Really that anyone from our family could get to the White House my Haitian American father and mother a New York City taxi driver a home health care aide didn t closely follow American politics are more likely to discuss the viciously a price of dictator dynasty of. Papa Doc Duvalier and John Claude Baby Doc Duvalier who ruled Haiti from 19571986 then any American president like many immigrants they came here to find a better life for their children I was proof that their struggle had been worth that as an openly gay woman of color I have also had my own struggles entering the world of politics which even now can feel like a boys club despite the record number of women who ran and won in the $28.00 u.s. Mid-term elections women occupy fewer than $23.00 less than 23 percent of the seats in Congress even though more than half of the population is women when I was in the White House I was usually too busy to think about how I had gone from being that Meek schoolgirl with braids to the c
We ll look at why this is being described as the dirtiest campaign in recent history but the teenage activist Grettir Zornberg has accused governments and corporations of using loopholes to avoid action at the u.n. Climate conference how do you respond to the fact that basically nothing is being done about this without feeling this slightest bit of anger 1st the news. The b.b.c. News Hello I m Gerri Smit the de facto leader of the Nobel Peace laureate and sons who treat his family denied accusations of genocide arguing there was no proof of genocide Lindh turned behind the Burmese military s campaign against Muslims in a very great speech of the International Court of Justice she said the events in question began when Mir miles military was responding to attacks by local armed groups in August 27th seen more than 30 police stations and villages and one military base had been attacked before sunrise in a highly coordinated fashion by an organized armed group operating along a densely f
In case you didn t know the reason why we why this is a major area of of conversation and topic is that the Board of Supervisors is hearing an appeal of the plane Commission s denial of the project next week next Monday the 16th starting at 9 am at the adorning center in Eureka. I anticipate that there will be opportunity for public comment that will run all day . Until everyone is going to horse and. Then the board may take up a vote that afternoon or evening and if they don t take it up that day they will kick it to Tuesday the 17th so. This is your time now to help change the hearts and minds of your fellow humble teens are we humble to what are we. Through through the power radio so call in I have a couple of rules so. First off this is a controversial project and so I want people to recognize that this is a controversial project so you we re not going to allow any badmouthing of anybody you know we re going to force decorum rules and 2nd I can t fact check this on the fly and so
Good she told delegates that predicted temperature rises were alarming how do you react to these numbers without feeling at least some level of panic. How do you respond to the fact that basically nothing is being done about this without feeling the slightest bit of anger. And how do you communicate that without sounding alarmist I would really like to know as many as 20000 people in Sydney have taken part in a climate change protest as wildfires continue to threaten the city Thanks Mark from the fires cloud of the air citizens called on the Australian Government to actively address the causes of global warming which scientists say is partly responsible for the fires Phoebe seen news. Shares in the oil companies Saudi Aramco rose the maximum permitted 10 percent on their 1st day of trading on the Riyadh stock market one and a half percent of the shares in the state owned giant business were sold to private investors as part of a strategy to diversify the economy overseen by the countr
The National Interest in. The impeachment inquiry centers on how President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Trump s political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter Democratic lawmakers say Trump then tried to cover up his actions leading to the 2nd article of impeachment obstruction of Congress this is Congressman Adler these actions moreover are consistent with President previous invitations of foreign interference in our 2016 presidential election and when he was caught when the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry president trumping gauged in an unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry. This gives rise to the 2nd article of impeachment for obstruction of Congress. The unveiling of the articles of impeachment against President Trump comes as f.b.i. Director Christopher Ray except that the finding of the Justice Department inspector general s report that the f.b.i. Probe in