Good evening and thank you for joining us. Tonight, Lehigh Valleynews. Com is proud to present this debate with pbs 39, part of Lehigh Valley public media. We launched our new website earlier this month as a local, nonprofit news source covering stories that matter here in our region, and how fitting that our first public orem under our new banner would be one of such significance the race to represent pennsylvanias seventh Congressional District is one of high interest and highstakes. The district covers the Lehigh Valley. It is a swing area in a battleground state and one of the most closely watched races in the nation. The winner could determine control of the u. S. House. Im the news director here at lehighvalleynews. Com. I will be moderating tonights debate with my colleague. We are coming to you live from the Public Media Center in bethlehem. We would like to welcome our studio audience in addition to our pbs 39 viewers and our audience watching on cspan. Lets welcome the candid
The only way to meet the power of violence is with nonviolence. There one of them Major Repairs of this was a man named pirate ruston, a protege of a. Philip randolph who organized the march on washington. And what he argued was that nonviolent resistance was critical to any kind of success of his Civil Rights Movement for tomb two reasons. One of them is what questions are aware of. But the other is much more strategic. Will you do when you resist power and do it non violently and except the consequences of it is essentially withdraw consent from the state. I do not accept the legitimacy of this power that is putting me below. And so if enough people withdraw consent the regime crumbles or at least that part of the regime, that law can crumble. The only way that the apartheid terrorist system which existed for the black community for much of American History, the only way that it could crumble is if enough people with drug concern to. Of course you do not have to participate in a cons
Potential role in the transatlantic trade negotiations. For those of you just in case you didnt get a copy you will also be liable to download this from the brookings website and as i know from coming into the office we have boxes of it sitting around so if you didnt get a copy, get in touch with us and we can get one out to you again launching of the report today and we will be talking about some of his conclusions from having spent several months now looking at turkeyss interest in the negotiations and how this is likely to unfold and the challenges this will pose not just for your not what for turkey and for some of the others and will be interesting to see how they feel between europe and the United States unfold. We are also very much delighted to have our neighbor and colleague uri dadush from the Carnegie Endowment who is one of the u. S. s phoenix experts on the economic trade topic. And a director of the International Economic program next to carnegie. He will give a brief ove
Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to all americanamerican s. 60 billion a year and a couple of battleships left, we have actually made public Higher Education a genuine public good. I think without some fundamental change the quality is going to erode. Scientists all over the country having to choose the basic research that will bring in the most dollars. Rather they choose the research that will do the most good for the people in t
And a look at the biggest stories of 2016. Weve got developing news overnight. Debris from a crashed Russian Military plane has been found in the black sea. The plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from sochi. Russias Defense Ministry says 92 people including eight crew members were on board. Now its unclear what caused the crash. But one russian official is ruling out terrorism. Cnn Senior International correspondent Matthew Chance has the latest. This aircraft, which is a f154 model, an old type airliner, it used to be the workhorse of the soviet fleet, but is now used almost exclusively by the russian Defense Ministry for vip transport. This flight was en route from moscow to syria. And it was stopped in sochi on the black sea for refueling. But it was carrying interestingly, the red army choir. The alexanderoff ensemble. En route to syria to stage a performance for the Russian Troops that are stationed there. We understand from the Defense Ministry that at least 64