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Gates chinese immigration during the era 1882 1943, angel island, immigrate gateway to america and the making of asian america, history. At the Immigration History Research Center she has helped emerge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanity immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to. Text, preserve and share the expenses. Her book, america for americans history of xena phobia in the United States is the subject of tonights talk. Please welcome erika lee. [applause] hi seattle, him so glad to be here. Im so glad to be back here at townhall, i was last here in 2010 before it was renovated. Am really happy to be back at a very glad that we begin this evening with the land acknowledgment i would like to repeat that land acknowledgment as i will discuss later xenophobia in xena global wheels and is tightly connected, native americans along with africanamericans were made into this c
Good evening. We are live in glasgow, more than 1500 people applied to be in the audience here in the studio and theyve come from around the country to be here. We have chosen them to ensure a range of political views and to reflect how scotland voted in the 2014 independence referendum and in the 2016 Eu Referendum. Here tonight to a nswer 2016 Eu Referendum. Here tonight to answer our audiences questions we have the leaders of the four parties who are vying for elections in all 59 are still ins constituencies. Willie rennie, leader of the liberal democrats in scotland, a job he has done for eight years. He has campaigned to stop brexit and argued against holding a second independence referendum. Nicola sturgeon is here is the leader of the snp and first minister of scotla nd the snp and first minister of scotland since 2014. Her party have campaigned against brexit and say scotla nd campaigned against brexit and say scotland should be able to hold a referendum on independence next ye
Jeremy hunt or the current Prime Minister. I imagine rishi sunak will not react directly to his predecessor. But he will probably think being behind in the Opinion Polls to the Labour Opposition that this would be a brave or bold time to tell people they would have to work longer and potentially have Public Services to some extent reduced in terms of the cash available. Its quite a difficult political sell but what liz truss said she took personal responsibility for trying to rush through her agenda. She had a rather strange metaphor, not one to think about of your lunch, she did not just try to fatten a pig on market day, she tried to rear end and slaughter it all on the same day so she did rush her agenda but she said change had been urgent and what happened in the end wasnt so much the policies she was pursuing, they were not wrong, she argued the political and Economic Establishment including part of the Conservative Party turned against her and there was not enough consensus on co
Scientists predict that before long new drugs will help delay the way our bodies age. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, could Manchester City continue their unbeaten domestic run and reach the semi finals of the league cup with victory over leicester . Good evening. Police in derbyshire and South Yorkshire say theyve taken action to prevent an alleged islamist terror plot that could have been carried out during the christmas holiday. Early this morning four men were arrested on suspicion of terror offences and bomb disposal teams were sent to the scene of one raid in chesterfield. They were working with large numbers of police as our correspondent reports. A street in central sheffield tonight, the second placed the Army Bomb Disposal unit searched as part of this terrorism investigation. Early this morning two men were arrested here in bedsits adjoining a Muslim Community centre. Tonight the Muslim Association of britain said those detained had no connection to the centre. The o