2. Who were the people involved? Who sponsored the event? Who spoke? What was their position or role (e.g., their job or the organization they worked for)?
The people who attended the meeting were high school professor from different high schools around the county of San Diego , college students from San Diego State and City college and members of the organization interesting in education. Elizabeth Ramirez was the person in …show more content…
Part of our job is to stay informed to recent issues that is affecting our community, especially to be well educated about the policies that are being implemented that have a negative effect within our community. Several social policy issues that were raised were; policy brutality,immigration especially the number of deportation and racial profiling towards the minority group. Thought-out the presentation the speaker presented the audience with statistics to convince the public that theirs an issue that must be addressed. One ideology that was represented by the speaker was that we must understand the natural of our history in order to create political power within our community. Personally I think the issues discussed has a negative impact on on the poor and disadvantaged living in low income communities. Police brutality has increased drastically over the years, causing the deaths of many innocent individuals. The majority of those who are victims of violence are mainly people of color who are being target through their color of skin and physical appearance. During the meeting, the speaker allowed for open-ended questions, unfortunately I did not speak during the meeting. Those who spoke mainly were the members from the organization, who were advocating for the policy. If I had an opportunity to speak as a represented of social work to advocate for the policy i will ask several several questions for example, in five years how do you as a leader see the relationship between civilian and law enforcement, do you think policy brutality its going to decreased. Another question will be . Finally I will also try to advocate for the policy mention several ways how we can protect our young community, because the truth of this matter is that every live is