Talking history lecture series. Tonights presenter is diana gates who will speak with us about virginia indian women in leadership roles they will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the lecture. A member of virginias nottoway tribe she is a managing senior travel specialist with the National Center on tribal Early Childhood development where her projects focused on embedding native culture and language into highquality Educational Opportunities for native youth. She is also the founder of everything eastern, a nonprofit with a mission of preserving and sharing existing Community Knowledge and practice, conducting community engageded research, and Building Partnerships with tribal communities along the east coast. Inrt addition to earning a bachelor of arts degree in international and humanitarian affairs from James Madison university, ms. Gates earned a masters of social work from Columbia University and a masters of education from Delta State University picture currently
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pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it s not much better. they had a truck pull up and break into the front