Program, the shanti project, positive research center, applied aquatics institute, San Francisco publicity club, and we also appointed him as a board to the lgbt aging task force where he was a very productive member. Stu was extremely active in shanti and served four terms as board chair. He helped keep that organization strong. Shanti was a key, key part of his life. Recently he he chaired the executive council at the San Francisco para transit coordinating council. He was also serving as the executive director of tin pan alley productions and he wrote a column for the bay times. He hosted several shows including the drag show and the face to face on s. F. Common. He was also very active in the Recovery Community and served on the Advisory Board of the Castro Country Club ~ which was silver space in the castro. Stu had a lot of energy. I think probably more energy than a lot of us. It was just unbelievable how many Different Things he was involved with. I would never its just always
Though sometimes i bring up just to annoy people. One element of the it cant happen here that relates to the president. He never specifies what his alternative is. What he implies is what is needed is an oligarchy of good people. Not so different from the new samurai. How these people are selected, but you have to replace democracy with an oligarchy of good people. How this is to be done, not much to say. When you read or listen to people around the obama administration, very similar to their view of the world, very similar to their view of the world with one important difference which i wont go into now. Pickup in question and answers. Let me stop with that. I have gone on too long. What time is it . Of good. I have been around too long. Sorry. [applause] fred siegel has agreed to take your questions. [inaudible conversations] i am always intrigued by the antagonism of intellectuals to capitalism. The persistent threat. I wonder is it because capitalism stands for a source of power th
And studies show that big soda is largely to blame. As a father, i know our families need help when they live in environments saturated with sugary drinks that are aggressively marketed everywhere children and families turn, like billboards on top of peoples houses in the bayview or on our buses, or saturday morning tv. As a san franciscan, i also share our collective desire to make San Francisco more livable for families and to continue to be a city that sends stands strong in protecting the Publics Health and allows all of our neighborhoods to thrive. As a local legislator and a law maker like the left of us, i also believe that nothing we do is more important than protecting our Childrens Health and the Publics Health. Were lucky, as i mentioned, that we have strong coalitions for Health Equity and food access in our neighborhoods, especially in the bayview and the tenderloin. But its growing in many other neighborhoods, too. And theyve been building alliances with doctors, Health E
Folks that have helped to make this a reality. Id like to take a moment just to thank a few of the organizations that have helped us along the way. All of us or none, legal serve is he for prisoners with children, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights National power, coalition on homelessness, hospitality house, coleman advocates, chamber of commerce and Small Business commission, and also there are a litany of neighborhood folks that helped gather signatures for us to continue to move this forward. And i hope that you will join supervisor kim and i in voting favorably for this legislation. Mr. Chair, the rest i give back to supervisor kim. Supervisor kim. Thank you, supervisor cohen and president chiu. Its always important to put a face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair ch
Face behind legislation. And todays legislation is for these very individuals. The fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. The fair chance act is for a woman named sandee who won the lottery at nema across the street, but was disqualified because she failed to pay Child Support in the late 1990s, even though she served time for that failure. The fair chance act is for denise who was told she shouldnt bother to apply for a job as a cook because she had a conviction for shop lifting when she was in high school. As supervisor cohen mentioned, for one in four adults in the united states, an arrest or conviction record is a stigma that means you need not apply. These examples are real life obstacles preventing individuals who are actively looking to change their life by getting a job or finding a roof over their head. Yet we know having a stable job and housing are t