Particular committee is chaired by hong kongs chief executive kerry lam its also attended by beijings top official in hong kong some of the key new powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe triptans are hong kong or chinas National Security they can also see a quick note from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which happen operating outside of on common failure to comply with these new laws carrying a 13000. 00 fine as well as to use now weve had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another a barrister described them as scary stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics not k
Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of college students. A lot of college students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Moveme
Are in the eastern or central. Ime zones, 202 7488000 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Send us a text. 202 7488003 is that number. A very good wednesday morning. You can start calling you now as we show you part of President Trumps speech yesterday in phoenix, arizona, highlighting his administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. [video clip] we do all of these tests and we find pockets and we find people we find cases and they say that cases have jumped instead of saying what a job we are doing with testing. We did the job with testing and we did ventilators and we came up with tests. We have 70 different types of tests. It is a lot of tests. Other countries that have done very well with testing, they call us, and they say nobody has been able to do the job you have done. The l. A. Ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people the only ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people. [booing] someday it will be recognized by histo
A historic thing we would have lost millions of lives and you wanted to take one easy step that would send a powerful message or a mask on actually i had a misconception like the way i look like the lone ranger. Also coming up tonight could germanys handling of nazi symbols today be a guide as america removes icons of the confederacy a question to ask the people in mississippi where the confederate emblem in the state flag is flying no more this isnt a maze and we need to write this day down in our history because after 100 years in 2016 we are retiring the splash including in a place in the newseum but people can be educated and law and be able to interpret with an interpret that flag for they. Want to be over viewers on p. B. S. In the. States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the United States closer than ever to losing control of the coronavirus when the pandemic began it took 2 months for the us to reach 50000 cases as of yesterday america is reporting 50000.