (clapping) i just want to say i'm so proud of the da and the public defenders and our police department work together with me and our community based on organizations with leaders in the women group to make sure we do everything we can and examining everybody we can we've got a justice and courage oversight panel that worked together for 13 years making over one hundred and 20 recommendations thank you for your wonderful work the very first time we were

spriemd that took this long did first time our did dependent on the status of women are able to start collecting even better data on human trafficking to making sure that everybody commits the departments and community based organizations to have the data that thrills what we need to do the best and most to end human trafficking if he wanted to do this i want to give a special shout out to supervisor cohen in partnership with ore and our housing authority we're now finland two advocates funding with the housing authority to make sure that even the most xhifshg challenged families in the city have the right to stand up against violence and make sure that we produce a healthyer housing authority for that. >> you know ladies and

gentlemen we have a wonderful 44 months of no homicides in our city and that was a huge huge accomplishment and sadly that record was broken that tells us we've got more work to do we have to continue saying in every circle has president breed say no more no more violence stand up be strong on that this year i had the privilege of joining mayor libby in oakland to have a area summit right here in san francisco to forge an alliance with men and women across the bay this is a worldwide challenge (clapping.) join me and us and join libby

shaft and i as we host a summit in october in san francisco with the privilege of saying that we're going to re-up ourselves in san francisco with the principles of united nations convention on the eliminations of all forms of discrimination against the denies and join me in doing that and you will see a city that continues to invest in education in gender equality, in blaltd poverty and providing the necessary services that will be successful in completing our ending of domestic violence in all forms of violence keep up the great work get up and dance and yell and shout address join the world let's end violence for

everybody thank you (clapping). >> thank you, mayor ed lee another round of applause for our mayor. >> my name is marily mondejar i am with the filipinos women's network i've privileged to introduce to you our community partner a partner who has added a lot of resources to end violence against women he's added more da's to this so important prosecution and really be vigilant in ending violence against women help me welcome san francisco district attorney george gascon (clapping) thank you, thank you marily and beverly and thank you to the incredible prosecutors in my

office and susan and everyone that has put this event together >> (speaking foreign language.) >> can you hear that now okay. >> i was thanking everyone that is making n this day possible today, i have to tell you as a father of too young women i'm krib8 proud of and obviously a son and husband i look forward to the day we will not have to have this type of event because domestic violence will not be part find our society but i can we're not there yet we have a long way to go i want to say that if you recall a couple years ago we had a conversation with many of you there were domestic violence that was not enough people we literally were not able to take care of our victims and many of you came together we got the mayor and

the board of supervisors a group in my office that provided additional funding for the prosecutors and investigators i'm proud to say that last year 4 hundred and 50 cases were brought to trial and 83 percent were able to obtain a conviction and the credit for that work (clapping.) goes the men and women of the district attorney's office and the men and women in the police department and to every one of you that reached out to victims and let them know it is okay to come forward and provide information and that actually there are not victims but survivors again, i look forward to the day when we will not have to have this conversation but until that day comes i want toileitis let you knows that the

michelangelo in my office we'll continue to send a message many of you there will be consequences for their behavior no one no one should have to live in fear and much less in the privacy of your own home thank you very much (clapping.) >> thank you district attorney isn't that amazing are you enjoying this? let's take this energy to continue the rising and create a social revolution for change it reflects the hard work of the community itself and today we want to honor all of our san francisco community partners who hard work created this revolution so, please shout out to dancing without borders for friends of the status of women

black parenthood a band of women abc and cb n our legal outreach and asian women's shelter and the legal aid and community united against violence and the house futures without violence gabriel usa and grace cathedral and mission girls, mission neighborhood centers and on the filipino council of san francisco any public comment? san francisco against rape and san francisco desk women in action, the filipino the reilly center women enter culture network and women's aids thank

you >> i want to acknowledge our we have a lot of partners i want to apologize to our elected officials but help me welcome our first lady anita lee we have with us supervisor jane kim and my supervisor from district 68 we have supervisor supervisor norman yee from district 7 and supervisor scott wiener you won't miss him and now i'm pleased to introduce to you really the person who is the magnet that makes us do the work executive director of the san francisco department and the status of women dr. murase when is the president of the san francisco school board. >> how's everybody doing today

were we can do better than that how is everybody doing today a few thank you's want to thank my staff that were here earlier in the morning and dj and susan has been working tireless for the last few months. (clapping.) >> and mayor ed lee, of course, and marily and others from the mayor's office who made today happy. (clapping.) and we have saving lives in san francisco we've heard the mayor the city has joined i'm joined by our city agencies let's hear if for our city agencies. >> i'm happy happy to reporting we have housing authority and at domestic violence brochure out

to the city employees we've trained people in our housing authority and have a new officers involved domestic violence policy at the police department. (clapping.) in human trafficking supervisor tang has lead the way to go after our logically massage mroorldz we have eric mar and trained 88 did that want public health inspections how to look for signs of human trafficking (clapping) so, now it's my great pleasure to introduce a dear friend and colleague teresa parks head of the human rights commission teresa is truly a revolutionary woman as a transgender advocate

and director of human rights commission has participated with us in the department to fight human trafficking which again your mayor has made a exempting commitment in his priority on the women's empowerment please help me welcome teresa (clapping.) >> you know your emergency is contamination i want to excluding clawed your energy i intended a conference the teeming theme of the conference revolver is a family value we talked about particularly lesbian gay boy sex all families and the strength of those families but we need to understand that abuse is not a family value

harassments, discrimination are not family value and lack of housing and medical care is not family values this applies not only in san francisco but to communities around the world this applies to all women relevant active of age and race and ethnic night and muslims and or ribs of cultural and country of the physical size or any other human characteristic including human identity i want to say this once i've said that many times transgender women are women. (clapping.) >> last year in the united states the reported number of

transgender who were murdered was one a month we know the statistic it coloring to two or three because one is recorded in the last 6 weeks in the united states there have been 5 transgender women regularityly murdered one in san francisco and 3 in california i want to recognize the translating population that are not here tonight bringing but their moreno one of their own brutalizing murdered february 1st and want to acknowledge a the latina population thank you rally of 2 hundred people that night 5 hours later a gay crime against a transgender we need to stop this and stand up against violence and not allow it to continue we need to talk about

to each other and band together and work for each other and stand up for each other because the only family value that i recognize and that others is love thank you very much. (clapping.) >> there are partners we also want to continue to allocation and they arrive one is special to us former seeblt member fiona but let me tell you fiona ma she worked on freeing incarcerated women that were convicted because of domestic violence fiona there she is i want it acknowledge a member

of the school board who is angle education advisors hydra mendosa i think she's up there and our law enforcement is here without our law enforcement those are the individuals the departments that help us with our domestic violence against women i want to action our sheriff mr. dreaming i didn't with his wife and from the san francisco police department and some of his esteemed members commander mows over here so, now let me introduce the director of violence anti violence program with the mayor's office >> (clapping.) >> marily it is my honor to stand you to introduce the next speaker but first can i see you rise? can i see the one?

great, thank you for the honor of allowing me to introduce the next speaker i want to action before i introduce some of the city departments that are key working forward with ending violence against women and girls our probation officer chief ass also in the countryside alongside with the city agencies and departments that were mentioned earlier today, i. pleased to introduce your next speaker someone that is a community representative that is standing up for rights of women and girls mr. rajas san francisco funds multiply preservation programs like the mayor's office and the department of youth and department of public health and adult and juvenile probation and, of course the department on the status of woman

d o s w provides an investment it supports 25 programs for the violence against women mission girls and the program is one of the many preservation programs funded by itself city and county of san francisco to serve girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 17 years old it is focused on guardrail the next generation of young women by offering services to inspire them those have experienced crimes and their latino youth girls and are the hardly to reach the violence and poverty mission girls incurs young women to enclosure option and women

and girls here in the city and county of san francisco so today please join me in welcoming restraining order and your next speaker (clapping.) hello, everyone i'm sue is an be rajas i'm speaking not only as the director but as a survivor of a relationship violence today, we are here to help end domestic violence against women i want to thank the courageous women and men that being a woman is not a reason for denies we're creating a power revolution that promotes respect and equality and the right to be safe in all of our relationships all of us together can help to end violence we can incur our

young women and young men to not be perpetrators of violence i ask you to take this energy and let it build up a fire in our summers and live the revolutions every day and join us in standing up against the violence again women in music and television and friends and media thank you >> (clapping). >> as more and more of our partners arrive to support us and to make our awareness raising event successful let me acknowledge the adult wendy and the district attorney in favor of the domestic violence unit at

the doofks. >> our juvenile probation chief and police commissioner and the depth cohesive paul henderson and port director monique and the status of women julie sue and today would not 45e7 without my colleagues i want to call up any partners in this project dr. emily murase for 9 department of the women and the beverly upton with the san francisco consortium of san francisco and, of course one belittle rising would not 45e7 without the director of b day susan swan. (clapping.) and hi, everyone well today's

greater in this room and the rotunda and being with the woman that work day to day we know we've work on this issue everyday tests person and specific it types of our hearts and bodies by coming together and advancing today, we come together in community and we come together and we claim and demand an end to violence against women and girls i thank you we're so excited to dance again so everyone has a chance to get up there are a couple of things we rise weer unusual in the rising around the world we're on the west coast and in my minute as we're speaking communities around the world is rising their sending in pictures from schools and delhi in manila

all across the world people in vermont are calling saying rest assured we're rising in a foot of snow we have the beautiful day over the next couple of days go the state website bay rising oakland is here who is representing the best today. (clapping.) >> mirroring mayor lee's words we can work together it's wonderful great you guys are here we've got pink going over the golden gate bridge and we'll walk at the cathedral torment night really join us go to one boil rising.org and we're happening happy to have you it's time to dance

one more acknowledgement. >> so one more acknowledgement the west bay filipino center who take care of our youth and the filipino and now we're ready to dance dance. (clapping.) >> on your feet let's rise watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the

people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land

filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box

especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39

millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. >> whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the greater community will benefit. >> thanks to sf environment san francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us