Humiliate people and oppress them and not providing the basic human needs they have is just a way to make people feel like they are not worthy. She is a woman with a colorful past. She stood next to Robert Kennedy on the day she was shot. She has been arrested more than 20 times and has been brutally beaten by the police. At 84, she remains a steadfast immigrants. I think we have to remind people that unless you are a native american that your people came from somewhere and remind people this country was built by immigrants. Fighting gender inequality a crisis right now, which way we are going to go. If we dont have a strong middle class which means higher wages for people, then we are not going to have a democracy. I spoke to her as she was passing through washltdz. Lets take a closer look at immigration reform. It seems even in a zone thats more than stuck because there are political interests at stake, economic interests at stake, some old allies who are now looking daggers at each
To 21 miles an hour. So with the numbers a little bit milder today will be in a narrow range. And looking for the rain showers to end in the north bay by noontime. Upper 50s, near 60s by the coast. We have a baseball game maybe this afternoon. We will talk about it later. Katie. All right, lisa. Thank you. We are following developing news in southern california. No reports of major damage or injuries but there was a 5. 1 magnitude earthquake last night. It hitly la habra 20 miles north of los angeles. Earlier two more earthquakes hit. But the bigger quake was about a mile deep. Photos and videos shows the damage done in supermarkets. Suddenly the building is shaking like crazy. And then i just screamed everybody to just get out. According to the usgs, at least 30 aftershocks ranging from magnitude 2. 7 to 3. 6 were reported. Its fairly certain a moderate after shock will follow a quake felt like the one last night. When it happens your probability of having a magnitude 3 after a magnit
Government has amassed huge amounts of money, then used some of it to relieve the worst affects of poverty. Some programs are dedicated to make people less likely to be poor. Others to making being poor less dangerous and degrading. Notably with the new deal and the great society, putting the federal government at the heart of programs to aid the poor set off big philosophical and practical debates. When washington sets the goals and makes the rules and disburses the money, does it deliver help where and when needed. For a long time republicans like representative ryan of wisconsin have answered no. This week the chairman of the House Budget Committee laid out a plan for a new model today on inside story a closer look. Deep poverty is near record highs. We take a step back and look at all of this, and you have to think, we can do better than this. Wisconsin representative paul ryan unveiled a new antipoverty plan this week. Its called expanding opportunity in america, and it would fund
Senator franken and senator begich. Senator franken came to the floor yesterday and gave another passionate, important floor speech in support of these ideas. It is something that as i have presided and as i have been with him in caucus i have heard senator franken speak to many times. It is about equipping workers with the skills they need by investing in partnerships between our Community Colleges and our employers. Senator franken, senator begich, myself and others have seen this work in our home communities. We have seen Community Colleges, learned from manufacturers what are the actual today relevant modern manufacturing skills they need and then deliver customized training coarses that make a difference in the skills, in the lives, in the College Affordability and access of those who seek to join todays manufacturing work force. A fourth bill, the on the job training act cosponsored by senators shaheen and cochran contributed the idea that we need to invest in on the job training
Afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. Hen we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker. She earned her ph. D. From berkeley. Shes now a professor in ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is