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A breach everyone want to see his major event for the future of the rest joining us with detailed coverage and analysis of the trump impeachment on aljazeera. Its a mobile world. With cold texts and apps to help make our lives easier. But not everyones benefiting time yet. Can mobile phone apps be designed to help make a better world this series challenges App Developers from around the world to visit communities who are missing out and then come up with an app that could help and i needed a life at. This week life apps is in kenya the hub of africas high tech boom but also a country where 4 o...

Mexican . It would have helped me fit in as a kid. I learned about my privilege and that privilege has led me to the streets of oakland. I was arrested in sacramento this year for Stephon Clark and also deployed with the veterans to the pipeline protest in standing rock, north dakota. Ill see you on alcatraz this year for thanksgiving, for the sunrise ceremony and im grateful to serve and grateful for all the advocates here also. Thank you supervisor fewer. Thank you very much. So do you think when were rolling out this Equity Program and were trying to wrong right many of the wrongs we have d...

Supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Viol...

Income, disabled, food insecure, many with Substance Abuse, with former incarceration and were experiencing transformative results. Were shifting bitter crow money johns to warm members of our community and these are the most vulnerable citizens we have here in San Francisco. Ive been working with the senator for the past two years to get this bill passed at the state level. Its currently on the governors desk and its received unanimous approval from the legislature. I also advocated for multiple cities and at the National Level. I have been involved with the decriminal nature movement. Im her...

Commissions at the local and state level. Most recently i was appointed by Governor Newsom to his commission on the future of work, which im very honored to serve on. Were looking at a lot of issues that are very relevant to this discussion, including income inequality and how that cuts deeper into immigrant communities and communities of color. Were looking at retail and small business, versus ever consolidating capital. The internet, apps, what we call the Amazon Effect. And were looking at the role of unions and public agencies and education institutions in addressing all of these issues. I...