i'd like to ask if fred ross, jr., can come forward. if sharon johnson is here as well, and any others that are here to join me and my colleagues in honoring fred ross, senior. colleagues, as people come forward, let me just ask for your support. today we stand here to honor an amazing legend of community organizing and labor movement organizing, fred roth senior. i'd like to thank supervisors avalos and campos and long-time community activist sharon johnson for bringing this to us. fred roth, senior, was an inspiration to many of us, especially those that have been community organizers like myself. he trained an army of organizers, not just for the united farm workers, but for many different struggles historically. and it's really an honor for me to stand here before you with fred roth, junior, and others to urge your support to join hundreds of other labor and community and civic organizationses and groups in urging president obama to bestow the presidential medal of honor post hume usly on fred senior. his entire life work was spirit

fred ross senior. >> thank you. supervisor mar has offered the imperative agenda. is there a second to it? seconded by supervisor wiener. is there any public comment on this imperative item? okay. seeing none, this imperative item has the requisite purely commendatory act and brown act finding. and with that, let's take a roll call vote. >> on this item, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor chu? chu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution passes. and, colleagues, i have circulated to all of you except to supervisor chu a resolution commending and honoring her for her distinguished service as a supervisor of the city and county of san francisco in her last day as supervisor. i have a feeling that different colleagues will have things to say, but i think from my perspective, today is a bitter sweet day. we know

i actually had the honor of working with fred ross junior when i was with the [speaker not understood] campaign. learned a lot from that effort and was able to realize that a lot of the work we did, the techniques we used as union organizers came from his father, fred roth. that contribution is huge was of the work that he did bring science to how we organize. that's actually changed the nation. that's the impact that fred roth senior has had on the world and i just want to all be here in your presence. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. i don't want to repeat what's been said. but, you know, i was meeting with dolores huerta just a couple days ago and i was really surprised that someone like her would be supporting our effort to add harvey milk's name to the airport. (applause) >> what she talked to me about was how she learned about the enter connection of every human being and that every cause for justice and equality is one that concerns all of us regardless of where you come from and where you are. * and i think that's the lesson, that people like dolores learned from your fathe