Part of the vote is regional geo politics. India and china, a vine to strength from their positions in the indian ocean. At least 52 people have been killed in a blast at a religious gathering in the pakistani province of alarm system. And at least 5 people were killed in an explosion of the most. Can you a push solver for you and its sending its 1st emission to the going to cut her back in nearly 30 years. Officials want to find out what help is needed to buy people who are still there in the a 100 size and asked me to come in. He is have flight the region after it was recaptured to buy as a by john last week. State of emergency has been declared in new york city and new jersey in the us after torrential rains and flash flooding. Swamp streets, at least 18 centimeters of rainfall are being recorded with more rain forecast officials of advise people to stay home. And theyve called in the national guard. I dont want to say to new york is uh, this is time for height and alertness and extreme caution. If you a home stay home, if you are at work or School Shelter in place for now, some about some ways flooded. And its extremely difficult to move around the city, you know, as president joe biden, to staying in washington for the we tend to try to provide a possible federal government shopped on Congress Needs to agree on a new funding bill by the end of this month. If it doesnt, 5, this is a federal employees are going to be sent home. After 27 years, a mine has been charged with the shooting of us rapper, tupac shakur to park was 25 years old when he was shot in las vegas in 1996 police of a rest. Its 60 year old lane davis in connection with the murder those of the headlines and use continues here and ill do 0 after boycott. On counting, the cost of trouble in 1. 00 of the china is biggest shadow banks, is the chinese economy of risk rising fuel prices and makes pulling currency angry. In serious over the economic crisis, plus Uranium Price is at their highest level in more than 12 years. Counting the cost analysis, the are the 3 quarters long hilda political blankets or form of expression protected by the 1st amendment. My name is Margaret Hester and from arkansas. And im a state senator. Im the majority leader here in arkansas. So 1st of all, im very open about my face and i was very open about that in my campaign. And i hope that my face affects everything that i do hope that affects the way that im speaking to you. I hope that affects the way that have treat all my colleagues. And i certainly hope it fixed every vote that i take majority later cetera. Bart has servers recognize as possible the anti boycott bill because, you know, i think its just the right thing to do. Jewish people are gods chosen people and i feel like an obligation to do anything within my control or power to support them or protect the members of thatll says what this does. This is an act driven public empties from contracting with and investing in companies. The boy caught israel, its good pro israel middle by a sen. Hester, appreciate again that the state is not protected from the church, but the church is protected from the state. I would say if theres 35. 00 members, the arkansas said i would say 35. 00 members would say that they are believers and followers of jesus christ for us and for the house this passage of senate bill 513, prepare the machine. Mister flirt would say probably half would identifies evangelicals. They understand how important is to support israel. 69. 00 days, 3 days is 0 present. The bill is past the of the, the. So this is where a lot of the tomatoes are coming from. Now. Our family has been here for generations. My grandfather, he was a farmer. All my uncles for farmers, as you know were scotch irish. I mean were just white trash farmers. Ill be of assistance, but that has square because from the ive left college, the 1974 to started magazine called the arkansas times more than the door. A bunch of 20 some things before we were the 1st people to have ever discovered arkansas. We were incredibly excited about the music, the history of the mythology, the beauty we wanted to discover arkansas or one to tell others about it. And we want to write about it. This was a great story. The arkansas rednecks. What was it . Love or fighter country boy, it was a sort of a love letter to read next the, the times is free. So we cant be here without advertising. And the state governments, a big source of our income, the schools, the colleges, the Health Center is the hospitals. All those agencies advertise because you sign a contract with the state to provide them advertising and they provide your money now in order to get our money, we have to pledge not to boycott is real. I mean, when we got our 1st notice, i didnt think anyone waiting for the or can we were able to to ignore it for a long time. And finally, there was this purchasing guy with one of the colleges and he was just not going to let go. They said, im going to keep you from getting business from us until you sign this as required by the law. The, you know, when we 1st read about this last week, we did a story on it. So looks this and people, most people i talked to the go. What does that have to do with the price of to you in china . I mean, you know, you have to take a, you know, its just, it has no relevance or bearing on arkansas have the right, the boy con, anyone i want to, and the state has no business getting involved in that period. So there is so we said no the chair calls here, im always you just state your name who you represent and position on the bill. My name is virginia marie. Im, im presenting myself and im against this bill happening today. A muslim group plans to issue a legal challenge to a texas law and its all about israel. It was actually the 1st bill of the 85th legislature. Governor greg, have it sign into law. I would say is israel is one of the texas largest reading to daycare or the council on American Islamic relations for announced a major 1st amendment legal challenge to the law. What youre really hoping to stay will do is completely repeal and repeal the anti video statute. Repeal anything that has to violate my, my right to freedom of speech, my right to boycott and to choose a political view of my own palestinian American Teacher in austin, texas has filed a federal lawsuit for losing her job as a speech pathologist, after refusing to sign a pro israel and i sent email to my sons coordinator. Im telling her, listen, i cannot sign this, this is against my principals against my Constitutional Rights and, and its also against my moral and ethical values, considering that i am a palestinian american. And i have family that actually live in occupied territories or faxed me personally as well. So, and effects me in both ways. American citizen as a palestinian american to the you and, and have a sign. We have a select 1st passer blackbar. Huh. Okay. I have a lot of family members are still reside in occupied territory. I i know what ive seen 1st, the injustice senate and the quality that goes on there to close off me roads only permitting israelis to drive on those roads. But basically, the whole idea is to make it as hard as possible for them to function and to have a livelihood anyhow, School Closures resting Young Children the and i could not, you know, stay quiet and just gone with my life. Well, i know that this law is gonna make it ok to continue this kind of oppression against the palestinians. The in recent years, about 2 dozen states, republican and democrat has passed laws or executive orders to stymie the media movement. Arizona as long sale through the legislature with broad support that put, make sure it all in a difficult situation. His parents lived in the west bank during the seventys and ever since college hes advocated for palestinian rights. Short all never expected. His views on the is really Palestinian Conflict to come up in his day job. After all, he gives legal advice to inmates in arizona. The i was just opening my annual contract from the state of arizona. And i was rather shocked to see this the i had promised my son ever since is the bar mitzvah many years ago his mom is jewish, so i am not but i had promised him a trip to the middle east. And so as some 12 years later, we finally went and we had an incredible trip there. I saw a lot of things that were very disturbing that we saw in terms of civil rights, Civil Liberties discrimination. My moms parents are definitely more on the conservative side of things they would absolutely call themselves sinus. So it was interesting being exposed to that sort of easily um having all of this exposure to the injustices that are happening in israel and palestine. The, i think after that trip for him, it was really clear that he wanted to boycott any companies that were contributing to injustices happening in the west bank. I am boycotting Hewlett Packard because they are involved in the bio metrics for the check points. Every palestinian has an id card because they must have the and they delay palestinians for many, many hours at a time. And so thats part and parcel of the occupation the after my a trip to the west bank and seeing what ive seen. I was incensed enough that i said i couldnt sign this and i had to file suit i was committed to continuing on providing the services, but not getting paid a substantial chunk of change for me. But that was, i was just, im willing to sign that certification and i didnt want to leave the jail in the lurch either. So i wanted to provide the service. And so the decision to the state that was not on the he made bailey, we definitely worried about people smearing his reputation, telling him this and that he was very fearful that you would lose. It took us by the head, the extremely proud of him and making the choice that he did the 1st during the sale you as an intern at the. So youve southern california. Believe that within the summer of 2009 it was after my 1st year of law school. It was definitely something i was seeking out a since high school. I been kind of obsessed with the sale. You to be honest. So this was at the beginning of the iraq war, and i remember that there was this kind of rush to consensus that we shouldnt beta rack because saddam had weapons of mass destruction. And anybody who spoke out against it was a terrorist, sympathizer, or a communist or are fundamentally into american. And i remember that the still you campaign at that time was that the sentence patriotic. And thats something that really resonated with me. I always like to tell people that we have the best clients in this case. I think thats absolutely true. All manner of people have been forced to sign these anti bully ca, certification forms. Many of them are reluctant to throw themselves into the middle of a major public controversy. But we got a few brave individuals to step forward and say, hey, this was the right thing to do. Im going to do it. Thats the kind of offers that makes me so happy to work at these. All you have us just wanna check in briefly about the total case where we are on the briefing. Thats gone through basically all the levels of approval and that it needs to go through and were gonna get it out hopefully today. And what about the other cases . The arkansas one i think is going to be filed in the next couple days. And then the texas case, i hope all gets in the next week or 2 on, on many fronts. Yeah. One of the things that we hope to do with these cases is when a couple of them very quickly on the states that has these kinds of laws to kind of deter others from doing the same thing. If all the courts are you now that these laws are unconstitutional, then my guess is that these bills will just die. And i think the states, they dont want the public to really be aware of whats going on. They dont want to have an open debate about it. They recognize them and people actually understand what the state was doing here. They would absolutely horrified and appalled that legislatures would be trading away americans 1st amendment right so easily. The problem today, where did that idea now . You know, i cant nail down exactly where it came from, but im really so much just talking with my colleagues reading and a chance meeting with another legislator from another state helped me really start to try to wrap in what was important i was at a hotel and there was an hour meeting going on, a coastal resort, protected by our guard. This is in the state capital. Its a resort hotel where lawmakers are winding dying as members of the American Legislative Exchange council or alec. This is a very, very Important Group across the country. Weve been more than 1300 people here. Organization represents 25 percent of all state legislators in the country. Look closely at many conservative was passed by state legislatures and youre likely to find the hand of alex alex is the perfect petri dish for what ends up being a very, very destructive legislative scheme in our country. They bring together corporate leaders, evangelical leaders, and right wing legislators that they meet twice a year behind closed doors. And almost invariably, the laws they seek to pass and move out into the world, restrict the ability of people to be able to effectively operate in their democracy. From stand your Ground Self Defense laws, district photo id laws, which critics say make it harder for minorities and the poor to vote. The group says its model bills are templates for as many as 200. 00 state laws passed a year. Theyre thinking about creating whats called model legislation. Like bills come complete with blanks where legislators need only fill in their state name. You start out with one idea and a met, test the sizes into something that see a radically to be applicable every place in the united states. Its pretty safe to say that there wouldnt be an anti bully caught bills popping up in different states around the country. Without out the so we have the tribune. Obviously we have k u t, cbs and the Office Number 250 the high you made it easy as one of my days the wind round rock speech pathologist. But here we filed suit against glued your bill. I as the and the state of texas. She said she didnt do it for as railing or palestinian values, but for American Values is our responsibility to fight, to protect and preserve for speech for children. Similar to exactly that, our Founding Fathers having fissions this law house bill 89, was nothing but a censorship long. Meant to silence texans and punish them for expressing the practical view. Text and government should not be putting the interest of a foreign country over its own people. Thank you. A speech pathologist and full real says the state is trying to silence her right to free speech. When this story, the here story started getting a lot of attention, the governor of texas simply tweeted out, texas stands with israel period. Any anti israel policy . Theres an anti texas part of the as far as i knew, i mentally speed. So i missed the call just as the service and the founding austin then losing unimportant service thats not available. Otherwise i feel like i am putting down my community the theres no boycott. Activism at arkansas probably this law is about the only thing people only way people know about course were just, were not boycotting anyone. Were just saying you have no right to tell us what our speech should be. And if we, what if we want to boycott we can and oh, its none of your business its, its a, its a political act. And its that one that i choose to take. I just object to government, say we got a big a whole lot of money over here, but were not, it will give it to you. Will that well advertise with you. But heres, heres some, heres some conditions that you need to meet 1st, such as, heres the political position you need to take regarding Foreign Policy for gods sake and were in arkansas. Well, as i think alans case demonstrates, you dont have to be participating in a board kind of israel to find these. And t boycott was fundamentally on american. Alan, i hate to ask you this, but lets say that the paper uh action is unsuccessful in cory. Do you plan on signing that pledge or what does that mean for the future of your newspaper . Should you lose . I havent gone there yet to, but that thats something that will be a very, very difficult uh, very, very difficult decision for me. So we close this wednesday, march issued for about and 51000 and we need to get to 65 is what we got. Hang it out there. Started the time. So 200. 00. So i wanted to go through the advertise last year. We dodge so many bullets are less 45 years and and the newspaper businesses got tougher and tougher. The accurate clinic room for about 35 people here to people who has families and mortgages the year for that state advertising. We can be on the the, when we launched the lawsuit, i was very confident, i mean, any country that bases, its found the mythology around the Boston Tea Party and the boy caught a t. You would think that today you, 100 years later, we would still see boy cods as a political, a former political speech and therefore protected by the 1st amendment. Today im going to sign an executive order that says if you boy todd against israel, knew your whole board type you, we in america must stand strong with israel through stick. And one of the highest duties of elected legislators is to defend our constitution. But here theyre just giving away our 1st amendment rights to a foreign country. The, the ultra nations are not connected with one of the worlds voice humanitarian crises. We dont accept any getting migrant joining with the military to impose that deb political agend. You have to filter our nation. What has happened to the retention . Thats one of the biggest stains of the country as well as in not really. This is important to me in an unholy alliance. Oh no. Jews here in one of the last remaining ancient forests in southeast asia, is a lifeline to hundreds of lumberjacks and drivers. We follow that treacherous journey as they walk through extreme condition together and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risk in your phone. You on al jazeera, the latest, Somebody Just said to take place in canada as the book looks to make itself more, we will resume it to help its fetus unites on the many challenges they face on the i dont know about this and, and dont have the top stories and audra 0 poles have opened and multi was president ial run of the 1st time saw and coming to abraham slowly lagging behind his main challenge. Im a how much noise tony chang has more from them all these capital knowledge. Last time the turn now was only 79 percent. That sounds very good, but it compares with in the high eighties, low ninetys for a reason mostly the in president ial elections. I think theres a feeling in the president s camp that if they can get those numbers
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