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tv   Juneteenth Kickoff Celebration 2023  SFGTV  June 30, 2023 6:30am-9:01am PDT

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>> ancestors for freedoms and all others who dared to define, defend and develop our interest as a people, we pour. for our elders who helped us give us wisdom and strength for our fathers, mothers who rest in the valley of the departed, we pour. for the youth, who represent the future and tomorrow we pour. for remembrance of many women, men, and the human rights struggle,
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we pour. for the new world we struggle to build, we pour. for the principle as our guides in and out of every day live, we pour. for our all mighty creator who makes all things possible, we pour. thank you. we now want to bring up our mc for today. mr. shawn william. >> we are not doing that. some of y'all is acting like you don't have hot burns on the back of your neck right now. acting real upty, this is our celebration and you guys are acting real real real upty right now. happy juneteenth.
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[applause] stop playing with me. this mic moves, i can go everywhere. i see you. we are going to be celebrating us, black music. really just music because music is black music. we create when we have nothing-we create everything, not something, everything. so, we are going to be celebrating ourselves, our music, our culture, our heritage and there are two rules. rules on a celebration? yes. rules on a celebration. rule number one, there are a lot of influential people, inspirational people and young people who are inspirational in here. look to your, front, back, right. we are family in here. get all this
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golf clap out of your system now. we are not doing that today. introduce yourselves. get to know each other. yes. alright. i like that. i like that. we will be passing around the offerings in a minute, because we still have building fund to make sure we get that building. rule number two, and this is very important, i am mc for the evening. that means my job is to move this crowd. i receive my check early. it cleared. i would like to be the mc this year and year after that. you guys, rule two, enjoy yourselves. there will be a lot of great music up here. we are not people of trouble, we are people of bass and drum so when the music hits your soul you better not give me that piedmont golf clap stuff. i know some have good iras and
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credit scores, but leave the 9 to 5 on the shelf and enjoy yourselves. we are going to enjoy ourselves. we are going to act like there is a wood en spoon and fork on the wall. we are going to act like there is a freezer behind me with a crisco can and chicken grease and you cannot mix those. we will be black like you got to go to the kitchen, go out to the garage, to the third freezer and get that meat. get the neck bones and ham hocs and thaw it in the sink. we are going to enjoy our blackness. i like to come back next year. there are a lot coming up and move you. a lot of great speakers coming up. this is second annual. enjoy your is lf. celebrate yourself, embrace your blackness and learn how far our music has
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come. with that being said, i will bring up the first speaker, coming up. it is a honor and pleasure to bring up this woman. please make sure your respect every person-not yet? we are go toog ing to get in the african dance. hold on. we are going to get in the african dance. (indiscernible) they are not asking me to come back just for that.
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shoot. amira. i got help. my family helped me out because i like to come back. give it up for the african dance act. no, no. that is golf clap. i messed it up. let's make the noise and start clapping. let's start clapping. thank you very much.
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[music in the background] >> [unable to hear speaker]
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[singing]
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[singing and clapping]
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[singing and clapping]
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>> we are free! [singing]
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[applause]
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[singing] >> give it up one more time. give it up one more time!
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[singing and drums] >> everyone please give it up one more time! >> clap it. clap it up. clap it up for them. >> also, we are asking if you are in the back to please minimize your conversation, because we can hear it up here in the front. i want to make sure we give the performers the respect they deserve. >> sarah can you hear me? >> i can hear you!
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>> can you hear me clear? >> loud and clear. >> that means if you can hear me back here you can hear me talking back here so we want to respect everyone who comes up to the microphone. i know you are talking about the show is so great and look at the costumes, but if we can keep it to a church whisper we greatly appreciate it for all the artists who comes up here and speakers. it is very important we listen to everyone as they come up. also, you don't have to stand. you guys do to protect us. you don't have to be on the wall. there are all kinds of seats where you can sit. there are seats over there, so please, you will be here a little while, so please, keep it going. so, with that being said, i'm going to bring up the next speaker, the correct speaker, thank you very much for the assistance. we are going to bring up an very important person, start clapping now, not the golf clap
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for ms. felicia jones. keep it going. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you so much. what i want you to do is everybody stand up. put your hands up in the air and wave them flags like you just don't care. it is juneteenth. freedom day, jubilee day, emancipation day. wave them line you just don't care like you are enjoying what we are doing for you. thank you so much. i see you in the back. thank you so much. we are happy to have you. thank you and look you guys are in here honey. our second annual mayor london breed juneteenth kick-off. yes. and we want to say thank you to our
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mayor and often times i call her my mayor, my boo, and anyone who knows me knows how much i love me some mayor breed, so we want to say thank you for all that you do. i understand that you have been on the news a lot, but everybody want to look at what she's not doing, but honey, you need to start reading those press releases so you can learn about what she is doing. [applause] alright. clap it up. what she is doing! clap it up. come on people. clap it up. all you dki recipients up in here, getting money because of mayor breed and shamann walton, show your appreciation for these two on juneteenth day.
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ain't nobody else did anything for black folks in san francisco like the dki initiative. and so we say thank you. we say thank you. i want to say hello to all our esteemed guests. chief. hi! chief nicholson, hi! deputy chief, hi! okay. hi! kimberley, hi! shamann, hi! i i don't know you. >> i'm new. i'm engardio. >> thank you. da brooks. and then too from my other employer, chief adams. assistant chief carter. chief fisher in the back. anybody else from san francisco sheriff
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department? anyone else? did i miss any other electeds? who? you are pointing, i don't know who you are pointing to. oh, preston. hi, dean preston. supervisor preston, welcome. yes. of course. where is dr. davis? director dr. cheryl davis. yes, we love her. we love her. and so with that, you know, i'm going to let you sit down while we bring up shamann. throw the flags in the air and wave them like you just don't care! it is juneteenth. it is juneteenth and here's shamann walton, board of superriser. >> thank you so much felicia. real quick before i say a few words. i you want to stand up if you black. stand up if you
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black. so, i did that because i just wanted to see who claim us. so, i know when i walk outside. thank you everybody. you can sit down. so, first of all, as you know, juneteenth is a celebration, and it is celebration of a time period where slaves in texas did not realize and understand they were free and this was in 1865. and it took us all the way till 2022 to be recognized as a national holiday, but i want to thank everyone in this room. i want to thank all the leaders in the city. i want to thank everyone across the state and country to come together to make sure juneteenth is recognized as a national holiday. you did that. give yourselves a hand. [applause] and we should not just
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be celebrating juneteenth and celebrating freedom when we get to this certain time period in june. we should be celebrating freedom, juneteenth, the accomplishments of black people, 24/7. not just in june and not just in february. [applause] now, there is another thing that happened in 1865, which makes the work we have been doing here in san francisco so prevalent today. we were promised 40 acres and a mule in 1865. raise your hand if your ancestors got that 40 acres and a mule. okay, just checking. just seeing who is here with me. so, as we continue to make sure that we do everything we can in black leadership here in san francisco with the dream keeper initiative, with the folks who are working down at community making sure
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our people are connected to services, connected to resources, receiving or just doing san francisco, it is also very prevalent that we remember the reparations we were promised that we never received. so we'll keep fighting here in the city to make sure that black people receive their just due. we will make sure we right the wrongs of the past and we will make sure that we achieve equity here as a black community. i just want to say, thank you all for coming to celebrate with us on this second annual juneteenth celebration right here in city hall. as you know, we have a black mayor. as you know, we have a lot of black leadership here in san francisco and we cannot let this be the end of black leadership as we go into the future. [applause]
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so, with that said, remember we have a gala tonight, remember we have a celebration in fillmore tomorrow, celebration in bayview sunday. celebrate juneteenth, enjoy yourself, have a good time and make sure you understand the meaning and why we celebrate this now, national holiday. thank you. [applause] give >> give it up one more time for shamann walton. about to get into the music portion. you ready for some music? that was weak. you ready for some music? alright. we are about to get into right now. it is a spiritual with director cheryl evan davis. father daughter dance. our journey continues with jazz with sara and blues
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are teri. make noise now for the artists who are about to rock the stage right now. let's go. >> i often blame the mayor for people thinking i can sing. i will ask you all to do me a favor. first and foremost is recognize and understand the role of spiritual in the black experience and so i would say it is a dual purpose in the song and in the singing so i'll ask you to do your best as i'm singing to listen to the words, and think about them with that dual message. on one front, it is about hope, and the belief that things will get better. that it is about whether it happens on this earth or in heaven or in the by and by, and on the other hand it
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is hidden message. it is call to freedom, it is call to the underground railroad, it is call to escape, so i'm just going to ask you to be thinking about that as we go through that. i'll ask you all that do believe to be praying. [piano playing and singing]
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>> give it up one more time, one more time! for your director cheryl evan davis, lord! [music and singing]
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[applause] >> please give it up one more time for rico and
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mazia. [applause] [piano playing] [singing]
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[applause] >> thank you. so, i think a lot of you might know
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this, so go ahead and sing it with me. [piano and singing]
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[singing summertime and the living is easy]
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please give it up for marcus, dante and george. [singing]
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>> give it one more time for sanging. that wasn't singing, that was sanging. everybody alright? we good? alright. you good in the back? i know you are, because we hear you. >> take a moment to
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shake that off. that was good. sara. sit in it for a minute. i'm a blues singer. all this music you hear today, it came from the blues. we are the root. i'm going to do a song by one of my favorite blues singers, gospel singer ms. (indiscernible) can you put your hands together? this is message i think everyone needs to hear. [guitar and singing]
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[applause]
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i'm going to do a song i wrote. you see, we have seen a lot of changes happen around here in the bay area, and this song was inspired when was on facebook, and the police were called on the church for worship ing too loud and there was a drum circle on the lake and they were calling the police on the drummers. this song is entitled, gentrification blues. [drums, guitar, singing]
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>> give it up one more time! it is beautiful how we can take pain and make it into just pleasure. i see people using fans now like it is church. it is getting hot, yeah! with that being said, we are about to take it to 1959. take it to a place called detroit, aka the motor city, where there was this brother named berry gordy
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who started a company with only $800 and decided to call it motown, home of icon-i was about to say legends but icon like stevie wonder, jackson 5, michael jackson, the supremes and my mama's favorite, marvin. start clapping now for the san francisco theater company. nate the soul singer and ryan. >> how you doing? we got a couple temptation songs for you. you all ready for that? alright, let's go. [singing]
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>> thank you thank you thank you. i'm rodney earl jackson, jr., artistic director of the theater company. >> anthony jackson. >> amen, amen, amen. we got one more for you because our wonderful may loves this song but dedicated to all the beautiful black ladies in here. especially looking at dr. cheryl davis and looking at my beautiful mother. alright. alright. i'm going to take the glasses off for this. get into the motown spirit.
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[singing i got sunshine by the temptations]
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you all know this next part. come on london, i need ya. [singing continued]
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>> thank you so much. happy juneteenth!
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>> hello everyone. my name is nate the soul singer and i'm going to come to you about r & b music. i'm a r&b artist myself. i had to do studying and get history. r & b music was born in the 40. lewis jordan is one of the first r & b artist with is you is or is you isn't my baby. since we had so much old school i decided to do more in my era which i think you'll all enjoy. r & b music has done
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a lot of things. talks about love. talks about heart break. money. having it, wanting it, needing it. my job is to get you all out of you seats today. so, we can party to this r & b music. come on! and of course if you know any of these songs, please sing with me. [singing how will i know by whitney houston]
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thank y'all. [applause] and there were groups by the
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fugees. [singing killing me softly by the fugees]
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>> thank you all. thank you all. while you are on your feet i got one. you all ready? one, two, three! one more time, you all ready? !
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[singing outstanding by the gap band]
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>> i want to thank you all again. happy juneteenth! keep dancing. keep loving and keep growing. [piano playing] how you all feeling out there san francisco? >> alright. give it
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up for -my name is ryan nicole representing hip hop for you all and before we get into it, i want to give history. hiphop started as a protest. it didn't start as a party. we know hip hop music more blinging flashy and ratchet but that isn't how we are going to do it today. is that okay with you all? we are going to start with the word because the word is where hip hop started. it started as spoken word first. do you know we are the center black people are the center. another word for the center is the nexus. right? we make this whole thing go down. we make this whole thing happen, so juneteenth is about freedom and releashing the shackles but first freedom in your
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mind. we are the nexus, meaning the freshest, meaning the center of attention, the essence, the light source, indandescence, the shunshine, bright florescent, caept reject it. better if you accept this. elevating position (indiscernible) people stay connected, i am what i am, (indiscernible) [singing]
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let's get free. come on. first time being free. we got to get free in the mind. [singing]
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[applause] >> thank you. so, hip hop. protest music. hip hop also talks about love. we
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going to do some things we don't normally hear on the radio. we are going to do love stuff. i'll do the last song and get out your ways because we have more performances coming up. my name is ryan nicole. this is love song. a little sweet. it ain't but bumping and grinding, even though i'm not mad at that, but i feel you've been inundated with that. can you two step with me now? i'm grown y'all. i can't be bumping and grinding and twurking and all that. my knews hurt. got arthritis. [singing] erking and
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all that. my knees hurt. got arthritis. [singing] [applause] >> lord have mercy. give it one more time for ryan nicole! give it up one more time for the san francisco bay area theater company and one last time when a sister tears up a stage like that you have to get her name right, nate, the
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soul singer. we would like to also recognize mr. reverend brown. give it up. from the baptist church. you having a good time? you enjoying yourselves? why not because it is evolution of our music so of course you having a good time. i'm about to bring up a sister one more time to make sure she has announcements. start clapping right now had, give it up for ms. felicia jones one more time! [applause] >> yes! the evolution of our music. if you enjoyed yourself, one more time, stand up with your flags in your hand and raise them to the sky like you just don't care. i mean, i'm sitting over there and i'm just like, wow! if
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director asked me next year to do this again, it is like wow, what am i going to do, because this has been fabulous. this has been fabulous and can i'm so glad you enjoyed yourselves. we are going to close out with the caribbean vibration. the caribbean vibrations are in the house. uh-huh! they going to show you what they working with. yes! i love them, because my cousin, my first cousin, my second cousin have all danced with this group for over 30 years, and so, she has been asking to come into city hall and i was like, okay. evolution of music, i got to close this out with a bang. i got to close it out, girl. here we are. shawn, you going to introduce them? thank you all so much for coming
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and again, i'm so happy you guys enjoyed yourselves and our house! and our house! and our house! and we have to be comfortable and coming into our house by the name of city hall. [applause] >> give it up one more time for ms. felicia jones. i'm go to read this off the bio so wasn't like i wasn't doing my homework but we want to bring them up correct. so, caribbean vibrations launched in 2010. you can start clapping right now. by founder, designer, dance choreographer trisha bell fast williams a native of-not only know for the vibrations and vibrant and beautiful costumes but the
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ultimate and authentic carnival experience in northern california representing all caribbean islands. steadily growing and evolving into a powerhouse mass band and focused on our masqueraders. establish a new standard and serving becoming the first all inclusive caribbean carnival group. i don't think you heard me, established as a new standard. becoming the first all inclusive caribbean carnival group in california. caribbean vibration mission is deliver the masquerade with amazing costume, exceptional service and teaching of cultural caribbean dance. ladies and gentlemen, give it up for caribbean vibrations! [applause] >> caribbean vibrations!
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>> caribbean vibrations! [music] [singing]
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>> my name is tiffany cobb and i
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work for the san francisco fire department. i was raised by a single parent. i grew up with a very strong work ethic mental ity. i would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. you will provide the needs and complete the call. >> the favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your
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people skills as a human being. sometimes it's not a medical need. they just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are. those are my important calls. i remember being a seven or nine year old girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. there are people like me that can do that job. sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. i feel like i can bring that to my patients. >> you maybe feel afraid. just try it out. that's what i did.
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just never give up. i was told no. i failed the fire academy. i'm still here and i never quit. just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. i'm in station 49. eventually i would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. >> for san francisco, i said this in my interview, it's like the new york of the west coast. it has everything i wanted to be a part of. it has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love. i want to be a part of that.
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>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural
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district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings
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back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one
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of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with,
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but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia.
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there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of
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the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.
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>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture.
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i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy >> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond.
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>> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great
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neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast,
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brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday
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there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4
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star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all
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ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this
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country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and
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help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down
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generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]
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>> (indiscernible) i just know it. excuse me boys, but does anybody have sun block to block this skin from the sun? >> yes. that's right, i need to get my (indiscernible) >> many of us last summer (indiscernible) reapplying sun screen is like getting the second
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dose of mpox vaccine. >> wait, two doses- (indiscernible) >> isn't it too late to get my second dose? >> girl, it is like sun screen, never too late to put more sun screen on. >> that's right, i need to get my second dose of mpox vaccine before the summer starts. >> let's (indiscernible) 21201 to find the closest location to get the vaccine or go to sf.gov/mpox. >> thank you for the information (indiscernible) >> excuse me boys, do you mind checking please? >> sure. >> that doesn't look like a sun burn, you might want to getd it checked out. >> what do you mean clecked out? >> checked out. i was told if i got my second m pox
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vaccine i would have less severe symptoms. (indiscernible) >> maybe i schedule the second dose just to be safe from mpox. >> most vackeens offer you a level of protections, just like sun block. sometimes you need to reapply for more protection. the m pox vaccine is based on two shots several weeks apart to provide the strongest level of protection. visit sf.gov/mpox to get yours. >> thank you boys for that reminder! make sure your are fully vaccinated for m pox this summer. text summer vibes to 21201, to get
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>> it is one of the first steps
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families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the
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serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on estate planning and why it's important. >> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up. >> (indiscernible) important workshop to
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the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a (indiscernible) >> why are estate plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. and,
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>> i was excitesed to see the turn out from the western addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. >> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help
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families and individuals realize their dreams of building wealth in san francisco from one generation to the next. to learn more about this program e-mail inquiries
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 5 o'clock. >> (music).
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>> co-founder. we started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is - many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband we're the owners of you won't see ice cream in san francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going together and we - we provide the job opportunity for high school students and i hired them every year and . >> fun community hubble in san francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many
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years. >> and i'm alexander the owner of ice cream and in san francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke o'clock but the flavors more than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. and my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and what can i do why not bring this ice cream shop and (unintelligible) joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. >> we're the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations
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in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background and a lot of interaction and we're fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also
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>> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up
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to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out.
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it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco.
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by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪] [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪]
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[speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪]
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[♪♪♪] is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy.
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we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview
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the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪ >> [music] art withelders
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exhibiting senior art work across the bay for 30 years as part of our traveling exhibit's program. for this exhibits we partnered with the san francisco art's commission galleries and excited show case the array of artist in historic san francisco city hall. >> [inaudible]. call me temperature is unique when we get to do we, meaning myself and the 20 other professional instructors we are working with elders we create long-term reps i can't think of another situation academically
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where we learn about each other. and the art part i believe is a launching pad for the relationship building:see myself well. and if i don't try when my mom again. she may beat the hell out of mow if i don't try >> seniors, the population encounters the problem of loneliness and isolation even in a residential community there hen a loss of a spouse. leaving their original home. may be not driving anymore and so for us to be ail to bring the classes and art to those people where hay are and we work with people in all walks of life and circumstances but want to finds the people that are isolated and you know bring the warmth there as much as art skill its
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personal connection. men their family can't be well for them. i can be their fell and feel it. >> i don't have nobody. people say, hi, hi. hello but i don't know who they are. but i come here like on a wednesday, thursday and friday. and i enjoy. >> we do annual surveys asking students what our program does for them. 90 plus % say they feel less alone, they feel more engaged. they feel more socially connected the things you hope for in general as we age. right? >> and see when i do this. i am very quiet. i don't have anybody here
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talking to me or telling me something because i'm concentrating on had i'm doing and i'm not talking to them. >> not just one, many students were saying the program had absolutely transformational for them. in said it had saved their lives. >> i think it is person to support the program. because i think ida elder communities don't get a lot of space in disability. we want to support this program that is doing incredible work and giving disability and making this program what supports the art and health in different way bunkham art as a way of expression. a way of like socializing and giving artists the opportunity
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also to make art for the first time, sometimes and we are excited that we can support this stories and honor their stories through art. we hope the people will feel inspired by the variety and the quality of the creative expressions here and that viewers come, way with a greater appreciation of the richness what elders have to share with us. [music]
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calling this meeting to order. thank you for being here. call the roll >> president ajami. >> here. >> vice president maxwell. commissioner paulson. >> here. >> commissioner stacy. >> here. >> we have a quorum. members of the public make up to 2 minutes of remote comment dialing 415-554-0001, access code: 2590 070 2821 ##. to raise your hand press star 3. speakers am hear a chime when there is 30 seconds left. limit comment to the