that is what the filipino community center is doing, reaching 160 community members, bridging community members with supports with intensified service such as food insecurity, unemployment insurance, foreign undocumented community members and critical health and safety supplies and information. we ask that mochd keep the f.c.c. program whole by fully funding and restoring the $159,000 and support an equitable recovery for filipinos in san francisco. strengthen this bridge, especially for our vulnerable population as we continue towards recovery together to get there. thank you. >> caller: hello i am from the filipino community center. i'm one of the staff here. (please stand by) >> caller: current funding recommendation will be about 20% reduction in our funding at a time we can't afford any reduction in our community and equitable recovery and all of the service its a they can get. especially with the cultural competency that fcc provides. we thank you for your work on the budget this year. it's challenging but we all need to work together to move forward. thank you. [indiscernible] >>

guest: community health workers are trusted members of the communities they serve.means they come from the same neighborhoods, from the same culture, the same racial or ethnic background, for example, as the patients they are working with. they serve in the roles to increase access to health and social services, to increase equity in care, and improve the quality and cultural competence of services. they can really help bridge how complex our health care system can be to navigate, especially for individuals who might have a harder time due to poverty or chronic diseases they are facing. host: what would be the difference between a community health worker and a nurse or nurse practitioner or doctor? guest: great. thank you for that. something to think about is community health workers don't necessarily have the same type of health care education that you would see with a nurse or physician's assistant or doctor. they are more likely to be -- having less education in that field, although it is possible they might have it. their role is more specifically in this region

of color, low income communities, and indigenous communities. that's why environmental justice must be at the center of climate action. it's why environmental justice is the cornerstone of our climate crisis action plan. it's why today, we will focus on advancing environment of justice through climate action. throughout our history, black, brown, indigenous, low income americans have been disproportionately harmed. today, they are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. black american children are five times more likely than white children to be admitted to the hospital for asthma. latinos are twice as likely to live in areas threatened by wildfires. communities that have few trees or places to cool off have deadlier outcomes when the weather hits triple digits. tribes are watching their way of life disrupted by climate field weather extremes, wildlife loss, and sea level rise. in puerto rico, families are still living with blue plastic tarps over their homes nearly four years after hurricane maria blew away their roots. this is not a

especially in the african american community and latino american community. we're seeing 60% of the vaccinations. in the latino community, although there are -- it's a larger percentage of the latino community that has been vaccinationed over 70%, they are two point two times more likely to be infected with the new variant. we're seeing the disparities play out in our hospitals. everyone in the hospital at san francisco general right now did not get the vaccine. dis opposed to propotiona disopd -- we knowwhat happened with te experiments in the country. we know that african americans were used for forty years not given penicillin in '47, it widely known that was a cure for syphilis. the share croppers who were used and suffered and discarded. african communities in my family my grandmother, one generation removed from slavely, concerned about trust in the vaccination process, we know that is real. but this is also real. we're in a different place now. the same people are experiencing some of the same challenges around concerns with trust, but more importantly

community healing.esponsibility to honor their resilience with the resources they deserve. there are future leaders and they are the people who need long-term healing and they live in our communities. thank you for your time. >> my name is heather ripley and i have worked in district six for theo■ñ?ñ? past eight years. i would like to share my feelings on three points during public comment date on june 205th. one, am hoping you can concentrate on emergency hotel vouchers to provide immediate access in a safe place to sleep. providers cannot really afford to lose any money for transitional age youth and emergent chintzy hotel funds vouchers. please continue to fund educational services so transitional age youth can establish careers and sustainable income. and most importantly, will more clinicians to help provide behavioral health support especially in our shelters, across our fair city. thank you soñ?ñ? much for givine the opportunity to speak and for your consideration and your time. gowzñ?ñ?odbye. >>

justice communities. would you agree it's important for us to identify to communicate about a work to reserve air pollution hotspots all across our hunter country. >> yes absolutely. >> people and cancer alley would welcome that. >> again cancer alley is just one example that has proliferated across our entire country. it is just time for us to have environmental justice at the core of any piece of legislation which we pass this year. because if you don't map it is impossible then to rectify this torque injustices. thank you both for your work historically into both of our panelists as well. thank you for conducting this hearing. >> 90 senator markey. we're going to have second round which each senator is allowed one question. if you'd like to stay, and a senator sylvan has a question i understand senator wicker my return for additional question. my additional question goes to mrs. flowers. you refer in your testimony to cancer alley along mississippi river. were they have very high cancer rates due to po

and underserved communities. i want to thank the witnesses for being here. recently, i introduced the building covid night -- building covid vaccine confidence active 2021 which directs cdc to direct grants to local health departments and nonprofits to conduct outreach, to conduct -- to combat vaccine hesitancy. what are the top three recommendations to create a successful, culturally competent, multichannel targeted vaccine campaign? dr. benjamin: the first thing is to make sure that you engage the community as part of your design . it is important that we not thank we know what the community needs are thanks. that is first -- community needs or thinks. that is first. next, making sure we make it convenient for people to get the vaccine. that is extremely important. representative: does that mean opening up vaccine sites where they are? dr. benjamin: opening sites where they are, getting them rise and it means asking them what they need. when we were doing education on infant mortality, pregnant women needed a p

communities of color, low income communities and indigenous communities. that's why environmental justice must be at the center of climate action. it's why environmental justice is the cornerstone of our climate crisis action plan and it's why today we'll focus on advancing environmental justice through climate action. throughout our history, black, brown, indigenous and low income, today they're more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. black american children are five times likelier than white children to be admitted to the hospital forasthma. and communities that have few trees or places to cool off have deadlier outcomes of when the weather hits triple digits. tribes are watching their way of life by climate weather extremes and wildlife loss and in puerto rico families are still living with blue plastic tarps over their homes nearly four years after hurricane maria blew away their roofs. this is not a coincidence. environmental justice communities have long been harmed by chronic underinvestment and systemic failures that make it harder for th

the community. mineral johnson this morning the tulsa world by the way has some photographs of what that scene looked like and will show you some of those i should point out as we begin our conversation that we're going to show some photographs that you might find disturbing. we feel it's important to give a sense of exactly what happened. i just wanted to jump in and ask you about this district called black wall street. what can you tell us about greenwood? so black wall street is a moniker attached to the business sector of the greenwood community. the original designation was the negro wall street of america, but it was more like a black main street and that these were mom type operations commercial establishments restaurants grocery stores hotels movie theaters dance halls pool halls confectioneries haberdasheries all manner of small businesses coupled with service providers like doctors lawyers dentist and accountants really a commercial district of the type that you might find in many places a

just give us jobs and invest in us and our communities and our schools. give us the basic things we need and this will stop. i think if we are really serious about solving the very real problem of gun violence we need to look at the dynamics in the communities that are most energetically policed which is asking questions like why is it young people are more likely to die by police or by each other in the same communities that are heavily policed. that doesn't add up so it's about the investments. the members that were involved with this truth presented to the officials in los angeles is one of the missed opportunities which is a tragedy because you have to wonder if authorities at all levels would have invested and they were asking for a complete overhaul what would south la look like and then instead of that investment, instead of the public safety mechanism proposed which was to have community patrol, they got a brand-new shiny jail to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. until we begin to give people the resources we need, and we know that this dec

sort of community or my another community. but they don't know who do i want to go by? they strongly suspected. do i know when i, we also think that then the valuable georgia painful mission from the community under the same name so that you got got paid off point and we got community. you also help you by now to devise you sensitize the community to anything until we're done by the what is that on board that they have inside the park to this, this single engine decide that it's so there in just to live in the regional did of that he bought i got a bred as it can reach out to the original door. i thought my life was to draw as gentlemen not doing yeah. look at it tool bluff tool unit for over. yeah, i had to live with daddy for sure. managed to pick one was for now did you spend about 2 guys sick with a more work? no animals come through here. this was then you let the it will be a neck quarterly. the with the amount of nerves over 4 years ago. now that adjusting, i'm sure, by almost 80 percent the with me when i was before ge

miya: community health workers are trusted members of the communities they serve.t means they come from the same neighborhood, culture, racial or ethnic background, for example, as the patients that they are working with. and they serve in roles to increase access to health and social services to increase equity and improve the quality and cultural competence of services. so they can really help bridge how complex our health-care system can be to navigate, especially for individuals who might have a harder time due to poverty or chronic diseases they are facing. jesse: what would be the difference between a community health worker and a nurse or nurse practitioner or dr.? miya: great, thank you for that. something to think about is, community health workers don't necessarily have the same of health care education that you would see with a nurse or physician's assistant or a doctor. they are more likely to be having less education in that field, even though it is possible they might have it. their role is more specifically in this bridging role and providing support

communities of color and working-class communities are the greatest risk when it comes to disasters and they often have less capacity to adapt. just this week, the new york times highlighted how fema's disaster relief efforts often help white communities more than communities of color, even when the amount of damage in neighborhoods is a similar. that's why climate action must also create opportunities and strive for environmental justice that will protect everyday americans regardless of their zip code and skin color. america's mayors understand these challenges. in madison, wisconsin, the mayor is showing us how to invest in clean energy while also creating prosperity in underserved communities. through her green power initiative, she has trained diverse workers to install over a megawatt of solar energy on municipal facilities. we have seen important progress in los angeles, where mayor eric garcetti launched a plan to increase community zillions, and to bring the cities have a structure into the 21st century. in atlanta, the nation's 10th largest economy, the mayor has pioneered inn

we are here to facilitate communication between the community and applicant. and it's our obligation to stand with the community and allow members of the community to get answers to some of their questions. i would again, ask that we give it a little more time and get the kind of thoughtful answers that we ourselves need to see in order to fully support the project. it will not be just adding conditions. hopefully the community's concerns can be given to what is not answered at the moment. those are my comments, thank you. >> commissioner diamond. >> the issue as to what size the balconies are and whether the ground floor retail space should be housing instead of retail, i believe those are refinements that would i would be fine leaving up to staff. it would be nice to see the final resolution come back to us as an information item but i believe we are closing up here and the proposes -- the changes being proposed are in the nature of refinements that i am fine having staff be the party that works that out with the developer. >> commissioner imperial. >> i jus

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community. i want to thank the trust for public land, and the san francisco parks alliance, drew becker is here and numerous members of his team. we have several representatives from our city family. i saw ken nimm and i say caller eisen, there may not be a city department that is not working on this in some way, shape or form. and i want to acknowledge our partners across the basin from bill dink, and i see lou vasquez here, lou, thank you for being here. and i want to give a special recognition to a guy standing right in front of me, john, thank you. john fritzker whose philanthropy turned this from a dream and a vision actually into a project. so, thank you, john. let's give him a round of applause. and thank you, moe, and john and moe were recently married just a few days ago and they came back early from -- moe doesn't really call it a honeymoon, called it a camping trip, but they came back early to be here with us today. so thank you both very, very much. [applause] this project has many,

demanded and in every community that experienced rebellion. there have been nonviolent protests for decades. related to the explosion, people are in the streets, people are going to city hall people are petitioning their local officials they are consistently ignored. the rebellion begins to start new conversations in communities, that don't ultimately lead to change in many respects but maybe they become the kind of dominant form of protest and that is to not embrace a policy of nonviolence but to embrace politics of self-defense and self-preservation when you're living in what is essentially an occupied community. >> one of the things i think is powerful about this is i think we often talk about police brutality as a spark. the actions, what they're really about is housing, is jobs, is education and my reading of your book is that you're saying that yes, that is certainly a part of what people are rebelling against but we also have to understand policing itself as a source of oppression. it's not just spark. it's not just that they access the

to other communities. this -- the approach taken by banks and corporations support black banks and mdis can only have limited impact. black mdis tote al aggregate access as approximately $10 billion compared to total u.s. banking assets of $20 trillion. given the limited size and smaller geographic focus they are simply incapable of addressing the racial equity gaps. fintechs, however, are creating a transformation of banking and financial services and similar to the other industries tech-driven companies are designed to scale and efficiently build new models to support the market. traditional companies and banks generally do not have those skills to make those kind of changes to attach to the driven economy and, therefore, also many small community banks are adding fintechs on top but none of them are black-owned banks and, therefore, they are not part of it. for the bank offing industry the keys to closing the racial wealth gap and supporting racial equity is a recirculation of capital and reduction of e

our communities are riddled with crime.for breaking up the barbecue for no reason and arresting us for hanging out in the park after dark, things like that. the responses to fight back. and i think especially in terms of the narratives we tell about black protests in general and the relationship of the people who are being policed and surveilled and disproportionately incarcerated to those institutions is important. it also, with the cane rebellion kind of being the beginning point rather than the endpoint is significant because it underscores the ways in which the new generation, the rising generation of young people who've grown up seeing the civil rights movement unfolded all of its promises with the assassination of king and by 68 with thean launch of the war on crime, have seen many of the conditions they were t living in hadn't really changed and that that'snonviolent direct action t wasn't enough to secure the full economic and political citizenship that they wanted and their parents wanted and demanded and in nearly

are vaccinated and on the community of community inequity as the chairman mentioned, black and brown communities suffered losses and no surprise some people of color who felt abandoned by our government in 2020 may have hesitated to believe that the government would protect them now against covid-19. we must collectively come to terms with our historical, our history of medical trauma and abuse black and brown americans and culturally competent messaging community specific if we want to prevent more did he have evaluation this fall. spread the word where people can find more information about the vaccines. my dear friend and science communication lead jessica rivera likes to say science isn't finished until it's been communicateed with empathy so we must work to make sure that our policies and the stories we tell about them, the ways in which we communicate the science, are trustworthy transparent and inclusive. public health must be our number one priority because my nature public health requires us to work on behalf of the public. our doctors and researchers do and each of us can d

what communities are you in touch with? >> we are in touch with a range of communities. i provided an update last week that we were in touch with missouri about possibly sending some teams there. we had already sent a team to colorado to collaborate with a local to permit of health. i can see if there is more. -- a local department of health. i can see of there is more. we are happy to have these teams at helping communities get vaccinated and protecting themselves from the virus. reporter: [indiscernible] if a community is particularly bad, you approach that community and asked, do you want to be helped? >> the cdc is deploying these teams. we can see vaccination rates and where there are rising caseloads and work on a collaborative way with the communities to deploy the team. reporter: [indiscernible] nomination for the doj. just curious about that position. >> i would say there's certainly a position -- there is a certainly a position the president is eager to fill. i don't have anything for you in terms of the timeline for it. reporter: will the president continued t

community. she wants to express her gratitude. she also talked a little bit about the journey for many -- you know, from yucatÁn. i am so sorry. and they came here to look for a better -- and just more positive opportunities. and i get a little choked up because i know what that trajectory looked like as an immigrant person and someone that as myself, i know what that means. and she wanted to remind every member those that we lost during this pandemic. and so, again, she wants to have you all keep the good fight to make sure that we can continue to build affordable housing and she's looking upon all of you guys to be able to do that. mucho gracias. so, let's continue on. and let's talk about what is 490. it's an 80-unit affordable housing building that you're sitting here today that is located in the san francisco mission district. just a couple blocks from here we have the authentic 1950 mission that is another wonderful partnership with the partnership of bridge housing and ourselves that we w

community partners.chools, churches, libraries all have to remain engaged in the way to spread the news about these programs about lifelines. and last thing, i saw a couple of examples on these community partnerships when i took a tour across alabama and georgia. on my last trip before the pandemic i was in rural randolph county, georgia, over 2 1/2 hours away from alabama. -- atlanta. i saw stacey abrams organization there. to install internet service for community members to participate in the online census, and get jobs. and i stopped in selma, alabama and visited the housing authority to discuss an initiative they had of bringing preprogram and tablets to children in low-income housing, george washington carver homes. i will never forget hearing from a mother of three who said her life was transformed by the program and completed her online assignments to get a job. help her children complete their homework. and that is broadband for the people. dominique: thank you so much. you say there is a pictur

community, we have also seen the uprising of this community of across cultural community coming together through ambassador programs, through escort programs, through cross cultural connections and so we're going to be investing about $6.5 million to support that effort which includes expanding the senior escort program providing around victim wraparound services and development. and stopping the aapi hate campaign. which is targeted on education, building cross cultural relationships and this is very significant as we move san francisco forward. in addition to the challenges that we've seen related to those issues, we still are in the midst of our recovery. so there's still food that needs to be served. there's still people that need help. we want to continue our vaccinations and to support covid recovery, $14.3 million and community and testing. daily street cleaning in chinatown. i know we're not in chinatown, but the fact is a lot of folks in this community spend a lot of time there too. so we want to make sure in that community, it's taken care of. daily street cleaning. small busin

white community or mine either community but they don't know where do i go by? they strongly suspect it do i know when i we also think then valuable. do i just by information from the community under my name, if we got got paid off point and we got a community, you also help you by now to devise you sensitize the community to entity. and then the at that point that they have called inside that pocket to this, this single urging decide that it's so the range of the rolling in the regional day of that it bought i got a great. is it kimberly just to the number one thought my life was to but draw as gentlemen not doing yeah. look at it tool tool unit for over. yeah, i thought waste golden. yeah. data free show the money to pick one was for now it's been about 2 guys to sick with a more work. no. animals come through here. this was then you let the it will be a neck that is called with the, with the amount of nerves 4 years ago to now that a juicing, i'm sure, by almost 80 percent the with me when i was saying before getting your grade, our, the butcher we had to get

for communities in color.i ready today to make a motion to move forward with the three of those that is the candidates. just seeing that we can still work together, we can still see that the legacy of someone like mass harley marshall can be a part of the task forward. continuing to take a leadership role. perhaps i can rely on her expertise as the task force members. i'd ready to move that forward. colleagues, i'm looking for your support and leadership on this as well. >> chair peskin: thank you. i look forward to that as well as well as the applicants we spoke to. i'm also very impressed by mr. powell. i think what was said and you mrs. chan reiterated. this is truly a process where people can can stay involved and to the folks who spoke about timeframes, this is a, i would compress timeframes because the federal government dragged it's feet. we're on the verge of coming on summer recess, time is not our friend here. as i said at the outset and i really mean it and i'm interested in making the connections b

rural communities, poorer communities, how do you insure that students and educators have the same resources on par with those in wealthier, wealthier, more maybe suburban communities? rb>> yeah, that's a good point. often times when we talk about disparities and we talk about underserved groups, we forget to mention the rural students throughout our country. i was in arizona recently, and i was able to visit a school where there wasn't another school for miles and miles and miles, and it just seemed like we needed to make sure that they had everything they needed to be successful there. and a lot of that is really broadband and making sure that devices are working, making sure that they haves access to the same learning -- they have access to the same learning activities that students in more dense areas of our country. so those conversations with those educators and with those mayors and state and federal leaders involve trying to build an infrastructure that can withstand what we experienced before and just make sure that we're looking at the digital do divide in the rearview mirror soon.

but an entire community and culture. feel the have more in order will provide all to a strong well resort, probably equipped police force these gangs will be wiped rather than framing this as here is a community under threat from its own deviant rump is presented to the community and the water world as this is something that is particular and peculiar to this community. it's their problem, not else. and from then on the basis for the future, the bite is sit in a very nasty and toxic why i'm proud of my use lamp cancelled me like you know, i'm dignity taught me how to speak of and accept them. and that's the most important part at the height of the as lemme phobia. naughty osalla is employed at the local government family support worker in southwest sydney. i was always organizing on christmas hampers and christmas toys for family and children. i called one client, and she said nadia would you mind if i ask you, where are you from? i said, why are you asking me i'm from here. she said no, no, no. what's your background? i

a significant benefit for the community as well as cost. we also need to continue to make health care more affordable. when we lowered premiums and expanded coverage in the american rescue plan, more than 1.5 million people signed up for what used to be called obamacare. i want to make these reductions permanent so we can get even more people covered. we need to deal with the shortage of affordable housing. over 10 million renters in the country pay more than half their income for rent on their apartment. the lack of affordable housing prevents people from moving to communities where there are more opportunities. we are going to make historic investments in affordable housing, improving housing by rehabilitating more than 2 million homes, especially in places that need more housing. we need to invest not just in physical and human infrastructure, we need to invest in jobs. this always disturbs me, three decades ago the united states was number one in the world for share of their gdp being invested into research and development. we are now n

we are here to facilitate communication between the community and applicant. and it's our obligation to stand with the community and allow members of the community to get answers to some of their questions. i would again, ask that we give it a little more time and get the kind of thoughtful answers that we ourselves need to see in order to fully support the project. it will not be just adding conditions. hopefully the community's concerns can be given to what is not answered at the moment. those are my comments, thank you. >> commissioner diamond. >> the issue as to what size the balconies are and whether the ground floor retail space should be housing instead of retail, i believe those are refinements that would i would be fine leaving up to staff. it would be nice to see the final resolution come back to us as an information item but i believe we are closing up here and the proposes -- the changes being proposed are in the nature of refinements that i am fine having staff be the party that works that out with the developer. >> commissioner imperial. >> i jus

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for the community, the trial goes on. we were torn apart by the whole event. and the way the way it was publicized, we felt that we needed to defend ourselves against the media. we need to defend ourselves against a politician. we need to defend ourselves against all the hate mail that we received. we went afraid we were just afraid at that time we didn't know what to do. i wasn't only live in ice, wasn't to experience this many liberties. christians also experienced it because in the wider public ignorant mind, it was simply enough to be arab lebanese from the middle east, irrespective of religion or faith, or lack of a community is under media. and as races tensions increase to the police presence on the strength. the, the drug gangs of the most of the targets. but as the crackdown continued, the underworld drunk supply continues to spread. the cabbage didn't stop. the drug distribution didn't stop. once you take a run around, unfortunately, there's someone there to take the place almost immediately. mm. ah, hello p a s

working with the community. and so i think it's important to state the fact that the biden administration, president joe biden, and vice president kamala harris are strong advocates and have invested much to ensure that crime goes down. we know that it is a mixture of the toxicity of the covid-19 pandemic, poverty, and, of course, those who are inclined to do the crime. with that in mind, it is very important to factually make the point -- there's nothing in the biden administration's agenda or its funding packages or those of democrats that deal with the defunding of police. we are reimagining and working with our communities, collectively, as we say, police community relations will improve and continue to improve, one, finding those who perpetrate the crimes to bring them to justice, because crime does not look to the color of one's skin. it's without discrimination. it hits all of america. so i'm very proud to have been an original co-sponsor and lead on the victims of crime act that was signed by the preside

understand that we're talking about a community, and the community consists of people. these were remarkable african-american people who created this incredible community who nurtured the community and sustained it through the destruction of the massacre, rebuilt it substantially, and it thrived through the '40s and '50s and early on into the '60s. so the events are really marking both the massacre, the anniversary of which we commemorate today, but also black wall street, that economic and entrepreneurial character that existed in the community and made the community the talk of the nation. >> which is the title of your new book "black wall street, 100, an american city grapples with its historical racial trauma." our guest is going to be with us for the next 75 minutes here on c-span's washington journal and on c-span 3's american history tv. our phone lines are divided for those who are current and former residents of tulsa, oklahoma, 204-748-8000, and 204-748-8001. nancy is on the phone from new jersey, go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, i just feel that white people