indiscernible . indiscernible . You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email, park and rec commission. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be included as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent Via Postal Service to sfrecreation and Park Commission in San Francisco, california, 94117. Please note in meeting is recorded and will be available on sfgov tv. We are now on item 2, the president s report. Thank you, stacie. Im just going to be very brief and i want to call out two representatives of rec and park who i think deserves credit. One is stacie white for figuring out how to make all this work and get us all organized to have a public meeting. Thank you, stacie. I very much appreciate it. The person i would like to call out and express my gratitude is commissioner Eric Mcdonald for drafting a statement on behalf of the department and the commission, expressing the outrage at the murder of george floyd and the subsequent demonstrations arou
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
And if you have been following the news in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience, fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. In many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaky boats. Theyre drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a po
Were going to jump right in on this panel with me to my immediate right is now the anchor who is the Editorial Page Editor of my tammy heralds, used in that position since 2013, so delighted you are here, so first time weve had the herald participated, very warm welcome to you Joshua Bergeron is on her way she should be here any minute National Security correspondent for politico and what will be next to her is coming ski, her boss, who is a global editor and political previously editor and chief of politico, have been at the wall street journal before that. And then last but not least supplement at a quarter in chief of Foreign Policy magazine so delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan and welcome to you matt has been here before, a warm welcome to you as well. Im going to jump right in and natasha will join us, which derives. I want to start with the latest developments to this year and that is the situation with iran, and i wanted to ask each of you, maybe jonathan ill sta