their life unlivable. we also, 30 years later, we have so many to support and to celebrate as they rebuild their lives from rock-bottom after having given up everything to try to carve out a new future for themselves and for their children, and because violence travels intergenerational he, for their children's children. they survivors are champions who are trying to reroute this intergenerational violence and carve out a new lifeline for their family. amidst odds that i think would make most of us at least to me, not be able to get up in the morning. and 30 years later, we have so many more of us who are working to end violence and who have been gifted the progress that has been made by those who came before us. but still, we have to be here and we have to be really loud. we have to be really clear, we

have to be really confident and sure about what we are doing, and we are. they're still people in forces out there who are perpetuating myths about domestic violence and to need our help to become more aware. they still think domestic violence isn't actually that big of a deal, that it is a contained issue, that it is special interest or it is private or it is personal, it is about anger or it is about alcoholism, and that there's nothing we can do because it's about individual people and individual people are who they are. some people are just inherently more violent and others are inherently more submissive. we are here every single month, and especially in october to take those myths and grind them to a pulp and flush them. we know they are not true. we are here 30 years later using this platform to say domestic violence, it is personal, it is private, and it is social. is political. we are showing that this is an

issue that we pay a tremendous price, an unacceptable price for allowing to continue. at the asian women shelter here in san francisco, we know that domestic violence is interwoven into every single issue that we are arguing about in the country right now. immigration, gun violence, gun-control, homelessness, workforce development, poverty, gender, justice, policing, equal pay, all of it. and now 30 years later, we have more data. others have mentioned some of these pieces. on average, 20 to 24 people per minute, that means we are approaching 100 since i have been talking. our victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the united states. ten to 12 million people over the course of a year. that is completely unacceptable. in a 16 year study ending in 2010, while we know domestic

violence victimizes people across the gender spectrum, that study showed four in five victims were female identified. when we look at the numbers, the risk factors for women living with disabilities for survivors who are indigenous, survivors who are black, survivors who are transgender, undocumented, who speak limited english, we know the pathways that we have to create, they don't look the same way. we have to have all kinds of different pathways that address the different barriers and challenges that different survivors face in our communities and our neighborhoods and in nurse neighborhoods and families. we will have to recognize, as has also been said before, the kids. the kids. nationally, the majority of people who abuse their intimate partner do so in front of the kids. and 50% also abuse their children, but over and over, week after week, in our counties here in the bay area, we see

decisions made that don't reflect knowledge of this. that somehow think that you can terrorize your intimate partner but be an amazing parents. that is not true. in 2018, every town for gun safety report indicated that at least 50 4% of mass shootings in the united states revealed that the perpetrator also shot a current or former intimate partner or family member. over 54%. and almost 100% of those perpetrators of mass violence have histories of violence or verbalized violence and hatred against women. we can't say that they are unconnected anymore. we can't say domestic violence is private and personal anymore, that it is only personal and not connected to public health and public safety. what i want people to know this month, and i want people to still know it, know it even better in november, and even better in december, and be able to tell all the people you know

about it, but not so much that they don't invite you to their parties anymore, that violence -- violent armed perpetrators are a deadly force in america and also here in our city and san francisco. and ending domestic violence is central to saving lives, to saving childhood, to saving our public health and our workplace safety and our school safety, and ultimately our future. so to all the partners here, whether you are in government, whether you are a nonprofit, if you work at night, if you answer the crisis line, if you are an advocate with infants or an advocate with adults or seniors, thank you so much for your creativity and your stamina and you are not alone. none of us is alone. to the survivors out there, i want to tell you that when you feel at your most alone, somehow , a tiny place in your mind and heart, belief that you are not. we are out there. we are scattered all across the

city and we are scattered all across the bay area. we speak your language. we grew up in a family like yours, we grew up in a neighborhood like yours and we cannot wait to support you to find all of your strengths and decide what you want to do to have a better life. you can call us. you don't have to know what you want to do. most of us have no idea what we want to do with our life. you don't have to know, either. but you can call and we can talk about it. we won't judge you, and we won't gossip about you, and we care. it is our whole life. this is what we care about the most. to the kids out there, to the kids that are being woken up several nights a week in fear, to the kids that wake up and spend their night time comforting their younger siblings so that they won't make anything worse, to the kids that then have to get up and go to school and they can't focus and their grades aren't good, and they're making disruptions and having marks of negative

attached to them, i want to tell those kids, i want you to know, we can't wait to work with you. we want to help you with your homework, we want to help you rebuild your relationship with your nonviolent parents, we want you to have a safe place at night and to sleep with stuffy his and have hope for your future because we have hope for your future and we are going nowhere until this issue is gone thank you. [cheers and applause] >> another round of applause for orchid. there are a few more city department heads that have joined me, in addition to fire chief janine nicholson. linda, department of department -- apartment of technology, we could not have done the app without her and her staff. please recognize linda. also, walking torres has joined us, director of the office of economic and workforce development. our next speaker is kathy black, executive director of the --

[speaking spanish] -- the first domestic shelter in california. please give her a warm welcome. >> thank you. orchid, you are awesome. i just want to say that. in keeping with today's theme, building pathways to safety, i want you to know, i will take it a little bit more local and i want you to know that we respond to calls for help from victims of domestic violence of all ages , 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. we give survivors the tools to transform their lives. we seek to prevent future violence by educating the community and redefining public perceptions about domestic violence. we attempt to accomplish this by engaging nearly 20,000 women, teens, men, older adults and children each year through a continuum of expert intervention and prevention services.

we also envision a community where domestic violence is not tolerated in equal access to asset -- asset building opportunities that is freely available to all. i want to talk about a local stat from our shelter. that is of the 7,000 hotline calls we take every year, or this last year, 500 of those were from the san francisco police department law enforcement and from the medical community. we are working really hard to engage community partners who are out, first responders, and to make a difference in that way i feel like that ties to the mayor mayor's press release today because we believe these early interventions are really key to future safety. that by connecting victims and survivors with community resources like the ones

represented here, and all out there, i see my crew out there. that helps reduce the incidence of future violence. and some other highlights from this past year, just so you get an idea about the scope of the work that some of our programs provide, we provided 10,991 nights of shelter to 368 women and their children. eighty-seven% of the mothers who stayed in our shelter participate in family counseling and support groups. people are eager to learn and eager to get resources. we often operate at or over capacity. last year, it was 22% of the year that we operated either at our full capacity or over. what that means is that in the middle of the night when the police department calls, we bring out, and we are full, which we are a lot, we haven't

rollaway beds, we have couches, we figure things out and we will shelter victims and survivors overnight while they are figuring out what their next move might be with the expert help of the staff and our community partners. also, i think i want you to know that, again, whether it is 10:0a first responder is going through the legality assessment -- lethality assessment tool, that when they connect that victim with an advocate at our shelter, and they decide to do an intake, that victim is going to meet the same advocate at the door of our shelter so that it is not -- there's compassion, there's consistency, and i think that makes a big difference for

people. it is a real personal connection over 92% of clients, of our clients report, and i'm sure this is true of my partner programs, as well, over 92% of clients report positive outcomes across our five key metrics, which is, i have to look and see what it is, knowledge, safety, his stability, agency, and isolation. with that, i want to really say that we are one agency as part of a larger safety net, and i see my friends here, and my allies, and we couldn't do the work without city partnerships, political allies, people like joaquin who has been a friend for years. thank you for everything you do for us. and the community partners we

work with. thank you very much. [applause] >> our third and final representative of our domestic violence emergency shelter community is sherry, executive director of the riley center, saint vincent de paul society. please give her a warm welcome. [applause] >> good evening. if we are to address and prevent domestic violence holistically, we must provide comprehensive supportive services centred on the survivors' trauma and need while highlighting their individual family and community systems, strength and protective factors. and if we focus our efforts in providing client centred, trauma informed and culturally sensitive supportive services, we will support the long-term healing of intergenerational cycle of violence experienced by

survivors and their children. this will lead to a stronger, safer, and healthier family and community system free of violence. this is what we work on at our center. we have four major programs in which we do this. we have our transitional housing program, we have rosalie house which is our emergency shelter and our crisis line, we have our community office where survivors can get the services they need, education, workshops, support groups, and then we also work with the family services department, and so if there is an incident of domestic violence , we have a specialist that helps that family moved to a healthier life. we have been in this city of san francisco for 35 years and we are very proud of the work that we do. i want to take this time to thank our consortium, beverly, our domestic -- our department on the status of women, and the

staff and all our community partners that do the work we do. this is how we survived the domestic violence system in the city. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. as president zawart stated, prevention is a critical part of our work to stop the cycle of violence. for over 20 years, asian-pacific islander legal outreach has engaged youth through its youth advisory council to address gender-based and dating violence in asian and pacific islander communities. please join me in welcoming the youth advisory council at the youth coordinator. give him a warm welcome. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. we are the youth advisory council from the legal outreach.

we strive for and accepting an equitable future in which everyone is helpfully loved. as youth in our communities, it is important we engage in work against a mystic violence to educate our peers and prevent its occurrence in our everyday lives. through this work, we believe in setting pathways to safety. the youth advisory council meets to share a safe space where we are able to become activists and create positive change in our communities. in honor of domestic violence awareness month, every year the youth advisory council sets up press -- sets of presentations about teen dating violence to youth organizations, schools, and community spaces oh, oh, -- all over the bay area. we inform our peers and give them a better understanding of healthy and unhealthy relationships and we also empower other youth and equip them with the skills and knowledge to make change in their communities. >> as youth ourselves, were able to directly connect with other

youth and encourage them to be active and involved in their community. we believe in encouraging our young, male identifying peers to break the culture of silence regarding violence within our communities. we also seek to empower youth from the lgbt plus community, people of color, and women. they are patriarchal and systematic effects that are prevalent in our underserved communities, specifically low income people of color. there are societal norms that places men in positions of power over women. in my experience as a young woman of color, i have seen the cultural and societal expectations of gender roles placed upon women of color that make it difficult for women of color to tell the truth. these marginalized women are survivors and deserve justice, with this justice system abuses their power to oppress this community. [applause]. >> we believe that in order to be helpful he loved, education is crucial. it is important to be able to

identify an unhealthy relationship. for starters, and any relationship, it is important that both partners know what consent really is. consent is a strong and continuous yes. it is also a decision that cannot be influenced by power imbalances. another vital factor in safety and determining unhealthy relationships is the cycle of violence. a cycle of which the abuser or abusers traps a survivor in an unhealthy relationship. through the youth advisory council's presentation, we also shuck the importance of a pragmatic and optimistic mindset everyone should feel safe opening up to others, but we should still take the necessary precautions to ensure our safety and well-being. it is also crucial to be well-informed of the reality of domestic violence, including some societal factors that perpetuate this issue. this mindset combines both

positivity and it helps to avoid violence and/or aggression. [applause] >> it is important among san francisco teens because we present students with accurate information about domestic violence and the resources they can use to confront these situations. often, teens take to social media to speak about issues, but only to the extent of republishing a post. they don't necessarily check their sources, and this leads to people being misinformed and quickly disinterested. we are helpful in this way because it gives straightforward and reliable information on domestic abuse and dating violence, as well as resources for people in these situations. this is especially needed in metropolitan areas such as san francisco where there isn't a strong sense of community or people to watch out for one another. [applause] >> too often, youth are unaware of the resources that they have at hand if they find themselves in an unhealthy relationship.

these resources include hotlines , restraining orders, and measures of self-defence. through our presentation, we work to bring attention to these issues, which are often not touched upon in schools. our work as youth is equally, if not more important as the work of previous generations. our actions will lead to pathways to safety for our youth , not only now, but as they grow into adult hood in the future. we urge you to listen to the youth around you. encourage them to become involved in our communities, provide them the support that they need to make profound changes in our society. but most importantly, give them the resources to protect themselves and find pathways to safety and their environments. [cheers and applause] >> another round of applause for our youth advisory council. so our final speaker tonight,

before our concluding performance and group photo, please be sure to stay for the group photo, our final speaker is april mcgill, a california native and director of community partnerships and projects for the california consortium of urban indian health. april will share about the incredibly important project called red women rising, which advocates for culturally responsive services for urban, indian survivors. please give a warm welcome to april. [cheers and applause] [speaking indigenous language] >> my name is april mcgill. i am in the enrolled member of rep -- round valley indian tribe california native, san francisco resident, and i want to recognize our ancestors whose land we reside on today. i just want to remind everybody that we stand on stolen land.

this land was stolen by violence so we have a history of violence and all of our lives, in every single one of you. you have experienced experience that energy and that violence from this land. our what -- red women rising project brings attention to the -- to domestic violence and missing and murdered indigenous women here in california. we work with all the urban indian health and tribal consortiums to bring more attention to violence against native women. as california indian women, we have experienced this violence since the gold rush. we know this violence. this has been happening throughout indian countries, that many nations, but our work is to make change with our rising project by bringing attention to policy and legislative initiative that can change and impact issues around domestic violence and missing and murdered indigenous women

and -- in california. we work with many legislators to make change. we work with sovereign bodies institutes, we work with strong native women coalition, and we partner with all of our other grassroots organizations here in san francisco that are also standing behind me. i wanted to share with you some statistics from sovereign body's institute about california. statewide, there are 135 missing and murdered indigenous women and girls cases across california that have been identified. california is number five for total number of missing and indigenous women and girls cases , alongside washington, new mexico, arizona, and montana. seventy-five% of all cases in california occurred in northern california. nearly one third, 28% of all cases in the state, a humble -- of the humble county are involved with victims involved

in tribes. of the 135 cases, only seven have information on alleged perpetrators available to the public and only one of those alleged perpetrators has actually been charged. over half the cases documented in california occurred in the last three years. from 2013 through 2015, the rate of these cases per year statewide increased by approximately 20% each year. in 2016, the right out -- the rate of cases increased, and in 2018, the rate increased, as well. san francisco is one of the highest in the state, which is really embarrassing considering that we have such a progressive state. one of the things that i can say is we are making change with the port -- with support from the mayor. thank you, london breed for all

your support for the american indian community. thank you supervisor ronen, and supervisor brown because we were able to pass a legislation -- a resolution in may recognizing may 5th as the national day of awareness ongoing missing murdered indigenous women. [cheers and applause] i would like to read the resolution. were as indigenous people have inhabited the north american continent including the state of california for many centuries, and from the first contact with settlers from other countries, native americans share their knowledge of the land and its resources and have continued to play a vital role in the development of local communities , the state of california, and the nation. whereas, the missing murdered indigenous women and girls report from the urban indian health institute released in 20 -- 2009 provides data from 71 urban cities across the united states on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. recognizing that a number of factors, including or data

collection by law enforcement, and limited health resources, that there is an undercount of these women in urban areas such as san francisco, and we are ranked tenth among cities with the highest number of these cases. whereas the 2009 apology to native american people of the u.s. recognizes special legal and political relationships indian tribes have with the united states, and the land we share. recognize that there has been years of official policies and the breaking of laws by federal government regarding indian tribes. apologize on behalf of the people of the united states to all native people for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on native people by citizens of the united states, and commend that the state governments that have begun reconciliation efforts with native american tribes, located in the boundaries, encourage all

state governments to work towards rock and say it -- reconciling relationships with indian tribes within their boundaries, were as the city and county of san francisco has a responsibility to address the disapproved and an victimization of indigenous women from domestic and sexual violence, including missing and murdered indigenous women, and whereas, our sister, jessica nicole alva, lassie died on april 6th, 2019 at the age of 35 after being in a coma for four days as a result of an abusive domestic relationship. jessica grew up in reading and lived in san francisco for five years. she is survived by her mother cindy and her six children and four siblings with a stepbrother and stepsister. and whereas, in 2005, grassroots movements for the safety of indigenous women led to the struggle to include safety for indian women under the violence against women act. whereas, of the last decade, awareness of the national issue

has increased, but more must be done at all levels to stop the disappearance and save lives of our women. whereas, may 5th, 2017 was designated as the first national day of awareness for honoring missing and murdered indigenous women through the efforts of survival families, native american tribes, national, indigenous organizations and law and policy makers. now resolve, this city and county of san francisco permanently designates may 5th as honoring missing and murdered indigenous women's day in the city and county of san francisco , and furthermore, will begin discussions with urban indian organizations, neighboring native american tribes, local tribal organizations to develop recommendations for local and indigenous victim advocacy services. local and tribal justice responses including coordination and identifying the implemented solutions to strengthen the

safety and health and well-being of our indigenous women. thank you, san francisco mayor's office for this resolution. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> and i would like to ask my sister aurora to come up and introduce our red lightning women singers. >> good evening, relatives. we are from the red lightning woman power group. we came about the name through our sister betty over here in regards to missing and murdered indigenous women. we started about a year and a half or two years ago through a red ribbon dress workshop where we had some workshops on domestic violence and sexual assault awareness. we created, 21 -- we created and so 21 ribbon skirts. red represents are missing and murdered women and domestic violence.

we are from the native american health centre here in san francisco, the wellness department, located on mission and seventh. we believe that women are sacred and when we wear our skirts, we are sacred, and also native women, is april mentioned, have the highest rate of domestic violence. we believe in saying her name for our sisters that are no longer here due to domestic violence, and we come from matriarchal society originally, before colonizers came. i just want to say, remake treat we will sing a missing and murdered indigenous women and girls song this evening. thank you. [applause] [singing]

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women lightning singers. there are three people i want to think as we close. first, nicole, the senior adviser to the mayor for helping us put together today. give us a wave. secondly, and finally i want to thank elise of the the department of the status of women. please waive. she held -- she helped put all of today's logistics together. i want to thank all of my staff at the department. please join us for a very large group photo which we want to do really quickly. everybody come on up.

>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to.

you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to

emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not

suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to

realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me

because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married

to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very

confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective,

would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would

love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake.

and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this window is broken in the earthquake. we have wind and rain blowing in. one of the most important things you need to do as a homeowner is secure the plastic properly. if you just take staples or nails and put them into the plastic, we're going to get a strong wind and rip it right off. what i'm going to have somebody do is they're going to have -- this is an old piece of shingle.

you might have -- everybody has a piece of wood in their basement. it doesn't have to be fancy. they take out this rusty screw begun, and hopefully you have one of these. >> there is one at the neighborhood support center. >> at the neighborhood support center. you're going to wrap this plastic around this board, take your screw. and then screw that in. >> you need a permit for this? >> you do need a permit for this. and you can contact the former head building inspector to get that permit. that's it. now when the wind blows, it's tight and it's not going to pull through, having a single point of contact. >> great. what about this door? take a look at this door. what can you do? let's say it doesn't shut tight. what can you do? >> for the sake of argument, we're on the inside. i can't lock my door at night. i have a very similar, very similar idea. i'm going to take my 2 by 4.

i can put it across the jamb in the door. one. two. maybe i want another one up here, maybe another one down there. but i can go to sleep. and that quickly, i can get it off in the morning. >> terrific. what about the roof up here? we see people throw blue tarps over their roof after an earthquake. that seems reasonable. >> i think the blue tarp is reasonable. the things that people want to know that they need to know is if you have multiple tarps, how you overlap. starting from the bottom and moving up so that you're overlapping this way. so, rain running down doesn't slide under your tarp. >> right. >> and the same technique we did over here, as silly as it may sound, wrapping the end of that blue tarp with your board and then securing that if you can underneath, if you have to on top is fine. but making sure that you don't have an area where the wind is going to get under and bill owe that tarp.

>> the wind can rip it right off. >> and then you're back up there again. >> let's go inside and check out what we can do inside. >> old fun. here we go. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going

to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids tripping on it. i don't want to trippon it. i take my trusty duct tape, tape it to the floor, and i don't have to worry about it getting kicked. >> great, great. look at this. let's look at the duct tape here because we see a big -- >> yes. in the event of an earthquake, i don't think we're going to have too many -- too much debris that's safe to put into a plastic bag, even as strong as it might be. these are called vice bags. this is what they use to put rice and things when they ship it. this is something where i take my glass, i can take broken pieces of wood, i can take anything sharp and fill it. and it's not going to puncture and come out. it's not going to fall all over the floor. i've not going to have it sticking out, maybe scratch myself, cut myself or anything like that. these are a great thing to have.

>> you have a little go-to box for emergencies. that's great. thanks very much for joining us, ben. it's really been interesting. and i want to thank you all for joining us here at the spur urban center. and we'll see you again >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪] [♪]

[♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this

stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band.

we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys.

>> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free.

everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco

history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine

in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar.

we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals.

>> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ]