phillip randolph institute. i want to thank bright line institute and i he was want to thank our partnership with the unions, local 261 and local 22 and the operating engineers, i see you all here today. thank you for your participation. without all of these partner ships, we would not have been able to successfully achieve this first year of implementing the local hire policy. i also want to

phillip randolph institute. i want to thank bright line institute and i he was want to thank our partnership with the unions, local 261 and local 22 and the operating engineers, i see you all here today. thank you for your participation. without all of these partner ships, we would not have been able to successfully achieve this first year of implementing the local hire policy. i also want to introduce the mayor who under his leadership when he first game the mayor a year ago, it was very important to him to create jobs here in san francisco and to make sure that our local residents are going -- that our local residents are having opportunities to have are employment here in san francisco. and it's his support with the board of supervisors and all of the departments that he is very -- that he is here today to announce our great progress with local hire. so mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, naomi. welcome, everybody, to this wonderful occasion. about a year ago, supervisor avalos and i and a number of other

phillip randolph, an african-american labor organizer had years of experience in organizing and in protesting. he had developed associations, he had led the brotherhood of sleeping carporters to recognition, by both the pullman company, giving amp americans a very real place in the labor movement, and he had built alliances with many other african-american leaders of the time. he was a classic race man, as the term was of the time. and when he looked around in 1941, and he listened to his colleagues notice and comment and complain and go to congress and go to the president and say look what is going on. our country is preparing for war. we are in need of workers we are in need of experienced soldiers. and your administration is tolerating segregation in the military that results in inefficients and results in discrimination against people who deserve promotions and new roles and looking around at defense contractor after defense contractor who refuses to hire african-americans. sometimes because they say their fellow workers won't tolerate it, and that was most certainly the case. and sometim

phillip randolph, and walter white, the president for the national association for colored people. even with this sense of gathering all these important busy people, in june, in late june of 1941, those of you who know military history will know this is a period in which the nazi government is in the process of planning to break their pakt with the soviet union and is on the brink of invading the soviet union. this is a period in which poland has just fallen. this is a crucial moment in the war. and all these men are called into the office to meet with these two men and roosevelt starts by trying to tell stories and jokes. and randolph has to interrupt them and say that, you know, we're here to talk about the problem of negros' participation in the armed services and the defense industries. so roosevelt tried to say you know, i'm opposed to this. and he started listing his reasons. he said that the march would make other people think that the negros are seeking to exercise force to compel the government to do certain things. with their silent march and their assemblage at the linco

. -- gillibrand off -- the look -- phillip randolph is a partner of ours. we are all coming together when it comes to voting rights. from the family perspective, we cannot walk away from this microphone without talking about trayvon. [applause] i am from a big city in florida. i know everybody has been there. it is 20 minutes from sanford, florida. it is an issue of criminal justice. we have our black youth vote, who are led by young leaders, who are coming together next week around the banner of the black youths voted focusing on whether young people are fully engaged around the issue of justice. our target is to focus on the issue of jobs and employment and under employment. there is a major sport -- a major focus for our target on underemployment. a big focus for us will be on the voter rights issue. those who do not believe in inclusion have done a good job studying what happened in 2008. they look at the fact that we alternate on sunday in some places. -- that we alternate -- we voted on sunday in some places. we have to keep fighting. there are some f