read that and remit it. >> thank you for your comments. >> hello, daniel dun district 9 resident 34 years. antizionest jew and to fix this an icdote, how old is [indiscernible] 1 year old please help him. can you see my light i'm go toog try to get you out. i swear i'll get you out. yes, quickly. are you alma? yes, i told you we would get you out. i want to emphasize that the supervisors must vote on this next tuesday without further amendments. this is a war not just against

palestinian people everywhere including in our communities in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. invite the next speaker. come on up. >> my name is paul answer coalition. i lived in san francisco over 40 years currently in district 2. vote on tuesday for dean preston cease fire resolution. gaza palestine can't wait. san francisco board of supervisors, it is undeniable that the people of is san francisco 79 the resolution to pass. november 4, 50 thousand people matched in san francisco. over 2 thousand came today. will you listening to those who you are supposed to represent or stand [indiscernible] people

struggle so will israeli apartheid. stand thon right side of history against genocide now. >> thank you paul for your comments. welcome next speaker. >> wake up! hello my name is [indiscernible] san francisco d6 resident and support the cease fire resolution. this is critical for sf residents like me because it impacts our multiculture diverse communities. calling for cease fire is not a political issue it is moral and hew mareitarian issue. can you justify-how can you justify bombing children with white phosphorus? [indiscernible] i watch over and over as parents pull ashy bloody little children from the rubble matt dorsey and one girl had a piece of her skull missing and you see her head was missing her brain. these images are shown to us every day. these are the horrors our taxes are funding. you people are the u.s.

government and represent us over 70 percent dem grats support cease fire, 50 percent of americans vote cease fire. vote tuesday. do not delay. cease fire now! >> thank you for your comments. invite the next speaker. come on up. >> hello. my name is [indiscernible] resident of district d1 richmond district. 60 years in san francisco. san franciscans. please vote for the cease fire resolution. it imperative, too many kids died. i don't know if you have kids. i had a son who died. his name was adam, he died offantinal overdose and i know

what it is like to lose a child and i cannot imagine--i can in some ways but having whole families killed, it is just beyond and it happened 4 years ago and still dealing with these issues. please vote for the cease fire for the sake of peace, sake of humanity and sake of children and future of the jewish and palestinian people. we need to end this and stop now. please vote tuesday because every day-- >> thank you. >> good evening. like many others i'm heart broken and holding this grief daily. my name is [indiscernible] a community based therapist and

professor at california institute of studies district 6. i work in the community mentsal health program and cannot teach my students about post traumatic stress disorder when the people of palestine don't understand the concept of post traumatic because they are living it every day. they have been living in a hell scape for the past two months for the 75 years and my heart cannot take it anymore. urge you to please sign as soon as possible to stay on the right side of had history. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is [indiscernible] live in district 10 and work in district 6 here to urge every board member to support the resolution as it is written. san francisco should stand against genocide. our tax dollars should not bes used for murder of people of gaza. the board must join in the

world collective call for end to the genocide and do it as soon as possible. do not wait for another month while families continue to be killed. vote yes for cease fire. vote december 12. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to the next speaker. >> my name is alyssa gonzalez resident of district 6 and stand in solidarity with palestine. here today to demand your vote in support for the resolution to cease fire now. you must act now. vote yes on tuesday. the people of palestine cannot wait till january. the issue is critical to san francisco. we are here we are watching, we will not forget. no cease nire, fire, no vote. end the genocide now. free palestine. >> thank you. >> my name is nancy i live in district 9 and work in district

6. just wondering if people are listening. people in the room so try to make eye contact. as a healthcare worker and member of the filipino i know the lasting effect of killings and are attack on the people and land and these effects transcend generation so urge you to vote december 12, 2023. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. please come up. thank you. >> good evening warmongers which is what you will be inyou do not vote for cease fire resolution. i'm resident of district 6 grand child [indiscernible] 1948 displacement and genocide of palestinian. as a american pal stillian i have a staublt responsibility to be the voice unable to speak. i urge the city to not be

complicit. nearly 20 thousand palestinians murdered. majority children. the cease fire cannot wait till after winter holiday or one more day, must be instated as soon as possible. implore to vote next week and be on the right side of history and vote for cease fire. israel is committing war crimes. this is collective punishment. i refuse to let my tax dollars kill my own people. somehow the u.s. has billions of dollars to sends to kill children while deny residents housing healthcare food and education. vote for cease fire now before it is too late. we remember next- >> thank you for your comments. welcome. >> hello. long-term resident and voter of district 6 living and working in soma. i want to address a

[indiscernible] in palestine. i hear issue is complex and people are confused where to stand. the wave of death and destruction and way of life and clear and clean cut. document photographs [indiscernible] this is very much genocide. suffering the stories of [indiscernible] the need for action is immediate and clear. i beg san francisco to recognize the urgency of this resolution. the realty of the genocide and stan against it. the echo of the voice of the chamber have a material impact on steling suffering and death reined on the people of palestine. choosing the action isn't complex. pass the resolution by tuesday latest as written. we see you and vote accordingly. cease fire now. >> thank you for your comments.

welcome. >> my name is lynne, i live in district 6. i urge you to vote on the cease fire resolution next tuesday and absolutely no later. this cannot wait. there is no reasonable excuse for delaying. every day of inaction of indition of procrastination speaks volumes to voters and constituents. every day you choose silence and delay the vote, decide to play business as usual is oorths day of death and destruction your board neglected to address through the means affordsed to your constitch tuent. calling for cease fire is bear minimum our sit a should be doing and deciding to delay the resolution shows even the bear minimum is not top priority for elected officials. in the face of genocide there are no excuse for inaction. when you get home tonight take moment to sit in silence and sadness and consideration of your position and your power to

effect change. burecrotic politics your voices are always louder then ours. use them wisely and responsible and do the right thing and call for cease fire. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my namep is [indiscernible] i am a voter resident worker in district 6. supervisor dorsey district. i believe that yes, as everyone said, this is not only a great tragedy upon the palestinian people but impact san francisco as san francisco supervisors as people in charge of the city. we clearly want this to be a thing that our city can at least attempt to represent on a national stage we care about. something we stand for and if that does not happen, then i believe you will see both in the ballot and in the streets what the result will be. thank you.

>> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is maddie here as a tenure resident of san francisco and works in d6 with unhoused community. today i ask every supervisor on the beard to bring the resolution to vote next tuesday. we will not wait and vote for cease fire resolution. everyone giving comments are closely watching if their supervisor votes yes. we will all vote act accordingly in november. none of us are free until all free. now is the time to--one person killed by any act of white colonial violence give reason to raise hell. 8 thousand palestinian children. it isn't a radical act to call for cease fire. it is the bear minimum and required act of love and solidarity against oppression. i urge to see the struggle for racial economic housing and

climate justice in san francisco are not in isolation mpts our wish for queer communities black and brown communities, poor communities are linked with a free palestine movement. our struggle is their struggle, we cannot pick and choose which deserve the right to live-- >> thank you >> supervisors. i stat where you sat 8 years and xoe the pressure you are under right now. like the jewish community relation council offered many of you, the offer be a trip to israel. i didn't turn them down but gave a counter offer to coordinate with palestinian leaders to provide a full picture of israel. they turned me down. today public comment offers a tour of the much larger community of people dreckly impacted by the loss of lives on both sides of the boarder and especially the 15 thousand

people murdered in gaza. their experience demands your attention and support. as elected official werupt all the people of san francisco not just the jcrc and democratic national committee. [indiscernible] force to look the other way create alternative facts manipulate to accept the unacceptable and bully to shut our eyes and stop our ears to genocide. the world is desperate for truth. we need a crack in the lies where there is is a crack in everything and that is how the light gets in so ring them bells, vote yesh on the resolution and let light shine through. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. [applause] >> hi. my name is [indiscernible] resident of district 7. i hear everybody here urging you to vote to stop the bigger

disaster. but i'm here to tell you, some of my certain experience i'm survivor of the 1948 disaster of palestine. my father was shot. many of my cousins were killed in the war. we were forced to leave to go up to the mountains. my father was shot in the leg. we have no nothing to give him. desperate. the only medicine he has as many people now have is the leave of the trees--

>> please finish your thought quickly. >> can't hear you. >> please finish your thought. >> i will. finish in a minute. half a minute i mean. after reach a small village to live in we found a place to live under the tree only. same thing now people are living in gaza. we have no water, no food, no medicine, nothing. same thing now. now we know that our 650 thousand babies killed. we call these angels. i hope those angels are free. i hope they give you a message

that you will vote to stop the massacre of their friends. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you fl for your comment. [applause] >> hello. i'm darious, resident of district 8 and member of the communist party u rks is a. it has been 5 days sense the end orphthe temporary truce and in the time israel has killed over a thousand people. continued to bomb hospitals, destroy ambulances and bomb government buildings and continues to blockade access to life saving water and medicine. there is not time to wait on this. we must vote for cease fire immediately tuesday. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to next speaker. >> hello supervisors. my name is [indiscernible] city

employee in district 6. i'm a transgender immigrant. [indiscernible] convince you to vote on the cease fire tuesday. number one, the data. 8 opercent of democrats and 66 percent of all voters in the united states are in favor of cease fire resolution in gaza. that's more then majority of constituents with reelection season around the corner it is in your best interest to listen to voter jz secure the seat for the next term. number two, if data isn't enough to convince you, when we fight for liberation and the right of most marginalized and fight for free palestine everybody wins, nobody loses. that is why i urge you to vote yes on the cease fire resolution tuesday not next year. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. invite the next speaker to come

up to the podium. >> i work in district 6 and are indian person. i appreciate the committee for listening to the diverse voices of our city and diverse communities. the land we are on parallels history of what is going on in palestine. it is bear minimum to show willingness to hold israel accountable to silence done to people and land. silence only echo that violence to palestinians in the city. cease fire echo the support for justice. i urgently please vote on tuesday this year 2023. you can hear the voices of the people and echoes within the building of people who want justice to palestine and urge you to please listen to that. thank you. >> thank you. welcome to next speaker.

>> christine matthew and teach third grade in district 6 and used to teach in district 10. every day i go home and heart is broken with i read the news and see what is happening in gaza and palestine and break again as i see third graders try to process what they are eseeing and student like them being killed . i urge you to vote for the cease fire tuesday. please don't have delay and hope you are part of the solution when my students ask what are the people in power doing about this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker; >> my name is angelica born in san francisco and have been a bay area native the last 36 years. just as colleagues spoke i'm a educator in district 10. i see my work as a kindergarten

teacher to stand for the children and families but all children and families for this reason and all other reasons i urge and support supervisor preston resolution for permanent cease fire to be adopted next tuesday and reject amendments that stop complete cease fire from happening. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> dear president peskin and board members, my name is sophia, i like to say thank you to our district 9 rep hillary ronan for your support. i call to support the cease fire resolution. this is only right because i will not normalize brothers and sisters in palestine [indiscernible] of children and family members. i would not normalize mothers refusing to wash their hand because it is the only thing left of their children. will [indiscernible] will not normalize watching children die

alone on hospital floors or left without parents, grandfather looking to lifeless eyes of children and say good bye with nothing but a smile. [indiscernible] documenting their final good bye after pleading for us to help because they are screaming in pain no where is safe. blood line wiped off the face of earth and demuminization of palestine and hope neither will you. i urge to honor the call of the constituents to support the cease fire resolution tuesday. gaza can't wait. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello to all. my name is [indiscernible] from district 9. i like to extend my appreciation for district 9 rep, hill reason ronan for your solidarity. it is very well recognized. it is beyond horrifying and

heart breaking to witness the genocide in palestine and complexity of the government. you bear abrate responsibility tuesday and is right and wrong answer. palestine cannot wait until january and we will not stand down. vote yes. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sara, san francisco raised public school employ district 8 living with no end in sight here to represent myself my mama, jewish ethics and love for safety and continued heartbeats of people and talk jew to jew with my representsative. my mama raised to remember are our holocaust ancestors raised to praise israel my conservative leaning mama recognize this is atrocious and genocide in process, and that

we need a permanency [indiscernible] if my mommy can get this, so can you. thank you so much. >> just going to redirect to show your support like that. thank you. welcome to the next speaker. >> good evening. my name is sabrina. i live in district 8 and work in district 6. i am a proud all most 15 year resident of san francisco and fearly defend to family friends and judgmental strairchgs. i have no personal connection to the genocide taking place other then my humanity. none are safe when we allow the crimes to occur. my main concern is showing solidarity with palestinians particularly in our city who feel alone and obscene. i want them to look and see the diversity in the crowd who care and represent what san francisco claims to be.

please help san francisco stand for what is right. we ask you please vote on tuesday and support of the critical cease fire. this cannot wait. there is nothing more urgent then saving lives. thank you for your time. >> thank you sabrina for your comments. next speaker, please come up. >> good evening. i'm resident of district 8. thank you for your time. i'm from venezuela, a country that forced me to leave 15-20 years ago due to incredible violence. before my grand parent were refugees so i understanding what it is like have your home torn away. i also witnessed incredible violence at young age which no child should have to witness so the palestinians have a special place in my heart. thete are human beings bombed

non stop. having all rights torn away. must vote tuesday, can ntd wait to winter breakism people are murdered. this is sloout genocide . we must vote tuesday. these people have souls. they are human beings. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> resident of district 8. thank you board for allowing us to address the issue. >> can i ask you to speak much closer? thank you. >> i didn't want to yell in the mic. i want to urge the board to vote on this resolution urgently. cannot wait until next year. it is pretty laughable actually. i don't know would you tell anyone that that is engaged in a dangerous situation of which they are risking their life to just survive barely? remember that when you go to sleep.

>> thank you for your comments. welcome to the next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is andrew, resident in district 8 calling on you to support the critical cease fire resolution introduced today. i live in the mission and been here about a year. thank you for hearing public comment. there are a lot of them and that is because of the importance of the moment that we are in. i hope san francisco can pass the resolution to honor human life in gaza and support our community hear and stand with the people of palestine and vibrant diversities we have here and hope we can end the genocide. please vote next tuesday. this cannot wait. thank you. >> thank you pr your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is wyatt fields constituent of district 6. israel committed countless war crimes refusing to let aid in, punishs the whole for crime of the few.

mostly children. the sanctity of life is never and never been israel mission and if you don't take a stand a thousand people with killed in 24 hours, you are telling the world who lives matter and who don't. it has a impact. 6 years old stabbed 26 times. the students in vermont paralyzed from the waste down. i after peaceful protest witnessed a man calling a woman and children at a bus stop terrorist. the bloods of thousands of others is on all our hands. this decision cannot wait till january. another month is 15 thousand civilians. vote next tuesday. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. welcome. >> dear president peskin and board members, i hope i can have your undivided attention right now. i am a constituent of district,

samantha calling on you to support the permanent cease fire resolution introduced before you. to further commitment to the end of israel apartheid and occupation of palestine. the loss ungaza since october 7 is insurmountable. 16 thousand deathss, half children. over 1.2 million in palestinian displaced. at what point will we take matters intoure own hands and defund israel and challenge the prison industrial military industrial complex so we can truly stand for justice and liberty for all? we are on stolen lands and we are under imperial ust government that will stop at nothing to end more lives. ime are asking you to save lives today and tuesday to vote for permanent resolution. thank you.

>> thank you >> hello. my name is art. live in d2. on the board of the sf gray panthers. the son of polish jewish holocaust survivors. i understand what it means to be a victim of war. what it means to lose your relatives, home and country. i grew up respecting the united nations and what it stands for setting international disputes and promoting peace. the universal erse [indiscernible] endowed with reason and quaunss and act toward one another in brotherhood. we must listen and respect each other.

create understanding and pursue justish and kindinize for each other based on the understanding. so i support the resolution as written. the un founded here in san francisco. remember that that and live up to and promote the human right standards. >> thank you. i invite the next speaker. >> hi. my name is [indiscernible] resident of d1 and work at usf. american jew family killed in the holocaust and here to say criticizing israel is not anti-semitism. 2/3 of american people are calling for cease fire yet only 55 member of the house and 4 centers called for and the board is trying to push the vote and here to represent the people we demand you vote tuesday. gaza cannot afford a winter

break. we have been e-mailing calling and screaming in the streets to dend macease fire and not listening so why we are here today. over 16 thousand palestinians murdered and u.s. continues to send aid which 90 percent billions goes with weapon [indiscernible] in gaza and west bank. we refuse to let tax dollars continue to fund the genocide. the federal government failed the citizens and palestinian people so here today calling on you-- >> thank you. welcome. >> i live in d1 and grassroots organizer who knows the struggle of black san franciscans is linked with palestinians. i urge you to vote next tuesday in support of cease fire

resolution. two days ago [indiscernible] journalist said i no longer have any hope of survival at the beginning of the genocide and certain i will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. my message to the world, you are not innocent of what is happening to us. you as governments are people that support israel annihilation of our people. humanity will not forgive you. we will not forget, the history will never for get. defeat and hopelessness are why we need to hold ourselves accountable for cosigning genocide fueled by our tax dollars and be the beacon of hope millions of palestinians no longer have. it is our responsibility as voter jz leaders of san francisco to support a permanent cease fire as the bear minimum step to ending the siege on palestine now. >> thank you for your comments. invite the next speaker. please come up.

welcome. >> thank you. my name is [indiscernible] i am a constituent of district 1 and arab american that is pleading you to see this injustice. arabs are tired oof called barbaric animals. all of these dehumanizing words, we have been facing since 911 and only getting worse now. i urge you to see our humanity. we are just like you. please see the humanity of the palestinian people asking for 70 years for a cease fire. this is our funds, this is our money and we must stop funding this genocide. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. hear from the next speaker, please. >> dear president peskin and board members, my name is [indiscernible] concern human being and voter in the richmond

district. calling on you to support the critical cease fire resolution introduced today. this is a issue that cannot wait and voting needs to be done immediately. every day that pass with no support cause more deaths. i'm not palestinian but using my grief to stand up for strangers dying because of my tax dollars. i do not approve u.s. funding toward genocide. 16 thousand real lives ceasing to exist in just 60 days by military barely moved the justice. listen what our money does from [indiscernible] journalist in gaza. that is just 5 seconds of a child screaming in agony. can you imagine the smell and sound of death and destruction for the past 60 days. stand up for justice. cease fire now.

you can make the world a better place. vote immediately. do not wait. they do not have time. people are dying. people are dying. it should be one of us. >> thank you for your comments. i invite the next speaker to please come up. >> hello. my name is evelyn resident of district 9. i was born and raised in the mission district and lived ever since it is therefore my duty to urge the council to vote and pass cease fire resolution immediately. vote on tuesday if not today. i am mot here to convince what is happening is genocide. that is true. i am here to remind of your humanity and duty to serve your community screaming for permanent cease fire in palestine. outside the doors right now yelling. that same community shut down the bay bridge, shut down apec and the black friday at union square and will continue to shut it down for palestine. the death toll is 20 thousand

and counting. we are day 60 of the genocide. will you condemn genocide of the palestinian people and colonization of the land and support the resolution today? thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello. resident of district 2 to voice support for supervisor preston resolution for permanent cease fire and you as the board treat the matter with urgency it deserves. palestinians are killed in hundreds and thousands all funded by our tax dollars and with support of our government. this is genocide. [indiscernible] that needs to stop and for the resident of san francisco that begins here voting in favor of permanent cease fire. the halls of the building today have been lined with display of

community and solidarity with constituents here for hours to put san francisco on the right side of history. police hear us and hear our urgency. vote tuesday. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is elizabeth resident of district 3 here to urge you to vote for the resolution for three reasons. one, to stop the slaughter and suffering of the palestinian people. two, because i fear jews and muslims in our city and around the world for increasing violence, fascism anybody who will be the victim of what supremacy essentially and three, because i have been disappointed, dismayed, disgusted by the lack of leadership of the democratic party.

i voted over 20 years as a democrat. i don't know if i can continue to vote as a democrat. speaker pelosi, state senators should be listening to us and they are not. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. can we hear from the next speaker, please? come on up. >> my name is zachary siegel. i live and vote in d8 and work in the tech industry in d6. i like supervisors who nut deuced resolution, a jew descended from holocaust survivors and victims here to support the cease fire resolution and add my voice to calls for just peace and lend my heart to the palestinian dream of freedom. i like you to defend [indiscernible] reject the propaganda that predicate survival of jews [indiscernible] for there the policies and crimes. especially by non jews. vote for the resolution.

one of liberation and hope. the siege of gaza and west bank are [indiscernible] we must stand strongly. conclude with a prayer. [indiscernible] nation not lift sword against nation [indiscernible] vote next tuesday for cease fire to unlearn - >> thank you for your comments. invite the next speaker. come on up. >> for those quhoo don't know me, jake ortega resident of d3. the job discrigz of the board is handle county budgets programs departments officer property and residents needs. it is funny to me the supervisors who drafted the resolution is the same supervisors who can't clean up the tenderloin which resides in his district.

he is moves by the ertos of stories but has anyone see tears for killed in the tenderloin? leaders don't care about those who die in the city today. i hear chants about liberation but nobody said anything about [indiscernible] ken dem jews for defending themselvesism i guess select determine aishz is okay. the coud was excited from the hamas wipe out the jews but now losing demand for cease fire and hall of the building the crowd called for cease fire the same time chanting for jewish eradication. stand on side of jewish people and vote no on the resolution. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is john, a member of district 8. native of the san francisco bay area and san francisco to me has always stood for peace, diversity and equality. you members have a chance now as part of a major city to send

a message to the rest of the countsry that we do not stand for senseless war and murder unnecessary murder of children. i want all you to think about the images on television that we have seen of children murdered buildings falling on them, children buried alive, muteulated. what is the sense in that? thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening. mark in district 8 and in favor of the cease fire resolution. to show why it is so important and urgent for cease fire now list war crimes committed by war crimes. the civilians punished for hamas action against the [indiscernible] doctors without

borders accused of punishment block gaza on medicine. izeeral president a[indiscernible] israel president blames civilians for october 7 and he says it is entire nation out there that is responsible. this is the definition of collective punishment. spokesperson said, right now we maximize what cause max damage. they are not targeting hamas, they are leveling gaza to make it uninhabitable. moving on medical professionals killed and 26 out of 35 hospitals non functioning. this goes against medical neutrality war crime under [indiscernible]

>> thank you for providing comments. welcome next speaker. >> hello. my name is earny thurn from dist rcktd 5 and work in 3 and here to speak in favor of the resolution. i would like to say that 16 thousand people have died half of them are children and we can't wait till january to vote on this. there is no gaza left, nothing for you to vote on really. we need a cease fire now. we need cease fire as soon as

possibly able to vote. we needed to days ago. we need it now. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is ari. d5 resident and lifelong bay area resident. the fact it has taken this long to speak on cease fire is embarrassing and the fact we have to wait longer for the resolution is super dangerous. the genocide in gaza is described as a among the worst assault on any civilian in our population in time and age and deserving as a local issue with eurge aensh. the city is understood to pioneer. i want to know my electedficials stan on the right side oof history. vote cease fire tuesday. >> thank you for your comments. hear from our next speaker, please.

>> hi, there. i live in district 2. here to represent my family in syria who have to hide under our kitchen table when israel throws missiles at them there are also bombing lebanon and syria. when i moved to the united states at 9 i was told the u.s. is democracy and what i see is majority of americans are wanting a cease fire and seeing today over 2 thousand people here asking you to call on a cease fire so if you consider america democracy i urge you to consider a cease fire. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, educator. i live in district 9 and work in the tenderloin. calling to support the resolution and vote by december

12 next tuesday. i want you it to think how many kids have access to cell phones and warching a genocide unfold. i teach elementary kids and middle school student and high school every day they are watching a genocide unfold and kids killed. that is the most traumatizing to thing as a person murdered. we are watching it daily. 16 thousand palestinians murdered. over 75 years in a apartheid state under israeli rule and tourmenting and destroying buildings land human and families and culture. my life has been-i came to san francisco to live in a free and most diverse place and to be safe but me wearing a [indiscernible] in solidarity for palestinian liberation is a threat. >> thank you. come up the next speaker. welcome. >> my name is asia worker and

resident of d11, excelsior of san francisco coming from a community made up of black and brown working class folks migrant and immigrant groups the backbone of the city. we are begging to please listen to our demands. this should not be complicated. this is not complex. this is simply the state of israel committed genocide of the palestinian people and we must do all we can to reach a permanent cease fire. please hear us from district 11. we are not separate or distinct. the people of excelsior and san francisco stand with palestine and support cease fire now. gaza can not wait. vote next tuesday. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is nicole worker in excelsior neighborhood and member of [indiscernible] city college sf. i ask you to support the cease fire resolution. i stand in solidarity with palestine because i see the

struggle hand in hands with philippines. living in the sanctuary city let us use our privilege to show the rest of theworld we do not condemn the killings. vote tuesday. the longer you wait the more blood on your hands. palestinian children families and home can not take more atrocities. stand on the right side of had history and support palestine. end the seize on palestine now, vote next tuesday. >> thank you for your comments. hear from the next speaker, please. >> dear president peskin and board members, i'm ken from district 7 and calling on you to support the critical cease fire resolution introduced before you. i'm here today in solidarity with people of palestine to call for immediate cease fire. no where is safe in gaza, not hospital, shelters refugee camps. such blatant disregard for basic humanity has to stop.

i ask every board member to support the resolution as it is written and send unequivocal message that san francisco stands against genocide and ethnic cleanseing. i urge the board to vote tuesday with urgency. the people in gaza cannot afford to wait. cease fire now. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. my name is rose, sf residents district 4. my representative is engardio. i call for cease fire. i'm a proud student at sf state university in the psychology department and the historic ethnic studies department. i couldn't go to school today because faculty at san francisco state university are on strike because the csu board will not meet the cs rks union

demands for livable wage. why can our educators not receive livable wage in our own city but write checks for bombs to kill innocent children? vote next tuesday, we cannot wait, please. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> hello. my name is [indiscernible] district 4 resident under joel engardio. i'm also a proud antizionist jew who stands in the resolution. i know i'm [indiscernible] when we stand in solidarity with palestinian siblings. [indiscernible] goal is extract natural resources from palestine. in 2018 i was lucky to visit west bank of palestine. i was able to travel.

i saw how palestinians bar from walking down the streets. seeing families and loved ones yards away, selling goods to make income. the rocks thrown my soliers and soldiers. [indiscernible] this is nothing new going oin in palestine but today people of san francisco along with dean preston have given the opportunity to mitigate colonial violence by signing to a cease fire. >> thank you for your comments. let's hear from the next speaker, please. >> palestinian american here to call on you all to support critical cease fire resolution. the genocide happening in gaza is supported by our tax dollars and we are infeariating this continues to happen. israel is committed genocide while the world is staying

silent and complicit happening at the very moment. this isn't a complicated political issue, it is human rights issue. there are many palestinian resident in san francisco hope to be sporelted including my father who owns a store in district 11 and supported the city since the late 90. we urge you to stand on the right side of history. we want the vote to happen tuesday. cease nire fou. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. i invite the next speaker. come up, please. >> good evening. i live in district 7 a first generation palestinian immigrant and like me 65 percent of people polled by u you gov agree we need a cease fire. at least 16.248 pal stins martyred. all most 270 a day. i urge you when you cast your votes to remember 8 thousand children have been killed in

the last 6 weeks. think of your children and know your decision on the cease fire will be records. we cannot had where san francisco is looked at safe haven that waited two month to say genocide is bad. if we wait to cast a vote we will lose at least 8 thousand more lives so you must vote tuesday. i hope you stand for human rights and palestinian dignity and hope you stand with us. build a legacy that stand on the right side of history. >> thank you for your comments. welcome next speaker. >> hi. palestinian american policy researcher in district 10. urging you to vote in favor of the cease fire resolution with no amendments next tuesday. here is some of who the resolution is for. this is for the grand father

who out lived grand daughter and grand daughter and home and 4 year old who is shaking uncontrollable on 47 hospital bed stairing at hands andic looing to those to explain while covered in debris from his destroyed home. for the 3 year old carrying a white t shirt on a stick, as he and his dad try to walk to a safe zone also bombed. the journalist who lost his wife son and daughter when israel bombed his home and continued reporting the next day to honor them and this is for the 6 year old girl who woke up on a hospital bed yesterday and pleaded to know is this dream or realty? we have stories like this over 75 years of them morn the dead and fight for the living. stand against genocide next tuesday. thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

welcome. >> hi. my name is ariana here in support of the cease resolution. i was born and raised in the city.

>> urging to vote for cease fire wednesday. it documentation on the genocide provides with insight of atrocity committed the world has nench seen before. we have responsibility to take action. the genocide is so devastating that children are calling for help using language foreign to them. journalist and civilians documenting dead and mangled bodies and--people sacrificing pride and person hood on the hope of communicating the humanity of the people of gaza. what does the humanity mean if we watch this happen and do nothing? this is setting dairns precedent. to get the people to listen

with powerful to speak up and stop the genocide we are the americans that have power in this. we supply money for this, supply arms and help stage this ethnic cleanseing. free palestine. >> thank you for your comments. >> my name is sarah. i grew up in the bay area. i have been living in the city the last 3 years in district 5 and yust want to know why do veso much money for war? do any of you have a good reason to pay for genocide because dont lie, that is what your silence means and like my friends have been waiting for 6 hours people are like gathering like every single weekend every day to call for a cease fire. i woke up at 6 and came straight here because apparently we need to tell you how to do your job and listen to the people you represent.

vote next tuesday, cease fire now. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. welcome. >> hi. my name is laura. a dog groomer in d10 here to show support for cease fire resolution and are urge you to vote next tuesday. i moved here 5 years ago. largely because of the political climate of san francisco and the fact that san francisco stands as a pillar of social justice in america. day after day and see atrocity after atrocity committed filmed and posted all over social media. there is over 15 thousand palestinian deathss in the last 2 months. 8 thousand have been children. 1.2 million gaza displaced. 50 thousand are pregnant women. the destruction only takes a moment but these people have to take years to rebuild their

lives and homes over 40 percent housing in gaza has been obliterated. the palestinians cannot wait for cease fire. they are dying as we speak. please vote yes to cease fire and vote on tuesday. thank you. >> thank you. welcome. >> good evening. earlier this even you heard from my father speak about my grand father. born and raised in san francisco. i on october 20 bombed [indiscernible] in gaza. now, that was my mom. all her cousins. that's the greek orthodox church. there is no reason for that. none. i realize you don't have a gun in your hand but with the stroke of a pen you can make all this go away. thank you for your time. >> thank you