effort to restore any misconduct and spleefk the c y c has been great in providing education for the asian city. so i have kids in tenderloin and our program understand the needs of the community a lot of the families are immigrant and parents don't have the status to get a job. so this is helping the families and helping them asked you in the long term and it's disappointing. i have a lot of kids who want to grow after high school and into college i hope i reconsider the proposal and look at the youth population that are being - >> thank you, very much. next speaker please and. >> with have a mission to build community with the lesbian and gay kweerp and questioni- as su may know we have over 25 hundred kids we've seen horrific acts of one thousand of our students have reported attempting killing themselves and we can't calculate what that trauma costs our communities were two years we tried to have a great program working with staff and teachers both who are receptive with the program and who are not comfortable with the program. our model has been adopted middle school and balboa school and

the language and specific support system that our community was have to turn the tied of asians to leave the city. immigrant and workers right ought to be respected in san francisco. so as critical component of the asian community which is underwriters feeling the pressures. those ladies represent the best of those institutions as leaders asians students and the larger aligning families they work closely with and support the diverse process. while this process of year-old budget and strategies can be channeling the board must not overlook the critical challenges that the asian community is facing and they can't remove our special teachers >> please walk up. as the director of the asian community center i add my voice to rehiring those two teachers. >> all right. i have a lady speaking on schools. >> good evening. i'm with the shape of san francisco coalition. i'm here on behalf of our children. as you know we're in the mist of obesity epidemic. and this is from physical activity our children are not moving enough this day's and since they spend a lot of time at school the school districts has to

representing the asian-american community city. we are a small community center, but we are here for the last 12 years. we see other cbo's come and go. but we stay. we are serving the underprivileged asian community immigrant communities. they don't have the means or language skills to do better in their life. so we are helping them in many other ways. and also have small business owners to enhance. and how to strive in a bad economic time. i am telling you that district 10 and bay-view hunter's point is the future. so i ask seeking your attention to come to this area and look for the future. here we are, we are not doing very good economically, but we are rich in spirit and we are rich in talent. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chen. and now district 11 community representative, rachel ebora and nicole agbiyone. and then we have omar community collaborative, gwen brown. >> good afternoon, i am the executive director of burnle heights. >> good evening, our organization works through the vitalized commission street in excelior planning

. >> daily city police say the man is asian in late teens and early 20s, several people reported seeing him in the area because he had a peck cue lar walk and wearing an army green nylon jacket with a fur-lined hood. >> prosecutors have cracked a financial aid fraud ring paying phony college students to go classes they never attended this, happened at contra costa college. 22 people charged in this fraud including six have arrest warrants out for them. we'll have to pay with an $83 million in restitution. >> the business advertising that she would register people, and all they had to do was give her 25% of the checks that came n the maximum check is $2700. she got $600 out of every check. >> hummel, her boyfriend and six others took plea deals. >> in santa cruz county scott's valley high school closed today following a threat on face book. officials say the threat talked about shooting up the school stating if you go to school tomorrow, you will die. classes will resume on monday. >> today, chevron released a final report on the richmond refinery fire. a report covers what led to the fi

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city and to be out here. and all due to the attention that happened three years ago when there was a lot of african, asian tension out here, because of misunderstanding. we want to focus on young people. and we have our second summit where youth come together and organize it. and the theme they come up is called usla, a way to address trauma and stress. and the young people came up with this idea and put together addressing the trauma and the stress they deal with every day in district 10. and another thing we need more programs dealing with employments where asian and hiring african-americans and job training and latino population. to create programs and funding to reflect the population in district 10. we know that justification happens because of development, but we know that the city wants to invest in the community also. but we need to do it the right way. i have a couple of young people to share their experience in the program and hope shed light why it's important to have this program. >> okay, just really quick. hi, everybody, i name is treasure. this is my second year of being a part of bya. last year i

prior to employment with the city and county of san francisco, he was the managing attorney for the asian law caucus. i first met ed in 1992 when he became the executive director for the human rights commission and we were both 16. that's two decades ago, ed. i watched him soon become the director of city purchasing and then going on to become the director of public works. i think ed is the only mayor in city history that can carry tlau on the campaign promise to fill the potholes because he actually knows how and he's the only mayor in city history that can say he actually knows every single city street because his crews probably paved them. i have had the privilege of working alongside ed for many years in city government. he has always been a cherished colleague and friend to everyone in city hall. he's done the job, he gets the job done, never wanting credit, just the satisfaction of doing the right thing for the people he serves in the city and county of san francisco. i was thinking about the introduction of mayor ed lee lastity and we'll taking the time to think about ed as mayor a

asian massage practice. he says no arrests were made. the city isn't trying to target prostitutes but hit the people in charge of the businesses where it hurts most. >> every day they are closed they lose money. making it challenging to pay their rent. >> she points to a bigger picture helping women who may not want to be there in the first place. >> could be human trafficking behind it. in many cases they are victims, as well. >> the four businesses that are still closed have until the beginning of may to make sure they reinstall plumbing and electrical wiring the right way. as for other violations like practicing without the proper licenses, that has to be handled with the city separately and a process that could take much longer and keep doors like these closed. >> thank you, stephanie. >>> it was a matter of time is the sentiment of people in the neighborhood after a teenager driver lost control of his michael carrero reca michael carrero reening in to a home. it went from sue sans to dangerous when a mother was seriously injured. both teens

president says they blitz canadian border guys asians operating nearly a billion dollars combined should follow russian rules on his piece on of our cities. let amir putin face the questions from the german broadcaster in typically bullish manner he said that there wouldn't be any kind of witch hunt against n.g.o.s operating within russia this is after russia implemented new laws on non-governmental organizations operating within its borders the president pointing out that there's six hundred and fifty four n.g.o.s currently operating in russia many of them dealing with the internal politics of russia and these new laws were in place to find out basically just where the cash that goes to finance these non-government organizations is coming from and just regarding how much that cash is it's around one billion u.s. dollars a year so they wanted to find out who's putting money into russia and where that's coming from. the law does not prohibit then he thinks you know there's a limit or close down anything through the organizations financed from abroad or not forbidding to carry out any type of activities including internal political ones th

asians to rule the day. live from moscow this is our two young brewery sushi the west bank city of hebron has been flooded with fouls and of those coming to attend the funeral of a former palestinian security officer and he did die while in israeli custody his death has triggered a wave of riots and clashes between palestinians and israeli forces which resulted in at least two teenagers being killed by the soldiers. been following the funeral procession joining us live here on our to arena good to see you again so quickly you've been keeping a very close watch on clashes and post funeral violence so what can you tell us where you are. well i'm actually in downtown have run right now that you are allowed to have to tell about an hour ago made it look evil a little bit less now we are in downtown and there are clashes going on between the i.d.f. forces and that of the protesters now i have to say most of these protesters there's about a hundred hundred fifty of them so not everybody who was at the funeral actually went to the protests but let me just take a step away for now you can see what's happening behind m

city. we are all human, and how to connect with that human spirit, whether you are in public housing, own your own property, or if your asian, african-american, male or female, we are really a community. when we start to realize and move in the direction of being humans and having this human experience and connecting together, really if you will, being each other's keeper, then san francisco really begins to continue to thrive.

asian youth or african-americans. i want to know what new programs were funded through the process. i know we have to look at it throughout the city and i have a worry when the district center or the beacon center maybe hit with reductions. i know there are tremendous amounts and need and he tremendous needs within the richest monday and some baseline through the district. i wanted to is that for lgb t use i know that some people will say that some agencies maybe the only ones that are serving a certain population. but for critical needs of vulnerable populations. the last thing is for agencies that stretch across many neighborhoods we're not just seeing them as one district or one ethic group that their serving a multiple ethics. i know that you have the ability to assess those information >> i want the zip code and age groups kind of broken down. i'm asking this for the entire district 5 if at all possible. >> the zip code for the students or the cb o? the students? >> and the age of the students. so i know you can easily print that statistical data out if you want to add like school and all of that stuff that's in the reporting

city stuyvesant. makes it twice as selective as harvard. it is 72% asian-americans. the u.s. math and science olympiad winners are on now on average 70% asian americans. but the single largest deviation from merit, far more than race or legacies is the recruited athletes program. the problem has gotten dramatically worse in the past 20 years. colleges now have to drop their standards much lower to build sports teams and many of these students, in turn, perform terribly in classroom. a senior administration officer at an ivy league school told me i have to turn down hundred of highly qualified applicants including athletes because we must take so many recruited athletes who are narrowly focused and less accomplished otherwise. william bone, a former president of princeton university has exhaustively documented the damage the system does to american higher education. and, yet, no college president seems to have the courage to change it. the most troubling trend in america in recent years has been the decline of economic mobility. the institutions that have been the best at open

what they are saying is the majority of the people who use their city pools are hispanic and black and asiane is a language barrier, they say, between the current white lifeguards and the population who uses the pool. >> how -- i'm a black american. i have no language barrier with a white person. i'm talking to you and tucker right now. we seem to be speaking english. they said, what i read, is that they want lifeguards that blacks and hispanics and, you know, some asians can relate to. i still don't understand when you are swimming you are not doing a whole lot of talking to the lifeguard. >> tucker: this is the same rationale that propped up jim crow for 80 years. you want to swim in a pool that look like you. sit on a bus. >> segregation. >> tucker: use the same water fountain as people that look like you it's diversity. >> my parents grew up during segregation, tucker. they didn't like having to be on the beach and at pools and seeing white people be able to use a different beach. so we're, once again, phoenix is making no sense and like you said, they are forcing some kind of segregatio

colin ferguson, murdered six people garden city, thork, black guy, omar thorton, eight people in manchester, connecticut, black guy. we have asian shooters too. we also have white shooters. this is not a racial play here. >> do you have the white shooters up there? just curious. >> we know who the white shooters are, bob, let's be honest. you can't paint with such a broad brush. the woman who wrote this article is injecting race here. >> you know, if i were you i would get a picture with a bigger frame. >> i don't think anybody should be singled out based on their race or gender on this issue. it is a national problem. if you could sit down instead of jamming gun control bills down the throats of americans and have an honest debate we will find we have more in common. the break down of the family whether you are white, black, asian, greek, i don't care. >> this was bias, obviously. it is not accurate. it is not good reporting, good analysis. she has discredited herself. >> last thought this. >> it was a column and it is sensible to say that there are a lot of people from mass murders from a lot of races except when we portray th

city. we are all human, and how to connect with that human spirit, whether you are in public housing, own your own property, or if your asian, african-american, male or female, we are really a community. when we start to realize and move in the direction of being humans and having this human experience and connecting together, really if you will, being each other's keeper, then san francisco really begins to continue to thrive. supervisor wiener: what we have here is a very important project and a very important mission and a completely reasonable objection of neighbors who are concerned about a five-story building going in on their block, which is something we see in san francisco all the time, and there is nothing exceptional or inappropriate about people taking issue with the size of a building. i grow up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey, went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university and law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here and have been in here for the last 14 years. i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area because that is where my

city. we are all human, and how to connect with that human spirit, whether you are in public housing, own your own property, or if your asian, african-american, male or female, we are really a community. when we start to realize and move in the direction of being humans and having this human experience and connecting together, really if you will, being each other's keeper, then san francisco really begins to continue to thrive. >> happy arbor day, everyone. we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in

city of san francisco. i mean you represent those who live in the district. i care very deeply about what is going on in terms of racial tension between asian and african american communities in the bayview or whether we're talking about muni were talking about public safety issues in other neighborhoods -- i think it is important for me to support the issue's going around the neighborhood. i think most san francisco residents do not identify themselves by their district. >> once again, the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including whether to raise taxes and fees or whether to make cuts. how will your approach these choices? supervisor kim: the budget is tough this year. even though our deficit is not as large as it has been, it is tough because we have made these cuts already, and did this point, we are cutting things we really do not want to cut. and it is painful. we will lose more potential services. we will also not be able to support our residents. we are looking at weekend meals for seniors. it is painful. i think we have to look at it as a combined approach. it has to be cut within city government that we can bear -- services that are less es

it suffers as much from the deindustrialize asian as any other city american. buffalo also made what from an urban point of view was our horrible mistake. the could have been a magnet for jobs in research. that was a disaster. nevertheless, people are coming downtown. there is a high-tech sector. ides of buffalo was somewhat more emerging then i would have expected to be. it is not a detroit at this point. there is live downtown. people to the builders are investing money in and tells. i don't think of love is dead. pittsburgh followed in educational and medical development strategy which is really more successful than in almost any other city in the country. buffalo relies on education and medical institutions. but the economist a couple of years you're an article this was in buffalo as having a future. i think that will turn out to be little the pessimistic. >> do you think in my lifetime i will see this? >> let us all live long and well into the prosperity of the cities. >> thank you. >> our next question, please. >> my name is david earning it -- irving. wa

and city are right from the beginning have a totally independent will whether in their countries old or in the region unfortunately they are carrying out their designs that every design ploy that asianyou know under probably for the word you know if you if you if you do think of what is happening in libya and yemen in sudan in egypt you know you in here out in syria you would know that there is a huge the design that is made for this to the region and i think they are ignoring that tug that it is the people and they are people who make the future of their countries and personally i feel that what we are witnessing in the middle east is the absolutely the threshold of independence of a lot of countries and the benefits twenty or thirty years you will find another word that truly speaks up for itself and i hope syria is going to be the first country to usher in this a new dawn for the arab world think that this design is for syria alone or it's also about iran well you know it's not for city alone i think it is it's first of all about libya that is there any conflict first of all it's about palestine and the occupied territories and been in order to fulfill this desire and you have to