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Internet access has been blocked by the government officer szell media platforms like facebook and twitter we used to mobilize rallies and the mobile messaging Service Whatsapp was a key component for protest organizers in sudan earlier this year it led to a complete Communications Blackout by authorities as a way to prevent war demonstrations and dress folders author of the struggle for democracy in Mainland China taiwan and hong kong and hes a senior fellow at the university of Nottingham Asia Research Institute and he joins us from then i thanks very much indeed for being with us so we heard there that the protests to tactics have been evolving especially in places like hong kong. In what ways was the most significant change you say for the protest of tactics. Sure c in the 21st century political activists actually need to be quite skillful. So online they basically need to outsmart their oppressors by. Mustering very sophisticated Communication Technology to avoid state surveillanc
Done on this wonderful conference and also want to thank the secretary for her leadership in helping us land the meeting and i want to thank all the individuals in the room, leaders, president s, professors, administrators, people who have a tireless commitment to the success of the community. Last, i want to say thank you to my beloved alma mater, howard university. [cheering] i learn ou learned our motto, tn the service. That history and legacy is what brings me here today. I have the honor of serving our country in the highest office of our American Government as a Deputy Assistant tthedeputy asse president of the United States. [applause] today i would like to tell you what i know to be true about president of trump. Recently a close friend asked me to brief a group of africanamerican interns on the hill and in that conversation i was asked to describe President Trump in three words and without hesitation, i replied it was funny, he has the biggest heart and hes oldschool. In my ro
Stand out. Where were you when . I had an awful lot of great brakes related to apollo 11. It was the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. Im moving in their, we would have been flight directors on gemini and are actually coming back together again. You had probably the three most experienced people at the consult and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Had been to the moon a couple of times. I had the lunar module experience. So you had no particular driver that says this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. The division chief at the time had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what, until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together and charles had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, weve got to make a decision on which flight directors going to cove
As long as theyre interested in it. And then they go out and they find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history. So theyre going into archives. Into museums. Into libraries. And theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and then theyre thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history as related to an annual theme. And this year is theme is triumph of tragedy in history. And they present their findings in different formats. Of course one of the categories you see right behind me thats the exhibit category. And then theres also paper category. And theres dramatic performance. Documentary. Or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they present their information. So for performance category, like any other student at any other category, they first have to do the research. Good, Solid Research is the prim