so, our cultural center, the asian pacific islander cultural center, started in about 1998.nd along with that, we started to produce this united states of asian america festival. our organization kind of was comprised of five leading asian american arts groups in san francisco, so we bound together to put on this festival every year. and it's a multidisciplinary arts festival, it has anything between visual art, dance performances, theatrical performances. even now, we have culinary events as well. so, it spans pretty much any discipline. and so, over the years, it was a curated festival, but then in the last i'd say about like five or so years, it's been an open call festival. so, we take proposals from artists who want to put on these events that we will include it into the festival from may through june. robert: that's right. and what about that theme, collective memories? melanie: collective memories. so yes, every year i get together with my staff and we talk about, "so, what's been going on in the asian-american and pacific islander communities? what's affecting us tod

so, you know, several of the films this year are by queer asian-american filmmakers, queer pacific islanders, so yeah. robert: yeah, an intersection of film and poetry, sounds like a great evening. malathi: yeah. robert: i'm looking forward to it. malathi: thank you. robert: all right. well, the event, poetry and community, a concert, is saturday, april 27 at 2 p.m. in the reading room at the burlingame public library, 480 primrose road in burlingame. and remember, admission is free. and the asian pacific american film festival's friday, may 3 at 5:30, and saturday, may 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the college of san mateo theater, building 3, 1700 west hillsdale boulevard. and again, the festival will end with a reading by aileen cassinetto. well, coming up, it's time for nikkei matsuri in san jose japan town, and we'll have one of the featured guests, san jose taiko, all here in our studio next, so come on back. as long as i can remember, and it started as part of america and san jose's bicentennial celebration in 1976, and it's still going strong. the next one's coming up may 5. here to tell us abo

long time, we used to classify asians and pacific islanders in same category. actually. if we want to actually reduce racism in our civil services in the city government, i think those two categories should be celebrated. they are completely different. the challenges that the community face are different. if you want to drill down into how we can eliminate or alleviate some of the issues iss that are pacific islanders having around employment, we need to sepate

long time, we used to classify asians and pacific islanders in same category. actually. if we want to actually reduce racism in our civil services in the city government, i think those two categories should be celebrated. they are completely different. the challenges that the community face are different. if you want to drill down into how we can eliminate or alleviate some of the issues iss that are pacific islanders having around employment, we need to separate these categories. i don't know what it would take to do that. if you want to get a clearer picture and drill down, if we want to look at this population specifically, separate than the asian population, chinese, japanese, korean for example, i think that we also should follow suit what the school district has done and made this a separate category. it's just my recommendation. thank you. i can't help but notice that these 9910 and 9916 jobs are amongst lowest paid workers actually in the civil service system. they are held primarily when you look at this by black people. i had to mention that. it just

for example, though asian pacific islanders are 43% of all seniors, there are almost half of those in poverty. again it's really important that we keep track of these trends so when the department is developing its procurements and entering into contracts for services, we make sure that we are partnering with agencies that can really help us reach the populations most in need. >> president serina: rose, excuse me. it might be helpful if you told us what the definition of poverty was. >> sure. so this is based on the federal poverty flesh hold, which is annual income of about $12,000 a year for a single individual. so this is really those who are at the lowest lowest income level. >> president serina: thank you. destitute. >> yes. that is often the word that we actually use. thank you. the other -- one of the other major sections in the area plan update report is the service unit plan objectives, which is basically where we say the service levels we expect for next year. what we've put on the slide is how the units for next year compare to what we put forward last year. and what you se

the services, maybe don't know, maybe have some feelings about that and that could be asian pacific islander, filipino, latin american, as well. so we just started this with the office to talk about different geographic areas to get the message out. >> okay. and i know we're bringing on a new samoan coordinator to get the message out. i would love for them to connect with your department so they could help with this effort. >> i would love that. >> that's it. thank you. >> thank you for the presentation. can you bring up slide six, the question -- i had a couple questions around this slide. so this is showing students that have had two years of pre-k and the readiness. all students compared to students, right, that have had that two years. would you expect those numbers would be higher, so the numbers are 65 and 69, so a 4% difference? >> well, this is our more robust data, so i'm -- it's our first time sort of taking a little with the more intensive ones? whereas before, it was just the literacy overlay? so i would like it to be higher. it could be higher, but i think it's demonstrated -- w

interview took place on the pacific island battlefield. trip going back, i wasn't ever going to go back, education,t was for . decided i would make the trip to leave it behind for the future generation. when i went back to these islands and meant the people testament to the people, they look like us. i never knew that when we went , my battle over there dislike of the japanese for what they did in pearl harbor, i wanted to get even with them. i tried anyway i could. be trainedow i would in navajo code talker. i wanted to fly. to be a pilot. i was relieved after seeing the people, talking with them, being with them several days. that, carryingof on dislike of the japanese. i still don't like them, but it took something out of me. to defend my land, as we, the navajo natives, we is thet mother earth land i have to defend. that's the reason i went. that's why i chose the marine corps. i had seen a lot of newsreels that they were the toughest group. and they were. there were other forces in army ranger or that, but the marine is still the best

and on the pacific island battlefields where he traveled with other code talkers and their families. jesse: well, yeah. part in second day with f the signal company command to set up command posts and be near the g-2. g-2 is the people that plays with the pegs. regiments, three regiments and one division, they're the ones that move the pegs and make the troop movements or make requests for additional troops and all that. and where i hit the beach, i don't -- i don't know where it was. but as soon as we got on the land, there was some buildings. d they said that was the banks. and i believed it because there was money all over on the ground, yens, japanese yens, which was no good to us. so -- and then there was -- looked like -- had been drugstore that was there. that's where we set up. and we have to be looking for snipers. ut we set up the communication center right there. and i noticed that next morning, there was a banzai made by t they had the japanese. they were picked off real quick. they done that three times. and then everything went quiet. so -- and then i found looking arou

the interviews took place at his home on the navajo nation in arizona and on the pacific island battlefield where he traveled with other code talkers and their families. >> yeah, i came in the second day with the signal, part of the signal company, the men. to set up a command post and be near the g-2. g-2 is the people that plays with the packs. regiments, three regiments in one division. they are the ones that move the pegs. and make the troup movements or make requests for additional troops and all that. and where i hit the beach, i don't know where it was. but, as soon as we got on the land, there was some buildings. and they said that was the banks. and i believe that because there was money all over, on the ground. yens. japanese yen, which was no good to us. so, and then there was what looked like had been a drugstore that was there. that is where we set up of course we have to be looking for snipers. but we set up the communication center right there, and i noticed the next an attack thatas they had made by the japanese. they were picked up real quick. they'd done that three times a

. -- the pacific island battlefields where he traveled with other code talkers and their families. i keith: i am pleased to be here, and privileged. and come back. this is not the place that i fought. was about 100 miles north of here. but in comparison, i have always talked about the places that i have fought with my comrades, and at that time, the land, the communities, the homes were all shattered. and then somehow or another, there were some ladies that survived. i remember them. they were being herded into a stockade and penned up, and one day i went over there and took a look, and i felt very sad, there were some kids in there with their parents, in the stockades. and i wondered how they fared out. i always wondered about that. i wondered how those people fared out, when their land was destroyed some of their homes were destroyed, everything that they had was destroyed. maybe they had livestock. maybe they had farms. and their way of life was completely destroyed, and they had to rebuild themselves back up. and the development of their country. it is quite amazing to me, and

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the asian-pacific islander is monthly. interfaith is quarterly. jewish, quarterly. lgbt monthly.small business, monthly. women's, quarterly. public housing quarterly. public housing we're just starting it. and we're in progress on hispanic, latino, muslim, and youth. >> great. the time, the place, and the date would be great, as you know that. >> thank you. >> an i had a question, too, on overtime. i'm curious to know, what is it that pumped it up above the budget? >> a reinvested a lot of money in some of our crime prevention efforts, and although some of it was planned, some of it was unplanned. we had a spike in robbery, for instance, and we need to put presence in an area. a good example was visitation valley when we had -- what we believe were robberies involving chinese community members. we had to put deployment out there and fixed posts and that type of thing. it is a very expensive way to police, particularly when it's not planned. what we try to do is work our budget so we have room to do that and right at the break even point, and we have these type of incidents like i

democrats asian pacific islander caucus. thanks for being here. it's my 45th birthday today. today. and my question is, how can we encourage more asian americans and pacific islanders to get involved in public affairs and to seek leadership roles in government and politics, and thanks for running. >> oh, thank you. it's a massive challenge because right now asian americans vote, donate and run for office at lower levels than other parts of the population. and certainly growing up as a skinny asian kid, my parents were like, oh, you're going to run for president some day. it was doctor, lawyer and then the list stopped, more or less. so we have to do more to show asian americans that we need to step up. we need to give back to this country that's done so much for us. i'm optimistic that my run for the presidency will help make that case to people around the country. >> thank you. >> you mentioned your parents never imagined you running for president. i understand when you told your mother you were going to run for president, her reaction was -- that's nice. >> it was like, tha

. >>> asian-pacific islander month will be kicking off next month. >> kit is down the hall live with us. >> reporter: coming live, we are celebrating asian-pacific heritage history month, and we have been doing this for about 15 years. this is a chance for community members to come in and celebrate all things asian and tell us what is vague and important happening in their lives and mix and mingle with the management and staff of reporters and anchors. and, we exchange ideas and also celebrate what it means to be asian. and, we do that through food. our attendees come hungry with high expectations and asian culture. it is one of the biggest senses to run out of food wehave learned the hard way not to do that. also, we had the music society playing some of their music. and, we have some local artist here as well. so, here we are very passionate about telling stories within minority communities, black, latino, lgbtq, and if you have any kind of story happening in your life that you want to share, would love to hear about it and we love telling ghost stories and we are passionate about t

more vulnerable if you look at the country like the netherlands for example and compared with pacific islands on the dish for example it is clear that the tools available for them to address and to adapt to climate change are very different briefly if you could what can people do themselves to help as many things from reducing air traffic and air travel if possible to find local produce and to reduce the carbon footprint but i think in democracies in particular it's a very powerful tool to vote and to vote for a party that is actually promising to deliver emissions comics ok alexander thank you very much alexander now scientific advisor with climate alex thanks for coming i think you are. ever much more on this issue we have the full length documentary the climate exit is mass migration the real environmental disaster starting today here on the dub you online a d t v dot com you can also view the film at our you tube channel starting tomorrow may first now it is to the mystery why oil spotted off the coast of northern norway fishermen were puzzled when they found the beluga well because it wa

from 2003-2017 the percentage of people in the us pacific islands receiving safe water increased from 39%, to 82%. health based violations that were common 15 years ago have become a rarity. we are committed to sharing this progress with developing nations throughout the world. epa and usaid joined forces to develop the drinking water laboratory capacity building program in west africa. this program helps provide clean drinking water in urban areas by building the capacity of labs for sampling, analysis and quality assurance. epa provides technical assistance and know-how while usaid provides funding and on the ground presence. the project launched in ghana sparked a new focus of water quality across the country including development of quality insurance manual which will improve water quality for 500,000 consumers. this is being used as a model for other labs in the region and labs in ghana have used this to mentor labs in nigeria. we are excited about the progress of this program and believe it holds potential for other areas around the world. here in the us we are blessed with an a

much more vulnerable if you look at the country like the netherlands for example compared with pacific islands. on the dish for example it is clear that the tools available for them to address and to adapt to climate change are very different briefly if you could what can people do themselves to help as many things from reducing air traffic and air travel if possible to buying local produce and to reduce the carbon footprint but i think in democracies in particular it's a very powerful tool to vote and to vote for a party that is actually them promising to deliver emissions from action ok alexander thank you very much alexander now scientific advisor with climate alex thanks for coming i think you are. ever more of that story you can see the full length documentary the climate exodus mass migration the real environmental disaster the story today here on d w n online if you have you dot com you can also find that on our you tube channel from tomorrow may first it's to mozambique now which is also struggling with severe flooding in the wake of cyclon kenneth more drenching rain falls forecast in

the interviews took place at his home in new mexico and on the pacific island battlefields, where he talked with other code talkers and their families. it is not too easy to put into words the experience en and all the experience i have today. the two are quite an adventure, quite distant. memoriesstill a lot of , butbrings that the light the good result of the adventurous the changes that we , theseen on the land surviving the people and arriving at the rich culture as they were rebuilding. being happy, also looking from the experiences that they have gathered, and then the exchange between the code talkers and the natives, which was really rebuilding. you could see that, among all those that we met. so this was quite an opening for whom weor the people talk with. we had quite an exchange, not only in words, but physical expressions, a change of ideas, men call when the scene, we hadast what we had tog experience and what i had and ource, atetherness, we had arrived an agreeable end to actions, exchange their emotions, through our nonverbal expressions, which prayedlly, uh, how he t

talks about experience and takes place at his home in arizona on navajo tribal lands and on the pacific islands where he served. he reflects on the impact of returning to the battlefield 60 years later and the legacy of the navajo code talkers. joining us onor c-span3's american history tv. you produced a documentary on the novel hope code talkers, talkers,navajo code why? >> once you learn about them they are hard to forget. i had just moved on a part-time basis to santa fe and socially met the lawyer, the pro bono lawyer, for the navajo code

francisco was active as a member of the california commission on asian and pacific islanders americanaffairs. advising the governor and legislature on issues affecting the islander communities. a member of the california world trade commission, a member of the california transportation as advisory board and a board member of the california acupuncture board regulating the practice of acupuncture and asian medicine in the state. as if that wasn't enough, he was president of the u.s., china and preservation confucius foundation to promote relationships between the united states and the pacific rim. francisco was instrumental in shaping the political careers of many local leaders, including then president to the board of supervisors angela alio and over the years, francisco became well-known as a prolific fundraiser and a community relation's consultant on a local, state and national level working with congressman mike honda, former california greg davis, formal state senator john burton and former san francisco mayor willie brown, jr., among many others. he was a mainstream for many pol

with this forum, we women of color, black, indigenous, asian american, pacific islander, inex anti-muslim, today we are kicking off the presidential season -- -- muslim, today we are kicking off the presidential season would advance a national conversation to help voters distinguish which candidates stand with and for women of color in our communities. [applause] does thatate that best and most consistently will win the nomination and the white house in 2020. [applause] "she the people" is about a politics we have not yet seen. we want a people were people can live with dignity. we insist that whoever receives our votes will govern with our deepest values and full humanity in view. remember, we are a powerful voting bloc, one of five voters in primaries are women of color, and we are 25% of the voters in key, swing states, texas, south carolina, georgia, florida, but in case people think electability starts in the south, let's remind the country we are also the strongest democratic party voters in virginia, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan and california. [applause] the stakes could not be hi

the breakdown is asian pacific islander 36% and african american 28%, hispanic, 17%, other is 3% and white is 16%. you can see the bayview is a very diverse community. it's changed a lot over the years and i'm unfortunate enough to work with two outstanding supervisors. supervisor walton is the district 10 supervisor. he handles approximately 90% of the district. we work together quite a bit and attend meetings together and meet to discuss strategies to improve the district, to solve problems and then supervisor hilary ronen is the district 9 san francisco and her portion is bayview and we work with the monolingual community and in terms of dealing with community issues. my staffing is broken down to myself as the captain and three officers and two civilians on my captain staff. there are two lieutenants on day watch, four sergeants, 57 officers and two police service aids. on night watch there's two lieutenants, nine sergeant and 76 officers and two police service aide. then we have the station investigation team which consists of a lieutenant, five sergeants and two officers. under