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development community security troika brings together the leaders of zimbabwe and south africa but one as president. suggest some kind of regional response is imminent speaking on behalf of the troika. following our consultations we are going to me that. and right now we are to finish off with present. you wanted to look for it when you see it there is speculation a regional force might be sent to mozambique deploying troops has been done before in the region in the late $19000.00 libya and zimbabwe send forces to the democratic republic of congo to assist the government before that soldiers from zimbabwe help defeat a number insurgence in central missouri and the un world food program says more than 900000 people in mozambique now require food aid because of the crisis in. al-jazeera. president joe biden has announced a $2.00 trillion dollars infrastructure plan which he says will create jobs and make the u.s. more competitive it includes upgrading roads and bridges and more funds for public transport billions will also go towards new electric vehicle charging points and expanding hig

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development community sunday or other neighboring countries no official military assistance at least against this this crisis thank you very much for talking to us about this over drawn from the south african institute for security studies by skype there from janice by thank you very much for a insight. are still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour the british community is looking for a post pandemic relief as the government for. its economic recovery plan and the utah jazz after stopped in their tracks in the n.b.a. peter will be here with the action in sports. the at. the weather is the thing dry and quiet across much of the middle east at the moment but some places of clouds over towards the gulf easing a little for that ace was quite brisk and all the way in but the winds will ease down over the next dial so temperatures here in doha to around $26.00 celsius now to swallow 2 showers into northern iraq maybe the odd shower just around georgia more the way of showers across eastern side of the mediterranean i think this is going to be the most active area as because through the next

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where we've heard from communities there are outpatient services for black african american communities. so out of those community engagement processes, they will developing a proposal. dr. colfax, please write a letter so they can approve it. for outpatient services that are afro sen trick. and, lastly, you know, part of our office of equity and work force development is working in partnership with cyf, the children, family, and youth to really understand our key process through black and african american communities through a model. it was intended to move the walls and community service sites that are accessible for black african american children. so with lining out all of that, we developed our a3 which is back on the side. you really can't see it. i'll kind of briefly go over it. where we looked at the problems and as i mentioned before, looking at the reflectiveness of our community. we had a high rate of black african americans in our system, yet, we only had 13% of our workforce that identified black african americans of our behavioral health commission and that's lower. we hav

where we've heard from communities there are outpatient services for black african american communities. so out of those community engagement processes, they will developing a proposal. dr. colfax, please write a letter so they can approve it. for outpatient services that are afro sen trick. and, lastly, you know, part of our office of equity and work force development is working in partnership with cyf, the children, family, and youth to really understand our key process through black and african american communities through a model. it was intended to move the walls and community service sites that are accessible for black african american children. so with lining out all of that, we developed our a3 which is back on the side. you really can't see it. i'll kind of briefly go over it. where we looked at the problems and as i mentioned before, looking at the reflectiveness of our community. we had a high rate of black african americans in our system, yet, we only had 13% of our workforce that identified black african americans of our behavioral health commission and that's lower. we hav

in been an effective tool in generating economic development in lower income and african-american communities. however, african-american areas have had significant underfunded and the ability to stimulate economy for the black and brown pretty. [inaudible]. and under investments for centuries pretty and according to a research data conducted by nystatin, covering the june 2014, - 2017, the snf's white men in the cdf i, 2 billion and accessing minority led cfi's approved by just 600 and $3m printed. [inaudible]. and directly impacts our ability economic development project in the community be served printed. [inaudible]. in a recent covid-19 relief package by congress, this body and toward a necessity if i will see additional appropriations which a big step in the right direction. however, the economic capitol investment programs, the programs that we provides 9 billion investment capitals targeting minority cfi and low income communities and persistent property. they excluded them. leaving women of our provisions with avoid of needed investment capitol. we believe in what the original intent

community." he cited the 2010 controversy when vilsack fired shirley sherrod from her usda position overseeing rural development amid a misunderstanding over racial comments. vilsack later apologized. johnson told "the washington post" -- "we think that an individual who unjustifiably fired shirley sherrod -- who is a civil rights icon, a legend, who worked with john lewis -- should not be considered. we should not go backward. we should go forward." well, in fact, tom vilsack is once again the head of the usda. john boyd, have you spoken to him and what are you demanding? >> two things. yes, i have spoken to him. one of the things that president biden also committed to me during our one-on-one visit in south carolina, there would be change in leadership the usda. so whethey announced secretary vilsack was coming back to the usda, he was not my pic and not myick for black farmers. i wanted blood andew leadership. someone who would take much more aggressive campaign against discrimination at the u

community." he cited the 2010 controversy when vilsack fired shirley sherrod from her usda position overseeing rural development amid a misunderstanding over racial comments. vilsack later apologized. johnson told "the washington post" --@@ "we think that an individual who unjustifiably fired shirley sherrod -- who is a civil rights icon, a legend, who worked with john lewis -- should not be considered. we should not go backward. we should go forward." well, in fact, tom vilsack is once again the head of the usda. john boyd, have you spoken to him and what are you demanding? >> two things. yes, i have spoken to him. one of the things that president biden also committed to me during our one-on-one visit in south carolina, there would be change in leadership the usda. so whethey announced secretary vilsack was coming back to the usda, he was not my pic and not my pick for black farmers. i wanted blood and new leadership. someone who would take much more aggressive campaign against discrimination at

community, for people of color. this was in the 1970's. we had to develop treatment, and the reason i founded this is because we do not have any treatment approaches that include the impact of social determinants on african americans and people of color. racism, structural racism creates stress, creates trauma, creates physical illnesses, creates mental health illnesses, all of what we are seeing now, again. but also, it creates early death. for myself recently, in senator warren, we introduce a bill, the antiracism in public health bill. it is so critical to address racism and structural racism, both individually and structurally in our mental health systems. because what you all have recognizing and said, is that this certainly has a terrible impact on the mental health of people of color, racism. i think the rest of the country begin to understand how way down people of color are as it relates to white supremacy. we have begin to fund our programs, understanding this context, in terms of structural racism. what w

to take a deeper dive in the testing efforts of the black african american community started in june of 2020 in the sunny dale area as a result to an outbreak in one of the housing developments. since then, we are providing testing four times a week in predominantly black african american neighborhoods with a huge focus on the bayview neighborhood because covid positivity. and our testing events in the bayview, are averaging about -- there's three much we test in the bayview three times a week and it's averaging about 500 tests a week and in the bayview area, next slide, please. just a minute. and what this graphic shows is a calender that mega black task force put together to distribute organizations in the black african american community. so they get the information on the testing event from us and they create their own flyers and calendars to distribute to organizations throughout the black african american communities in san francisco. next slide, please. now i'll talk about the funding we put out in the community in november of 2020. so we released covid prevention mitigation a