Progress is being made on a coronavirus relief. So this has for a shorter period of time. Thats okay now because we have a new president. He takes in for a touchdown. Fall in love with me this Christmas Steve well, they officially lit the Christmas Tree last night on tv. You are looking at it live on 48th and sixth avenue it. Is freezing outside. 32 degrees here in New York City on this december 7th 2020, 70 years ago today the attack on pearl harbor. Ainsley yes, it was. Thank you to all of you who served our you great country. This weekend Saturday Night was the rally. President trump was in georgia and then last night was the debate. So lots of politics over the weekend, brian. Brian i taped it all and, again, length me his vcr. Steve its a beta max. Brian my bad. I feel really prepared for the show for a incorporate challenge. Jillian mele is live in atlanta as the Georgia Senate candidates take the stage ahead of georgias run off elections. Jillian, you dont look cold. Jillian im
Exemplified the activist businessman that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle. A figure that is really frequently under analyzed and continues to be under analyzed i would add. He was often overlooked due to an emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement. Protests, mobilizations and other dramatic events. I should add that im on this panel because i in a previous life, i studied North Carolina civil rights history. And so, again, i can speak to the ways in which brandons book is making a really significant intervention here in the history, not only in the civil rights period and the writ at large, but also the Civil Rights Movement and struggle and the black struggle in North Carolina and particular. From winners perch at mechanics and farmers bank in durham, he occupied a critical space. He was a consummate insider and power player and understood the calculus of social change dictated various gated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is certainly some
Welcome. Im the executive director of the the Strike Center and im honor ode begin tonights program by introducing two individuals whose vision and generosity made it possible. First, someone whose name we all recognize, john striker, former president of Temple Immanuel and a donor who has allowed his edge miss family main sake. This is erica. Then be followed by dr. Marsha, a member of the tampa abort of trustee. Of you want to submit a question for speakers do so using the zoom chat function. Ill ask also to remind everybody that right now in the chat function well put a link for you to purchase the copy of the book if you have yet to do. So lets begin. Thank you very much, and thank you john. I hop that even though we cant see him, he can hear us and to all of you for being with us. It is my honor to introduce tonights extraordinary guests. Two men whose voices have brought so much public understanding and debate in europe and the United States about who we are, where we have been a
This is live coverage of the hearing on cspan3. The country is returning to work here. Many of us here in washington having this hearing while the spearer pelosi and House Democrats continue to stay at home Holding Virtual hearings. We have got to get back to doing the real live work that the people sent us here to do and i would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to come back to washington and do what we have been elected to do. And with that, madam chairwoman, i yield back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now were introduce our witnesses. First we have rita bigot, an essential worker who died from coronavirus. Next is john costa, the International President of the transit union. Next we have anthony mark perone, who is the unit food and commercial Workers Union and with us Bonnie Castillo who is the executive director of National Nurses united and California Nurses Association and the National Nurses organizing committee. We also have clint odum from policy and advocacy
Nation is reeling. Over the injustice and senselessness of George Floyds death. Brown, Breonna Taylor and eric garner, there are so many innocent lives. Reeling from centuries of racial injustice. This haunts us to this day. It took 2. 5 centuries and civil war to finally end slavery in america. The terrible legacy and evil effects were felt in real and indiscernible ways every single day. When the french historian visited america in the 1830s, he was amazingly pressured, he predicted the United States would become a great nation, the greatest in the world even though at the time we were a country compared to the powers in europe. He said the one thing that could is racial our nation prejudice. His words ring true today. In ourial disparities criminal Justice System have been on full display but these disparities permeate not just the criminal Justice System but all of society. There are glaring Racial Disparities in health care and housing. Andal disparities in income wealth and in th