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Other professions across the country. Next, on American History tv, a look at the challenges the union faced in fighting for workers rights and the role of minority women in the government industry. The New York Historical Society Center for womens history hosted this hour long discussion. Good evening, everyone. I am valerie paley. I am director for the center for womens history and i am so delighted to welcome you to the New York Historical society and to the center this evening. If you do not...

Out twitter in big tech because they say conservative voices are being muted but before it even got underway. The organizer Philip Anderson was attacked in the rally was subsequently canceled. Sfpd had been working to keep protesters and counterprotesters apart. But violence broke out anyway. A San Francisco rally and protest put on by right wing group Team Save America is met with opposition members of the group wearing red make America Great again hats and carrying pro police flags were overwh...

Pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a...

The San Francisco playgrounds hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for 27,000. In the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. Thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond, the Sunset Playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. Here we are. 60 years an...

Good morning, everyone. This is the october 6th, 2020 special budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Today im joined by Committee Members supervisor Rafael Mandelman and supervisor mat haney, substituting today for supervisor walton. Our clerk is miss linda long. Id like to thank sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Id like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. Do i please have a roll call vote. Clerk on the supervi...

I just hope the clerk next caller. I am a black woman that works for the department. I would like to thank the supervisors for bringing this issue and bringing awareness to the concerns and these issues. I am also in support of the black employee alliance. We need the tangibles and the demands listed specifically in the letter. We need a supervisor to focus on racist bias and racism [indiscernible] this person should focus on the departments where there are racially bad actor acto actors [indisc...

Lose the opportunity of really understanding of what people were feeling when they opened up . And then, we will have lost this window. So i would urge you to think about these when we discuyou d and im happy to work would cynthia in terms of what would be doable in terms of a starting point. I agree that youre not going to get everybody all the sectors, maybe targeting the sectors, or maybe targeting through the merchant associations and, you know, the s. B. C. S or whoever has the outreach mig...

So i tell the story of black women in the union and im going to tell you about the story, too. They say, that, well, history is biographical. In my case, it is. Im an immigrant. And i went to university and, you know, started doing history and very much interested in immigration and you know what were women doing. And the story is that is that, you know, you have these women coming from the south end work on the great migration and from the british west indys. They worked as domestic servants. T...

High if that wave continues to build and coronavirus hits that is going to be the worst of all worlds combined with that recession. Against the white house to the incumbent democrats will pick up a witch. Well Something Like i think a million and a half people have already voted in california. So whats behind that tsunami david of early voting or the eager to vote for somebody eager to vote against somebody whats fueling this you see turnout turnout turnout thats what democrats want thats what t...

Until tomorrow morning. Yeah, our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow standing by with the very latest details. Yeah, yeah, i see the winds look like theyre just hanging around a little bit not as ferocious as was last night so this red flag warning has changed a little bit this is mainly over the mountain tops above a 1000 feet in the east bay and the north bay hills you see right here as we take you for a closer look. The Oakland Hills above a 1000 feet certainly could see those winds blowing ...