Who are extremely demoralized and discouraged about the future. They feel themselves helpless. They feel theyre powerless. Theyre cynical about politicians, which, of course, just strengthens politicians vulnerability to powerful corporate and other lobbyists in washington, d. C. When i lost a lot of friends in traffic accidents as a young man, i looked into how they could have been saved. And they could have been saved by seatbelts and they could have been saved by a whole series of engineering devices that we now take for granted in our cars collapsing steering columns, better brakes, better tires, head restraints, padded dash panels. All of these and more were developed by engineers a long, long time ago, but they werent applied because the companies, as somethose of you who are a little older remember the companies were selling style and horsepower. They werent selling engineering integrity, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and millions were injured in
Because of the work they do in areas where very few other organizations are able or willing to venture. Im truly delighted to participate in any event they sponsor any work they do. For the last 6, 7 years, i have been writing about the systematic erosion and attack on Civil Liberties in the United States and the war on terror that justifies those erosions that drivesmphobia those. The past few years i have been spending an increasing amount of time traveling around the country speaking about these issues at events like this, similar offense on College Campuses and in large and midsized american cities. Reason that is so important to me and i have come to value that experience and the reason id continue to do it is it enables me to meet many of the people whose lives have been devastated by the injustices we have been talking about this evening and that i spend so much time writing about and advocating. If reason that so important, you spend a lot of time thinking about these issues an
When Police Declared an unlawful assembly, his speech was canceled. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. Im julie haener. It prompted police to scrap a performance by Milo Yiannopoulos. The controversial editor with the altright breitbart website. Deb, the situation is much calmer at this hour, than it was a couple of hours ago. Reporter a lot calmer. After that huge crowd, some 1500 people at its peak. Take a look at some of the Property Damage students are going to find here at the Student Union in the morning. 500,000 protesters are still rooming, on and off, splinter groups. A notorious speaker was silenced. Shut it down, they did. Selfdescribed Internet Troll Milo Yiannopoulos was already inside the Student Union. His speech sill two hours away, when the protests outside took a turn. Throwing fireworks and rocks, breaking windows, using the barricade set up to protect a building as battering rams instead. Then protesters set upon the light tower, toppled it, and set it on
Through the ground floor of the dwelling. It broke out at 8 30. Firefighters had it under control by 9 00. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Minutes later, this was the scene in south if i would, two row homes were damaged by smoke and flames. Fire trucks couldnt get down the street so they had to drag hoses from the connors. Ncorners. No word on a cause. In philadelphia tonight, two cars collided in the northbound lanes with one spinning in the opposite direction another on its side. A man and woman was rushed as trauma alerts to the hospital. They are expected to survive. Septa wants to raise your fairs. If approved, it would be the first fair hike since 2013 with the basic fair going up 25cents. Dann cuellar is live at center city. With septa fees and tokens on monthly passes and rail lines, it gets complicated. It does, jim. For the most part, most of the people we spoke with tonight are not happy at all with the proposed septa fare hikes for various reasons, but most because of their p
Through the ground floor of the dwelling. It broke out at 8 30. Firefighters had it under control by 9 00. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Minutes later, this was the scene in south if i would, two row homes were damaged by smoke and flames. Fire trucks couldnt get down the street so they had to drag hoses from the connors. Ncorners. No word on a cause. In philadelphia tonight, two cars collided in the northbound lanes with one spinning in the opposite direction another on its side. A man and woman was rushed as trauma alerts to the hospital. They are expected to survive. Septa wants to raise your fairs. If approved, it would be the first fair hike since 2013 with the basic fair going up 25cents. Dann cuellar is live at center city. With septa fees and tokens on monthly passes and rail lines, it gets complicated. It does, jim. For the most part, most of the people we spoke with tonight are not happy at all with the proposed septa fare hikes for various reasons, but most because of their p