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Important positions or some tremendous progress, i dont know where else to look because this is a great start. Yes. applause but we also have tremendous help from people who are helping us create the policies and the accountability in all the different departments. Melva davis, kim brandon, willie adams at the port, chuck collins, [speaker not understood], the reverend amos brown, denise tyson, linda richardson, sonya harris, patricia thomas, veronica honeycut, these are just the names of a few of our commissioners who are heading up those very important divisions of our city. And they are joi...

Struck by the way in which he linked our struggle to struggles going on around the world. When he spoke, at the end of his life in memphis, and on the last evening of his life hes speaking to sanitation workers. And we have to remember that by calling him a civil rights leader, it doesnt quite encompass why he would be in memphis leading a strike of sanitation workers. But he performed the role that he had performed so often in his life. He inspired the strikers by telling them their labor struggle was connected to the historic labor struggle throughout the world. He said that despite the worl...

Good afternoon, everyone. All right. Welcome to city hall and happy black History Month here in San Francisco. Nobody got it better than San Francisco. applause thank you, naomi. I want to thank you for that introduction and just a recall of what i said earlier this week. But i also said something else, too, that i want you to continuously know the way i have attempted to manage this great city of ours for everybody. That is, im not shy about asking for help. And when it comes to the challenges we have in the africanamerican community, we need help. And i have been deliberately assembling a ve...

Classroom so people can practice in the environments theyre in all the time outside of school. And i would say that having listened to the word Media Literacy as far as back when i was carrying 3inch quarter cassettes years ago and it was a great job. It really was. To teach media and Digital Literacy out of context is a fools error and we have the boring curriculums in the world and teaching it out of the context. We have to stop blocking. Yeah. I dont know. Somebody okay. Teachable moment. I hear everybody talk about thank you. Yeah. So i have learned the phrase teachable moment since becomi...

Working with senator boxer on the transportation bill this project was always at the top of her list. [applause] so i am delighted to be here. I dont know of another place i would rather be, and i know that all of you are so thrilled with the opportunity that this will create. Every one of you sitting out there deserves credit. Youve all played a role in this in some way or another. This is not about you. Its about the people. Its also about the next generation of transportation for the next generation for San Francisco. Thats what this is about. This is your vision. Its a clear vision, and so...