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Commission meeting for tuesday august 18th. We will call this meeting to order. Will you please call the roll. Yes, commissioner bernal. [roll call] commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone numbe...

This episode with all that civil war raging in the United States what now for the Global Movement for justice and equality sparked by the Police Murder of george floyd we ask one of the most important activists of all time former black Panther Angela davis about organizing in the face of ahmed vehicles and tear gas hand anything has changed since she was one of the f. B. I. s most wanted plus when the options of the 2020 president ial ballot box are you man using military style force against pro...

Was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and that morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the u...

Called golden passports documents obtained in cyprus by a british people from a number of countries the aim for some is to access the e. U. One of void corruption rock downs at home or elsewhere but is that legal and whats come the e. U. Do to stop with this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. And aljazeera investigation has revealed that cyprus has being given european passports to convicted criminals and high level political figures in return for an investing 2 and a half 1000000. 0...

W business i want to go jones and berlin good to have you with us just 3 months after joining tick talk with great fanfare kevin is quitting the chinese owned video app and his short career with the company the former disney executive 1st found himself bang in the middle of a current tech war raging between the u. S. And china. The big question is will kevin mayer find a u. S. Buyer for chinese video platform ticktock before he goes. 4 ringback so far microsoft facebook and oracle have expressed...

Item number one is roll call. President brandon. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Present. Commissioner woo ho. Here. Vice president adams. Madam president , you have a quorum. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with Liberty Justice for all. Item number 3, approval of the minutes of july 14th, 2020 Port Commission meeting. I so move. Second. President brandon. Aye. Vice president ad...

Is he dialing in now . I will call. And i apologize. No problem. Well give him 30 more seconds. Thank you to dph staff and everyone making this meeting possible by webex. Commissioner bernal thank you. Before we move onto the approval of of the minutes, i want to share with the commission, with dph staff and all those watching as members of the public, that as you know, we are under an excess i have heat advisory and there may be rolling blackouts in San Francisco, the beginning as early as now ...

Maybe some of these positions wont be necessary. I do not support layoffs this year. Supervisor walton, how do you feel about supervisor ronens proposal. We are hearing from supervisor yee and mandelman that they are opposed to layoffs but open to putting money in the second year on reserve. Excuse me, you are on mute. I am definitely open to putting 7 million on reserve for the second year. Again, it is hard for me at this point. Not an impossibility without knowing the officers it is an issue ...

Commissioner chow is supposed to be here. I thought he was on but he is not. Mikaela, can you share that slide right now . Im going to pop up the Public Comments slide so that everyone on can see how to make Public Comment. Theres a few people on and i want to make sure everyone knows. Give me one second and ill pass you to ball. So, the phone number for Public Comment is 415 6550003. The access code is 133 1902636 and press pound twice to get on the line. When you are on, if you would like to r...

Good to see you two. How are you faring in this pandemic time. A little cabin fever, i must admit, im eager to get back to traveling again, i was getting sick of it before the pandemic and im eager to get out of california. How are you . Pretty good were all doing what we can to get through it. Even the movie contagion which said was going to happen Something Like this but it did not capture the full scope of what is unfolding, a gift to my first question about the book which is apocalypse never...