from that position. [ cheers and applause ] >> i just want to say thank you so much to the human rights commission. i'm deeply honored and really humbled to receive this award and to be present in the presence of so many civil rights heroes. i appreciate this recognition, not just for myself, but for the collective efforts of all of us and all of our members of legal services for prisoners with children and all of our allies. in 2003 we began over a decade of partnership with the human rights commission. when we launched or band a box to reform hiring practices and employment. since then this has spread all over the country and now over 50 cities and counties have adopted fair hiring practices to eliminate discrimination for people with records. san francisco was one of the first. with the support of the human rights commission, the reentry council of san francisco and our community allies like the national employment law project, the lawyers committee for civil rights, the community housing partnership and the council of community housing organizations, this year in san francisco, well further ex

chair of the san francisco human rights commission. it's my honor and privilege to welcome you all to tonight's special meeting of the san francisco human rights commission which we have called to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and martin luther king jr.'s i have a dream speech. now it's especially nice to give our hero awards and not only do we have a number of wonderful recipients here but some great qualified nominees and a number of our honor reese from prior years. after the meeting we will have an at some point to have a special reception downstairs where we'll also -- down the hall. 201, where we'll take some time to celebrate this wonderful occasion. i would like to call the meeting to order and ask the commission secretary to please read the roll. >> michael sweet, davis, kel her, not present at the moment, i -- lee, todd davis not present. you have a quorum. >> thank you, madam secretary. the first item on the agenda is public comment that will enable to you speak on miss the issues. if you wish

unique evening because i don't recall ever having this kind of event, discussion how the human rights commission is working. the very facet for many of you who are here have been touched by the human rights commission in one way or another. i could not get out of the room today without saying something about what has happened with women. because what we have seen in this room, i think they can hear me. no, you can't. i hear you, sweetheart. what i was saying, what i was most interested by tonight was the differences in this room. how many people who are here would not have been here 50 years ago. what we have begun to do is to recognize that all the issues that we've been talking about touch every single one of us. if we aren't all working together, we will be another 50 years for meetings in this room. so i hope that we will give a lot of help to the human rights commission which came into san francisco unusually and did a lot of work, but there is so much more to do. we have a lot of things that we all need to work towith each other about. what i remember is this, i'm a brooklynite and went to

of service and accomplishments of the san francisco human rights commission in its fight for human rights in the face of discrimination. the history landmark initiatives and subsequent legislation generated by the san francisco human rights commission are not less than historic if not miraculous and too numerous to numerate. if i maybe so bold allow me to suggest that neither today's observance nor what we celebrate, a call to action from those we honor and upon whose shoulders we stand. they were not nostalgic figures in this history but with courage and action. if they ever look back was to stand on justice and discrimination. were these simply nostalgic people and not conscious in action, i dare say we would not be remembering them at all today. to effectively honor dr. king's memory words and civil rights movement. we must emulate his inspired example. for history will be our judge of worthiness as well. today we are challenged to ask ourselves in 50 years, what will history say of us. it's my -- sincere and humble hope that as these challenges today, the laudable accomplishments of t

human rights but have little to show for it. >> tell me one thing that you can show for all of the engagement you have been having? >> we have the human rights commission. with the human rights commission also we have the two- byr plan on torture institutions for the commonwealth experience. the strengthening of the human rights commission itself is something that we are doing you have tohe end make progress in terms of what national institutions do. this is what we are concentrating on. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. them major first for annual music awards show, sign of the power of the internet, for the first time youtube has hosted and streamed a live performance show from singers like lady gaga, eminem, and last ofr a survey found 64% american teenagers listen to their music on youtube compared with 56% who tuned in to the radio. >> put your hands together. from pier 36,ive the first ever youtube music video awards. it was improvised, haphazard, almost completely unscripted, certainly completely quirky. lady gaga arrived in unique fashion. the awards had the usual the usual, but not winners. eminem one artist of the year. they in so

she worked as a human rights commission in kandahar. she's serving on the election commission. she told president karzai she had only one character flaw. she fears no one. now, we are deeply encouraged by hers and others who are taking a part of this, hundreds of women all over the country, who are running for positions on councils. we're pleased to lend our support in partnership with the united nations to train female volunteers as they facilitate, secure access for women at the polls. prosperity in afghanistan will take root only when women have as loud a voice as men, not only on election day, but every day. it's essential, it's the prerequisite to the future stability of afghanistan.

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

taking off. >> i thought it was so interesting to learn from you about hansa mata and the human rights commission at the u.n. and in particular i was wondering if we could look at eleanor's two books that had a lot to do with women and how her views may have changed between writing them. so in 1933, i know that she wrote "it's up to the women." and then in 1962 just before she died she was finishing "tomorrow is now." and i'd love to know how her views of women's involvement in the political sphere and in rights in general changed over time. >> well, they're fairly radical. i mean, eleanor when she's -- she grows up in a very traditional home and she's radicalized by this woman whose name is savest who was her great teacher and eleanor later describes as a closet bolshevi k. vick. and told her that the only way to really understand what somebody thinks and i wish the members of congress were listening to this right now is to be able to argue with equal intensity the position of your fiercest critic and she takes her into the settlement community. she says to her, of course, you can stay with me i

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 and ed as leader. i've been lucky to know every single mayor in san francisco since my birth and mayor lee is quickly

we are he letting you know, too, we hope you'll attend the human rights commission hearings on november 14th at 6:00 p.m. in city hall on the gym both bob's city not only for the particular building but how it relates to other buildings in san francisco that are losing their economic, their institutional pieces and how we as a city can apply ourselves to keeping that vitality going and certainly the work you've done as a commission that ms. brown as your staff will be part of that because we're pleased with what you've done and thankful you've he will taken this you object up. i have some information about the hearing i'm give to clerk >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm desiree smith. as you recall we are we were here and we're here again to reiterate our comments and data we're still in support of the nomination of the designation of marcus book store and jim boss bob city. we've reviewed the second draft of the report and believe the planning department did the great job you all brought up and we think overall the additional japanese int

years of service and has served as our orchestra of public works and our director of the human rights commissionrector of employment relations please give him a warm filipino welcome mayor ed lee. (clapping) >> thank you hi draw. well, since hi draw rescued me i can't go joked jokes. thank you allen for mcing tonight and the wonderful beautiful music thank you, very much. >> welcome everyone. i see supervisor layoffs for being here and supervisor eric mar. who have the supervisors who i know value our communities very strongly. this is the 9th annual history filipino history month celebration here and i want to say that as much of the act ledge that hi draw has heaped on me i really have a job that i feel is important not just managing the city or helping businesses create jobs or trying to get the warriors arena built or all the wonderful things i think one of the most important things we can do is make sure that this city recognize its own history, a history of immigrant. a history of people who come to this country seeking a better life and making it so. it isn't just those individuals who ma

mayor ed lee began his career as a civil rights attorney he later served as a director of the human rights commission implementing services that help our most vulnerable community. i'd like to welcome to the stage the houshlg may have san francisco mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you very much. good evening, everybody and welcome to the people's palace. well, this is tonight i'm excited to be here it's an honor to be here to celebrate the ninth american heritage indian month no san francisco celebration of the awards. i wanted to thank not that all of you are here but for k q e d for the sponsoring of local heros. this is important because your city is all about diversity and i want to make sure that everybody can live here and be here and have good jobs and education and if they go out to the military they'll come back and give go opportunities for them. i have a special guest someone i met this afternoon but represents sacrifice in the face of a lot of changes. if you, you know, what's happening in the midwest you'll know what's happening no south dakota. this gentleman came all the way to celeb

human rights and democracy within the european union. we show extracts from our filming to the human rights commission. interesting way he now seems to discover the severity of the problem i think it's far more widespread than we realize and. many people think human rights violations are something that happened elsewhere and not in their own country and they're not they're not ready to look at who are the most vulnerable and most at risk groups within their own societies. we like to think that we we are very developed we have the european social model be have welfare systems we have functioning states and by global standards we are not that. europe's thought it was immune to child labor because it's conception it's not a solid body of legislation to protect children's rights and now i'm talking very concretely the ways that you can use the european legislation to force countries to amend. where n.g.o.s bar associations. individual activists have realized this will take a long time to go through all of the domestic remedies and then to the european court of human rights but once there is a judgment. that

recollecting all the time but with my history with s and s when they were involved that the human rights commission. he is has been in my opinion a very valuable part of employment in san francisco. although it's not also been the situations but i can say that the experience dealing with some of the truckers they're very satisfied with his performance there with s and s. i as a person in the community have been involved that the history i can stand up here with an open mind in my opinion he is s and s trucking is forthcoming and working closely with the truckers. although i have not been working with them but i'm in support of s and s >> thank you very much. any other members of the public wish to comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we have a motion to accept the motions from the budget analyst we can do that without objection. so moved. mr. clerk are there any other items and a mr. chairman, i ask they have the amended resolution to us by 9:00 a.m. >> excuse me. we have a request from our clerk you provide the contract. >> the resolution to us tomorrow more and more by

human rights and democracy within the european union. we show extracts from our filming to the human rights commission. interesting way he now seems to discover the severity of the problem i think it's far more widespread than we than we realize and done some good work. many people think human rights violations are something that happened elsewhere and not in their own country and that they're not they're not ready to look at who are the most vulnerable and most at risk group for the in their own societies we like to think that we we are very developed we have the european social model we have welfare systems we have functioning states and by global standards we are not that . europe thought it was immune to child labor because its conception is that a solid body of legislation to protect children's rights and. the ways that you can use the european legislation to force countries. where n.g.o.s bar associations. individual activists have realized this will take a long time to go through all of the domestic remedies and then to the european court of human rights but once there is a judgment. that will be