[applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to this beautiful replica. Im Christopher Nixon a board member here at the foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon. [applause] it is my honor and pleasure to have you here at the library today and i am so welcome to the happy to welcome you. I see a lot of new faces which makes me excited, and i see a lot of young faces in the crowd. There are a lot of younger conservatives. [cheering] so that is great to see and i encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library. Of course one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world and we have just read on a lot of the exhibits in the library, so there is a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do a Little Research into my grandfathers presidency. There is so much to do here so i am so happy to have you here today. Of course, tonight, today we
City and bay is critical to the success of protecting our planet for generations to come. Thank you so much. Lets win, San Francisco. Well said, mayors. That was excellent. That is a rally. Oakland and San Francisco if i havent heard one like that. This is all about the pride, but we are doing this for the bay. We love the bay. No matter what side it is. We want to thank folks here and we will have a photo at the end with the mayors. We wouldnt be here if it werent for the California Coastal commission. Lets hear it for them. The battle for the 35th anniversary of California Coastal cleanup day. It is the largest volunteer day in california. On this day tens of thousands of volunteers remove litter from waterways and shorelines and a thousand locations across california. How fitting on september 21st to do this coming together. California stands as one if not the largest contributor that takes place in the bay area. Thank you to the coastal commission. We have folks behind me. Thanks t
One of her top priorities. Last year was the w challenge in recognition of womens equality day. May i ask you to come up on the stage. Hello everybody. I am going to ask all of the folks on the edges to come closer. We want you in the photos. Our Congress Woman we want up here. Move closer. We have plenty of space up here. I think as vivian said, we want to make sure everyone stays for the big group photo afterwards. To kickoff i want to thank the team for pulling this together. Vivian, nicole, isabella, holly. Thank you for putting this event together. I am carmen. I want to welcome you to the Second Annual w challenge kickoff for womens equality day. I have been on Maternity Leave for just a bit, for two months now. It is something else. laughter . I think i have a newfound respect for mothers everywhere and fathers everywhere so a big round of applause to every mother and father who is out there, including the ones on the stage. We are here today not only to celebrate womens equalit
Reminder that you are kind of lucky to be where you are, i guess. Just when you havent gone so far at all. I want them to go on maybe go on an interview thats more challenging that they think that they cant get that job. You know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. There had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadnt really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair assignments and in the Decision Making and working with law firms. I consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way. Are you ready to celebrate the womens equality day everyone . [cheers. ] good evening. I am the Communications Director to one of our cohost to the w challenge rally. It is my pleasure this evening to introduce our mc for the event assess
And activist i will work hard for gender justice and equal rights. We will not tolerate disrespect or discrimination. We will support policies that put women in power and leadership. We will fight to finally close the gender gap. That pay gap that we all know is out there. We will fight justice for our missing and murdered sisters. We will fight to control our own bodies and protect our right to choose. So i always feel this way because my grandma used to tell us whatever happens to one of us happens to us all. Whatever happens to one woman, it happens to us all. I need each and every one of you to help me in this work. Are you with me . Are you with me . Yes. So my book that i chose and it sums up my feelings as an activist and woman and legislator. It is girls can. I want to thank everyone for coming. This means a lot. This is a first step. We will see you at the next one. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you. Our next supervisor is not someone who is shy to the fight, someone who has s