one of 2 asian marijuanas in the march. also with us are 2 amazing organizers. mable [inaudible] from ur san diego [inaudible] and asians for black lives bringing communalties together. jusy supauchbt awho is active with org orgzs. i want to honor asian frz black lives and and if they want to say a few words. >> thank you everyone. inel rr jesa [inaudible] this is mable and in addition to organizing for asians for black lives i teach dynamic mindfulness at mission high school. as asians for black lives thank you for this honorism we accept this on behalf of families and men who couldn't be here because they were stolen by the police. we call [inaudible] many more named and unnamed. we acknowledge that we as asian are used as part oaf a divide and conquer strategy to up hold white supremacy. we recognize the relationship between racist militarized police rageer war and empoorialist forces in the home land. we are determined to resist both. we understand race [inaudible] one manifestation of the on going war of black and brown people. [inaudible] unequal pay. mass

i know one of the suicide victims was a asian marijuana and the other was a 18 year old that transferred out of washington high school. i know washington has a great wellness center that does peer to peer mental health counseling that is a model of how to build support from school and i think richmond area for helping develop that model. i know the school district has a great school health prm that helpwise the families and school communities and know our city also supported wellinoussenters and community based modelsism the defundsing of community health leave us in a situation where many families and young people don't have the support they need from our community mental health system. i think the work by richmond [inaudible] and washington high school need much more support and did want to say that as we look to the expansion of the childrens #23u7bd thanks to the voters of san francisco i urge the department of children, youth and families to strongly evaluate the type of of support for multicultural mental health service frz the young people. i also want to say as we look at mental