trade represents a discussion on ways dissemination against asian americans and pacific islanders andersections with u.s. foreign policy. cochair of the white house initiative on asian americans, native hawaiian and pacific islander. >> good afternoon, thank you. the director of the diversity and leadership project here. our program is to help the inclusion effort at the center. since its inception, the program has been dedicated to elevating diverse voices and perspectives. it is believed a diverse workforce needs more ideas, more innovation and more robust policy delusions. we strive too be a leader within the national security space all while supporting internal initiatives including our very own resource group who have worked hard to make today's events happen seven employee voluntary to foster essential belongings and conversations and create a safe space for employees to bring their authentic self to the workplace. i am honored to partner with this program black indigenous and people's color for today's event in celebration of asian american, native hawaiians pacific islanders h

. >> asian american pacific islanders may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month about san francisco the asian-american about the history and curtain or encouragement. >> about fun and family and food. >> about all of us celebrating each other together after celebrating the cultural tradition a our future. >> showing you the regular things like the families and connecting the japanese heritage and my heritage in hawaii and other asians around the city and world and growing up with the bay area. >> asian american pacific islanders it about showcasing the apa heritage culture contributions and full staves of music and the great diversity within the community i'm not a asian-american but have a great communication and about celebrating the stories of blood lines of apa heritage and the difficult challenges creating opportunity and building a new. >> let's celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and victorville our writing our future for the future may is asian american & pacific islander heritage okay. everyone. sorry for the interruption. we are back

gabriel: many pacific islanders are here because of u.s.ion that has made the economies of the pacific islands much more reliant on the united states, have fewer opportunities than they otherwise might have. ali: gaynor siataga is a samoan-latina community advocate in san francisco. gaynor: so pacific islanders here in the city have the highest disparities in everything. ali: she says police killings were a fact of life growing up. gaynor: i have seen it firsthand. i had four folks that are very close to me, family, all shot and killed by police. members were incarcerated, and she joined a gang when she was 11 after being sexually assaulted. gaynor: it was a group of folks that were way older to me that i finally was able to share this secret with. like, as a kid, you don't know what's wrong or right. ali: gang life led to repeated violence, she says. gaynor: the first time i was shot was 13. ali: and run-ins with law enforcement. gaynor: they even had my picture on the dashboard, you know, and i was just a kid. ali: it's a cycle siataga is

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage [music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlement

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage >> good morning, everyone and welcome to fire station 49 art work unveiling it is appropriate this is the national ems week celebrati

happy asian pacific islander heritage month.ctor of the office of civic engagement and affairs. before we start our evening program, i would like to introduce to our opening performance. please give a welcome to bango (indiscernible) dance company performing the west african rhythms. [applause] [drums] [music playing] [singing] [drums] [music playing] [singing] [applause] >> give it again for bango and company. [applause] on behalf of the san francisco human right commission and immigrant affairs, welcome to the 2023 immigrant leadership awards. we are thrilled to be celebrated with you again, in person this time. [applause] as a quick reminder, we have spanish, cantonese and arabic interpretation services: please go to the table in the back to get the (indiscernible) we are delighted you are here tonight for the special event to honor the powerful contributions of a local immigrants leaders supporters and champions of immigrant communities. let's begin with the we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the

self help for the elderly asian pacific islander legal outreach and the institute on aging.other news within dos, um, we are pleased and proud to welcome maceo person who has joined as the dos special projects manager in this role. maceo will take lead on department projects focused on the disability community and lgbtq plus community he joins with the wealth of experience in both community based organizations and local government. in community. maceo began his work in oregon, where he joined basic rights. oregon to pass lgbt q plus inclusive non discrimination and domestic partnership laws. after spending eight years in oregon. he moved to california and joined the transgender law center. there. um. at tlc. he mobilized transgender nonconforming an allied communities to secure trans inclusive health care policies and strengthened california nondiscrimination laws. he also managed and oversaw the tlc portion of san francisco's trans employment program. unfortunately he could not be with us today's commission meeting as he's currently participating in the aids lifecycle. it's

and so on behalf of s, c, d, c and the someone pacific islander community here in san francisco . we just want to say thank you. and. our next award is for the youth leader award. this recognizes a courageous immigrant leader under the age of 35, who has helped or inspired other immigrant youth in their community and beyond. we are excited to present this award to not ask coram nas left iran in 2009 on the heels of the youth revolt that failed to reform the country. nas found refuge in san francisco, where they pursued their education after a decade of working in the restaurant industry not founded. the bar, restaurant and entertainment venue are gonna located in the mission district. please welcome nas to the stage. hello everybody. thank you so much to the immigrant rights commission for honoring me with this award. it's my pleasure to accept thanks for everyone. um especially to my mother who immigrated in the age of 55. just because she knew she is not going to see me for a decade if she doesn't um, i want to thank my dad for staying behind because he had too much love for my

. >> hello happy asian-american pacific islander month. my name is milet and i'm with parangal.es from yacan and dance called tamsac. >> we're playing for a tomahi learned from of the aharsa family. >> and the tumachic and the showing movement from the arms, are all learned from the hadas families, salma, thank you. >> salamas. [music] >> hello i'm jonathan mercado and we're going to be be dancing up next, from the southern part of the philippines. our culture are salmonal with influences of work from papa laqid and mahala family. it's a festival dance done mainly for celebrations like weddings, birthdays, so but the true, the true root is precolonial prehis lamic. it will be one on the phone and one on playing the tambul. and those are traditional used for sagan in calina. >> hello again, i'm milet and this next dance you will see is from the taboli people, south cotobato in southern philippines. the dance is tal malatic and it's during the festival called moony moon. the ladies will be performing traditional taboli movement and the men will be performing a warrior dance. >> fo

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & >> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because no

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & >> ific islander heritage >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's streets and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighb

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage >> city june 21, meeting of the police station. >> good evening, the chair has called the meet to go order. if you can please rise fo

heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage i'm really excited be here i'm mayor london breed. welcome to this extraordinary community. and let me give a how the out to lanea miller and urban alchemy folks. we appreciate you. and sheryl, thank you from larkin street and the work do you with young folk in transitional aged wrouth who are struggling in our communities. you know we are fortunate this we have people who care. and they want to be out there doing what is necessary to help the challenges around homelessness. and urban alchemy is an extraordinary addition to san francisco than i are taking it to the next level with this heart program. i'm grateful for your work, leadership and the fact what many of the people who are a part of urban alchemy, they understand the challenges that are people are experiencing on the streets because in some instances they have been through challenges themselves. folks had issues around homelessness and substance use disorder. behavioral health. interactions with the justice system a

the famous phrase for the pacific island warriors. we're not drowning, we're fighting. so welcome, thelma and center and the baby. i don't think i need to introduce the baby, but i will say and thelma writes about this in, the very last piece in the book, having a baby is a pretty big hopeful thing to do for climate activists. so here's their commitment. yay. so fennell and thelma, thank you. thank you so much for being here. it's kind of like, i think that if look that way you'll be able to see me. so it's if i'm looking in a funny way you'll understand why the thing that i'm really excited about is that my understanding is that the pacific climate warriors have kind of done what it is that think we're here to talk about tonight. i think that what we want to to do is the narrative change the story so that we don't have that same dark and dismal inside of us, but start to not to know, be a little bit more regenerative ourselves. so in that light, i hope that we will be able to talk with you guys about process your narrative that you've changed. but before we get to that

asian american and pacific islanders coming from 48 different countries and three territories acrossy and differences are often lumped together by society. we look different from the majority white population, which is something we share with other people of color. and so that grouping sometimes seems a little too broad. the nonpartisan chan new american economy council says though asian americans account for 5.7% of the us population, they account for more than 17% of active physicians. 16% of those in biomedicine and 9% of all nurses. nevertheless dr. chen hong says there's still the matter of what he calls the bamboo ceiling. even though asian americans are well represented in health care in general, there is less representation, representation. the higher you go up in terms of leadership, all three experts told us there is still work to be done. i think the designation would be that we think of everyone one, as an american american, but we're not there yet, unfortunately. tom vacar ktvu fox two news. you can find more stories celebrating asian american and pacific islander herita

[native music] >> para la familia, we want to say happy asian pacific islanders month, and we also want to say maluai!

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage okay. everyone. sorry for the interruption. we are back and has graciously agreed to help us by clerking this meeting. so, we were at

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders.about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage . [applause] >> good morning everybody. good morning, it will work better to hold this. (indiscernible) it is 5 after 12. this is the las

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage >> (indiscernible) i just know it. excuse me boys, but does anybody have sun block to block this skin from the sun? >> yes. that's ri

the second meeting of the foreign ministers of the arab league and the foreign ministers of the pacific islands to learn about the details of faisal al-maqdad's visit and its importance. west asia, mr. harif rus, hello, good morning, mr. ali forosh , please tell us , dear viewers, about the importance of boys' trips and saudi arabia . arab is very important and is considered a very important person because it shows the continuation of cooperation in the arab world and shows the role of syria in regional equations and you can say that these trips have entered the operational phase and syria is operationally entering regional equations. during the reconstruction of arab and saudi relations with syria and syria, he is recording his own role in the region, he is recreating his role in the region. from an actor, the benefit of a game . thank you very much . i will say goodbye to you. ok account dear viewers, good luck and happiness, god willing, from the news agency, a meeting of the anti-trafficking headquarters and the ministry of industry is scheduled to be held today, and the important issue of

if you do define pacific islander as anyone. the group is bigger and -- it looks differents in terms of whether people got vaccinated what covid rates were. the same for our native-american population. their population is birth then and there we say it is people's communities are not based on boxes you have a parent in a different grouch but you are with this group. how we do that. what the -- agreed on rule so it is not chaos we are working on. that is part of what -- we will get worked out in the next need's assessment. my policy friends will help us write a new policy when we do and how we define and look differently and in addition to our gender identity policy. we'll be forced data matter and changes what the data looks like and probably a closer reflection when people are seeing than when we were doing before am i appreciate your sensitivity to this and manage you are more familiar with than i am and so i appreciate and look forward to how you might help us also understand. those nondistinctions. and -- how they are impact

fact, there, the world bank has been very active not only in the caribbean, but it also was to pacific island to say increase and boost. a lot of the support concessional support, including grants at the same time will proceed. the challenges are much, much larger, and therefore what we agree is that we, we need to go look together how we can push this development agenda much more aggressively that requires more resources and that is what is needed. i think also what they would like to see is more private sector participation. we agree with that as well. and uh, we always keep this in mind that the s t g, the sustainable development goals are of track. what does the world bank sink about the idea of re purposing funds within the i m f, and world bank to distribute them? first of all, we already know that keeping house resorts has locked up. the good news is we are actually working very real hard to have those resources not only implemented and i think actually we have had record disbursements. i can assure you there is no penny laying around because actually the needs are enormous. the urgenc

cochair of the white house initiative on asian americans, native hawaiian and pacific islander.

. >> affirming the asian american pacific islanders. it about register and honoring the path for future generations about celebrating culture. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month empowering the leaders up in the administrator's office and about my daughter if helps the future of the apa heritage and friends and family. >> about family. >> we're honoring the irldz that came before us and findings your roots and about culture insuring about the asian-american journey and all we're achieved and celebrate asian-american it means embarrassing the differences. it is about imaging. >> it is about representing as public servant in san francisco. >> about recommending the philippine generations and about how memory came for us less celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and writing our own history for the future. >> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage >> when o'shaughnessy dam opened 1923, there was a grand celebration that was an achievement of ensuring san francisco's new water su

islands right now? well, i think that the shifting situation in, in the pacific region is, is, it's, it's a, it's a story that's developing. it's a very dynamic situation right now. the solomon islands, not i think because of, of some particular circumstance in their location or anything like that. but because they have been kind of at the forefront of, of, of, of recognizing this changing world that we were just talking about. you know, i think that that for them to shift to their, their diplomatic recognition from ty bay to be jane. it's just a logical step. again in adapting to the emerging realities of, of the 21st century. i think it's a very pragmatic step. i don't think that the, the government at the solomon islands is particularly illogically oriented one way or another between the united states and, and china. but i think that they're, they're looking at the economics of their country. they're looking at a very challenging future with, with global warming and rising sea levels and all this, they have many things they're going to have to be dealing with. and i think the idea that, that, you know

. >> asian american pacific islanders may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month about sanry and curtain or encouragement. >> about fun and family and food. >> about all of us celebrating each other together after celebrating the cultural tradition a our future. >> showing you the regular things like the families and connecting the japanese heritage and my heritage in hawaii and other asians around the city and world and growing up with the bay area. >> asian american pacific islanders it about showcasing the apa heritage culture contributions and full staves of music and the great diversity within the community i'm not a asian-american but have a great communication and about celebrating the stories of blood lines of apa heritage and the difficult challenges creating opportunity and building a new. >> let's celebrate may is asian american & pacific islander heritage month and victorville our writing our future for the future may is asian american & pacific islander heritage okay welcome, everyone, good afternoon this meeting will come to order. welcome to the june 12, 2023

-- pacific islander culture.hey include food, music, dance festivals and art programs. >> if you don't want to miss anything then you want to show up in chinatown almost every day but especially on the weekends, when it's going to be the most active and fun. ana: the series will take place weekly and on weekends, with events on the upper plaza of the chinatown rose pack central subway station. dan: we still have more news ahead. ana: let's get to abc7 news anchor karina nova for the stories at 5:30. karina: we are continuing our coverage on former president trump's indictment in the classified document investigation. a constitutional law professor joins me to discuss that. and governor newsom's proposal for a 28th amendment, restricting gun access. plus el niÑo officially started. drew joins me to explain what it means for the bay area. those stories and more at 5:30. dan: thanks. ana: you can download the abc7 app or head to abc7news.com and join karina in two minutes. dan: world news tonight with david miller i

ministers of the arab league member states and the foreign ministers of the countries of the pacific islands in the saudi capital riyadh. the beginning the relations between saudi arabia and syria have witnessed extensive developments recently and the officials of the two countries made reciprocal trips to each other's countries . germany and parts of the islamic republic and you can engage in military exercises. japan, which has recently been nominated to be a member of this military organization , is participating in this exercise. the german air force is participating in this exercise. he emphasized that although the purpose of this exercise is to show nato's capabilities, it is a step towards escalation. tension with moscow does not exist, the united states, the united nations scientific and cultural educational organization, unesco, ebrahim raisi, the words of aryas, alcamp, persepolis, style, a kind of bread, elo elo story, supplemental 30210 electric decidual , required for the tradition of browsing and full of excellent rubber, and the people of alborz resistance, my dear assistant,

for years washington used the pacific island nation as its nuclear testing ground. students of the island are working to keep the memory of those tests alive. they're working with artificial intelligence to colorize the pictures from that time. >> i think you can feel emotions easier with a picture and color in black and white. >> professor watanabe is one of the researchers behind the project. >> we collected a lot of material and wanted to share it in a way that is easy to understand, so we put it all together on a digital map. >> reporter: he's worked on similar projects for hiroshima and nagasaki. he said considering the russian invasion of ukraine, it's important to document what happened on the island. >> translator: i believe it is important for us to learn about the world and nuclear testing of the past. i want people to think what they can do to prevent such tragedies from happening again. >> reporter: the u.s. conducted its largest test. many residents were forced to leave their homes but were still exposed to the fallout. nuclear burns and cancers were co

if you do define pacific islander as anyone. the group is bigger and -- it looks differents in terms of whether people got vaccinated what covid rates were. the same for our native-american population. their population is birth then and there we say it is people's communities are not based on boxes you have a parent in a different grouch but you are with this group. how we do that. what the -- agreed on rule so it is not chaos we are working on. that is part of what -- we will get worked out in the next need's assessment. my policy friends will help us write a new policy when we do and how we define and look differently and in addition to our gender identity policy. we'll be forced data matter and changes what the data looks like and probably a closer reflection when people are seeing than when we were doing before am i appreciate your sensitivity to this and manage you are more familiar with than i am and so i appreciate and look forward to how you might help us also understand. those nondistinctions. and -- how they are impact