we recently elected a filipino to legislature which a huge moment in the community to gain interest butupporters and be a role model to those that want to get more involved in issues. >> kristen: and the engagement is one of big issues to really get the word out and raise awareness on domestic violence. really helping remove the sigma that sometimes -- stigma. talk about that. >> in the asian culture, especially in the filipino culture we don't talk about family issues, it's considered a family issue some of the stigmas and challenges we want to overcome, it's not your fault. some families will disown their child because they feel like they did something to 200that or embarrassing to family. the victims realize it's not their fault. >> kristen: let's take a video that shows that message. >> domestic violence happens in all communities. >> rich, poor, working class. >> educated and less educated. >> near and far. >> domestic violence. >> is into the private matter. it affects our families. >> my children, our future! >> kristen: this is not just for asian-americans and how do you want vi

filipino fast food just behind us, and a bunch of riffraff. >> filipinos are very proud of their food're going through what we went through, where the glass hasn't been broken yet, to translate it, but keep the core and soul of it, but it tastes delicious. >>> a few blocks over, the iconic filipino fast food chain jollibee. laugh all you one, but ask any filipino, they love the drive-thru for this specialty spam thing, but it's the desserts that get crazy. >> decisions, decisions. we'll take one aloha burger, and one spam little big bite. let's do a halo-halo. that's it. >> oh, look at that. what is that? >> that's halo-halo. >> oh, yeah. dig deep and you hit delicious stratas of red beans, white beans and chickpeas, cubes of jell-o, shaved ice, coconut, and is that flan? it makes no goddamned sense at all. i love it. >> a part of every filipino's life. >> oddly beautiful. i have to take a picture. >> you know i'm getting a bite of that. what is that? >> it's a little big bite. favorite thing in the world. >> no, don't say that. >> i like that. >> it's good, right? >> aloha. it just s

so i am going to start off with the filipino educaters of san francisco. if you can approach the podium with your students. >> right, we will skip them and move on. >> san francisco, alliance of black school educators? miss marshal, should we move on? >> one minute? >> we will pass. >> okay the next organization association of chinese teachers. >> yes, so as the students took to line up along the podium with you and you can announce them one by one, and maybe they can just tell us where they went to high school and where they are going to college. good evening, superintendents, and board members, and everyone. my name is danny wong soeshs of chinese teachers president and i am honored to announce the winners this evening. so they each scholarship is... they received $2,000. and the process is select a base on the academic achievement involved in extracurricular leadership activity and other community services so i am actually going to turn it to them and they would just introduce themselves to the school they attend and what college they will be going to.

partly too my dad would be excited i'm here representing the filipino heritage.each of them should be honored from what he or she has achieved. the final lift in the lifetime achievement category are robert, the team of john (calling names) this recipient of the lifetime achievement word is people's. >> i've prepared a speech i'm glad i'm going to be using it so i want to thank the asian pacific community and this year's for their dedication of the heritage month celebration. my gratitude goes out for the panel of judges for relating me. i admire the folks here today. behind the success of every person is a village of supporters mine is my family headed by my mother. mom. she taught me to love unconditional. my son anticipate and my beautiful daughter there's the reasons for my living my friends who keep me well-balanced with the happy hours and thousands of students who have inspired me to be a better person and lately my god and safer who guided me everyday. i'm very grateful for this recognition >> (clapping)

and the american community and those are the filipino american communities. and this year joining our committee of the sisters cities i want to thank you because this is what this is about the mayor says the san francisco pride is wonderful to work together with all our asian communities thank you very much. so with that. thank you. again. >> thank you for your leadership in making this a model for other cities to follow. now we were hoping to introduce our mayor but the mayor received a last minute invitation to be with president clinton and his wife but in his place i'd like to have the following supervisors come up and the president of the board of supervisors to present the award and others and we would like to invite the other peripheries and elected officials to join them and the school board member and welcome them on stage. (clapping). thank you very much. >> good evening everyone hello. okay. just making sure you guys are out there. thank you and on behalf of the committee i also want - on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to say thank you an

we recently elected a filipino to legislature which a huge moment in the community to gain interest butt more supporters and be a role model to those that want to get more involved in issues. >> kristen: and the engagement is one of big issues to really get the word out and raise awareness on domestic violence. really helping remove the sigma that sometimes -- stigma. talk about that. >> in the asian culture, especially in the filipino culture we don't talk about family issues, it's considered a family issue some of the stigmas and challenges we want to overcome, it's not your fault. some families will disown their child because they feel like they did something to 200that or embarrassing to family. the victims realize it's not their fault. >> kristen: let's take a video that shows that message. >> domestic violence happens in all communities. >> rich, poor, working class. >> educated and less educated. >> near and far. >> domestic violence. >> is into the private matter. it affects our families. >> my children, our future! >> kristen: this is not just for asian-americans and how do you

me to this point, i would like to thank the superintendent for continuing our dialogue with the filipino community and thank you for opening up the chance to have a meeting tonight as we speak with the superintendent margaret chiu and thank you for giving us that opportunity to speak with her about our concerns. and i would like to thank you for meeting with us a couple of weeks ago, and thank you. >> and this is a sign that we are having this dialogue and hope that we can continue to really engage and collaborate as a community. and i see it personally as a road towards practicing the restorative practices and thank you and good night. >> thank you for your comments. >> all right we will move on and we have two speakers from (inaudible) you may each, if you require interpretation you can have two minutes, but if you are speaking in english, one minute each. how many minutes? >> i am sorry. >> one minute? >> i am nervous and i am taking the power to talk to you, the first one that we are going to talk about is we are having a lot of relational trust issues at the elementary school. and i

data, but as we know it, a current supervision, caucasian, 17%, asian 3%, african-american 32%, filipino, 1%. and hispanic 12%. so, we have a very difficult verse population. in terms of what our workforce looks like, i'm very proud of that. in terms of the gender of our workforce, 61% of our staff are women. 39% are men. ~ diverse. 38% of the department staff are sworn staff. so, as you probably heard from some of the other public safety departments, typically in any kind of law enforcement, including probation, it is difficult to recruit women. however, women do awfully well as case managers and supervisors, probation officers. so, we're very proud of that. also, our staff, approximately 18% are bilingual. when we did the recruitment for staff over the last couple of years we really focused on recruiting bilingual spanish speaking and cantonese staff and we've been successful in that. our actual workforce representation is 29% african-american, 22% hispanic, 16% asian-pacific islander, 6% filipino, and 27% white. ~ 26%. so, we are very difficult verse in our staffing. in terms of the o

to prevent the wrongful eviction of senior chinese and filipino immigrants who had no money and no place to go. [ applause ] and today san francisco has some of the best tenant protections. we sued the san francisco fire department, to get women and people of color a chance to be a firefighter, to serve, the public of san francisco. and to dedicate their lives to public safety, today we have a city's first female fire chief and our public safety agencies are more diverse than ever, and just as proud and good as any other generation that this city has ever seen. i joined with others there that were just as dedicated and committed as i was to make a difference for the residents of san francisco. together, we helped to make san francisco a different place, one that embraces and celebrates diversity. and today, san francisco is one of the most diverse cities and one of the most diverse regions. in fact, in the world's most diverse democracy. i never thought that i would ever in my lifetime see an african american as president of the united states and i never imagined that san francisco would

the perpetrators were pakistani and filipino and the victims were pakistani and filipino, that's number one, so it's very interesting intracultural thing going on, and also i think there's -- this sort of speaks the whole problem of immigrat n immigration. these are people who we have haphazard immigration system, there are people here that the black market sort of takes care of and handles rather than -- >> or abuses. >> or allows people a path to citizenship. >> more clarity less likely to be abuse. >> i'm unclear about the role of fear versus choice. you're saying that the people who were perpetrating themselves were the pakistanis and filipinos. >> correct. >> what does that tell us about the scheme? who started it, what's the chicken and what's the egg here? >> my guess is they had some program with relatives and friends back in the philippines and pakistan saying come work for my uncle, and it seemed like they know so and so and they would come and all of a sudden they take your passport or not passport. >> just like a company town, paying rent, handing over -- >> i guess what i'm

i want to say that often immigrants that are highly chinese and filipino and they're in secondary unit as well. we have to have a policy that's flexible by neighborhoods and citywide that can resolve a lot of the issues. there's building inspector issues and land use issues. i want to work with our office to work with some common ground >> definitely we can work together and resolve it. the best thing is the single-family >> thank you. i wanted to thank mr. hugh i didn't and his staff. there's the in-law section. it makes me concerned with the families are crammed into the garages or behind the garages. i'm hoping that the legislation for the bigger buildings that we work on the smaller residential units you mentioned the ada projections how many are there in assisting >> we have two cast certified inspectors. we have the training for the past exam but unfortunately, they changed the exam format and we didn't have the update. also to help the small business generally if they have in constructions that's under ada we have no control but they come into our department >> i'm appreciative

they have asked to transfer black, filipino and other inmates who are susceptible to valley fear. >>> the department of justice released the identity of a soldier who died on june 23rd in afghanistan. sanchez was attacked by a device during patrol. he was assigned to the special troops battalion in fort drum new york. >> reporter: we were dealing with on and off again showers today. tomorrow we have more rain on the way. we have a little bit of a low at the bay bridge plaza. overnight we will have more rain and in the morning. it will reach south of the golden gate here. in the evening it tapers off and wednesday and thursday dryer, warmer weather returns. we have the san mateo coastline. we have rain on the way, a system offshore moving towards us. here is the heavy rain missing us well to the north. as we move to the 1:00 hour we have the yellow and light rain over the bay area. the rain stays to the north and east. we have a couple areas of moderate rainfall. mainly the light showers. especially through the north bay we have returns but not as many. toward the sierras we have showe

budget was going to be cut and for those of you who are not familiar with this program it's the only filipino after hours activity group. i've had my son in this program we've fought every year to keep the funding and deepening the staff that has represented those young people i want to ask you to take a serious look at the program and consider restoring the final side that have been cut (clapping) >> hello mayor. thank you guys i i want to start off i'm in representing the youth commission. i want to talk about summer jobs plus and how it would effect our city as the 6 thousand position that are available for our youth and if implemented correctly it would impact the city i know i need a job going to school. and i'm personally feeling about the justification around the whole city please encourage to get more funding into the housing industry. and i'm telling the youth to come to our meeting we're i did not get that are trying to among a different and we'll support you. (clapping) >> thank you so much don is he close. i'm to a call a few more names you can line up in the front (calling names)

while mckinley was preaching benevolence, the problem was the filipinos do not want to be assimilated. >> joshua in florida. >> first of all, i want to thank you you for this program i enjoy it. i want to talk a little bit about what you mentioned last week. last week this story and mentioned that many eisenhower was the first fashion icon and then jackie kennedy was. i cannot help to think that would've first for slaves to be shown on tv regularly. been shown regularly on tv. he talk about the images especially ida mckinley? >> i would not place too much emphasis. it was a matter of fact. these were shown more on nickelodeon's. that of the movie theaters would become an newsreels by the time of woodrow wilson. was the first one presidential campaign, his brother was always asking for railroad passes and looking to make a good on his brother. his brother got involved and one of the first film companies. his notification. you see ida on the front porch walking. it was more of a haphazard fact that she appeared. it was not a factor. what i will add is there are newspaper illustrations,

they found african-american filipino and medically at risk patients are most vulnerable to the tell necessary and the state has #0 day to complete the station. it's something he promised during his up august racing and 42% is causing the earth to get warmer. >>> they are teaming up to work on cloud based platforms. the two heavyweights have competed for years from newer and smaller rivals. >>> lot of us hit water on the roads right now. that is unusual right now. >> yes, in june, 880 westbound, you will see some wet roads and however we don't have a lot going on and also across the bridge. if you are driving in san jose, traffic does move well getting up to highway 17. here 16 steve. >> you are welcome sal. i thought i would show you the temperatures. there is still some drizzle light rain out there. it and yesterday i am projecting the forecasted highs. i mean it but if the sun breaks few, it will be sunny, most locations are around a 10 of an inch. and we never got the mechanism needed. 50s and 60s and there were some good rains points north, you can see the moisture is continuing to stream

recently he organized a filipino group for fighting immigrants rights. i have watched mario in action on many many occasions. the charisma you see that he's put in his hip hop art is with as well and i'm a great admirer of your work and what you do in the bay area as well. mario with district 11 resident and i see him on the street, i see him in the park jogging, running to the park. he's a big use are of maclaren park as well. i'm excited about the future that you have and you are going great places to help our communities move forward in this city. you just graduated in the community college and i expect to see you struggle and it's a great honor to be able to provide you our commendation here by the board of supervisors. >> good afternoon everyone. first of all thank you supervisor avalos for the recognition and thank you to the board for this recognition and recognizing api's in the community. there is so much to say, but what i will say is because i'm being highlighted as an artist. many years ago i used to just make music and i was really inspired

attracted to asian -- improvisational music because with different japanese instruments as well and filipino musicians using percussion as well and really a great time in the 80s. mark was the curator of that time. mark's vision that sustained the festival. it was his vision that sustained the festival and i think the movement, he deserves a lot of credit for sustaining that creativity and movement. he also booked the artist raised the money and produced all the shows with san francisco's asian art museum and also with brenda, they pioneered first voice in bringing together story telling and drama and really great for children and telling of our children as asian americans. mark izu is also known for greatest modality implementation and orchestra anden ensembles and theatres and also the chinese traditional multi-read instrument and he's the only symphonic show composer in the world. mark premiered mermaid orchestral work in the symphony as well. he wrote in 2005 the man chill a project. he was the emmy award winner in 2009 for 52, a documentary about the vietnamese experience. mark iz odyss

filipino leaders suspended peace talks on april after rebels rejected an immediate ceasefire. the move is a government target by the year 2016. that will wrap up the bulletin. >> worries about a credit central bank chief said they will pump enough liquidity to keep them stable. >> we will take various steps to adjust market liquidity in a comprehensive way and appropriate times to maintain market stability. >> governor of the people's bank of china spoke at a forum on friday. chinese markets have been volatile. short-term interest rates touched off fears that higher rates could force financial institutions to run short of funds. he said monetary authorities will continue to monitor financial institutions and try to keep their lending practices and balance she'ds sound. he indicated that the bank will guard against easy lending to prevent a fixed asset bubble. they gave relief to the markets and they staged a rebound from the previous seven sessions of losses. the composeilate closed at 1,979 jumping 1.5%, the best percentage gain in two months. for this week, the main benchmar