Digital activism and the study of repression which is how private actors try to control protests. Lets start with the digital half of this. What is a tactic that you write about in your book . The book we introduced is cowritten by Katrina Porter and i and what we were trying to do is really highlight the wide variety of ways in which people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social challenges using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events. Inc. About the support that happens for instance for the womens march. That is one popular way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism, but in the book katrina and i wanted to look at it a different way that people use tools which is to actually engage in activism online, so think about online petitions, online letterwriting campaigns or we might talk about something bar last contention will like a Service Attack where people use tens of thousands of compute
Counterparts from a dozen additional nations and discussed the military aspects of that campaign. Mr. Mcgurk, President Trumps special envoy and vital state Department Leader to the cotion to counter isis returned from his trip to syria, iraq and jordan and this is our first opportunity to get together and we took advantage of that to put this conference. This is a good time to describe where we are at, what has changed and the way ahead. President trump directed the department of defense to the comprehensive review of the campaign. We submitted that report and after his review, he ordered an accelerated operation against isis. What does that mean . Two significant changes resulted from President Trumps review of our findings. First, he delegated authority to the right level to aggressively and in a timely manner move against enemy vulnerabilities. Secondly, he directed a tactical shift in an attrition fight to surrounding the enemy and strongholds so we can get rid of isis. The intent
Relates to battling the taliban, the u. S. And its allies are doing everything it can to prop up the afghanistan military, the army and the local police force. To your point, a lot of people are asking, it has been more than 15 years, where is the progress . The Pentagon Bureau chief and Senior Editor at the military times, thank you for joining us. Guest my pleasure. Host coming up, we have current American Association for the advancement of science ceo, rush holt. He will be here to talk about the role that the federal science Advisory Boards are playing in the trump administration. Later on, we are joined by Pratik Chougule of the american conservative to discuss his piece on the u. S. Education system leaving the leaving highly intellectual children and their parents behind. Sunday night on afterwards. Journalist Stuart Taylor examines Campus Sexual Assault he isin his book, interviewed by the editor in chief of the National Law Journal and legal times. Share, for the viewers, what
dr. Jackson,s board of trustees, thank you so very much for this great honor and privilege. ] rowd boos secretary devos im honored to become a wildcat, and it is a real honor and privilege to be with you as we celebrate the birth and Cookman University thune of 2017 the be Cookman University class of 2017. Congratulations to all of you. In addition to the graduates, there are so many people deserving of special recognition today. Parents. I would like to ask all the moms who are here celebrating their graduates to stand right now and be recognized. Moms, please stand up. [applause] secretary devos and all the dads, please stand up. [applause] devos grandparents, family members, friends of graduates, thank you for your effort in getting them to this point. ,irst Lady Florence jackson ,hairman, members of the Board Members of the administrative staff and faculty, and the cookmanethune community, thank you for the Important Role you play in making today possible for all these students. Ma
Inviting me to be here at the celebration. And toou to the board the graduates, congratulations. This is a great school. This is one of the Great Schools in ohio and in our nation. There is so many great programs here. I think about the business program, the Nursing Program that is awardwinning. The premed and science programs. I do think about the Ashbrook Center, because the asp workcenter is celebrating Ashbrook Center is celebrating its 34 years. I love coming on campus and getting to know the students and the help in the council that id get from folks, including from the Ashbrook Center. It is great to be here. With josh andtage zach. I am also proud to have with us here today angie young in who is on my staff. She got her start in politics here at Ashland University as the College Student body president. She did this a few years after our, but even today in office in washington dc, she makes me call her madam president. [laughter] senator portman you could be excellencyd may be.