A surprise attack killed 1200 people inside israel. The besieged gaza strip is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as israel intensifies its Bombing Campaign that has already killed over 1000 palestinians. I have never seen airstrikes of this kind. In 2014, not 2008. No war like this. Every minute and every second there are airstrikes. Amy we will go to ramallah in the occupied west bank to speak with my stuff up Mustafa Barghouti and to tel aviv to speak with israeli journalist gideon levy. Then we host a debate between two leading progressive activists in the United States. Medea benjamin and barbara smith. They will also discuss u. S. Funding for israel. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The death toll in israel and palestine has soared over 2200, with at least 1200 israelis and 1000 palestinians killed since fighting broke out saturday. The majority of palestinian debts are in gaza. At least 18 report
States was at war in vietnam, and this veterans day weekend, lets get ready for this next panel which im really excited about. First i want to introduce our next speaker and my good friend to the stage. I have known her for almost 20 years now. Whether fighting for the defense fund to fighting for immigrant rights ending mass incarceration [ applause ] hi. Good morning everyone. She is one of my closest and dearest friends. She is also someone i look up to and consider a hero. Im so very very proud of her and id love for her to join me on the stage now. Thank you. [ applause ] hi. Good morning everyone. That is a warm welcome from my dear friend nick. I am so glad to see everyone here. The panelists are joining us on the stage right now. I wanted to open up with a few remarks about the incredibly extraordinary time that we are in. I dont mean that in a great way. I think its so important that all of you are gathered here this morning. This is an extraordinary time in our country. It is
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We are back on the record in open session. You still have a quorum. Please call the next item. Item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. I move not to disclose. President turman second. On the question arent we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. We have to make this motion. President turman moved and seconded all in favor. Any opposed . All right. Next item. Item 11 adjournment. President turman members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. We are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. It has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. But we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. Lets work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. I look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. And i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and