Thank you for joining us all tonight. For ideas and action with alisha garza and krista jackson. Im committee occasioned director for countrys Largest Online Racial Justice organization and im here to introduce. We are partnering with oneworld tonight to make a virtual space for critical conversation between editor in chief of oneworld, ms. Jackson, one of our powerful organizers and visions of alicia garza. In 2014 alicia wrote a Facebook Post that changed the world and created a movement. It read, black people, i love you. I love us. Black lives matter, that Movement Continues today. Tonight alicia will it discuss the importance of resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in a vision for collective humanity. A color change we believe everyday people are powerful enough to end the practices that are Holding Black people back and harming our country. We championed solutions that move us all forward. In the last two weeks we have held 6. 5 Million People take action for Ra
Communist run city were its people we subject to the party elites whims said indeed this is already happening Security Forces are already rounding up on callers for doing to speak and think freely through world war has been eviscerated and as always the Chinese Communist party fears its own people more than anything else the u. K. s Prime Minister condemned the new role as a serious breach of the u. K. China agreement on territory that if china continue down this path we would reach introduce a new route for those with british nationals overseas status to enter the u. K. Granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the u. K. And thereafter to apply for citizenship and that is precisely what we will do now. Katrina u. Is in beijing and says china is sending a message to the people of hong kong. Chinas Foreign Ministry came out on wednesday afternoon justifying and defending this law explaining that this was crucial to host ability its crucial for its future
A horrible event that was formed took place in china and came here they could have stopped it they could have stopped it nobody likes to write that but they could have stopped it they know it and i know it democratic president ial candidate joe biden says the latest u. S. Jobs numbers saw far from victory were still though nearly 15000000 jobs in the pandemic is getting worse not better and dont have to this is americans are still out of work wondering when or if their job will come back or worried about how to pay the bills in the meantime trump wants to declare his Health Crisis over another employment. Unfortunately hes deadly wrong on both fronts weve already had more than 128000. The number keeps climbing thats a direct consequence of downtimes bungled leadership in the total mismanagement of this crisis from the start. The former partner of the convicted paedophile steen has been arrested and charged with killing maxwell is accused of recruiting young girls to be sexually abused
20 minutes to speak and allocate 20 minutes for question and answer. I was also admonished to remind you if you really enjoy yourself , these southern festival of books depends on individual donations. So if you really enjoy what you have seen over the past couple days, i encourage you to donate as much as you can. For a treat today. I asked these two gentlemen for for couple days ago. They are esteemed scholars, but they are also some of the most modest men i have met. I will give you a brief introduction of them and to them and i encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. Our first presenter this morning is elliott gorn. Chair of gorn is the africanAmerican History at university of loyola. He is the author of five books. These include the manly art, mother jones the most dangerous woman in america, and dillingers wild ride. The work he will be talking about today is let the people is their go to his right professor christopher schmidt. He is professor and associate dean
The governors update comes a day after he ordered bars and 7 counties to close and urged another 8 counties to consider doing the same. And we will be in Constant Contact with our county partners to understand how this might impact what theyre seeing and experiencing in their communities and how this plays out in their data. The states latest action comes as coronavirus cases increased here in the state by 45 over the last week with the Positivity Rate that continues to creep upward now at 5. 9 . California also continues to see increases in icu patients and hospitalizations. It is because of those rising numbers that Health Officials across different counties are scaling back their reopening plans. Alameda county isnt reversing any but county officials are pressing the pause button on entering the next phase kron fours alsothe ammonium is live in our newsroom with that decision l a a lot of moving parts here definitely grand Alameda County has seen the highest number of confirmed infe