Germanwings crash. Over a century ago, the triangle shirt ways factory fire changed the Political Landscape for workers right. And tonight in a deeper look the changes in labour today. Great to have you with us. Foreign diplomats are shipped out of yemen as saudi arabia intensifies air strikes against targets. The United Nations says it evacuated workers from sanaa. The area took numerous hits by a coalitionled air strike. Jets targetting a base operated by houthis, and a headquarters near the airport. The air strikes targeted the strongholds of sadr and another. Despite the air strikes houthi fighters advanced to the border of saudi arabia. In the south there has been a series of explosions at an arms city in aden. Officials dont know if it was hit by the strikes, it was looted hours before it exploded. Thousands of protesters marched the street in taiz. Expressing support for the saudi led military intervention. Fighters captured much of the city. The fighting in yemen has been domin
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Place. Id start with that and then find out why you cant get on public wifi in this building. Thank you. I want to thank professor hendricks and marc lamont hill, importantly want to thank all of you for attending here today your participation is then cached in a 10 fantastic manner. Thank you so much. If you want to get a copy of these discussions, there will be books outside a little bit later. So that is available and also very quickly we will be doing this in the book signing room. And so finally the reading series is in the auditorium next door in the Edison Jackson and they will go to the front desk and it lets you now. You can get your book signed. Next from the National Black writers conference, in brooklyn, a panel on black literature. [inaudible conversations] without further delay, ladies and a woman, brothers and sisters, those of you who are standing and not idle, those of you engaged in great conversations, please Pay Attention and welcome our panel and the moderator will
I am sitting in for the chairwoman today. The arts sector is an important sector and employs nearly 5. 2 million americans and contributes 919 billion to our national economy. In my Congressional District, the influence of the Creative Economy is all over the place writers, photographers and designers have launched Small Businesses, employee workers and help minnesota make a great through their arts. But the impact of the arts economy is not confined to americas largest cities, as evident in every part of the country. Hundreds of thousands of businesses are present in every Congressional District throughout the nation. Unfortunately, the pandemic was has touched every business in the arts economy. Great of businesses and workers usually rely on in person gatherings and at live events to sustain their enterprises. However, as the virus spread, Many Americans stayed home to socially distance. To help mitigate the impact of the pandemic, congress created the shuttered venue program. To da
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