certainly as an asian american, asian pacific islander, i'm the executive director of [speaker not understood] located in japantown [speaker not understood] some call it lower pacific heights depending what part of district 5 that you're part of. it's really important and i'm delighted that we have an opportunity to bring the asian american perspective, pacific islanders. i plan to be here more than once from this point forward. we are one of the largest populations in san francisco. even though there is some

it is really delightful that we see an asian pacific islander commissioner, mr. president and commissioners and commissioner whackv. part of this public comment in terms of being part of this experience is something that i'm really, really grateful for. in disclosure, this is the first time i've been to the environmental commission. i'm vice president of the san francisco fire commission, and you would think that sometimes we would share various attendance, but our jurisdictions and interests are. certainly as an asian american, asian pacific islander, i'm the executive director of [speaker not understood] located in japantown [speaker not understood] some call it lower pacific heights depending what part of district 5 that you're part of. it's really important and i'm delighted that we have an opportunity to bring the asian american perspective, pacific islanders. i plan to be here more than once from this point forward. we are one of the largest populations in san francisco. even though there is some recovery to economy, i'm always about job training, jobs, job

i'm pacific islander on campus and one of the few pacific islanders advocating for all the pis [speaker not understood]. i'm happy that you're here because all of these people live in your jurisdiction. so, thank you so much and john avalos. i just want to state that six years ago i started at ccsf and this fall i'll be transferring to sf state. it took me six years, but three years throughout my six years to advocate and ask for resources and ask for implementations on policies that affect my people, my pacific islander folks. the same people who are here to attack and judge accjc were the same people who resisted change in this college. and i'm standing here as a student and as an advocate, it is a shame. for me to see this happening when we all could have just been like let's work together. that was the problem. we are judging these people that came in, that i saw that problem six years ago. they just barely got here a year ago to address the same issues that i've been fighting for, undermining the work that students who are making a change part of a whole new program to address equi

we had our first ever and we're partnered with the pacific islanders youth group in invitation valley and we're running a rug by camp. we have a famous rugby smaller fellow about two or three meters which is 6, 6 about 3 hundred pounds and he's fast so i'm glad he only that plays rugby. anyway it's a wonderful thing to have girls role models and boys role models pr i have to give the credit to the rugby folks and for the money from the san francisco police department fountains and so i'm going to stop there and defer the rest of envy comments to curtis but when the evening it over it's been our tradition we stay around it would be nice to meet everybody >> i have a comment he want to do this during to the public. i want them to understand something. we in san francisco has been blessed with a string of very good police chiefs by you feel that and i'm not given to gratuitous comments but we are we have a particular blessing with the chief we have today. if you have not heard or listened to this chief over the last year or so then you've miss the opportunity to hear from someone connect

from the asian pacific islander legal outreach, executive director dean ito taylor. program director from the catholic charities cyo christopher martinez. amy wang [speaker not understood]. cheryl madrid, jewish services. and [speaker not understood], executive director from la rasa community resource center. together all the partners have invited over 30 of our clients to join us to celebrate today and they're standing in the mayor's office right now, so happy that they're part of this celebration. i think together we represent the diversity of san francisco and many of the ethnic communities that so desperately need naturalization services, from legal consultation to completion of the 10-page n. 400 forms, to the fee waiver forms to help them get a waiver for the 680 dollars application fee to become citizen. together our collaborative covers all of the major languages spoken by our clients, chinese, spanish, vietnamese, russian, other eastern european languages, burmese, tagalog and others. we urge you to attend upcoming naturalization workshop on august 10, 2013,

and they have an outstanding report on low income asian americans and pacific islanders, which hopefullyyou saw at a literature table when you came in. and then -- oh, that's everybody. [laughter] so, without further ado i'm going to turn it over to jacqueline to get this second panel started off right. thank you. >> thank you so much. [applause] so as you said, our panel is about unfinished -- there isn't anybody in this room, or anybody on this panel who probably could recite the data, demographic of the communities that you come from, the impact of its current economic crisis to your community. and certainly the need for economic justice from the communities that we move forward. so i wanted to be able to make sure that at this bill that we talked not only about what the economic crisis really is within our community, but really about how we march forward. that the focus and the message to really be about moving forward. and, in fact, i want to just reflect, nina, about 16 days after the march that we are all here to talk about, bobby kennedy actually came to national congress of amer

the asian caucus, asian pacific islander outreach, catholic charities cyo, international institute of the bay area, jewish family and children services, [speaker not understood] community resource center. as well as the african advocacy network, the arab resource organizing center, myob which is the [speaker not understood], the southeast asian community center, [speaker not understood] media, of course san francisco immigrant rights commission. well, i've often said in many speeches that our immigrant population is important. well, over a third of our population are immigrants and we acknowledge that. but i don't just want to say it as an announcement. everybody knows that. what we want is full participation. we want people to not be afraid or not be meeting as many barriers as they are today, from activating themselves in full participation. and i do want to have people of all languages and all heritages telling us how they want our parks to be managed, how they want community safety, how they want transportation to be had, all these things everybody else gets to do, and they weigh

most of them, 62%, speak spanish. 16% begin asian or pacific islander language. if you are interested in the number of people who speak chinese language, almost 3 million people in the u.s. that is a good chunk of the population. houston is enjoying more traffic out of beijing as air china kicks off lights -- flights. many came out to celebrate the event. the warm welcome the airline is receiving. >> the city of houston is enjoying traffic from beijing as it welcomes air china to george bush intercontinental airport. >> supporters of both cities arrived on air china's flight last month you up celebrate the flight which runs four days a week. >> so many things beyond economics, so many rich culture to exchange. >> so far, air china says they are having no trouble filling up seats with business travelers from houston. air china's vice president and general manager for north america says he hopes the flight will foster stronger relations between the u.s. and china. >> we do have a mission to promote stronger ties between the united states and china. if this flight d

african-americans comprised 26 person and caucasian were counted and latinos had 12 percent and pacific islanders 3 percent. our staff speaks several languages including cantonese and spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual spanish speakers which is important because the largest number of interviews we conduct are in spanish. for languages other than the one previously mentioned we'll get those services. we have intakes in spanish and 5 in cantonese. we're located on the corner of van ness and marketed. we're assessable by public transportation for walk in complainants but we receive complaints regarding police conduct from 12 calls by e-mail and faxes. we're open monday through friday between 8 and 5 and on the off hours we have on a answering service. you can file a complaint with the district station and they'll forward it to us. if any of you would like additional information i'm previously introduced a senior member ed and he's hear to hear your concerns. thank you >> thank you for your presentation. you know, we're very lucky director hicks has really turned the organization around

, etc., in our community we talk about the tact that as an asian-american and pacific islander community we've lost 50% of our wealth. so i think those are all things in the ati community should be concerned about and should feel that we have common cause with other communities of color and low income commitments. >> okay, so, mark, if you want to make sure the story's really told straight, what would you add? >> well, i'd add story of the latino community or what's been happening in the last few years, and i think there's a number of points to the story that are quite interesting. on the one hand, we see more latinos living in poverty than ever, particularly more latino children living in poverty than ever. we also saw curl re-- during the recession the unemployment rate for latinos was the first to rise quickly. and when it comes to household wealth, latinos lost a lot of household wealth during the recession particularly because of where they bought homes, that was a part of the story. >> right. >> but broadly speaking, a lot of economic impacts of the recession on the latino communit

it has become the second pacific island nation to agree to accept refugees. two weeks ago, pop and new guinea made a similar deal in exchange for foreign aid -- made a similara deal in exchange for foreign aid. the recall affects baby formula, sports drinks, and protein shakes. has made a very public apology to a number of women in the uk who received threats of rape and murder. they came from so-called individuals who target users with abuse. this site has been criticized for not making it easier to report such messages, something that it is vowing to change. we look at the fight against controls. >> all she wanted was to make sure british females were represented. what she was not banking on was the threats she would be raped. >> relentless, overwhelming. >> caroline successfully convinced the bank of england to put jane austen on the 10 pound bill. and then the tweets began. >> i started eating some abuse. -- i started getting some abuse. the first rape threat came through the day after the announcement from the bank of england. they have been coming throu

today we have a special roundtable discussion in celebration of asian-american and pacific islander heritage. kristen seading a conversation with local leaders about current issues that face our bay area community. >> eric: we do have a. >> kristen: each worked hard for a variety of causes and there is a real commitment to improving our communities in the bay area. we have billy wong, president and ceo bay tag a nonprofit media producer. welcome. and welcome as well is festival director for asian and american media that funds and distributes films and digital media. and also the director first of kind citywide campaign to fight chronic hepatitis, a disease that affects so many asian-americans. thank you all for coming. look forward to a fantastic conversation. let's start with you. a very successful festival, tell us about that. i know thousands of people attended. >> absolutely. thank you. it starts in march and 11 day festival here in san francisco, oakland and berkeley. we had about 3,000 people that attended. we played over hundred films, many of which were premieres. >> kristen: congr b

australian government has said that anyone who arrives illegally by boat will be sent to the pacific island nation of naru for processing and resettlement if their refugee claims are accepted. more than 80 rohingya detainees escaped. ap reports the escapees cut through cell bars and cuffs. police have been searching for the men in nearby forests. many asylum seekers are being detained after arriving by boat. myanmar has experienced violence between muslim rohingya and the buddhist majority. hundreds of detainees last month staged protest against crowded conditions. that wraps ul >>> the japanese delegation to the free trade talks has arrived in brunei. they will be holding full fledged talks with other participants on issues involving the abolition of tariffs on industrial and agriculture projects. the 19th round of the tpp negotiations will start on thursday and continue through the end of the month. >> translator: a number of negotiating sessions will be held simultaneously every day from morning until night. we are ready for long and intensive negotiations with other participants in orde

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

the asian caucus, asian pacific islander outreach, catholic charities cyo, international institute of the bay area, jewish family and children services, [speaker not understood] community resource center. as well as the african advocacy network, the arab resource

afternoon, my name is nu, i am a documented, i'm here represented aspires, a group that's with the pacific islanders as well asing prehealth dreamers, a group that's wanting to become doctors and nurses, and i'm here to really continue to add to how important healthy san francisco is for the undocumented community. originally from thailand, i lived in the bay area since i was 9 years old and growing up, my family was never rely relied on going to the doctor to treat our illnesses because we didn't think anything was out there that we would be eligible for and we lived to the best of our ability to not get sick and it was in 2007 that my mom was rushed to the emergency room after she fainted from excessive bleeding and that was when we found out she had tumors and cysts in her ovaries and you know the doctor say if we waited any longer, she could be in real danger and it was because she was uninsured and she didn't have the preventive care that would have prevented her from needing to have the surgery that she did, and healthy san francisco would have done that for her, it is doing that for thousands