Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni
Utish, inry, br short. Where was the social contract for george floyd . Where was the social contract for Breonna Taylor . Where was the social contract for tamia for tamir r ice . Put simply, for black americans, the social contract is always been contaminated by racism and white super missy, the nations original sin White Supremacy, the nations original sin. A black american has more than doubled the chance of being killed by the police as a white american. Police encounters are a leading cause of death for young black men. The problems of Police Brutality we confront today reflects the persistence of embedded Structural Racism in our country. Violent White Supremacy is the real deep state that we must uproot and discard in america. Yes, my friends across the aisle have been in search for it for several years right now. Racism is the real deep state in america. Violent White Supremacy dominated our country for an entire century, and the Supreme Court did nothing other than constituti
And good afternoon everybody. It has been a wonderful day and i was energized by the panel and the networking so thank you all for hanging in with us through a long and very full day. To reduce myself to those of you who may have been here this morning my name is wade warren and im the chief Strategy Officer for development in the chair of the u. S. Chapter of the society for International Development. I am very excited about the panel we are about to have. You cannot come in. Where is alice . I was more excited that the panelists were here. Let me tell you a little bit about this panel. We wanted to have an important plenary here at the end of the day to feature the Millennial Corporation which we have not a lot of time talking about today and will have a fireside chat with Alice Albright who is the ceo. Let me tell you a little bit about them. Ill start with chizi igwe. Chizi igwe is a heartbreaking much appreciated member of the westport she started out leading in our Youth Working
Potential impact it has on the United States and global markets. This is about an hour. [inaudible] thank you all for joining today. Happy new year. Have you here at aei. With the clock running, i want to kind of moved into a broader discussion. We had the opec deal reached in november, and this comes after watching the price go up and down over the year. 2017, the question is will the price hold . The newon for president elect donald trump and his administration, and also for you producers and nonopec producers. It is an interesting moment. I thought of looking at the price of oil before coming to the event, and it is at about 55. That is about the range they were hoping for back in november. It is an interesting moment to watch. Discussion,t with we will give a few moments for opening remarks, and then we e the full that one moment moment. The full one i believe you also served at one point in the Bush Administration in the white house. The reagan administration. And we have the coor
I made an announcement and press release. After that we supported the Mekong River Commission. We supported. You need to know the Mekong Corporation has a wide area of corporation. Water management or Water Resources is only one of the five areas they cover. So thats one thing. So to answer that and we would like very much, because we represent we are Regional Organization of only four countries which clues vietnam, thailand, laos and cambodia. We had china and burma and myanmar as partners. In that sense we would say that we would like to participate in the work of lower Mekong Corporation. Actually we volunteer to take care of all the water issues of the corporation. We also would like to this may be too close to take care of what the issues of the corporation if possible, however still located in loose or in cambodia, not to move to china. And we express that to china, we would like to do that. Now, does it supersede Mekong River Commission . There is concern of Many Development par