A lot of these occupations then protests and rallies are really happening organically and its. Led by community and its very grassroots so im just part of the organization thats been responsible so that means on the ground but i dont what the prime it is that there is a centralized leadership thats guiding whats happening on the ground because thats not the case last week. Minneapolis president africanamerican male by the name of george floyd went to his local Neighborhood Grocery store to purchase some items and as he was walking up the store Police Officers approached him and immediately threw him onto that ground and then proceeded to. Place one part where our. Presence of plays his knee on georges neck for about 10 minutes which george its higher time pleading for his life saying i cant breathe in calling for a mob saying you know i cant breathe i need you to let off my neck and mind you dozens of Community Residents were filming that happen so we watched by minute minute by minute
Tones. [laughter] we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember so silence your phones. If you want to take pictures, take videos, etc. , and tweet them, yes, the hashtag trib fest 19 is how you will do that. We will take questions at the end. The mic will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the mic, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priest, the chief operating officer of law fair. I worked in the Counterterrorism Center at cia both before and after september 11th. Now revisiting the terrorism issue from a different perspective. Im here to bring out the best expertise from our four panelists, bobby chesney, one of the three co founders of law fair previously served on the president s Detention Policy Task force. Now the third chair in law and World Affairs at the university of texas where he also directs the robert s. Strauss center. Mary mccord has been the acting assistant attorney g
Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember to silence your phones. If you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, tribfest19 is how youll do that. Well take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priess, chief operating officer of lawfare. I worked in counterterror at cia both
Partnership like Velcro University and ever source academy, to not only ensure our local businesses have Skilled Workforce they need to thrive but also better prepare our students for success after graduation. Manchester proud, a coalition of business leaders, is putting together the First Ever Community based Strategic Plan for our School District to make sure we have strong Public Education that sets our students up for success. And this year, we were able to give our Public Schools the largest increase in funding in 14 years. [applause] manchester has always been a city of immigrants, and we are proud to celebrate our diversity. [applause] mayor, i have appointed more people from historically underrepresented communities on our city boards, emissions than ever before. And commissions than ever before. Office, theyear in five flags flew at city hall for the first time. [applause] as you can tell, i love manchester, and i am so pleased to welcome you all here. One of the great things
I will never forget, i was struck by his slogan. He said when i become a mayor, we become mayor. That said this was a collective enterprise, collective work and responsibility, so there are policies being elaborated here last year we were talking about a Marshall Plan, because he called for a Marshall Plan. And we are going to work toward the creation of a Marshall Plan to get massive investment in the cities, because no matter what our mayors do for all the good efforts that are made, unless we get massive resources in our community, we are not going to be able to solve all problems. We must fight for reparations and fight for a Marshall Plan. [applause] the struggle against gentrification is not without controversy. It is complex, it is difficult, so there are voices that may agree and disagree, and that is fine. This agreement as long as it is constructive should be welcomed. It is not always comfortable, but nobody ever said it would be comfortable. There has to be creative tension