And theyre here to talk about it. Here to share some of the campaigns goals for the upcoming year, our good friend, Javier Nieves, who has been on the show before, and joining us this morning, reverend samuel cruz, tambien. Good to see you, my friend. How are you . Toma bien . Thank you. Youve had a few of these forums, so let me cause i want to get to a lot here run tackled. Tell me where we stand in terms of the campaign and moving forward. Affordable housing. Well, we are certainly pretty much talking about a lot of the issues, not only Affordable Housing, but Affordable Housing in particular because that has direct connotations to the whole issue of gentrification in our neighborhood, and particularly the mayors Affordable Housing plan, which we pretty much are set on looking at it, which is sort of like a back door to gentrifying our neighborhoods to some degree. All right. So thats where were at, and every neighborhood is dealing with it differently, so were getting feedback from
[ applause ] on behalf of the Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association i welcome all of you. We needed this. We needed to be together here in this room in the gymnasium, outside the doors of this school in living rooms around the world. We needed to be together. To show that we are together and united. We gather in such a moment of heartbreak for all of us here in new town. We gather especially mindful of family and friends. And neighbors among us who have lost loved ones by an act of unfathomable violence and destruction we gather to grieve together, care for one another, pray and embrace, to weep and to remember and to declare in our many voices that these darkest days of our community shall not be the final word heard from us. We will sigh in our sorrows, but we will also care for one another with our love and our compassion. In those early hours of this crisis, it became clear to us clergy and faith leaders here in newtown that an initial Community Response would be needed, that we wo
She is an incredible person. And im so blessed to be her dad. That was Robbie Parker talking about his daughter emilie who was 6 years old, she died on saturday. The family meeting tonight with president obama at the school. From the president of the united states, friends or houses of worship here, members of this community are seeking solace all weekend. This morning, some of the children survived the shooting, went to sunday school just like they did every week, it sounds like a simple thing, wasnt simple or easy for anyone. Not for the children or their teacher. Reporter his is where some of the children who were killed at sandy hook elementary prayed and went to sunday school. She was back on this sunday for all her students, including those who survived. You had a lot of children here in this room, what was that like for you. It was a little bit it was very scary, because i spent yesterday trying to prepare for today. But you dont know whats going to happen. And right in the midd
Oh god exalted and full of compassion, grant Perfect Peace among the holy and the pure to the souls of all of our loved ones that per risched in that horrible day. They have gone to their eternal home, master of mercy, we beseech you, remember all of their worthy and righteous deeds they performed in the land of the living. Approximate may their sowls be bound up in the land of life eternal. There is no death, just transformation. May they rest in peace. Let us say amen. Please be seated. Let us unite our hearts in prayer. Oh god of love and mercy, we come before you this night with broken hearts. We offer you our tears and our pain, our anger and our sorrow. Oh lord there was a hole so large we wonder if even you in your greatness can fill it it as we grieve and fourn for those who are lost. Each light that sits before us is a light thats been lost to our world. So many nnlt, so many breave. Lord all we can do is throw ourselves upon your tender mercies trusting that you hear our pray
Above all, on this issue, what i think is the right thing to do is to cut taxes the people in work rather than take more in taxes and redistribute it. It cannot be fair. [indiscernible] i think my honorable friend put it clearly. Many people have seen a pay freeze year after year and Welfare Benefits have gone up. We face a choice. Do we go on putting those Welfare Benefits up, which is not helping those people who are in work, or do we make the tough decisions . The only welfare labour who anyone took seriously said their approach is not serious. He is right. Thank you. May i congratulate the Prime Minister and the u. K. Government of following the lead of Scottish Government in introducing equal marriage, minimum pricing for alcohol, and, previously, on the smoking ban. Will he follow in the lead of the Scottish Government . Because of the measures taken, there is an extra 300 Million Pounds with the Scottish Government to spend. I am happy to say when good policies are introduced, i