we have a partnerships with other organizations both cultural and art organizations that really do have impact on how we deliver our mission. and today i'd like to be able to introduce one of our students who will be talking about the impact a specific collaboration has had in her life between s.f. performanceses and the community music center. [speaker not understood] will now speak. thank you ~. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good morning, supervisors. and especially my supervisor, john avalos. my name is estella moreno and i run [speaker not understood] two choirs that i have become a member, [speaker not understood] which works with mission neighborhood center that works in collaboration with cmc and the arts, and [speaker not understood]. so, what this has done for me is having a place where i can become happy and be able to express what's in me. mostly we sing songs in spanish and it's a place for us to make friendships and also have -- look forward every week for us to be in a place where we feel happy. so, the collaboration that the arts has with cmc mission neighborhood center

organizations. after a few years of being on the grants for the arts roster, my organization was forced out under a dubious and arbitrary standard that was not even written in the grants for the arts [speaker not understood]. when my organization was on the roster, we usually received funding support of $5,000. a one-year grant of $5,000 from grants for the arts is well below the minimum funding level to sustain an organization. grants for the arts has created an arts apartheid system that needs to be dismantled and replaced by the vision of cultural equity policy and practice of the san francisco arts commission. thank you very much. (applause) >>> hi, my name is [speaker not understood]. impart of the -- i represent the young artists here in san francisco. i run a dance company. the artists that work for me and that i employ, we work in the bayview hunters point, we work in the western addition, and we work with youth to teach them about healthy life-styles and building their self-esteem and their

and other under served and usually smaller based organizations. and at the hearing last year, kerri, that now 34-year head of the grants for the arts mentioned that she was working hard on creating funds for smaller fragile, arts organization and she committed very explicitly on supporting cultural equity and coordinating more with the work of the arts commission and their staff as well and his commission and staff and when i asked about achieving cultural equity and in the moving fast enough, i think that it is entirely our goal and to support the new, younger up and coming groups that served the populations that really need that access, and also, diversifying the existing larger arts organizations as well and i think that last year there was a process that supervisor breed led, that distributed, i think that it was 125,000 per year or 250,000 total, towards cultural equity broadly, and i know that on july 16th this committee will hear analysis, and a discussion on the budget analyst's report on the progress over 25 years, of grants for the arts

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big organization, that's a generic issue. the second chapter is leading to scale as the larger global organizations, how do you do this? the third is leading under oath. so i have a lot of metro in there that is about leadership that is generic to any organization spent in your book, "on my watch," you ask these questions. kind of have prevented? yes. las vegas from happening? could i have changed the outcome? >> there are a couple of things about being a leader, and one is you do need to go back and assess what happened, understand what happened. you have to be careful not to live in a would've could've should've environment and beaches of the. i fully believe that i was 120% of job and is working in carbon are doing everything i could. so i am not in a position where i will in any way turn around and start beating up myself about. i think it's important for leaders to assess, understand to sort things out but not take on any shape. that is not helpful. i am not a bad person, gsa is not a bad organization. there were mistake

as 36 and people were complaining you can cough and it be more than 36 this is a professional organization that don't everything they can to mitigate those kinds of complaints going forward, you know. it's in my opinion about all of this >> one quick commit k comment. >> recommend to the sound so can performing artists bring their own equipment and tweak it separate from their adversary. >> it's for the sound controls that's offered. >> the treasure island microscopic festival i think my favorite music festival base it is small and imitate i've within there since 2007 last year was really cold and windy the first time 3 years prior were remarkably warm so the clouds played an effect, you know, i don't think interests any sound scientist or engineer on our commission to actually testify but if you know sound and go to festivals you know what sound bounces off of and how it is run so, yeah we want to hold this hearing to allow more people in the public especially those in the public 14 or to come i don't know if there's many here tonight but you run an amazing festival and you run our transp

organize on college campuses. and tries to rehabilitate the brotherhood as, you know, a right-wing political group that would support his change in policies. and to be fair, a lot of muslim brothers were tired of being in jail and tortured and being on the outs, and they welcomed this opportunity. so they weren't recognized as a political party, but they, when sadat brought back parliament in the late '70s and through the '80s they understand sadat's successor, they would contest elections for parliament under party rubrics. it would be known that somebody was a muslim brother, but they would run for parliament. and so they learned to campaign, and they, their leadership kind of made a pact with the egyptian government. we won't commit terrorism, we won't try to kill anymore leaders, we won't blow things it up. on the one hand, and you won't persecute us and you'll let us have a few members of parliament and have a position in society. that was a bargain that sadat initiated with the muslim brother. i think on the

and we are working collaboratively with many organizations, including olrc and the nongovernmental organizations and the state contractors licensing board and osha and other organizations as much as possible to collaboratively address the issues of workers' rights, their safety, their entitlement to payment and we are creating a multi-lingual wage theft hotline that we intend to reach out to the public with through our da newsletter and we will have many languages as they can report wage theft and other workers rights issues directly to the district attorney's office. we do already have the da newsletter set up. and we also have a lot of other languages that are -- that we have -- we do language surveys at our office to identify many languages that we can use to contact or speak to people that call in. and, of course, one of the main issues -- main roles of our office is to ensure that the victims of wage theft get restitution for their losses. so, we look forward to working collaboratively with the city attorney's office, with olrc, and we hope to work together in the future in an ongoing colla

organisms on the head of a pin. so when i went in for testing the doctor said you not shagilla and resistant to every antibiotic known. i said i have to start my internship. [ laughter ] and the infectious disease attending said you need to go home. but we always want to be part of the solution. in health that can be part of the problem. so now a little footnote to that story. that episode of illness -- i did eventually get better not as quickly as i would like and recovered completely. about a year later, a new drug came on the market and two players later i wrote an article published in jama on the inappropriate use of medicine. so i have a quiz for you. what are the six organisms all have in common besides the fact that they are all infectious disease. that's too easy. mers. eboli. measles. tuberculosis. and cre. any guesses for what these three, what these six diseases all have in common these six infectious diseases. yes. they are preventable. yes. they are all preventable. that's one thing they have in common.

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the certified organic crop or whatever crop or vegetables has to be literally organic. now with the interaction of this genetically engineered stuff at the two fields are close enough there is always what they called drift. if there is a bland and you have organic here and commercial or genetically engineered there you might contaminate the organic farmer. that is why i think it's important to stop this genetic engineering of food. the more it spreads the more it threatens the very healthy way of raising food for certified organic food. this is the reason. we had a kind of a proposal in california to float for the labeling of the stuff. at least to label. you don't buy genetically engineered oranges were crops or anything. the industry came to california and they notified the public trade this is why i started by saying in a t organic food. that's the only thing you have guaranteed that what you eat has not been genetically engineered. >> i have a question. there are a lot of new things out there. they're a number of chemicals used in the environment. there are genetica

big organization, that's a generic issue. the second chapter is leading to scale as with larger global organizations. how do you do this? the third is the government is leading under oath. i have a lot of material in there about leadership generic to any organization. >> in your book, "on my watch," you ask these questions. could i have prevented it, las vegas, from happening? could i have changed the outcome? >> there a couple of things about being a leader and one is unique to go back and assess the happen, understand what happened. but he have to be careful not to live in a word, codec, shed a environment and beat yourself up. i fully believe i was 120% of the job and working incredibly hard doing everything i could. so i am not in a position or i will anyway turn on start flagellating myself about it. it's important for leaders to assess, on her stand, sort them without and not take on any shape. that is not helpful. you know, i am not a bad person. gsa is not a bad organization. there were mistakes and that needed to be

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they organize it. the ultimate defeat of just 64, it completely changed ed 0 year later when they were able to push in reagan and redine what america is all about. so we can obviously lament what that actually ment f lly meant and poor people around the country. that is the left. we need to get back to thinking that way. we can't go from defeat to defeat to defeat to despair. we need to figure out how to build the long term organizational movements and connect with a real social base. >> speaking of a real social base, part would argue that real social base has itself wayned. what do you think of that? >> i think there are positive little blips around the union movement. the chicago teachers union, we just did a class action with the core caucus. what they really push is membership engagement. they're actually a type of a union run from the bottom up. the membership feels engageded. they feel like they're each political actors. all the teachers in chicago, if you want to have an informed discussion abo

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first of all i would like to thank the naacp, the african american chamber, and the organization as well as all of the other organizations that participate and became our partner and we appreciate the partnership because it is through this collaboration that san francisco has been able to improve our efforts and further our mission of attracting visitors to san francisco. when we first began in pro-stes about a year ago at our offices of san francisco's travel, we saw that there were two faces of travel, and tourism that needed to be addressed and the first was the external face, and how san francisco is portrayed to the rest of the world and the world that we felt copluld a significant role in. and we are blessed in that historically, san francisco has been viewed as an ininclusive and welcoming to all of those, and all walks of life. and examples include, the welcoming of immigrants, and china town, and north beach, and the mission, and these would not be what they are known for today, without the chinese, italy an and the latinos immigrants who were welcomed and we have the assets of

for an organization to succeed, it has to learn. and for an organization to learn, people have to be willing to admit when things go wrong. the army calls it an after action review. we tried to do the same thing at the procter & gamble company. and a large organization, if something goes wrong or if something goes right you need to learn from it, documented and share it to the organization so it doesn't happen again. in an insular culture you are not getting bad news been brought forward. you're not correcting mistakes and everything becomes a one off. that's why we are seeing so many reports it seems like there's a different report every day from a different location somewhere in the country. we've got to create a learning organization. >> in your testimony you mentioned creating a physician advisory board. do you contemplate those positions being only va physicians, or to contemplate having outside physicians giving eyes on the system? >> my initial thought would be to get the very best medical talent in the world, and i've been v

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community based organization to meet in person to be able to connect with them. 12k3 we had a panel of employees within the hotel industries, and including african american employees that were able to talk about the experience in the industry, and share their insights into the hotel business as well. and pines, from panel, and helped work with the group. and then at the end, we had a networking session to allow all of the groups to interact and that we felt was a great first start to be able to get the individuals into the same room and be able to talk about the programs that are available and make the connections which are already paying off. >> second what we did is we created a second internship program this summer and we planned to repeat it every year and that the combined, effort between ourselves and the hotels and the local, two as well, and funded both from both organizations, and that is out reached through a diversity that was taught on may 29th. our intentions is to be allowed to learn about the industry and as they apply for the positions they have the leg up working in th

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but i think the organization, that the secretary speaks for the organization. i think the commitment is there and i have to take him at his word. it is clear from all of the comments here and from all of you, we have an enormous problem. we are a huge organization. it is not going to change overnight. are all inpatients, but it is going to take some time to fix some of these fundamental issues. it is going to start with leadership, and we have a new acting undersecretary. we have a nominee. we will have a new undersecretary for health at some point, and i hope a new principal deck the undersecretary. principalope a new deputy undersecretary. >> you have been a part of leadership in the v.a. for quite some time. how long have you been a part of leadership? >> over 20 years. >> and you testified tonight that this is the first time you have become aware of the problems that were brought forward by the whistleblowers tonight. >> i learned about these whistleblowers mostly by reading them in the papers, yes. >> so you have been in for 20 years. you have been in lead

he was a community organizing model. you had civil rights volunteers and workers stand out around the state. all of that process was headquartered in jackson. some estimates, over half of the white civil rights workers from the north were jews. they often said if everyone is not free in this country, no one is free. herelthough was happening did not affect them in a personal, direct way, they felt they needed to do what they could to cur this injusticee. it is sad to admit it was the whiteness of the two that helped attract national attention. there were other black activists murdered that did not attract the same amount of national attention. when those three workers went missing, it was a huge national issue. all the media came down here to search for them. when their bodies were finally sign oft was a somber the significance of the work and danger all these activists endured. init was the 31st of august 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse to try to register to become first-class citizens. pol

non-profit organizations. normally i come to these committees or city hall meetings and we are fighting and complaining about something, we don't like something that's going on, we are demanding more, but this is great minimum wage policy that i hope becomes implemented. i really want to say thank you for putting this up, working it out through seiu, i'm proud of the coalition for the fair economy which is made up of labor organizations. and work out differences and come to this compromise with this measure that we are discussing today. bring it home a little bit more. i started working full time as a non-profit worker in 2005 and that's how i started seeing company -- co-workers of mine making less than $15 an hour. and working in the union and nonprofit, over the years there is no push from the bottom. the clients from the non-profit organizations, there is no push from the bottom. i want to ask you to keep it up. let's pass this, let's make sure people go up from the bottom and like we saw a lot of the stud

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hamas is not just a run of the mill organization they're a genocide organization.for the murders of jews worldwide. the leader of hamasz24/48 hoursw what it's b it shouldn't changed and hamas has to be confronted. >> rose: what kinds of options does israel have that it might use going forward. >> well listen, i will leave it to the decision measures in jerusalem with all due respect to the israeli ambassador in washington. those decisions are made in jerusalem. we had security cabinet meetings. he'll take the actiobare necesso justice, and also to do what's necessary to defepí+population. you'll recall a year and-a-half ago israel had to engage in a wider action in gaza. we did that because we were getting rockets, hundreds of rockets fired on our cities every couple weeks and the prime minister had to draw a line saying this was unacceptable. he took action in gaza didn't solveone of the yetest periods m gaza. obviously the people in gaza, hamas believe these types of actions are acceptable. the job of the prime minister of israel and his security cabinet is to en

nevertheless, any organization like the v.a. needs the benchmark itself consistently against activities elsewhere to become better. the procter & gamble company, we benchmark ourselves against the very best companies in the world in order to make ourselves better. i think we would need to do that as well if i am confirmed. >> thank you for your service to the country and thank you for the willingness to take this job. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you, bob, for willing to take this job. i don't know what you thought about what you will do on your first day. you mention your testimony about the 90 days. what is on the very top of your list? >> the very top of my list is getting the leadership and the entire organization together and sharing with them what i plan to do. and how important to me the mission and the values of the organization are and how on acceptable it is to behave in a way that is inconsistent with the mission and the values. that is what i will do on day one. >> i know you talked about leading by ex

it's not the amount it's certified organic means it's not g.m.o. all right mark thank you very much monsanto as one of the biggest names in genetic engineering in our next segment will be joined by its executive vice president dr rob freely stay with us. my marinates join me. for in-depth impartial and financial reporting commentary and for news and much much. only on the bus and only on. the. plane it was a problem very hard to make a plan to get along here the club has never had sex with the earthquake there are no let's let's play. lists. it was play. lists . play. live. we're doing two programs on this a full hour devoted to it because it's so important joining us now in the panel remains of course is dr robert freeway's the executive vice president chief technology officer of monsanto that's a leading producer of genetically engineered seeds dr fairly is also the two thousand and twelve recipient of the world food prize dubbed by the way the nobel prize of food you are a supporter of g.m.o. foods right yeah i'm a supporter as as a science and

lying we are a nonprofit organization a five one c three huge scandal the organization ever have now only we're fully validated as a non-problem station snyder lying even at that you're lying and lying and lying and calling donors are in and so all you will do ok ok badly want to get it let's get your solution the ceasefire continues to fail max all right well. well the ceasefire continues to fail because of the desire for netanyahu in the who is being pushed from the right to kill more to satiate the kind of blood lust we're seeing and yet we've seen netanyahu confessed today and fishel statement that one hundred percent of tunnels can't be eliminated that there is no actual military solution we have to go back to the two thousand and twelve cease fire which hamas initially honored those are the facts and israel violated repeatedly over and over again which led us to where we are today and look at the cease fire that john kerry attempted to broker and it was a it was a ceasefire that would lead to the lifting of the siege i think that's the first step to easing the violence i don't

it was a community organizing model. you had civil rights volunteers and workers stand out around the state. all of that process was headquartered in jackson. some estimates, over half of the white civil rights workers from the north were jews. they often said if everyone is not free in this country, no one is free. and although was happening here did not affect them in a personal, direct way, they felt they needed to do what they could to cure this injustice. it is sad to admit it was the whiteness of the two that helped attract national attention. there were other black activists murdered that did not attract the same amount of national attention. when those three workers went missing, it was a huge national issue. all the media came down here to search for them. when their bodies were finally found, it was a somber sign of the significance of the work and danger all these activists endured. >> it was the 31st of august in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse to try to register to become first-

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