If you have been following the news in recent years i imagine that you like me have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a jerefugee experience in communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at icet, refugees suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaking boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those unable to cross to safety are washing up. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being up rooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years it has been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlements like so many other topics today has become a polarizing topic. On one hand opposition has been fierce
The 2020 Republican National convenon. Good evening, im judy woodruf and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the repu National Convention. This years political conventions are like none any us can remember. Welong with thousands of others have planned to be in thcharlotte, north carolin week. But because of the pandemic, this gathering will be almost entirely virtual. Speakers w are the thethe republicans am im here in the studio with amy walter and amna that. Warner right around the corner. Both df them sociallytant. We have reporters and analysts across the country. We plan to bring you the same depth of coverage and analysis ering this critical time in an historction year. This week President Trump will years. He case for another four and we will be here to hear all of it. Lets turn first to our newshour reporters am that nawaz as i say is in thstudio just around the corner from me to give us a guide on whato expect and key moments to look out for. Hi judy, like the
This is the september 2, 2020 rescheduled budget committee. Im sandra lee fiber. Fewer. I would like to thank lina mendoza. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors are closed. However, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state and directives. Committee members will attend and participate in the meeting to the extent as if they are physically present. Public comments are on this item. We are streaming the number across the screen and each member will be allowed two minutes to speak. Call 415 6550001. And access code 146 8286649. And then press pound twice. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion and you will be muted and in listening mode only. Your item of interesting comes up, dial far thre star three ant practises to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn dow
Juvenile record looking for Police Violence justifications with the same zeal and zest they had when they did it to Trayvon Martins history Michael Brown browns history of tamir rices history and speaking of kids falling victim to overzealous policing and the criminal zation of black children look no further than the treatment of 12 year old Isaiah Elliott of Colorado Springs who according to reason dot com was suspended for 5 days and had police visit his home after a teacher briefly saw him move a neon green toy gun around on his couch during a virtual classroom session. When the Security State meets the nanny state and our kids get trapped in the crosshairs it aint because of a few bad apples my friends it means its time we start watching the hawks. On a cd. Player so lets see this is joyce state. Great see this ladys systemic deceptions show which i will. Build as. Well for the watching the entire over the now in the leisure every every single day every single week it seems like 20
Anthropologists erin fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential ban is are frequently framed and specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially, country is bad music precisely because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked neutral condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a mark for a grounded claim of cultural identity, bad whiteness, and redeemed by ethnicity. Folklore ache authenticity, a league musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of very marked white particularly. All right, so that is the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian roxanne dumb bar ortiz in her book red dirt. It is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the