(speaking spanish) (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are the spanish influences. >> (speaking spanish). >> they adapted to the style of this type of music (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here we have our principle instrument. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of this instrument is called cajon. >> (speaking spanish). >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionist will play with their hands and their feet. >> (speaking spanish). >> with the african slave trade he used to be in the ports. this type of boxes. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were sit over these big boxes and play over them. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the blacks these type of instruments were not allowed to be played because they were too loud and for the church they will provoke movement that was not appropriate. >> (speaking spanish). >> they could also work as a form of communication with the drumming patterns. >> (speaking spanish). >> this was wha

-- >> span spanish. >> are >> >> (speaking spanish). >> are here and it means soul. >> (speaking spanish). >> and when we go to move our bodies -- >> (speaking spanish). >> they mean the essence. >> (speaking spanish). >> when they go to work the earth -- >> (speaking spanish). >> is the contact with our mother nature. >>nature -- >> (speaking spanish). >> that will live us food, take care of us and receive us before we die. >> (speaking spanish). >> we also have this and movement of work. >> (speaking spanish). >> or conversation. >> (speaking spanish). >> which is the key to receive love. >> (speaking spanish). >> and all these type of movements were followed by this style of dance with its own co n coring on gravy. >> >> (speaking spanish) (music). (applause). >> can you play the music please? >> i want to dance with everybody. >> well, he's not there. (music). >> okay do you have any questions? we need to have some minutes and would like to answer some questions. yes? >> (inaudible). >> is it hard to dance? >> (speaking spanish). >> it's not difficult. you just got to put a lot of ef

(speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >> (speaking spanish). >> covered with leather skin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and they make the drums. >>. >> (speaking spanish). (drums). (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> this instrument is called dungo. >> spr (speaking spanish). >> we have two but only one was used. >> (speaking spanish). >> this is one that was used north of the capital. >> (speaking spanish). >> in the cities of the

he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the end of the 19th century. and then at the beginning of the 20th century, we're talking 1902, 1910, before odono that i mentioned before, this man who gave his name to -- he was very proud of this lighthouse. the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to anot

(speaking spanish) (speaking spanish). >> what he is saying that thanks to the bant. bante he got funding for of the peru vaifian culture and got approved. >> (speaking spanish). >> okay. >> good. (speaking spanish). >> so we have a variety of instruments -- that we're going to be showing you. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of the instrument is called tale boheha. >> (speaking spanish). >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the

[speaking spanish] >> it is great for our children. we have the security of the teachers are with us. we are like a family. these are different schools from the other ones. i have another child who went to public school, and now he is in city college. >> [speaking spanish] >> as i have seen through my experience with my child, public schools are great, but if you put a kid in a charter school at the intermediate level, he might as well continue on the same path. >> [speaking spanish] >> i represent all the parents that have gone through this sensitive situation where we want to ask you to please reserve this school because it has helped us very much. >> [speaking spanish] >> i know the time is limited, but i have year experience of working o c

, his spanish is my spanish after taking spanish courses in college, he's about -- my best spanish isout half as good as bloomberg's spanish, so i applaud him. he started doing this a couple of years ago, he went public with his spanish after deciding to study it as mayor, and did

, his spanish is my spanish after taking spanish courses in college, he's

[speaking spanish] >> it is great for our children. we have the security of the teachers are with us. we are like a family. these are different schools from the other ones. i have another child who went to public school, and now he is in city college. >> [speaking spanish] >> as i have seen through my experience with my child, public schools are great, but if you put a kid in a charter school at the intermediate level, he might as well continue on the same path. >> [speaking spanish] >> i represent all the parents that have gone through this sensitive situation where we want to ask you to please reserve this school because it has helped us very much. >> [speaking spanish] >> i know the time is limited, but i have year experience of working out a charter school as well, and i know how could they are. thank you very much for listening to me. good night. >> i am in ninth grade student at metro. this is my first year in high school, and i am very happy to have it at metro. i chose metro because it gave me a good seal when i visited. i chos

in the united states for spanish speaking readers in mexico. that's also being published simultaneously in mexico in spanish in another version with a different addition, which is also just come out this very week in mexico. and the purpose is to tell the story mainly to americans but also to mexicans in the united states and in mexico pashtun mexicans in mexico. the story of whom mexicans are, we were, who we are now and why we are doesn't really work anymore with what the country has become. and why we have to change. >> what kind of change? >> basically it's a national character change. what i try to do here in this book is to take four or five very well detected traits of the mexican national character as described by classic authors, americans like oscar lewis and others and say okay, these character traits, which are great for mexico over the last 500 years, both as a colony, as an independent country, form a nation, today are totally dysfunctional to what the country has become. middle-class society, a representative of democracy, and op

[speaking spanish] >> i work with the community. >> [speaking spanish] >> i work with the out reachedm -- i work with the outreach team. we visited a lot of kids in amounts -- in an immense amount of poverty. i think it is ludicrous to call them residential hotels. >> [speaking spanish] >> a lot of these rooms where the families live only fit a bed, yet there are three to four kids in each room, with a parent, a mom, and a dead. i want to say that it is really needed. this part is really needed for these kids to have a space. -- this park is really needed for these kids to have a space. please come visit sro's so you can see the poverty these families are living in. >> [speaking spanish] >> i know most of you are aware of the poverty that exists, but i urge you to come, when you're in your campaign mode, to talk with us, and be with us. i am sure you will be aware that not only are we advocating for this part, but we have a lot of energy, a lot of passion, a lot of work we want to bring to this process of making this a reality. >> [speaking spanish] >> we also need affordable housing,

about -- my best spanish is about half as good as bloomberg's spanish, so i applaud him. he started doing this a couple of years ago, he went public with his spanish after deciding to study it as mayor, and did you find it was helpful, have you found people tell you it's helpful him giving these nouncements in spanish? >> some people have said it's helpful. i think it's helpful, i'm happy he's reaching out to the hispanic community and trying to speak spanish, i was just poking a little fun. >> what advice would you have to politicians making their way into the bilingual world of reports? >> surround yourself with spanish-speaking people so that, you know, your diction can improve and you can pronounce words, you know, correctly. >> i'm going to send anthony reyes down to city hall. rachel figueroa-levin, thank you very much for joining us tonight. el bloombito lives, thank you, rachel. >> thank you. >> you can follow my tweets in english @lawrence. "the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, melissa. >> gracias, lawrence. >> de nada. >>> thanks to you at home for

. >> my name is lupe, and i speak spanish as my primary language, but i am a citizen. i appreciate from this commission that there is an interpreter. i think as a spanish-speaking person, as a mexican and american, what i would like from this commission for me to really respect you, and for me and thousands of other immigrants, but i am going to speak for the spanish-speaking community, for us to feel that you are really here, and you mean what you say, it is beyond interpretation and intention. it is engagement, but it is also to stand up. i am going to give you a couple of examples. the new police chief just passed a law that if you don't have a driver's license, which is one of the main issues for latino undocumented people, that they are going to give you 20 minutes, they will take your car and pay a fee. but they are going to take your car. you are going to go into another debt for $1,000. you can say we support this. put an ad in the chronicle or announce it. that is one. the one, the chronicle and other english papers, i think because they have new reporters tha

they found some of my daughter's spanish homework. >> to be clear, when they say they confiscated spanishage materials from your house, that was your daughter's spanish homework? >> yes. >> as his legal team prepares his defense, they also learn what else had been used to justify his arrest beyond that latent fingerprint. >> virtually everything that was cited as a reason to arrest me had to do with my being a muslim or associating with muslims. i was married to mona mayfield, aka mohammad, an egyptian national. i attended a local mosque. one can only surmise one of the reasons i was arrested is i was muslim. >> ultimately, the case is dismissed against brandon mayfield, who later sues the federal government. his legal challenge of the federal patriot act is dismissed but federal authorities release apologies. >> i grew up in kansas, so a handshake and an apology means something to me. >> you reflect on what this decade has been like, how would you describe the overall experience? >> it was the darkest, most harrowing ordeal on myself or my family ever had to experience. to quote benjamin

>> spanish is one. and yes, spanish is the primary. are there any questions? and the standards of care legislation was passed when? last year in 2008. and this is the second year of reporting then? and the standard of care creates a standard for homeless folks being provided basic needs for the paper and being created respectfully and so i think for the overall body and the shelter monitoring committee and the standards of care have definitely improved the standards within the shelter system. and at some point i would the love see more of a longitudinal study over the past couple of years over what areas we have improved in and what areas we continue to have challenges in. and for me it would be interesting since it's really important to me we improve our standards in the shelter system and thank you so much. thank you for all of your work on this issue and if oh members are here from the shelter monitoring committee, appreciate this in information and am excited you are working with the health care center to involve training and what they do for many members

in spanish, spanish without toil which is the awkward translation. without toil. but it really -- they're not known that much in america, but if you sit down for 20 minutes a day with -- i call them the magic books. i've given this to countless, unwilling people. [laughter] you just sit down for 20 minutes and they've got your exercises, i learned to speak confident, horrid german from this book. [laughter] you know, you're kind of approximating the cases, and you come out of it. and this is the kind of compliment you get, genuine compliment. the first time i went to germany, i was eating, and i'm joking with the waitress. i probably sounded like a chimpanzee. and one guy said you speak german better than i've ever heard anybody speak german who doesn't speak german. [laughter] that's pretty good. and it's with a little magic books. and they've got a wide variety. i suggest that. unfortunately, they haven't gotten to pashto. so you'll have to use rosetta stone which is pretty good, but it's not as good as the magic books. that's now going to be on tv and the peopl

of non-english interviews we conduct our in spanish. four languages other than the ones i previously mentioned, we will in -- obtain transportation services. last year we can cut it -- we conducted 37 cases in spanish, 5 in mandarin and five in russian. if anyone that would like more information about the otc this evening, see your investigator who is here in the room, and he is available to answer any questions you might have. that concludes my remarks. thank you. [applause] >> the next item is 1 c, commission reports. houa certificate of appreciatio >> tonight we're in the mission talking about community policing. we will hear report back from capt. paralysicoralis. we are going to% this commission with central american resource center commission boys and girls clubs, and the community response network. i want to tell you a little bit about these organizations so you can choose -- see why we chose to recognize them you will see there are a lot of organizations doing hard work and not being rei want to thank you for what you're doing d

i am still working on spanish. one is from brazil. she founded the dance ensembles under the auspices of the brazilian cultural association. it means "watercolor is" in portuguese and is known as a creative -- as creative costumes -- cote "watercolors." there are three carnaval kings from their ranks. she is working at a preschool and is the way mother. today, we honor korea for being an ambassador -- we honor maria for being an ambassador of brazilian culture and dance for the san francisco bay area for 25 years. [cheers and applause] now, i believe we have a plaque for you, but i do not have it. give me one second, ok? uh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh. hold on one second. we are having technical difficulties. come help me. i am not sure where the plack is. i am going to give you some flowers, and i am going to pretend that i am handing you a plack -- plaque. now, next up is the group? ok. are you dancing? ok. sure. >> i would like to say thank you to all of you and for all of the carnaval organization for letting us to brazilian carnaval