Colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing davids Pulitzer Prize winner book, polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i just want to mention one thing in light of what we were talking about in terms of dust bowl art. I was reading the new york review of poobooks and there is review of a novel that Woody Guthrie wrote, a novel called house of earth. Doesnt get a very good review. But obviously, he gets some attention. And youll be pleased
Policing, its never been an Institution Designed to keep us safe and used as a tool for those in power to keep the marginalized people from rising up, going all the way back to the slave patrol. Sharing im the policing unfairly targets marginalized communities, injects massive amounts of people into the prison system. We heard about reform from chief scott today, but all those measures ignore the fact that reform is not effective. We need to defund and sfpd and invest in our communities immediately. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. It cannot force you to create money in a budget. Cut the budget and cut the numbers of police and Fund Services that help humans. End the violence against black and brown people that is built into policing. I disagree with supervisors assessment of what his constituents want. We want services, not Police Officers. I have heard on this call that over time sfpd at the airport, the focus of sfpd and the mandated reforms are not well understood by s
But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has concluded. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is ryan. I live in district 4. I urge for divestment of the sfpd. [indiscernible] and how education and Community Empowerment are how societies grow whereas reaction during punitive and literally oppresses people and holds bias for those struggling in so many areas in the city that needs massive homelessness, education, come full front. That is essentially all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good aft
I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what markets are doing. These are the headlines from the International Energy agency. The oil markets are improving, they say, and we had hints of that from the biggest reducers in the world. Saudi arabia claimed they could put a price increase on asian markets. They say the oil market improving is continuing. We will have a look at wti futures to see what they indicate. The markets give us a good idea of what is to come. U. S. Futures are fluctuating. Investors are waiting for the jobless data. Treasuries gaining, the dollar is up as well. Lets get the bloomberg first word news from new york city. Spending more money to tackle the economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be rapid, that is the message of jerome powell. He calls on increasing stimulus, and he is backing down suggestions that the central bank should adopt negative rates. 130pandemic could push Million People into poverty in the next decade, according to the United N
Bailey and also to chairman powell. Yesterday, the continued inflationary trend and the outright deflationary trend in switzerland. The numbers in europe in inflation on price change are simply grim, and you are dead on about unemployment. Overnight, Goldman Sachs readjusted their Unemployment Rates, and they get Steve Englander of Standard Chartered bank, a stunning statistic, francine 25 Unemployment Rates modeled out now by Goldman Sachs. And of course we get claims at 8 30 this morning. Francine we will have plenty more on that throughout the day. Its good to first word news with richie good lets go to first word news with they take a to first lets go word news with ritika gupta. Ritika wanted to play all sides of the equation, reopening the country too soon could lead to coronavirus flareups. He warned about the impact on children in schools reopened. President trump called that comment unacceptable. Has seizedortedly the mobile phone of the intelligence committee, richard burr. A