Early Childhood Development education from the city college of San Francisco to help elementary schoolchildren succeed in their academics in addiction to enjoying outdoor wreck rowation. For the past nine years, he was to protect land, water and air of the Indigenous People in the philippines in addition to documenting Human Rights Violations towards people who are working on various social issues. I am asking for your subpoena or thsupport tohelp brandon be evaa medical team back to San Francisco for his safety and access to specialized medical treatment and rehabilitation from his injuries. He was just transferred to another hospital because of a hospital infection he contracted. I am also asking for your help in urging a congressman pelosi to initiate a formal investigation attempted assassination of my brother and supporting a congressional hearing using u. S. Tax forces for the philippines and philipines hash police. Police. I have been carrying for him for over 12 hours a day as a nurse. I hope you can do everything within your power to help brandon. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is julie lee and im brandons auntie. Brandon was born and raised in sunset district of San Francisco. He attended middle school and Lincoln High School and San FranciscoState University. He is a caring, good natured kindhearted person. I used to drop by saturday mornings after working a night shift and would fall asleep on the sofas. At that time, brandon was six or sevenyearsold. And would always find a blanket to cover me to keep me warm. Which was sick in bed, whoa come to my bedside and tell me funny things to cheer me up. I was very sad when he decided to leave his home in San Francisco and relocate to another country. There was a bigger purpose. Something he cared so deeply and passionately about. That made him leave his comfortable surroundings. For the past 10 years, he has been a human rights and environmental rights advocate for the farmers and Indigenous People in the province in northern philippines. I have Great Respect and admiration for all the courageous Human Rights Defenders like brandon in the world who give so much of themselves to educate, stand up, and speak out for the most vulnerable. When i heard the news that brandon was shot he was in a state of shock and total disbelieve. Now, i am upset and worried for his safety and wellbeing. The evil perpetrators who shot brandon not one, not two, not three but four times in cold blood are still out there. In recent weeks, his mother and brother stayed bedside while Community Friends kept watch outside icu guarding him from suspicious people. I urge the board of supervisors to pass resolution 190909 and do whatever is in your power to support the immediate evacuation of brandon from the philippines to San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is ed chan and i am brandons uncle. Sacrifice is a big part of life. Strangers donate organs to save lives. Single parents work two jobs for their children. Children move back home to take care of their sick, elderly parents. Brandon lee knows all about sacrifices. He gave the same fairytale lifestyle in the United States and devoted a decade of his life being a parallel volunteer in human rights advocate for the movement. During the last four years there were constant harassments and threat on his life by suspected fell Filipino Armed force and in august 6th, an assassination attempt occurred after he picked up his daughter from school. Brandon was shot four times in the back and the bullets are still lodged inside his body. He has been fighting for his life with Health Issues and estimates eight cardiac arrests at the hospital in the philippines. His wife, bernice, mother, brother and other family members and friends have provided constant 24 hour protection and care. Please ensure the sacrifices made by brandon and family do not go to waste. I encourage and hope the board of supervisors pass resolutions 190909 condemning the 14509ing g and providing medical care and safe passage back to the United States. Thank you, very much. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is lena lee i am brandons auntie. My family would like to thank the board of supervisors for looking into brandons case. We we like to thank supervisor mar being there from the start and matt haney for leading a Factfinding Mission in the philippines and visiting brandon at the hospital for reporting back and helping us call for support and protection. And supervisor norman yee for his help collaborating on this resolution. We thank our friends and relatives and brandons fellow activists and colleagues and strangers for their support both emotion and financial and for their thoughts and prayers. We thank dr. Lee kimburg who went to the publichealth and advocated for and im so amazed by the help we have received from the public. I am thankful to the department of publichealth for issuing their letter of support. We thank congresswomen judy chew for speaking out for brandon. If you have become a victim and have fallen, activists are the ones who run to you and pick you up and get you help and speak for you and the organized and network and raise money for you and i cannot believe how much good there is in the world. You are so comforted knowing their right there supporting you. I would like to thank the Peoples Alliance the sf committee for huma human rightsn the philippines and filipino concerns and the Chinese Progressive Association, the ma laaiah movement and the Amnesty International and all the groups and individuals who have supported us, thank you. Good afternoon. My name ami haun and i havent been given this testimony by a professor of medicine at ucsf who works a lot sf General Hospital and serves as the interpersonal violence prevention coordinator for the San Francisco department of publichealth. Im providing this testimony to request that you support brandon lee and his family in throw ways. As many of you know, brandon lee is a u. S. Citizen who grew up in San Francisco. He is the son of louis lee who has been an employee of the San Francisco department of publichealth for 40 years. Brandon is a person who understands that our health is connected to the health of our planet. He feels privileged to support indigenous communities who honor the sacred connection. Brandon has been living and working in the philippines corinth usually advocating for environmental communities. He is paralyzed riddled with an unin known must be of bullets. He is unsafe due to the risk of violence and the urgent need for surgical and medical care in a topnotch hospital that special sizes in trauma care. Physicians think that brandon will be stable enough to transport to sfgh via an air ambulance. The cost of transport are high. 200,000. On behalf of brandon lee, a son of this beautiful city that helped shape him into the brave Environmental Justice activist that he is, i am asking you to support the lee family in throw ways. I ask that you locate funding to support his medical evacuation and three issue a proclamation of support for brandon and his family. Thank you. My name is felicia and my mom is a friend of brandons and im going to read a statement from his daughter, jesse. Children want peace. Stop killing our family. Stop the attacks, stop killing. Help our environment. Love and respect. Peace, love, calmness is important. Thank you. Hi, everybody, im with the Malia Movement its a u. S. Based movement against the killings and dictatorship in the philippines. San francisco has an opportunity to stand with one of their own. We need to make a Public Statement condemning the first assassination attempt on a u. S. Citizen. A victim and survivor of a assassination attempt. Been don lee is also a father, friend of many, a son of San Francisco born and raised in the sunset and a Lincoln High School graduate and an sf state alum. Were asking San Francisco to support the call for the u. S. To launch a formal investigation but a moratorium on military aid to the philippines and perpetrators of this crime are brought to justice in the same way a recent u. N. Resolution to investigate the Human Rights Violations in the philippines is connected to u. S. Tax dollars. From the philippines side we know the executive order 70 is regime encounter insurgery tee program silences advocates and criminalizes activists, brandon lee is one of m. P. Being targeted for advocating for Environmental Justice because in the philippines, land is life. The guardian has recently named the philippines the deadliest place for Environmental Justice. Indigenous peoples organizations like those brandon was a part of. The corn evennia People Alliance and Human Rights Alliance chra are land defenders they have been fighting the Development Aggression in northern philippines and this is the cause that brandon has dedicated himself to. We urge San Francisco to support the call to save brandon lee and support a medical evacuation. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisor. Supervisors. I want to acknowledg leadership against the nra and especially supervisor sev annie which has been steadfast. We have hate crimes and Mass Shootings here in the u. S. But our government is also the biggest exporter and provider of arms throughout the world. In particularly to the philipines military and police who have been implicated in close to 30,000 killings in the three years of the presidency. Im a friend of brandon lees and i was part of the delegation lead to the philippines. I thank him and supervisor mar. And also supervisor ronen and president yee for cosponsoring this resolution. And i have known brandon close to 15 years. I have admired how courageous and dedicate he has been to fight along the community to defend the environment and their indigenous land culture and livelihood. Despite harassment, surveillance, death threats, he is steadfast in his commitment. I felt so lucky to be able to travel to the philippines to see him in his hospital bed alive fighting for his life and also you are sunday odd by family and friends who attend to him 24 7. However, i also felt the fear of how vulnerable my friend was. And how his mother, brother, wife and daughter are and that those who tried to kill him would go to the hospital to try to silence him forever. The impunity in the philippines will continue for as long as the u. S. Supports. I urge you to pass this resolution and help brandon get back home safely to San Francisco where he can recover safe from harm. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is reverend sady stone im the pastor at beth knee United Methodist church and im also on the global board of the International Coalition of human rights in the philippines. This past august, i was also on eye co current trip with supervisor mainly an haney to vh him in the hospital and pray with his mom in the chapel at the hospital. As he looks behind me and sees the line not supporters here and see that brandon has a Strong Community of people who know and love him and i was able to assure her that there are people in San Francisco those who know him and those who do not who are here fighting for him and for his life. I thank you for the resolution that you have put before us and what you have resolved to do to resolve to fight for an investigation, a resolve to help us in bringing him home. Our coalition has been working and fighting at the initial level for an investigation on the military aid being sent with our tax dollars. We hope he receive the care he needs while he is in the philippines and the cost and finding a way inform safely and effectively bring him back to San Francisco. Where he can continue in his recovery with this support and love of this entire city. Thank you. Good afternoon. Everyone. My name is zachary brown. I am also a member of the umc philippines solidarity task force. And i am from district 5 where i operate the waller center. Thank you for taking the time to hear us today and for voting on this resolution. While spending time in the philippines with haney and the rest of the task force, i was exposed to a society that benefits off of human right violation and the stories of those humans that the rights are being violated are in the hands of brandon and those of us who have gone to the philippines and came back. Theres a lot of effort to silence those voice and this was a direct example of that. Brandon surviving and coming bag coming baccomingback. It started a movement and its very imperative that listening to the stories of matt heaney and some of thoughts wen of us. Thank you for your time today. Good afternoon. Supervisors, my name is mario demeasurdemira. Let me just start off say thank you for your leadership youve we would like to see support behind passing this resolution and highlighting the other issues related to u. S. Funding going to a regime like this and the Philipines Armed forces. You know, on another level, why its very personal the c. A. P. Is that brandon was a volunteer c. P. A. He got his Early Community organizer in San Francisco working on workers rights campaigns like the monster Cable Campaign and he also worked on some Environmental Justice campaigns in china town. So he has the roots that are from San Francisco and from china town and from the sunset. And that type of charter, that type of experience that brandon represents to c. P. S. Many of thf the folks in this room capture what is good and great about San Francisco and so many things and we have to protect his life. He is a u. S. Citizen that has been an attempted murder. An attempt on his life in a foreign country and we need to me ticketoprotect and life and d see him come back home. Thank you. Very much. Im julian. Im part of the tenderloin and im also i live in the Mission District and ill be reading this and its of the united meth methodist church. I was also sent to the philippines to investigate the chico river dam project that threat enter the ethnic indigenous tribes living on the mountain range. In 1978 i stayed with the tribe and got to speak with the chief for many hours. He explained why the land was so precious not only for their livelihood and their lives. The beautiful rice terraces and land is their identity and their callture and their history. And inns tuesdayed marshal law and have had chief killed and along with others trying to save their land. I see that same history repeated itself again with brandon lee, who was also defending the legacy a protecting the human rights and ancestorial domain. Please, bring brandon lee home now reverend norman fong. Im the outreach veteran chapter 69 San Francisco. Im also a nativeborn San Francisco living in San Francisco. You heard a lot about brandon lee and i think you all know who and what he is. The main point for me is that he is one of us. What he stands for is what all of us stand for. Id like to thank supervisor norman yee, mar and hanley for your support. The regime is supported by the United States of america. We have our military, our special forces there today helping them t the. What we do in america is critical. We can make a difference. We have leverage. And i urge you to do everything that you can. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the director of the Filipino Center in San Francisco and im proud to have worked alongside Community Organizations and several folks out here today including c. P. A. The Chinese Progressive Association and a statement by norman fong. All of our communities have supported the work that were doing in the Filipino Community and that stretches from the excel see year soma to the sunset to the philippines and what brandon has been doing. I got a chance to work with brandon. He volunteered and worked with us there and the work he has done across the city and all the way back to the phones and i supported him and we both became parents and he is he is good fatherment his wife lives and works five hours away but brandon is there for his daughter everyday. Im right there with him becoming a parent and father. I you kno urge you to do whatevu can. You will have stood by us when the typhoon happened in the philippinephilippines