the same thing with the cio at hp, he's a latino. and may friend jorge pittinger is the ceo of -- of sgi, the new name. so we have these folks but folks don't know -- >> the impact you've have done has taken a while overnight. but you have the patience to do it. >> it's been a lot of patience and a roller coaster ride. we're staying with it. >> all right. silicon -- "silicon valley latino," thank you. before you go, what -- >> we've created platforms. we're a multimedia, multi-platform company that does marketing engagement within our community. and anybody that want to be a member, they could easily do it by going to our website and clicking on the svl -- we have an e-commerce site. click on that. and what we do for our members, we promote them. so we'll send you an e-mail saying, please send us your bio and head shot, and we help get your brand out there. think about that, those of you watching. >> that's "silicon valley latino." log on for more. thank you. see you on the telemundo side, as well. >>> next up on "comunidad del valle,

icna says more than 50% of the latino converts they see are women. choose to wear a head covering, or hijab. >> the reason i wear the scarf is because i expect to be respected by the opposite gender. i don't want to be cat-called and i don't want to be judged by my appearance. in fact, i want to be judged by my intellect. >> it reminds you of who you are and what values you have and -- and i don't see that as oppression. i see that as a favor to me to be able to do the right thing all the time. >> reporter: roraima aisha kanar emigrated from cuba when she was 5 years old and converted to islam when she was 23. >> my father, when we came from cuba, taught me to love this country for opening their arms to us. and at this time, as a muslim, i'm still cherishing it because i am free to be a muslim. >> reporter: ruiz, who served as a navy chaplain, says latino muslims bring much to the american muslim community. >> you can keep your own cultural expressions and be equally american, right? >> reporter: latinos, he says, can also teach the largely immigrant

i am the head of the house of latino labor. and also the chair of the national hispanic leadership agenda. today, we are here to have a very important conversation addressing action, how failure to pass immigration reform harms workers. we want to be very strategic answer -- and concise, and we want to look at it from a more holistic effective, like the long-term impacts that enforcement only policies are having on the working class. to put two elements on the table. on the one hand, we have all of these republican anti-immigrant pieces of legislation, and a number of states have a devastating impact on the quality of life, in particular of the latino community, and on the other hand, we also have the highest levels of deportation that we have ever seen in the nation, so we asked the question -- what are these policies, and what is the impact that these policies are having on the ground, not only on immigrant communities, but in particular the latino community. we have a great panel, experts leaders, organizers, and we're really

[applause] we have an opportunity to look after the labor rights of latinos in the nature -- nation. [indiscernible] today, latino workers are the most -- workers in the nation. we have the highest levels of debt. we have the highest levels of wage theft. latinas only make $.55 for every one dollar a man makes. for women generally -- encounter --art we and there have been incidents of sexual harassment and rate for rapeas in the workplace -- for latinas in the workplace. [indiscernible] i want to introduce our great panel today. the president and ceo of the national council -- the largest national hispanic advocacy organization in the united states. she has harnessed the power of the nation's 50 million hispanics by strengthening the partnership -- have tom signs. he is the president of the council --nsel -- [indiscernible] the executive director of the national labor organizing network. she works to unify and strengthen each member of the organization to be more effective in their efforts to lead and mobilize. that, i would like to start with one question for the panelists. from the

i have had interaction with her as an executive officer of the san francisco latino democratic club, director executive for the lahuntos and commission on the status of women and she was a great advisor to the san francisco latino steering committee. everywhere sonia has gone, she has always made a difference. we at the latino steering committee believe she will make that difference here. the questions that i heard her answer here and answer well and impressed again that it's sonia melara. because as i hear the questions i believe those are questions that would probably be better served for someone who had been on the san francisco police station commission for at least a year. so i come to ask your support for an latina who has done an amazing job everywhere she has gone. so i ask your support for the appointment to the san francisco police station for sonia melara. thank you. >> supervisors, sonia melara -- i don't know if you remember that the first parking commission was formed, it was in 1989. and we were serving on the commission. she is an excellent choice for the police commis

i am the head of the house of latino labor. [applause] and also the chair of the national hispanic leadership agenda. to have aare here very important conversation addressing action, how failure to pass immigration reform harms workers. we want to be very strategic answer -- and concise, and we want to look at it from a more holistic effective, like the long-term impacts that enforcement only policies are having on the working class. to put two elements on the table. on the one hand, we have all of these republican anti-immigrant pieces of legislation, and a number of states have a devastating impact on the quality of life, in particular of the latino community, and on the other hand, we also have the highest levels of deportation that we have ever seen in the nation, so we asked the question policies, andese what is the impact that these policies are having on the ground, not only on immigrant communities, but in particular the latino community. panel, experts, leaders, organizers, and we're really excited to be here. let's sta

not understood] and i am a member of the hiv planning council and i am also an iv care voice for the latino community. we are still asking for the supervisors to seriously consider including housing for the transgender community and the homeless latinos. they're still asking for somebody to give them the opportunity to have a roof over their heads. we are now facing with another problem. the recertification of hiv for the people that are receiving subsidies from the other places are being cut off because the rent certifications are not being complied with in a timely manner. therefore, the subsidy for housing has been taken away. we need to seriously consider a budget for people who are being put out in the street. these are women and these are children in the latino community, and most of them are not speaking citizens. so, we are faced with two problems and primarily we want you to reconsider adding these two problems to the budget and help these hiv and homeless people and children. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, my name is chr

these are women and these are children in the latino community, and most of them are not speaking citizens. so, we are faced with two problems and primarily we want you to reconsider adding these two problems to the budget and help these hiv and homeless people and children. thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, my name is christine lim and i'm the director of [speaker not understood] san francisco performances. i'm here to urge your support of the grants for the arts. san francisco performances was founded in 1979 with a mission to bring great artists of the world to perform in san francisco and also from the very beginning to facilitate these artist connections to san franciscans outside of the concert hall, in the schools, in the community as educators and advocates for creativity, imagination, humanity and democracy all instilled by the arts. just a few examples. for over two decades at the san francisco community music center, san francisco performanceses has brought great artists like pianists andrei [speaker not understood] [spea

. >> michelle, your family has a history in the military, the latino population in general has a long history in the u.s. military, how does that surf shape the idea of the definition of patriotism within the latino community? for starters this was a study that was done of latinos and patriotism, and 76% of latinos believe america is the number one country in the world, so there is a strong feeling of patriotism, as far as military is concerned, in my family multiple generations have served in the military, and that's true for a lot of -- i think we have 17% of all people in the -- for me it isn't about rubber stamping the u.s.' policies. i don't really support most of the u.s. military efforts, but it is about really engaging in the opportunity that the u.s. offs. as an ethnic minority, you do more bagger cues talk more football, and have the biggest u.s. flag to show you are a #patriotism. >> jorge says my ethnicity makes me who i am, the flag and the country is what i represent, and in the united states, i follow the melting pot, or tossed salad philosophy. i can speak to myself, o

christina author of "the trouble with unity." latino and jane-jun political professor and author of "politics of belonging, race, immigration and public opinion." also joining us from the national conference in los angeles is clarissa martinez and civic engagement for the national council, so nice to have you this morning. >> good morning. >> so, what is on the agenda heading into the mid-term election cycle? >> concerned about the economy, particularly about good jobs that allow them to support their family. education is a big issue, as well. the other bread and butter issues that consider any other red blooded american. the discussion from immigration. the reality is that immigration is a defining issue and a proxy that allows our economy to see how politicians are talking about our community because they've melded in that way in the political arena. >> that's a useful idea there. this notion of a proxy issue which may not be the central or key or even most important issue and somehow gives insight into whether or not a politician is

commission that another community that's also been disproportionately impacted by the displacement is the latino community. and just like we have not had a member of the lgbt community in planning in years we have not had that also for the latino community and other communities as well. i would urge you and encourage you to continue to reach out to those communities because i want to make sure that everyone's voice is heard. >> absolutely. i will. >> thank you very much. >> >>supervisor norman yee: any public comment? of course. i have the cards. i'm going to call the names that submitted cards for this item. ted olson? did you speak on this item? >> yes. andrea a yala, andrea, mike bowler, robin le vits. and allen martinez. you have 2 minutes. c'mon up. >>> good afternoon supervisors. my name is andrea ayala, from the market benefit district. today i'm speaking for myself. primarily because of the quick notice there is no time for our port to get together to talk about this. i'm here to support dennis' appointment to the planning commission. i'm here today because i have noticed and been workin

so we were both there at the school, but i'm looking for other latinos. and all i found was a few brazilians, you know, three or four, no puerto ricans at all, whether nuyoricans or puerto ricans from the island. they started coming little by little after i was there. >> hinojosa: and now, actually, berklee school of music, you were saying that they have a strong presence. >> the latino population is the highest population at the school. >> hinojosa: at the berklee school of music. >> at the school. amazing, right? >> hinojosa: so at one point... so you have an amazing career, bobby, and you and i met each other many, many, many years ago when i was just a kid at wkcr. >> we were both kids. >> hinojosa: when we were both kids at wkcr radio. and we... even at that station we liked to bring in musicians like you. >> right, right. >> hinojosa: at that point, i have this great memory where you guys were doing a jam, we were putting it on live on wkcr, and, i mean, i was a mexican kid who had come from chicago. there i was in new york. you guys were jamming, an

and two years down the line -- >> and the latino community understands something, that this is reallyization, right, of our community, because of the 11 million undocumented in this country, 5 million never cross that border, but they're never mentioned, it always occurs to them, why is it always the border? if you steeled the border tomorrow, people would still be coming in undocumented to every port and every airport in this country. let's face it, 2012, alex and jose, we spent $18 billion on enforcement, immigration enforcement, that's more than the dea, fbi, all other federal enforcement together. and everybody in our community knows that the best year, if you want to call it a good year, was about 150,000 under george bush, deportation, barack obama, 400,000 on average the last few years. and there are 1.6 million a year under george bush. people understand that. i am still hoping that the president still has things he can do in terms of immigration, but the republican party still has a dance, an opportunity to set the record straight because there are two million more latinos vo

any other relief as it relates to those who are living in the shadows without protections of the law. so latinos are going to be looking towards both parties to see how they are reacting and responding to the issues they care about. and we care about how these kids on the border are treated and we want them to be treated humanely and with respect. and these kids are frightened and they need to have the resources and they need to have the attention so we can move on to the bigger issues. >> let me ask about those bigger issues because the part of this that would suggest, cecilia mun knows was clear. these kids need to be deported and sent back to their home country, we need to send a very clear message on this. how optimistic are you on the president's broader deportation review? >> i want to be clear, that we do not support any effort to deport these children without having them have due process as is currently in the law and we do not support changing the law, so we want to make sure that due process is protected for these children, and we do not support the law that would dilute that provisio

exactly what the constitution prohibits. >> president obama won a second term with 70 percent of the latinoote. while he was campaigning, he promised to reform the nation's immigration laws. that goal has proved elusive, and a powerful new voting block is losing patience with the process. >> we're trying to get our congress people, our representatives, and our senators, to pass the comprehensive immigration reform. >> in june, 2013, the senate passed an enforcement-heavy bill with bipartisan support that would have provided a path to citizenship. >> but house republicans didn't follow suit. >> "speaker boehner, immigration reform is alive in the hearts of all of us gathered here today. >> "and frankly, i'll make clear, we have no intention of ever going to conference on the senate bill." >> activists besieged the halls of congress demanding action. >> who are you fighting for? who are you fighting for? >> maria, my mother. >> and you, who are you fighting for? >> my friends. >> your friends. who are you fighting for? >> my mom and my father. >> these protestors told us that under obama, imm

and it's the heart of the latino community, is in east san jose. what better place to have event. >> you know, when you eat tamales, they are not the healthy estimate food. if you make it, you have to put -- on them. that is when you have soccer. work a off the calories. we will have music at both locations. so, yeah, you can go to one location and eat t a amales and come across to powell and run it off. >> and dance it off too. >> the tamale festival is coming up, there's the web address. any final thoughts in case i did not mention something that you wanted to get across? >> again, it's we are coming back, we need a lot of the people in the neighborhood and everybody to come back and enjoy a great. >> you know, it seems that tles less events and this is an event to take advantage. we are kind of ending the summer. it's a fabulous way to end the summer. nice festival. nice feeling. good music. good bands and have great time with the family before the kids go back the to school. enjoy a good tamale and have a great time. >> we will see you on out th

i'm just wondering because i know the small business exchange being designated for the latino or chinese or immigrant communities, i'm just wondering if they have the abilities to communicate in languageses other than english. so, i'm just asking what are the requirements under our language access ordinance or even just that we follow so that populations that might not be proficient in english would still have adequate notice from our city. >> well, i'm not familiar with the language ordinance. the admin code 2.8 does not require that the notices be published in any particular language. however, the outreach newspapers that represent the chinese community and hispanic community tend to be published in that language. the small business exchange is a little different. they represent minority small business owners. we do have non-responsive bid submissions from foreign language newspapers [speaker not understood], publishes in spanish. cinta daily and world journal publish in chinese. >> thank you. >> mr. rose, do we have a report from you on this item? >> no, there is no report, supervisor

. >> the latino community could be powerful in the election with a latino candidate. >> absolute lie, absolutely, absolutely. >> it all comes down to what is the field. you have split votes. and what is voting percentage and only real election for the most part and what is the turnout going to be. all those factors. but if you have -- you have to look at not only ethnicity but race. and what coalition that and allen buck covisits comes in and senator anthony williams that we believe to be in and front runners and if darrell clarke runs. when you enter in and other folks come in they take votes away from others and there may be a opportunity for ken trujillo. >> it's not about resume. if you look at the resume it's impressive. but elections are not about resumes they're about coalition and deal-making and in this city, someone polled going back to ed rendell second meryl victory it's basically coalitions, money, wheeling and dealing and don't forget the unions in democratic primary. >> i think that ken, who i work with in the street administration, one first has to consolidate base in

the rift involves latino and asian-american legislators within the democratic party. prop 209 banned affirmative action in 1996. the majority of students applying for colleges was white. nbc political analyst larry says latino lawmakers want affirmative action to be restored to benefit a growing latino population. >> there's so much internal pressure right now given the latino delegation and the asian-american delegation, if you will, over this issue. it's hard to know what's going to happen. >> one ballot measure to restore affirmative action almost made it to the november ballot but gerston says asian-american lawmakers shot it down. the issue is still under study. >>> next california's drought emergency as the state considers tougher penalties for was water-wasters. >> the impact of dry weather on one south bay industry. >> the weekend finishing on a warmer note. most places inland 12 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. livermore close to 90 outside. tomorrow we could see 100 degrees for parts of the bay area. you fifteen percent or more on huh, fiftcar insura

one more project is our cultural center for the latino art, fully pad by mod, approximately $1.5 million. it did undergo renation back in the '80s -'90s, but focused on the ground floor. ironically, there are two and a half more floors in the building and no toilets. so on the third floor, was the children's programming. that became the big craft fairs with hundreds of kids up there on any day of the week on the third floor and would have to go down to the first floor for toilets. luckily, it had an elevator, but this is also -- the center has a world-renowned screen printing program and graphic arts program, that is very famous. here we're doing toilets, lots of toilets, happy toilets. [laughter ] and we're also adding the wheelchair lifts. so somebody in a chair can get to the graphic arts program. we're correcting doorway widths and also, they have a foodservice bar for pre-functions. we're going to change that out, because that has been a very successful addition to each one of the cultural centers since the neighborhood living room. so that is a complete -- what is going on in our a

i know that as a member of the latino community, i look forward to having this additional voice on our behalf on the commission. in addition, to the work of commissioner dejesus. thank you very much. >> thank you. last -- it could be the last up, i really want to apologize, i didn't notice dr. morassi is the executive director of san francisco department of status of women. >> good afternoon members of the rules committee. i had a prepared statement, but sonia melara's opening statement was so comprehensive i don't want to repeat that itch . and that is on the issue of human trafficking, which supervisor katy tang has really led and i wanted to follow up on commissioner su's remarks because she co-chairs the collaborative against human trafficking. when the police department shifted prostitution from vice crimes to special victims unit was really a seismic shift in terms of addressing this issue. and one of the very creative ideas that is coming up, we are convening sex wockers social service agencies and victim survivors on how to tackle this issue is to look at the safety of traffick

name is joseph fera and i'm here for [speaker not understood] that have the privilege to serve the latino population of the tenderloin district. i feel really impacted by the job they have done the last few years. i want to appeal to your generous city and compassion to increase the aid for our organization. la voz serve low-income family, single mothers, the homeless and people with disabilities. everybody else is welcome, too. we create workshops, training, [speaker not understood], empower, skills, skill to create leaders in the community. but we [speaker not understood] your support and consideration. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, supervisors. i'm jonathan wernick, the executive director of baker places where you've worked for 30 years. i'm here today on behalf of the human services network. the only problem in coming and testifying and asking for money is coming and testifying and asking for money. and it may seem to you that we are always asking for money and always asking for more money. i want to be clear that actually what we

holsz patient in to 80 california are diabetic one in three children born in the year of 2000 for the latino and african-american children that's 1 in 2. i want to help with the obesity crisis thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon, supervisors how are you. i'm a san francisco resident and have a 16-year-old and he's entering the 11th grade >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i understand that my son loves to drink soda he's getting pretty at all i, tell them not to consume churg but his peers and can't stop them from drinking. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i the government to take a vote to stop children from consuming soda. >> thank you. i'll call a few more names (calling names) >> next speaker. >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you. >> i'm billy i have many friends that like to drink soda they take a can or two a day i've been telling them it's harmful i'm in support of the tax and i think the revenue will help with the education and help with obesity. >> thank you. i don't see very many people lined up if your na

document that document i think forms the basis for other discussions going on in the lgbt word and in the latino community and the filipino community. so i hope those things will continue and the planning commission will continue to support the work of the historic preservation commission. lastly i want to thank the planning staff they do a tremendous amount of work and this commission couldn't well, i think we could get along with all the stuff we're going i want to thank the staff for the support i've received over the years >> thank you commissioner sugaya. >> commissioner fong. >> i'd like to offer my thank you and congratulations. i don't think this commission is necessarily supposed to agree the way we're set up we're supposed to offer views i appreciate you and have learned a lot from you i've learned different aspects and comment on your line of questioning sometimes, it's very thorough and unique from a different prospective and our attention to daily it's been great sitting here for 5 years and good luck going forward >> i also want to thank you commissioner sugaya all our service at t

and joining me now, founder and editor in chief of the wise latino club, and real riez, contributor, that kind of sums it up. you have republicans with no political incentive to do anything about it, other than calling more militarization at the border. border security is like 100%, and then at the same time, you do have republicans feeling like this issue hurts the president in their districts, at least. it's a good issue for them to leave as is. >> right, but when i step back, what -- to me, what seems very troubling about where we are with this crisis right now, i believe both the obama administration and the republicans are at risk of repeating the same strategic mistakes they made in the overall immigration debate. obama pursued a very aggressive immigration enforcement strategy with hopes of winning some gop support u which he did not get. all he got was record deportations and disaffected e teen o latino voters. that same pattern is happening now. the president is going to congress, trying to crack down, get rid of the kids as quickly as possible. republicans are going to say n