my name is name is zah zahra ghayour-kelly. my work as policy coordinator and project manager for nature in the city, a local nonprofit, has involved in greening the city spaces. if you're not familiar with it, greening the city is a great local nonprofit in helping the residents restore the canopy and the habitat. i'm also currently serving a four-year term on the san francisco bay restoration committee. you might wonder why i want to serve on the urban forest council. i would like to help enhance the health of the san francisco urban forest street tree canopy. i believe better informed residents can be great asset and partners in a mission to have healthy citywide tree canopy. i would also like to find solutions to have needed resources to have reliable and systemic maintenance for the city's trees. my daughter and i both have planted over 20 trees in the city. we think it's a joy that can be enjoyed by so many, including by birds and animals. friends of urban forests has given me rich experiences, and reminds me of the diver

after each killing clarice or in zahra received death threats saying they could be next. we know that it's part of the state to harass and to saul fear so that we will be sighted in and stop their work. this movie shows the 1st village that we organized way back in 1904 people say year ban passed the bar exam and so this was a community that see firsthand lives in the late eighty's government reforms was supposed to redistribute land to peasants the congresswoman who owned the plantation here refused to comply. been a new shoes in geo late a full year legal battle for these families connected. at the would have been done was now for a number to get to someone somewhere and make the final settlement in a much better man without him with an add on this that and since his death the foma say the government's trying to force them to disband the collective that's become a setback and demand one be one man woman in the case i'm enough of an only guess i'm one of them and you know has it been done to me there and make an amends to see it in the middle without me that is that sinc

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there discover in the systematic attack and political persecution of activists clarice acing soon zahra over rez and belle ramos as we know you are all human rights workers take on cases of extrajudicial killings for b.p. to charges arrests. in april this year photographs of the 3 women appeared on a poster of more than 60 people branded as fronts for the new people's army. the phone number to report sightings of them is for the local police in me and they are saying that people are and be should be killed and should be killed and it's it's really serious just 2 people on the poster are already. at only bad he she is husband was the 1st to be killed and. then in april this human rights advocate and city councilor who was shot in the head while driving his motorbike. after each killing clarice are in zara received death threats saying they to be next. we know that it's part of the state to harass and to saul fear so that we will be silent and stop their work. this movie shows the 1st village that we organized way back in 1904 people say year ban passed the bar exam and so this was a comm

namely farmers i want to share a video comment we got from someone who wrote this piece her name is zahra and the headline of this piece you can see where she stands mexico's historic opportunity to get cannabis right and she sent us this video comment have a listen hi my name is our snap from instinct in mexico this week the mexican senate is debating how to regulate cannabis and this will include 3 access routes cultivation for personal use which has been recognized by the supreme court cultivation in association and a regulated market which must put at the center the communities that have cultivated illegally and that must now have the opportunity to translate to a regulated legal market using social justice and reparations to change the conditions of our country so how best to center those communities that she talked about. i think that's been one of the fundamental tension in this in writing this bill too is trying to bring in structures and institutions that are going to bring in the impoverished farmers and the and humble farmers in the mountains to few years have survived on marij

tonight we had zahra hankir a lebanese british journalist who writes about the middle east with society and culture she is here to present tonight when then on the ground with a platform for journalists to share in their own words that times it is chilling and harrowingnd and humorous. along with the unique advantages and then to write in that collection it is to gain a full understanding of the story of female protagonists tent can be given a voice only by other women with our women on the ground were given the opportunity and wece all benefit tonight joined in conversation with a national security reporter covering extremism for npr. please welcome to politics and prose. [applause] >> thank you for that introduction and everyone for coming out tonight it is such a good turnout with familiar friends and faces. actually today is the first time i meet hand not even though we've been working together for months. her essay is the opening essay in thisay collection because the way she framed her essay is me analyzing your work in front of your eyes, she shows her own experiences by speaking

you have seen companies from vans to starbucks to zahra have to toe this delicate line and really getd when it comes to taking a side on either side when it comes to be hong kong protests. i think the nba is a really relevant example. a single tweet has threatened the entire business of a company that in china had spent decades building their business there, and they have more than 800 million fans. with a single tweet seeming to be sympathetic to the hong kong protests, you have firms from tencent to see trip, the state broadcaster refusing to broadcast their games anymore, all distancing themselves and cutting ties to this company. we have seen beijing take a very hard line zero tolerance policy approach when it comes to companies seeming to meddle in what they say our internal affairs. >> i wonder as we see in companies like apple, you mentioned the nba, seen as caving to pressure from beijing, what does that do to relationships with hong kong? now,a: we know that right this very, very tense environment, and china has taken again a very hard-line approach saying this is an internal

that's where we met zahra and her 18-month-old son. she said, "we had a lot of trouble.e in on. there's water in the back and it looks deflated. these are a couple of the life jackets they were wearing. you can tell by holding them they're fake. >> most of them never saw water or don't know how to swim. >> reporter: are you creating an atmosphere where actually encouraging more migrants and refugees to come because they know they'll be rescued by people like you. >> people did not start crossing because we were here. people are desperate, and they seek safety. >> reporter: that's why zahra said she fled afghanistan. we met her again at a u.n. transit camp where we saw busloads of syrians, yemenese, and afghans stop for food and medical care. what would you like to say to the people who rescued you last night? she said, "we're very grateful for them. we would have ended up." to get an idea of just how many people have made the dangerous journey across the sea, look at this -- tens of thousands of life facts? discarded on this -- thousands of life jackets discarded here ma

zahra, lizards, d havingo -- blizar tinto a delicate line on the hong kong protests.ignificant is a example. a single tweet has threatened the entire business of a company that in china, it has been decades building its business there. with a single tweet singing to be -- seeming to be sympathetic to the protest, you have the state broadcaster refusing to broadcast their games, all distancing themselves and cutting ties to the company. we have seen beijing take a very hard line, zero-tolerance policy approach when it comes to companies seeming to meddle in what they say are internal affairs. taylor: that was bloomberg's celine about -- selina wang from beijing. coming up, mark zuckerberg summered -- some back to washington for another out of hearings on the libra cryptocurrency this month. we will have details. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. you can listen on the bloomberg app, bloomberg.com, and in the u.s. on sirius xm. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: mark zuckerberg will get a firsthand look at the growing opposition to facebook's plan to creat

they're discovering the systematic attack and political persecution of activists clarissa singh soon zahrar rez and belle ramos as we know usually are all human rights workers take on cases of extrajudicial killings for but it charges arrests. in april this year photographs of the 3 women appeared on a poster of more than 60 people branded as fronts for the new people's army. the phone number to report sightings of them is for the local police in me and they are saying that people are and be should be killed and should be killed and it's it's really serious just 2 people on the poster are already. at only bad he she is husband was the 1st to be killed and. then in april this human rights advocate and city councilor who was shot in the head while driving his motorbike. after each killing clarice or ins are received death threats saying they be next. we know that it's part of the state to harass and to saul fear so that we will be silent and stop their work. this movie shows the 1st village that we organized way back in 1904 people say year ban passed the bar exam and so this was a community

namely farmers i want to share a video comment we got from someone who wrote this piece her name is zahraand the headline of this piece you can see where she stands mexico's historic opportunity to get cannabis right and she sent us this video comment have a listen hi my name is our snap from instinct in mexico this week the mexican senate is debating how to regulate cannabis and this will include 3 access routes cultivation for personal use which has been recognized by the supreme court cultivation in association and a regulated market which must put at the center the communities that have cultivated illegally and that must now have the opportunity to transfer it to a regulated legal market using social justice and reparations to change the conditions of our country so how best to center those communities that she talked about. i think that's been one of the fundamental tension in writing this bill too is trying to bring in structures and institutions that are going to bring in the impoverished farmers and and humble farmers in the mountains to 3 years have survived on marijuana and cult