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why am i here for a violent crime and i was started thinking and i really didn't know what he was talkingbout. and maybe another hour came, passed again and came back in and asked, you know, is there anything you want to tell us? can you tell us what happened in august of 1999? and this was -- this was march of -- this is march of 2000. and i told the guy, i can barely remember what happened two months ago. [laughter] >> you're asking me about something that happened in august? so he thought i was playing with him or something and he walked back -- he actually said, are you playing with me? and became upset and walked out of the room, him and another officer. so i sat there for a couple of other -- a few more hours, and this process was going back and forth. to move it along, they came -- they started doing the good cop/bad cop -- have you ever heard of that? >> have we ever heard of that? [laughter] >> we all watched tv. >> they actually did that with me. there was one cop who was very aggressive. and he would come in and threaten me and say, i'm going to slap you if you don't tell me th
why am i here for a violent crime and i was started thinking and i really didn't know what he was talkingbout. and maybe another hour came, passed again and came back in and asked, you know, is there anything you want to tell us? can you tell us what happened in august of 1999? and this was -- this was march of -- this is march of 2000. and i told the guy, i can barely remember what happened two months ago. [laughter] >> you're asking me about something that happened in august? so he...
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and i looked around. other than occasional to that page and see anyone else doing anything interesting. i kept writing at the sydney about with this impression. but i felt that this would be very, very important archive. the question is, why publish this now? why not do it 11 or 12 years ago? i had a number of people we been publishing contracts. it was not a secret and people seem to not care after a while. seems like background noise. after president clinton's impeachment 12 years ago, i had a bunch of publishers say this to be a great book and so forth and i refuse to read the book. i did not feel that was a time to read a book. i didn't want to read a book while i was still in congress, might be tempted to color participation or an angry electorate back home and i also thought of fairness to president clinton and everyone involved that i should wait at least 10 years to the passions cool and try to be far more object to it. and so that is why i waited all this time. in fact, when i was defeated for ree
and i looked around. other than occasional to that page and see anyone else doing anything interesting. i kept writing at the sydney about with this impression. but i felt that this would be very, very important archive. the question is, why publish this now? why not do it 11 or 12 years ago? i had a number of people we been publishing contracts. it was not a secret and people seem to not care after a while. seems like background noise. after president clinton's impeachment 12 years ago, i had...
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i did. absolutely. and i am proud of it. and i am just praying that we continue to grow. ight things in people. >> what did your parents say after you performed at the inauguration? >> oh, my mom cried forever. and i did, too. it was a beautiful night. and, like i said, definitely the most proud moment for her and for myself. >> the president, what did he say? did you talk to them? >> i did not speak to them. i wish i had it like that. but i've seen them years later. >> i've heard and you can clear up this rumor. this is a brilliant rumor, even if it's not true. if it's not true, maybe just pretend. i've heard that jay-z has the president on the speed dial of his cell phone. is this true? >> i don't know. >> that means it is. >> no, it's not true. they are amazing. they are wonderful. and i have actually, i just worked with the first lady with the let's move initiative. and it was so beautiful. >> because she's a remarkable woman. >> she is. >> whatever side you are on the political divide, whatever your view of how he's doing as president, michelle obama has barely put a
i did. absolutely. and i am proud of it. and i am just praying that we continue to grow. ight things in people. >> what did your parents say after you performed at the inauguration? >> oh, my mom cried forever. and i did, too. it was a beautiful night. and, like i said, definitely the most proud moment for her and for myself. >> the president, what did he say? did you talk to them? >> i did not speak to them. i wish i had it like that. but i've seen them years later....
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>> i grew up in this city and i remember -- i grew up in the sunset and i have lived in debut and south of market. i had a business in the tenderloin and also in the sunset. i remember being ignored. part of me is very concerned with i do not want to be ignored again. even though i am white and a woman, i went to public schools, i grew up poor and on welfare. i do not want redistricting to ignore me again. supervisor kim: thank you. i have seen that you have done all lot of work in district 6, st. anthony's. >> i love st. anthony's. supervisor kim: doing work with people and mental health -- i appreciate that. if you could expand a little more about your priorities or principles that would guide you through your decision making process on redistricting. >> i don't quite understand. >> priorities and values that would guide you through redistricting decision making processes. >> first, there is that letter of the law. second is my experience in san francisco. i understand the city block by block. before making any sort of decisions, i would first taken to account the law and second -- ma
>> i grew up in this city and i remember -- i grew up in the sunset and i have lived in debut and south of market. i had a business in the tenderloin and also in the sunset. i remember being ignored. part of me is very concerned with i do not want to be ignored again. even though i am white and a woman, i went to public schools, i grew up poor and on welfare. i do not want redistricting to ignore me again. supervisor kim: thank you. i have seen that you have done all lot of work in...
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i had no idea. and we were in australia when i heard the news that someone had been sent a clip, one of the entertainment shows. and i didn't believe it at first. and then when i landed back in l.a. is when i saw what happened. and i was -- it was the most embarrassing, humiliating thing that's ever happened to me in high life. >> did you call your mom? >> yeah, i did. i was so embarrassed to even call her and tell her about it. >> how did you even begin to tell your mother something olympic that? i can't imagine. >> i just called her crying. >> do you remember, kathy? >> you know, i don't. it's all like a fog right now. and it was a very difficult time. >> i mean, awful. although -- >> we had to keep her home for like three months straight. you know it had to have been very embarrassing. >> which is what you had to do as a family to try to protect paris. >> she would not leave the house. i mean, she was -- and we lived in new york, too. so wherever you're going, there are those boxes with the newspaper
i had no idea. and we were in australia when i heard the news that someone had been sent a clip, one of the entertainment shows. and i didn't believe it at first. and then when i landed back in l.a. is when i saw what happened. and i was -- it was the most embarrassing, humiliating thing that's ever happened to me in high life. >> did you call your mom? >> yeah, i did. i was so embarrassed to even call her and tell her about it. >> how did you even begin to tell your mother...
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i am not resigning and i will try very hard to go back to work a better person and a better man and i will try to be a better husband, too. >> [inaudible] >> she was very unhappy. she was very disappointed and she told me as much. she also said she loved me. she said we were going to get through this. she deserves much better than this and i know that. >> why come out now and say this? >> my primary concern about the entire incident to begin with was my concern about some of these relationships that i had becoming public. it seems that what i had done by denying the original action and only serves to make things worse and only serves to lead to people being asked longer and tougher questions. the smarter better thing to do would be to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may even if they came to this place. that is why i am here. >> can you characterize what you it did you teach? cheat?idn't you >> i will leave that to other people. i never met these women and i never had a desire to. it was a frivolous exchange among friends that i don't think i made an important enough d
i am not resigning and i will try very hard to go back to work a better person and a better man and i will try to be a better husband, too. >> [inaudible] >> she was very unhappy. she was very disappointed and she told me as much. she also said she loved me. she said we were going to get through this. she deserves much better than this and i know that. >> why come out now and say this? >> my primary concern about the entire incident to begin with was my concern about...
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and drew and i honor and respect each other. when i arrive in england, he gives me a room to stay in and the two girls are a fantastic example of co-parenting. andrew and i believe very strongly in that. >> your daughters are fantastic. >> yeah. >> we had dinner, all of us the other day. i thought they were just so elegant, charming, polite, beautifully brought up. i saw parts of both you and prince andrew in them. but a real credit to both of you. >> thank you. >> in terms of parenting. and i loved the thing at the recent royal wedding where your daughter wears this hat that everyone, as they always do, they did with you and others, they pile in, they love it, they hate it an so on. she responded in pure ferguson style, i think. i'm going to auction this on ebay. >> do you know what i love about beatrice, red-headed, 8-8-88. arrived at 18 minutes past 8. but she knows, she just does it, she knows. she just said, mom, i'm going to ebay the hat, what do you think? i said great. $130,000 later, unicef and children in crisis. >> do
and drew and i honor and respect each other. when i arrive in england, he gives me a room to stay in and the two girls are a fantastic example of co-parenting. andrew and i believe very strongly in that. >> your daughters are fantastic. >> yeah. >> we had dinner, all of us the other day. i thought they were just so elegant, charming, polite, beautifully brought up. i saw parts of both you and prince andrew in them. but a real credit to both of you. >> thank you. >>...
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and i saw this and i thought, what would archeologists think if they encountered this? they would look at this and say, what civilization was this? what religion drove them to do this? we keep doing the same things over and over again. many researchers believe these archeo-astronomical sites are very specifically designed where other researchers say it's all coincidence. but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 o
and i saw this and i thought, what would archeologists think if they encountered this? they would look at this and say, what civilization was this? what religion drove them to do this? we keep doing the same things over and over again. many researchers believe these archeo-astronomical sites are very specifically designed where other researchers say it's all coincidence. but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at...
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i could look at something and say, she would kill me if i did this and i would change it. there are all the things. it's a constant process. no book falls on to the page and the words don't just fall on the page. they may fall on the page and you delete half and start over. you take the one line that works and write around it. that's basically a lot of the way i write. i want to read you some and i guess i should read a little and i want to open up for questions about this book or the other books or what i'm doing now or not doing now. basically, for me i think samurai's garden another reason why love this book. everybody says, what's your favorite book? i think, they are like kids. you wouldn't say johnny is my favorite son. we all books at the time we need to write that book. it's hard to be an author because you have an audience and they want you to write particular books. if you don't write the book they want you to write then it's something else. but all the books are different in that way. because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent sam
i could look at something and say, she would kill me if i did this and i would change it. there are all the things. it's a constant process. no book falls on to the page and the words don't just fall on the page. they may fall on the page and you delete half and start over. you take the one line that works and write around it. that's basically a lot of the way i write. i want to read you some and i guess i should read a little and i want to open up for questions about this book or the other...
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i am not running for anything. and as for political scores, um, there's some staff here who know i like to settle political scores in realtime and not in print. [laughter] so for all of who thought that this would be a political kiss and tell, i am sorry to disappoint. so why did i write this book? i am a very hopeful person, an unrepentant idealist, and i've come to understand hopefulness and idealism as strengths. this book is a gesture of gratitude to some of those people who have given me those gifts. the teachers who gave me a reason to believe in a brighter future, the family and strangers, too, who gave me a reason to believe in the power of kindness, the church ladies on the south side of chicago who gave me a reason to believe in the essence of faith. the voters, for that matter, who have given me a reason to believe in the politics of conviction and many, many others. a friend of mine recently described this book as a love story which, for me, was the most powerful compliment i could be given. i wanted to wri
i am not running for anything. and as for political scores, um, there's some staff here who know i like to settle political scores in realtime and not in print. [laughter] so for all of who thought that this would be a political kiss and tell, i am sorry to disappoint. so why did i write this book? i am a very hopeful person, an unrepentant idealist, and i've come to understand hopefulness and idealism as strengths. this book is a gesture of gratitude to some of those people who have given me...
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it's who i am. and i think what people in new jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that i've been in public life is what you see is what you get. and i'm no different when i'm sitting with you than i am when i'm at home or anyplace else -- >> but right now i'm getting sort of -- this is a very civilized conversation we're having, you're very polite, you're very friendly. but i've seen some of these youtube videos of you in action in these town halls, and you're on the rampage. >> well, and you -- listen, and teachers go into it knowing what the pay scale is. that's right. >> well, what i am -- >> laceraing these people. taking no prisoners. >> i'm responding to -- >> in the words of mr. sweeney, taking them down, stomping on them, and killing them. >> i'm responding to their attempted laceration of me. and if you look at the youtube videos, what you're going to find is -- i see this at my town hall meetings all the time now. here's the last rule. if you want to screw with me, that's
it's who i am. and i think what people in new jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that i've been in public life is what you see is what you get. and i'm no different when i'm sitting with you than i am when i'm at home or anyplace else -- >> but right now i'm getting sort of -- this is a very civilized conversation we're having, you're very polite, you're very friendly. but i've seen some of these youtube videos of you in action in these town halls, and you're on the...
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matzu gathered the food and wrapped it up. i followed you and the others down to the beach yesterday morning. i wondered if you might find your way to peace. i couldn't, i began to cry, turning away in shame. matzu lned over and smelled a sweat, it takes greater courage to live. [applause] >> i'm going to throw it open now to questions. so you might direct me as to what you might want to know about. as we are taping this with sfgov tv i will ask you to ask your question into the microphone so they can pick it up. and you, too will be on tv. now nobody wants to. i will ask a requequestion, wha you working on now? >> does that sound planted? it wasn't. i just finished a monster of a book it's a huge book, set in japan and covers the earth from 1939 and 1966 about 2 brothers and the title is a street of a thousand blossoms. if you haven't noticed we are talking about themes that run through my book. one of the things i like a lot is exploring subcultures. the lepercy. the silk working women. i like to write about groups of people w
matzu gathered the food and wrapped it up. i followed you and the others down to the beach yesterday morning. i wondered if you might find your way to peace. i couldn't, i began to cry, turning away in shame. matzu lned over and smelled a sweat, it takes greater courage to live. [applause] >> i'm going to throw it open now to questions. so you might direct me as to what you might want to know about. as we are taping this with sfgov tv i will ask you to ask your question into the...
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they did not have the options i can provide, and i will not send my kid out side to another school. other thing that mr. garcia mentioned is that we will continue to get what we get if we continue the system, and quite obviously, the system is not working, so let's make the change. i think we have been functioning under this system for decades now. let's make a change and see if we can improve the school. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is camille, and i have a third grader and a fourth grader in the sf unified school system. all of us here, all of the parents are here at least until the in part because we're trying to secure what allows our children to opt out of a broken school. the choice proponents want to avoid being channeled, and the feeder ones want to avoid being sent across town to one, so we're all almost unloaded here because we're trying to make a broken system work for our individual families, but how we work around a broken system should not determine how we fix it -- how you fix this system. the district middle school and k-8 plan is reasonable, and thi
they did not have the options i can provide, and i will not send my kid out side to another school. other thing that mr. garcia mentioned is that we will continue to get what we get if we continue the system, and quite obviously, the system is not working, so let's make the change. i think we have been functioning under this system for decades now. let's make a change and see if we can improve the school. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is camille, and i have a third grader...
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i started writing this book in 2008. and i kept writing and kept writing. always something that was coming up that prevented me from actually putting it out. i finally got the nerve to put it out eventually, it was on the back burner for quite a while, and then michael of course -- the tragedy happened with him. that's when i moved forward because i felt it was something that was necessary. i think it's important for everybody to start over in their life when it is not going properly or the way they think it should go or should be going. or if there's problems in their life. however, michael doesn't have and didn't have the opportunity to start over, which is so sad because he's not with us any longer. >> i interviewed him once, fascinating experience. >> you did? >> yeah. he was smart. >> yes. >> he was funny. he had two voices. one was quite high pitched, gentle voice. when he talked about business, bam. >> oh, yeah. >> down it came. >> everything changes, doesn't it? and you see the seriousness in him when he talks about the business and how he's really i
i started writing this book in 2008. and i kept writing and kept writing. always something that was coming up that prevented me from actually putting it out. i finally got the nerve to put it out eventually, it was on the back burner for quite a while, and then michael of course -- the tragedy happened with him. that's when i moved forward because i felt it was something that was necessary. i think it's important for everybody to start over in their life when it is not going properly or the way...
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and i believe it did. , "yes, we thought it would change the world, and it did change the world." certainly there were a lot of taboos that were broken, a lot of things from the '50s that changed-- the illusions about america's invulnerability. the war went on for far too long. but perhaps if there hadn't been all those voices behind the peace movement, it would have gone on longer. who knows? i can only say that the-- the passion and the music were a great and driving force. and i've always felt that it was a privilege to be a part of that journey, even though it was difficult to make at the time. you never made a conscious decision to be an artist versus being an activist. you--you were both from the beginning of your career, really. what was your first kind of public political move? picketing-- were you marching? what did--when did you enter that arena? you know, i--i'm just-- i've started my own-- my own label called wildflower records, and this past few months i've just released my third record. and wh
and i believe it did. , "yes, we thought it would change the world, and it did change the world." certainly there were a lot of taboos that were broken, a lot of things from the '50s that changed-- the illusions about america's invulnerability. the war went on for far too long. but perhaps if there hadn't been all those voices behind the peace movement, it would have gone on longer. who knows? i can only say that the-- the passion and the music were a great and driving force. and i've...
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i did my best and i am still doing my best. and doing whatever i can to make this one of the great cities in america and especially on the west coast. i will say this very briefly. i have lived in many cities in this great nation. i came here years ago, and i am is still here. i know that someday i will say goodbye. i am getting up in age but i have tried to do my best, and i will continue to do my best. this is one of the greatest cities i have lived in. my life span has been very long. and i have lived so many years in this great city among these great people. i have served our nation very well. and i will do so until i leave this world. i was honored when i have the invitation to be here tonight, and this is one of my highest honors. and i will never forget. this has been great. i have tried to do my best. and i hope to live long enough to continue my up till climb to help the youth. we live in a time when they need this very badly. and for 10 years, -- we have been trying to do this with recorded history, and -- we have a br
i did my best and i am still doing my best. and doing whatever i can to make this one of the great cities in america and especially on the west coast. i will say this very briefly. i have lived in many cities in this great nation. i came here years ago, and i am is still here. i know that someday i will say goodbye. i am getting up in age but i have tried to do my best, and i will continue to do my best. this is one of the greatest cities i have lived in. my life span has been very long. and i...
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i worked alongside of him.m and i. was the punch card operator when the computers were as big as the table. we were there and medgar decided he wanted to pursue a law career.st it was something that most people don't know that medgar evers was the first african-american to apply forh admission to the university of mississippi. of course, he was rejected. and in this book guess i thumbed through it to refresh my memory come i saw a copy of the letter that he had written in response to the rejection and asked where are you going to stay? the senate dormitories with the other students. hi daveev every day and intee guarantee you this brownl will not ruboff on anyone else.de he was determined to pursue that. he was rejected and the naacp said work with us. open up the first office of the naacp and the state of mississippi and he accepted i provided that i was his secretary. they agreed and we moved to jackson mississippi and a new life opened up to us.he but during that time when medgar fault so hostile to his own country,
i worked alongside of him.m and i. was the punch card operator when the computers were as big as the table. we were there and medgar decided he wanted to pursue a law career.st it was something that most people don't know that medgar evers was the first african-american to apply forh admission to the university of mississippi. of course, he was rejected. and in this book guess i thumbed through it to refresh my memory come i saw a copy of the letter that he had written in response to the...
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and i said, "these are the 75 things that they want changed," and i tore it up. and we went ahead and performed the play on opening night exactly as it had been performed in new york city. and shortly thereafter-- within a year or so-- the lord chamberlain's office collapsed and went away. maybe it was because they realized her majesty was never going to go to the theater. i don't know. over the years, have you seen a difference between reaction to your work in this country and reaction elsewhere? i think there's always been a slight difference in reaction. no, that-- i hate to generalize. i have found over the years, 'cause i've had a lot of my work done in europe and other places, that european audiences, i think, are better trained when they're in school as to the nature of theater and serious theater, and so they go to the theater with more information and with more tolerance for ideas, i think, than, generally speaking, audiences do in this country. but that's a generalization, and i don't like it. there was censorship, by the way, of who's afraid of virginia
and i said, "these are the 75 things that they want changed," and i tore it up. and we went ahead and performed the play on opening night exactly as it had been performed in new york city. and shortly thereafter-- within a year or so-- the lord chamberlain's office collapsed and went away. maybe it was because they realized her majesty was never going to go to the theater. i don't know. over the years, have you seen a difference between reaction to your work in this country and...
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andrew and i honor and respect each other. he's very kind when i arrive in edge land he gives me a room to stay in. and the two girls are fantastic. example of coe parenting. andrew and i believe very strongly in that. >> your daughters are fantastic. we had dinner, didn't we, the other day in new york? and i thought they were just so elegant, charming, polite, beautyfully brought up. i saw parts of both you and prince andrew in them. but a real credit to both of you. >> thank you. >> in terms of parenting. and i loved the saying at the recent royal wedding, your daughter wears this habit. everyone as they always did with you and others, they pile, in they love it, they hate it. and she responded in pure ferguson style, i think. "i'm going to auction this on e-bay". >> what i love about beatrix, red-headed, 18 minutes past 8:00, no, she had to come at 18 minutes after. but what i love about beatrix she knows. she just does it. she's very switched on. she said mom i'm going to wear the hat. what do you think? i said great. $130,
andrew and i honor and respect each other. he's very kind when i arrive in edge land he gives me a room to stay in. and the two girls are fantastic. example of coe parenting. andrew and i believe very strongly in that. >> your daughters are fantastic. we had dinner, didn't we, the other day in new york? and i thought they were just so elegant, charming, polite, beautyfully brought up. i saw parts of both you and prince andrew in them. but a real credit to both of you. >> thank you....
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and i got in my car and i drove myself home, and i was crying so inconsolably on the way home just the i walked in the back door and it was dark and it was quiet, and i got to the kitchen and i saw the chair that terry used to sit in and have his coffee in the morning and i saw a house that was a happy household that had love and animals and life that at that moment i realized it was never going to be that way again. that nick was never going to come home and brooke wasn't coming home and terry wasn't coming home and my mom wasn't there and my dog had just been run over in the driveway a few months prior, and it was just too much emotion to bear at the moment, and i remember i couldn't even make it up to my bedroom. i left -- i had my court clothes on. i got in my car and i was crying so hard i was making a weird sound almost like some kind of an animal and wailing sound. it was just such an inconsolable grief that i was suffering. i just couldn't go home, and i remember just driving south. i got to this bridge that's near our home, and i thought, my god, i don't want to kill myself bu
and i got in my car and i drove myself home, and i was crying so inconsolably on the way home just the i walked in the back door and it was dark and it was quiet, and i got to the kitchen and i saw the chair that terry used to sit in and have his coffee in the morning and i saw a house that was a happy household that had love and animals and life that at that moment i realized it was never going to be that way again. that nick was never going to come home and brooke wasn't coming home and terry...
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i spent some citi lakeside and ingleside. i spent my entire professional life working in community, working on behalf of low-income families, working on behalf of those marginalized and often those outside our legislative and political process. my interest in bridge is a fitting in this process is two- fold. one, it is a critical process that will determine how folks have a voice and will determine how folks can experience the distribution allocation of resources, and it is critical to communities across our city. what is important to me is that this process resulted in a fair and equitable and transparent process where, again, everyone has a voice, and then there is opportunity for the distribution of resources. the opportunity, i believe, is to continue to address what continues to be challenges in our city with regard to access to resources. when i grew up in the western addition, i experienced firsthand the challenges of limited resources, limited access to resources, and so then experiencing the what in not understanding
i spent some citi lakeside and ingleside. i spent my entire professional life working in community, working on behalf of low-income families, working on behalf of those marginalized and often those outside our legislative and political process. my interest in bridge is a fitting in this process is two- fold. one, it is a critical process that will determine how folks have a voice and will determine how folks can experience the distribution allocation of resources, and it is critical to...
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and they are not bad. i know some chapters, and the officers, and we need to start cutting at the top, get these commissioners out of the way. affordable housing -- people choose to live this way, fine. they did not have to have 10 automobiles. they do not have enough guts to get near my driveway. [laughter] they do not. they run. they stand up to the police, but when i come, they fly. so let's start at the top and then work down. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. i'm here to support the excelsior family connections. [applause] i have two kids. one is 2 1/2, and the little one is five months. with two kids, and working, i have a lot of stress from kids, from my husband, from my work. and financial stress. so the staff at the excelsior family connections some crying, and they came up to me and asked if i was ok. they are just like my family. i go there every day, and i see the staff there more than i see my siblings. they have therapist's there to help me solve my family problems, my stress, and they are
and they are not bad. i know some chapters, and the officers, and we need to start cutting at the top, get these commissioners out of the way. affordable housing -- people choose to live this way, fine. they did not have to have 10 automobiles. they do not have enough guts to get near my driveway. [laughter] they do not. they run. they stand up to the police, but when i come, they fly. so let's start at the top and then work down. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. i'm here to support...
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and i just felt isolated and alone. you know, i had like a mid-20s crisis. . >> only you. >> yeah, i had like a very anxiety-ridden, and i had a little emotional struggle there for like a year or two of n my 20s. you know, didn't want to leave the house for a little bit. and it took a while to dig myself out of this. i wasn't going to quit school, i had no idea. thank god stand-up comedy came along. >> kind of an emotional immaturity at that age which allows you to be spontaneous and frivolous and the thrill seeking. because you're immature, when they go wrong, they feel horrendous at the time. i look back on moments of my life, and i remember it seemed awful. now i look back and laugh and wait until you see real awful, mate. scott, what would you say if you were talking to a young scott, what would you tell him? >> oh, a young scott. i was just going to talk to young 16-year-olds in general and say wear a condom. but that's the best advice i could give a 16-year-old. >> it's good advice. >> first of all, 16-year-olds know so much more than i know. you know,
and i just felt isolated and alone. you know, i had like a mid-20s crisis. . >> only you. >> yeah, i had like a very anxiety-ridden, and i had a little emotional struggle there for like a year or two of n my 20s. you know, didn't want to leave the house for a little bit. and it took a while to dig myself out of this. i wasn't going to quit school, i had no idea. thank god stand-up comedy came along. >> kind of an emotional immaturity at that age which allows you to be...
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i did 50 or 60 and i started doing situps and i was doing 300 situps and i was doing so many my stomach started to hurt. i was so overjoyed and empowered by saying that. calling someone mr. hillary clinton, meaning there is a campaign for you and people outside of the walls of the jail were supporting you, so it was imploring. that is why i am doing this interview and that is why i wrote the book. not all journalists in iran, not all prisoners in iran have the international profile that i luckily had. not all journalists were lucky enough to be working for newsweek. i have to be the voice of the people who are languishing in iranian jails and people did not know their names and people -- they do not have an international profile. because of that, the iranian government putting more pressure on them and what i went through may be nothing compared to what some iranians -- yesterday i friend of mine died in prison as a result of a hunger strike. they did not care about his hunger strike and they took him to hospital. and he perished in prison. tavis: it is a powerful tax. not a story just
i did 50 or 60 and i started doing situps and i was doing 300 situps and i was doing so many my stomach started to hurt. i was so overjoyed and empowered by saying that. calling someone mr. hillary clinton, meaning there is a campaign for you and people outside of the walls of the jail were supporting you, so it was imploring. that is why i am doing this interview and that is why i wrote the book. not all journalists in iran, not all prisoners in iran have the international profile that i...
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point, and i am a proud sf state alum. it is really great to see you guys, especially you -- you guys know about the budget cuts coming down, and this is one of those morel boosters for you guys and us inside the institution where we bring fresh energy in, talking about college, and bucking the trend is. when people say we have to close off access to higher education college, we are actually opening access. i want you guys to know that as much as you guys are going to get from us, we are getting a lot back from you guys as well, so i just want to welcome you guys. >> i go to mission high, and i am planning to attend uc merced in the fall. >> i attend mission high school, and i am planning to go to uc berkeley. >> my name is sharon. this is my last semester at city college. i am transferring to sf state in the fall. >> i am a fashion design student here at ucsf. my transition was a little rough, but i found my way. i have not decided what school i am going to transfer to, but i am hoping fit -- f.i.t. in new york. >> i am fr
point, and i am a proud sf state alum. it is really great to see you guys, especially you -- you guys know about the budget cuts coming down, and this is one of those morel boosters for you guys and us inside the institution where we bring fresh energy in, talking about college, and bucking the trend is. when people say we have to close off access to higher education college, we are actually opening access. i want you guys to know that as much as you guys are going to get from us, we are...
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and so i have a lot of friends there and they are fabulous people. maybe a little bit less so but some very fabulous. when i joined the samaritans with my friends here, i was just appalled at the deaths that we would see out there like for the last decade. it has been called a decade of death. there are so many people who don't make it through the desert so i decided to start writing the stories with my friends here, and what i wanted to do was in words, i just wanted to make a connection to the interior life of somebody who was crossing. and we would meet people, we too may people on the trails are in the hospitals and as sam said you really need to talk to somebody for about five years before you really know them. so we would have maybe just an hour or 15 minutes on a desert trail or some people with meat in the hospital and we would talk for several days. in that situation i would write down stories and as we are talking i would ask them pretty intimate questions and after a wild -- it is very immediate. i haven't been in a war but i have met peopl
and so i have a lot of friends there and they are fabulous people. maybe a little bit less so but some very fabulous. when i joined the samaritans with my friends here, i was just appalled at the deaths that we would see out there like for the last decade. it has been called a decade of death. there are so many people who don't make it through the desert so i decided to start writing the stories with my friends here, and what i wanted to do was in words, i just wanted to make a connection to...
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i never married. i'm 49, and think i must have inherited something from my mother, just kind of a distrust of the world, and i think for a long time i thought that she didn't want me to marry. i'm not sure why i absorbed that, but i did, and i feel like i don't really know when i came into womanhood. i mean, it's a very strange concept. i mean, i feel like there's puberty when you physically become a woman, and then all the sud p the world looks as you differently in young womanhood, and then as you age you become more invisible to the world, and in a sense i think a lot freer. i think actually as i've gotten older, my 40s, i feel more of a woman than i feel like when i was younger. there's a sense of freedom that i feel now that i didn't have earlier, and -- i don't know, that's a very hard question, and i feel like sometimes it's something you inherit from your mother, but i feel like it was never really explained to me. i grew up with brothers. i've always had best friends, but it was never clear to me how i w
i never married. i'm 49, and think i must have inherited something from my mother, just kind of a distrust of the world, and i think for a long time i thought that she didn't want me to marry. i'm not sure why i absorbed that, but i did, and i feel like i don't really know when i came into womanhood. i mean, it's a very strange concept. i mean, i feel like there's puberty when you physically become a woman, and then all the sud p the world looks as you differently in young womanhood, and then...
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i'm going to put on and you had so. i said the head of our last song goes it's not right to be aware of this and of what i was had before dad went to jail i lived my life to the fullest and i was just chilling to them and i was just thinking about my future how the thought of him to go locked up. i had to support our family because in your responsibility for me my first time as the main provider. the times mom of course. and on and on and would never have that. this will immunize you you know larry magid and idea your next. minute again my left arm hurts how come. when i got into a fight. of those miss laila my finger is numb there why a man who had that from one bit my dear love with the other there she says to beat him real hard. she want crazy. she was still sleeping when he started to scream at her. he has no shame. his dad told him to be kind to her before he went to jail doubled up don't don't need to run the house and that was your yes you're the man of the house now i know but boys shouldn't hit girls this. well t
i'm going to put on and you had so. i said the head of our last song goes it's not right to be aware of this and of what i was had before dad went to jail i lived my life to the fullest and i was just chilling to them and i was just thinking about my future how the thought of him to go locked up. i had to support our family because in your responsibility for me my first time as the main provider. the times mom of course. and on and on and would never have that. this will immunize you you know...
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i will hand the copy to the clerk. and i also just wanted to specifically -- some of the measure that's i have gotten a lot of calls and e-mails and questions about people thinking is this measure or that measure potentially impacted, and there are a few that have come up over and over again. so i just want to clarify prop m, a slow-growth ballot measure from the 1980's was placed on by signature that would be unimpacted by the amended version. sunshine ordinance adopted in the late '90's was placed on ballot by voter signature so, therefore, would not be legislan adopted by the voters in the 1990's, one extending rent control to 24 unit buildings and reducing the kappa on the permissible rent increases. those are both placed on the ballot and will not be impacted. then there was a proposition j from 2008 creating a historic preservation commission that was a charter amendment. i also got questions about the other proposition j from the 1970's relating to contract in out of city workers. it was untouched by this. i have of
i will hand the copy to the clerk. and i also just wanted to specifically -- some of the measure that's i have gotten a lot of calls and e-mails and questions about people thinking is this measure or that measure potentially impacted, and there are a few that have come up over and over again. so i just want to clarify prop m, a slow-growth ballot measure from the 1980's was placed on by signature that would be unimpacted by the amended version. sunshine ordinance adopted in the late '90's was...
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back and i did almost die and i did shoot cocaine and i did lose my kids and i did get themd i put all of our family through a lot of hell. and i feel like how lucky am i that i can sit here and be in a good place and talk to you and talk to my dad and have him maybe get to know me now, not a junkie and not dead and maybe he'll be proud of me. and maybe not, you know. maybe he won't love the tatum that i am today. but i hope so. >> that's your idea of -- that's your idea of a compliment? he may like me, he may not like me, i don't know. >> i thought it was quite honest of her that she wasn't sure. >> oh, she's honest. but it's her version of it. >> i didn't think she was being overly critical of you. >> oh, she has been. years and years of it. >> well not then. >> bless her heart. >> has it not been quite tough for her? >> i'm sorry? >> aren't you being quite tough on her in reaction to, i hope eats proud of me, i'm not sure he will be? >> why wouldn't i be, the girl that she's describing? what man wouldn't be with all of these sacrifices and growth and wants me to respect h
back and i did almost die and i did shoot cocaine and i did lose my kids and i did get themd i put all of our family through a lot of hell. and i feel like how lucky am i that i can sit here and be in a good place and talk to you and talk to my dad and have him maybe get to know me now, not a junkie and not dead and maybe he'll be proud of me. and maybe not, you know. maybe he won't love the tatum that i am today. but i hope so. >> that's your idea of -- that's your idea of a compliment?...
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that i loved it. and she flashed a smile. i don't even remember the next line. and she flashed me a sweet, to thawy smile. and thank you for putting me in it. you got me right. i had more or less describe the way she had been as a cuban bombshell who left men breathless. she did chastise me about other things. you were too hard on your mother. i don't blame you, she said. she could be difficult but you were still too hard on her. she did not mention my pop the she must have been thinking about him as well. as i went by her on my way to see my mother who appeared out at me from behind the venetian blinds, olga gave me a kiss on the cheek. her final appraisal, we are proud of view. >> that is wonderful. this gives a wonderful piece of the humanity in your family. it is almost painful, the memory of your dad. there is a beautiful section of the book and our will let you catch your breath. >> is there any more about the that is okay. >> you talk about what your father did not teach you. >> many things. my bro
that i loved it. and she flashed a smile. i don't even remember the next line. and she flashed me a sweet, to thawy smile. and thank you for putting me in it. you got me right. i had more or less describe the way she had been as a cuban bombshell who left men breathless. she did chastise me about other things. you were too hard on your mother. i don't blame you, she said. she could be difficult but you were still too hard on her. she did not mention my pop the she must have been thinking about...
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i want to thank her -- she is my backbone. andalso for my son, for always listen to her when i am working late at work. and lastly for the parents committed out here today, thank you so much. thank you for the good things you have done, i love you all. [applause] >> last but not least, i want to acknowledge the supervisor. i want to recognize the deputy superintendant. our next recipient is james jim fitzien. your mom got in touch with me. from your mom, dad, brothers and sisters -- thancongratulations. we are sorry we can't be here. this is from blanca and david in michigan, and terry roberts in durango, colorado. come on up. >> and jim gets the max pro. wonderful -- mac pro. wonderful, you will need this. >> i have to say, this is humbling and absolutely overwhelming. i do not know how my family knew how to get in touch with me. this is amazing. there is a graduation starting down there in half an hour. this is really overwhelming. we were there in the seats, and i thought getting a piece of paper is good enough. and then you ge
i want to thank her -- she is my backbone. andalso for my son, for always listen to her when i am working late at work. and lastly for the parents committed out here today, thank you so much. thank you for the good things you have done, i love you all. [applause] >> last but not least, i want to acknowledge the supervisor. i want to recognize the deputy superintendant. our next recipient is james jim fitzien. your mom got in touch with me. from your mom, dad, brothers and sisters --...
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i fell back. put my hand up and i felt a piece of some in my head and then i looked at my hands and they were just scarlet with blood and i looked at my back at my butt and my butt was if you could see the white fat in this huge hole and my but i remember i was lying there and. the many came over and he sort of fixed me up and he was leaning over me and i watched the tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut out the tip of his nose and then the blood from his nose emerged with my nose. and the next thing i knew i was in a stretcher i still hadn't heart yet because i was still paralyzed on my right side and then i had the operation on my head and what i still remember i grit my teeth you see i didn't have any honesty and they drilled with a drill to start taking all this stuff out and i can still remember it felt like i had put my head on a railroad track and the train had run over. what i remember is being treated with the most formless tenderness and. sometime in male sex the stakes. neighborly to know my proper name was signed our we were alike can a pig swear we were to be hit and the o
i fell back. put my hand up and i felt a piece of some in my head and then i looked at my hands and they were just scarlet with blood and i looked at my back at my butt and my butt was if you could see the white fat in this huge hole and my but i remember i was lying there and. the many came over and he sort of fixed me up and he was leaning over me and i watched the tip of his nose disappear a piece of shrapnel cut out the tip of his nose and then the blood from his nose emerged with my nose....
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i need me the rest you had last night and i didn't. and no one saw me or it's hard for someone like me from the lower class i went to get a chance to travel abroad. and. in one of them a big organization in europe sponsored kids from my school for a week to study the latest recycling methods. and then. i've always dreamed of traveling abroad. and now god gave me a chance like this. twenty years ago the largest country. to some degree to. what had been. began a journey. where did it take them. if . they want to order. this street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the truth to the soviet files on some. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day.
i need me the rest you had last night and i didn't. and no one saw me or it's hard for someone like me from the lower class i went to get a chance to travel abroad. and. in one of them a big organization in europe sponsored kids from my school for a week to study the latest recycling methods. and then. i've always dreamed of traveling abroad. and now god gave me a chance like this. twenty years ago the largest country. to some degree to. what had been. began a journey. where did it take them....
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he is a great resource. >> good evening, my name is -- and i am here to support the community, and i ring you some history of josÉ. he is an immigrant, came from mexico, and he has lived the struggle of being an immigrant and being able to understand and to participate in the community, and because of that, he defends and advocates for the people. all of the community that is here is here to support him, and that is proof that he is working in the community, and i do not know what is going on with the people in the authority to make changes. we have the commitment to give the community an explanation about what a person who is supposed to serve the community is being removed. we need that explanation. we need to know what is going on. when a position is filled, -- to make a connection with the district and the people. we have to support that and to honor that. thank you. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i want to talk to you about the results that were accomplished. i have a daughter who went to john o'connell. she was attacked, and jose, with security, they were able to find who att
he is a great resource. >> good evening, my name is -- and i am here to support the community, and i ring you some history of josÉ. he is an immigrant, came from mexico, and he has lived the struggle of being an immigrant and being able to understand and to participate in the community, and because of that, he defends and advocates for the people. all of the community that is here is here to support him, and that is proof that he is working in the community, and i do not know what is...