i am a graduate of lowell high school and i can say that inner city youth has played a key role in my success. from fostering positive growth in me academically and professionally it's the goal of inner city youth it was their goal they was prepared after high school and reflect on the programs that inner city youth affected by success. to this end funding for the teen program is important as inner city youth maintains their commitment to serve the youth that comes through the doors. i wouldn't be where i am today without such programs and initiatives by this program that aided in my success. thank you and with me is our executive director michael brown. >> thank you a donis. you said that very good. we have a population in san francisco in the 1999 census. you should be 44% african-american in district 10 -- district 11 i'm sorry. that was in the 1990 census. now we're a population of 4%. how can we have 65% african-american incarcerated but we have the aggressive leaders in our community? we have coalitions that are beautiful, all of the coalitions and everything, but when it come t

that is because we had a riot in the inner city america, the heart of the welfare state. one by one of the horrors of the ghetto showed themselves to us. poverty and urban decay plagued our new city. storefronts had shattered windows. they had potholes, bridges and the tunnels were splashed with graffiti. the streets downtown even near city hall were often streets that smelled of urine. they panhandled and that's when they were being nice to you and costed the tourists and residents alike. crime played the new city as well. drug-dealing seemed much more prevalent at times a ban employment. mugging took place in plain sight and the gunshots ring that might regularly interrupting my tv watching. racism also ruled my town and it didn't matter if we were chinese, vietnamese, korean, filipino or japanese we often have one name and that was china men. there was the case at school, on the streets, on the bus and seemingly anywhere and everywhere. on the sidewalks they had a habit of entertaining themselves by creeping up behind immigrants and the frightening them by screaming at

thank you. >> mike brown, founder of inner city youth. i been working with the youth from bay-view, lakeview, and just about every community in san francisco. these young men you know the mayor is talking about rolling out his violence prevention plan. if he knew the work i do in this community, he would be calling me in. i been here since i retired in muny from 2005. we have been funded since 97. and i wouldn't accept pay for three years. now my pay is minimum, i do it because people think a guy is getting funded. you assume what my salary is. and i hire people that get paid more than me. but enough for me, i am fighting for the kids. and we done lost so many kids out here it's just sad. and for us to get cut on the resurgence program and i hope they come to the studio and we help them get their cds and their whole program to be able to go out in the community and give people their dvd's and cd's so they can run their own record label. we want to get on a positive note and not talk about this negative rap. if the mayor is going to be ser

that was because we have arrived in the inner city of america and the heart of the welfare state. one by one and go horrors of the data showed themselves poverty and urban decay plagued our city, or france had shattered windows windows, streets had potholes', bridges and tunnels had graffiti and the streets downtown beer city hall were often smelled of urine and homeless people been handled and accosted tourists and residents said the cry of plague to the city as well. drug-dealing seemed much more prevalent than employment and muggings took place in plain sight and gunshots reing at night regularly interrupted we tv watching. racism ruled my town. this did not matter if we were tied peyser vietnamese are filipino or japanese cover we often all they had one name that was tight demand that was the case as school come on the streets costs and on the bus and everywhere. on the sidewalks teenagers had a habit of entertaining themselves by creeping up behind asian immigrant been to frighten them by screaming at the top of their lungs violence if they did not fit into the politically cor

the inner city, we don't have the machine words that we once had. i mean, interestingly with the games today, the phenomena somewhat similar but is the absence of official corruption. today, a young person, a young black boy growing up in englewood, his examples of success within his neighborhood are the drug dealers. it's the same thing that young italians saw in the 1920s on taylor street. the young kids growing up, they saw the gangster, the bootlegger as the more or less the champions of the neighborhood. they saw them as having power even over the politicians within the neighborhood. and they saw the politicians i did as he in person, i saw him i repeatedly sought our neighborhood gangsters hanging out with the alderman of our award. so how do you teach young people to be good, to obey the law? in an environment like that? how do you keep these kids today from shooting each other and from not selling drugs? when the only examples of success they have within their environment are criminals. when they pick up the newspaper, and even today they se

first car that we built that got over 100 miles per gallon people said that was impossible for inner citycould do it. to be able to compete in the international world stage for a $10 million prize and be taken seriously, people thought that was impossible as well. we're determined. what's next is to grow the sustainability workshop, first for 9 through 12 school and then we would like to see many schools in the city. we're going to touch more children's lives and ultimately we're going to have an impact on urban education in philadelphia. >> simon just got great news. the sustainability workshop will expand into a full publicly funded high school next year. there is no other school like this in philly. if all goes well, mass production of the cardboard bike begins later this year. simon and izzy, two innovators who see no obstacles, never giving up on their dream for a smarter and greener world and that's what earns them a spot on "the next list." i am dr. sanjay gupta. hope to see you back next week. >>> welcome to the "cnn newsroom." i am fredricka whitfield. the top stories we're follo

their mission to challenge the notion that young, poor, inner city fathers are dead billion beat dads us now, harvard professor kathy eden. author of "doing the best i can." kathy, i have a sense that i don't have data to back it up. let me know what you found. >> in my generation, more men are staying with their family than in the previous generation. are young men telling each other, you got to stay at home, you can't just fly the coop? >> absolutely. it's not perfect. it's still tough to stay involved in you're an inner city dad and you don't make a lot of money and you're not married to the mom of your child. men are overwhelmingly saying hey, it's not okay to step off your responsibilities, he want to not just have the status of father. but i want to embrace the role and fatherhood is something they value, it's something they want to do. it's something they find meaning from and it's snl to their identity. >> among the men you've spoken to. when they do leave, why do they leave? >> it's complicated. sometimes it has to do with conflict with the mother. that's the most common reas

in new york city" -- because i'd said, in the best of all possible worlds, i'd want to be in the inner city of new york. he says, "it's not really in new york city, but it's very close." well, it was up on the st. lawrence river, about 400 miles away. and i -- i -- it was a grand time in messina, new york. i was there for a little less than a year. and then it happened that in brooklyn, in the williamsburg-bedford-stuyvesant section of brooklyn, this parish was -- had gone vacant. that is, it had no pastor. it was an old, big, 19th-century german lutheran congregation. the neighborhood had dramatically changed, primarily african-american and hispanic, the typical white flight out to the suburbs. so here was this shell of an old church which -- the lutheran church wanted to close this church because they saw no future for it at all. but i got wind of this through some connections, and i received the call to st. john the evangelist. we called it "st. john the mundane" to distinguish it from st. john the divine, the episcopal cathedral up in morningside heights. c-span: what year was this? >>

the sf provides a tool online that allows us to track and the and my neighbors in action and the inner city youth. we'd like to have a astrologer partnership and i think if we're going to have a one-size-fits-all that we expect to work for board and randolph we have to have a little bit of a different tweak to this. >> we absolutely agree we think they need to be tailored to the neighborhood. for the past year we've been working for custom missed program. we have in coordination with the city's communities. we want to make sure that the positions we have are in line with your ideas. we know that the board street would be a candidate for that >> let me say that the minnie program would be great on that site. this would be serious relationship building. i think that we can coordinate how we can work on the ground there would be fanatic. there are other parts of san francisco that are struggling economically and i want to be sure that we know where to reach out for at service >> i want to thank the staff for not only balancing the big economic issues but supporting the distressed neighborhoods

we have this dance inner-city mixed with the urban area. it is also a very big benefit to the household, so that compensates for the higher cost and terms of the buildings. is all these people friendly residences and commercial sites. in construction, the unilever haus, an example of design and sustainability. ofre is virtually no loss energy at the european headquarters upper unilever. the big building is not only about respecting the environment. it is a wise investments. >> this is a benchmark for sustainable architecture. this is very expensive. it is a savings project. really, the sustainability does it pay off. first of all, the way they use materials, and learning, really, in the end, the usage cost, the annual cost of using the building. it is 70% lower. it is beautiful, and at the same a savings project. the electricity we use here in the building with the led lighting, for example the lighting above me, it is all from so-called dark green energy. dark green energy means it comes from small water power plants in the south of german

you know, i'm from an inner city, but i was in the good part of the inner city. of the best schools in the bay area, st. francis high school. mostly middle class family. i don't have no excuse for being here. >> once in prison, armstrong earned an additional six-year sentence. >> the sergeant sprayed a guy in a wheelchair for no reason. i didn't like it and i harmed him. >> what does that mean? >> physically hurt him. >> and what happened? physically hurt me back. >> that impulse to defend disabled inmates is now a key part of how he spends his long days in prison. >> i'm an a.d.a. supporter. that means i help the wheelchair people, anybody that have canes, wheelchairs, whatever and i'm also a slash porter. i keep the pod clean. in the morning, sweep the pods, clean the windows, whatever. clean the sinks. keep everything clean. once i get that done, i go to the wheelchair guys and see if clean. the yard, push them back. armstrong still faces the i compare it to that. every day it's like a drip, drip, drip. it's like you got sentenced. if i got out of here tomorro

you know, i'm from the inner city, but a good part of the inner city, mostly middle-class families. >ormer gang banger who was involved with credit card fraud and drugs. >> she was an ex-girlfriend of mine, but we still lived together at the time. what i was doing started infringing on her life and she started getting scared and she tried to stop me and didn't listen. and it's been a discrepancy now if she was going to the police to talk or not or if she was telling anybody what i was doing or who i was, more than anything, involved with. and it led to her -- i can't even phrase it. it shouldn't have happened. what happened to her shouldn't have happened to her. >> though armstrong wasn't the actual hitman in the murder, he's the only one serving time for the crime. >> sometimes i could see the victim in my case when i'm walking. you know what i'm saying? it's like a demon that never goes away. i have dreams about it. >> in the hope of making a difference, both men serve prison by serving other inmates. >> he said if it was an issue that we'd be able to obtain access to a legal librar

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we have had youth shot in front of inner city youth, we have had them shot in front of the omi family resource center. we were devastated, he was going to be 20 years old. as i was going to get ready to speak tonight. i went in my office and these 3 x 5 cards fell out. and i picked then up and read them. and then i realized that seven years ago with a different mayor and a different supervisor, i have been saying the same words, talking about the omi and violence prevention. and i can't believe i am here again and talking about the same thing. i am asking mayor lee work with the omi to come up with a violence prevention plan. i want diana, i am happy that you made director of violence prevention. i am thankful for that, but she needs to come out on a regular basis and to the omi, and come up with a concrete plan.

we have kids from every community sitting in your inner city youth. and you can come there and see for yourself. i hope that they will give us the money for the multi-media project and tommy, say something. >> my name is tommy, basically what icy what it does from tuesday to saturday they do like studio time. show you how to do your videos, and make beats. and on saturday is a clean-up day. and everyone gets paid (inaudible) that's basically it. >> lisa. >> hello, my name is lisa scola, i live in district 10 on wisconsin street. i am very happy that the budget is being balanced. thank you very much and i am happy about our supervisor cohen. i am an artist and i have been writing opera in district 10 for 20 years. and bringing people in from the community to perform in the operas. classical music and orchestras. and wonderful things happen and these are our resources. i want to ask if they will continue and increase the cultural equity grants and the san francisco art commission is reviewing these things. and the benefit of doing this, it's a small amo

. >> good evening, i am the executive director of inner city youth in district 11 and i represent the lake view (inaudible). the young people that we serve is 14-24. and are victims and perpetrates -- perpetrators of violence. they want us to bring up the focus in district 11 on jobs, and after-school programming for high school and middle school students. senior services. and revitalization of the broad randolph street and mission street corridor. district 11 is unique, we have been an under-resourced district and we need more from the city. we are committed and organized and have capacity. we are willing to work with the city to improve our district. and are asking for a meeting with the mayor, and workforce development and other city departments to set a plan of action in place. we want to make district 11 equally inviting and welcoming part of san francisco as other districts are. so i don't want to take up too much time. that's briefly what we are here -- the omic would like to present to the panel today. thank you. rrn fors fo they told me to stand in one place, i am use this mi

despite a surge in drug use across a spectrum of users mainly african-americans who lived in inner-cityand consumed heroin supplied through subversion would be subject to law enforcement. narcotic supplied from diversion like her own present-day crisis in oxycodone use or other kinds of illicit drug use like abusive amphetamines or barbiturates presented similar problems but by and large they were not said that to concerted law enforcement or the demographics of the illicit drug market remain diverse but the targets of counternarcotics efforts did not. once established as an acceptable police tactics drug enforcement altered the operation of criminal justice, dover on them. overflowing jails forced the district hand and by necessity the city set upon the most successful networks of methadone maintenance. despite good results support for the clinics declined precipitously throughout the 1970s. in my walk i argue the reason for this is that treatment offered none of the broader utility to be exercised in state power is in punishment. indeed different components of the modern drug war have

from the inner city. i'm not even supposed to be here. that's enough.to the locker room, i see a number 6 with james on the back. i'm blessed. >> and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the latest documents leaked by edward snowden to the "guardian" suggests the government was able to retain some personal information on residents even in surveillance programs aim

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we have had youth shot in front of inner city youth, we have had them shot in front of the omi family resource center. we were devastated, he was going to be 20 years old. as i was going to get ready to speak tonight. i went in my office and these 3 x 5 cards fell out. and i picked then up and read them. and then i realized that seven years ago with a different mayor and a different supervisor, i have been saying the same words, talking about the omi and violence prevention. and i can't believe i am here again and talking about the same thing. i am asking mayor lee work with the omi to come up with a violence prevention plan. i want diana, i am happy that you made director of violence prevention. i am thankful for that, but she needs to come out on a regular basis and to the omi, and come up with a concrete plan. we need jobs and life skills and our young adults to have after-school programs and something to do and somewhere to go. we need to have this on various levels. there are jobs through dpw. and we need rec and park with their apprenticeship garden funded. if you give to rec an