You are doing such exciting things. You are addressing the quality of life is fronts and you have several wonderful projects in the works. Tell us how bbar g started. It began with the wc smith company, an orgization that purchased the properties, villages and parkland back in the 90s and saw a place for families to go. Because of that they created what i cona humanitarian mall right now at the arc, the town hall arts and recreation d it really was for residents to have a place to go in a very difficult neighborhood. So your programs and projects very creatively address social health, environmental, and economic disparities primarily in wards 7 and 8 . Yes. And in recent years you have expanded your footprint by leadin and partnerships in education and the artsre and rion campus, which we know as the arc. So tell us about some of these. Let me give you our vision. So our vision is really for resif nts easte river to create a community thats thriving, a community that is charactezed by
Keynote. Justice inclusion and imagining and building alternative platfor platforms. To introduce our guests, im going to turn it over. Well kick start that panel with that. Thank you. All right. For our panel today we have four wonderful speakers. Im going to start by introdu introducing them. We have margine. He earned tenure there and he will shortly have the exciting new title of associate professor. [ applause ] all right. Sarah jay jackson is an associate professor of communication at North Eastern university and in july shell be starting a new position as the president ial associate professor of communication at the university of pennsylvanias school for communication. [ applause ] math thu matthew is at the school for communication. [ applause ] im an associate professor of Communication Arts at the university of wisconsin madison. In this panel we want to explore the question of how we can use new Media Technologies for the specific purposes of Racial Justice and inclusion. It
Chair mar next speaker, please. Good afternoon, i am cheryl thornton. I work for the San Francisco Health Department for 28 years. I witnessed many black coworkers being subject to retaliation. My coworkers complained to city officials with no real relief. I appreciate this legislation. However, i dont think it goes far enough. I think we need more account ability. Otherwise we will see what we have seen in the past the disparities to one particular group of people. Chair mar thank you. I will use this as an example. This is get fiction. This is based on geographical location. You do it in areas that are predominantly black, not white. This is a legal attorney with the same philosophy as myself. He is suing washington d c because of discrimination against black people for 1 billion. I want several billion for what you did in the fillmore. About the Justice System you have mario woods paying her 400,000 for her son being murdered and shot. This hispanic was shot 20 times here is a chanc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Ms. Jones. Thank you, ms. Jones. Next speaker, please. You know we cant tell you what we have been through. That is an example of it. You know what i mean . Thanthankthanthank you, mr. I will read additional names. Jessica malina, lewis dillon, amanda, ron, kevin and eddy. Next speaker. Am the youth organizer for the coleman advocates. I would like to echo everything the previous speaker said there is a Racial Disparity between the blacks and white could you tell uster parts and asian counterparts. In light of that i would like to say in each one of us there is a piece of humaneness which orchestrates crisis. If we are to keep it from establishing a false hierarchy we must recognize that any attack is an attack against all of us. We recognize our interests are not served by the systems we support. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am an organizer with sf rising. We are here to support this proposed legislation. Thank you for
I have been at meetings with other city departments that referred to me as nonliving culture. I have been told our numbers are option too few to matter. We are number 10 in the nation for missing indigenous women. I look forward to working with and supporting the launch of this office. Thank you. We have a draft action plan. We aim to have the first phase by the end of this year and the second by next year after we do community engagement. We have been doing this for the last few years. This will give us more teeth to move pro actively by integrating into the projects or noticing and hiring practices. It is a long road to correct disparities but we are grateful that this will henr help the woe are doing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am bailey. I work for the District Attorney office. While working there my coworker called me a scary nigger. I am going to say what they called me a scary nigger. After being called that i was harassed daily. I asked for a copy of the report calling