New wave of anger in georgia protests to say the government has broken its promise of democratic reform so could this turn into yet another crisis in this former soviet republic and are outside forces involved this is inside story. Welcome to the program on how he had seen almost 3 decades after georgia gained its independence protesters say free and Fair Elections still on soloed demonstrations broke out in the capital of tbilisi this week after the government failed to keep its promise to reform the electoral system tens of thousands barricaded the gates of parliaments calling for an early election they say they were lied to and the ruling Georgian Dream party is using a broken system to stay in power or open Forrester Walker has more now from tbilisi. Im standing outside georges interior ministry where young opposition activists have gathered this was a well organized event intended to maximize Media Coverage because the opposition want to show that theyre still trying to persuade t
A new wave of anger in georgia protesters say the government has broken its promise of democratic reform so could this turn into yet another crisis in this former soviet republic and are outside forces involved this is inside story. Welcome to the program on how he had seen almost 3 decades after georgia gained its independence protesters say free and Fair Elections still on soloed demonstrations broke out in the capital of tbilisi this week after the government failed to keep its promise to reform the electoral system tens of thousands barricaded the gates of parliaments calling for an early election they say they were lied to and the ruling Georgian Dream party is using a broken system to stay in power or open Forrester Walker has more from tbilisi. Im standing outside georges interior ministry where young opposition activists have gathered this was a well organized event intended to maximize Media Coverage because the opposition want to show that theyre still trying to persuade this
Good evening. Welcome to new america. Such a nice room, comfortable chairs. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and i want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of rankedchoice voting, as folks can revive our democracy in various ways, potentially solving a bunch of differently challenges. This is an event, a a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary which is done in 1999 with the idea of creating a home for new generation of both people and ideas across a wide range of policy questions. I kind of one of the oldtimers although it wasnt your in 1999. I saw the creation of it and fundamental ideas about political, reforming the political system, part of the dna of this organization from the beginning. As my colleague lee reminded me, the book that the founders wrote called the radical center which was one of the ideas that they wrote that was not really like a bible but it is kind of hard of that. And that i was here, came b
Tmac im glad you are here so we can get started. Since your last panel, we know you are going to bring it so we can wrap this up and close up strong. That may introduce our panelists. We have john yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans advancing justice. Mr. Yang leads the organization his to fight Asian Americans to create just america for all through Public Policy advocacy education litigation. His extensive legal background enables advancing justice to address the study all season programs legislative attempts to discriminate against and marginalize Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other minority communities. Mr. Vargas is the chief executive officer latino and elected officials. A nation a Membership Organization of latina policymakers and their supporters, governed by a 35 member board of directors. This vargas also serves is ceo and educational, and affiliated National Nonprofit organization strengthens american democracy by promoting full participatio
University and we sponsor the Michael Hayden center for intelligence policy and International Security that put on a number of wonderful programs over the past few years and we will continue to do so. Very flattered by this turn out. I look forward to this special event. For those of you who dont know George Mason University has policy and government that provides academic programs in fairfax and arlington, virginia and we have a number of professional degree programs primarily in arlington and Public Policy and public administration, International Security studies which has been ranked number 2 by u. S. News world report that we are very proud of and i think, the Michael Hayden ctr. Center for Security Policy studies, a number of other entities at this school are an important component of the recognition we receive are being leaders in the field of Security Studies so again, thank you for being here. I look forward to a great event and want to acknowledge the provost of our university