We have a lot of funders that have a lot of money and they're looking to invest in our community and just need to know where those resources of where to invest at to provide those resources.

And so we need to form those groups.

I was just talking to someone yesterday about Rodale, and I'm trying to get services there and talk to some of the funders.

And what can we do in Rodale?

We haven't touched Rodale yet.

You know, they are looking at bringing services to different parts of Contra Costa County and forming those partnerships really matter.

You know, lean in on your congressional members.

Like I said, we have rock stars here in the Bay Area.

And I'll just say that because I used to work for one.

You know, attend those town hall meetings.

Let your member know how you feel.

Go out and do walks.

You know, I think that is something where we we can come together to look at change.

And then looking at ways that we can get people employees.

So I'm constantly looking at our youth and what job training programs that we can be supporting to help our youth or helping our workforce development program to be stronger so that people in our community be able to get the training they're need and get the jobs here locally as well.

Um and then lastly, I was saying, you know, the constant level of engagement.

We can't just do it today and then we back off because those things will change, and so we go through these cycles of be really engaged, and then something new is dangling in front of us, and then we forget about the one thing that we were engaged about because then we all rush over here to stay focused on this, and then something new happens because we're watching TV or on social media and something else dangling in front of us, and then we go and focus on that, and so as soon as we get distracted, because that's what it's designed for to get us distracted to keep us divided, and that division creates discord between of all between us all of us, and so we need to stay engaged.

We can form groups to stay focused on our food and security to stay focused on our unhoused community to stay focused on health care needs to stay focused on education, and that way that if we have different groups to stay focused on all of these things, we won't miss the ball on the one thing that we for we were working on in the first place.

Thank you.

Okay, so three things, shop local, particularly cannabis products.

Remember that be empathetic, and finally, how about showing a little appreciation for our elected public service servants here?

And I really do have a sense of hope that we have people like this who are taking care of things, and we may be going through a rough time, absolutely.

I think we all agree with that, but we are under steady leadership, and that really matters.

Okay, switching gears.

It wouldn't be the league without talking about the next election, November 4th.

There's going to be a big proposition.

Let's get out and demonstrate okay.

Well, I'll talk about that.

Okay, this is your guy right here.

He's gonna use our sign.

But first, let me tell you, we are going to be doing pros and cons about prop 50, and we're hoping to do them in libraries like this and some others, etc.

So we you're would you be interested in a prop 50?

Pros and cons?

Okay, thank you.

Yes, currently.

Prop 50 is not taking a position on it.

We have a paper out front that you can grab that gives our complete rationale.

Yeah, we understand there's been a lot of confusion about it, it's all explained out there, and we will explain that fully too at our pros and cons, but we're totally out of time now, although I appreciate your question.

Um, so voting really matters.

If you want to join with us, unite and rise 8.5, it's only 26,000 people here.

We can make a difference here, and I will tell you it's really fun.

It's fun to do it together, and there's a great feeling of community and empathy that all of us have when we're out there marching.

I've really felt really good.

I've also done it in Walnut Creek, and Monday.

We did it in in Pittsburgh, and it can be very heartening and can give you really good energy.

So thank you for your energy tonight.

Thank you again to our panel.

Very much appreciate it.

And we're only about one minute late.

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Yes.

All right, guys, the moment we've all been waiting for about to kick this thing off.