That president carter gave in naming a building in texas after congressman brooks. In one of the things that the president said at the time was he is a new president , thought well if i just have one congressman that disagrees with me, i am the president of the united states. That is no big deal. And they found out that that one congressman was jack brooks. [laughter]. And that was a big deal. It talks about how president and Congress Work together and i think at this time, it is very important that we hear that message about how they work together. Pleasedspecially tonight to ask congressman jack brooks son, jeff and his work in hethe financial industry and all size companies for more than three decades. He started his career at citibank until one and rose to Vice President of citigroups International Securities and then he is currently the managing partner of pinewood trading fund. And he is the chairman of the Jack Brooks Foundation which provided wonderful reception for nus tonight
Award also ellington as the block chain society as a global member driven ecosystem and with cryptocurrency projects across industries and for social impact. The members passive investors primarily of technology of one. 5 trillion of Investment Capital so we are celebrating a book tonight that is a very compelling story thats an important story that is lesserknown in the annals of tech history but people working toward social justice with Racial Justice to black lives matter published by Oxford University press its pleasure to have you. Welcome to city lights. [applause] thank you to all of you who have come out to those who will trickle in along the way. There is a great place to be. Wrapping up what that has been a month and a half long to her tour and theres no better place to end up this place in this historic moment. We were just telling the gentleman before we started that where i was headed next to city lights and everybody forgot about the book. They just said oh my gosh. I gre
Center for critical race and digital studies and coauthor of race appeal how candidates invoke the race in political campaigns, the winner of the 2012 a psa ralphs monkey award and also with us hed David Ellingtons founder and executive chairman of the Silicon Valley block chain society, a global member driven ecosystem block chaining cryptocurrency related project across industries and for social impact. Members are active investors primarily in technology, collectively representing more than 1. 5 trillion in investment capital, and the motto is funded revolution. I love that. We are so pretty new that is very compelling story, very important story kind of lesser known in tech, but looking at people have been working towards a social justice inside the Tech Industry and the book is called black software the internet Racial Justice, from the afronet to black lives matter of course by charlton d. Mcllwain and published by our friends at Oxford University press. Gentlemen, pleasure to ha
But as we get towards 5 00 here comes the rain. Its in the form of scattered light showers. It will be with us threw the yoernt. Not more than a tenth to two tenths. Well talk about sunday and the rain coming in for the week ahead in a few minutes, liz. Thank you. Chains are required for travel in much of the sierra this morning. That includes highway 50 and most of e roads around the lake and up to resorts. Chain controls are also required on interstate 80 from playser county to the donner neighboring interchange. You can check the conditions where you live with live doppler 7 on the news app. All right. Developing news in conorder. A 63yearold man is zed after a car hit and killed him after he was crossing the street in a wheelchair. Happening after 9 30 last night near the intersection of willow path road and parkside drive. Police say the victim was not in the crosswalk when hit. The drive is a 31yearold woman from antioch. She is cooperating. Drugs and alcohol did not appear to be
Hello, everybody. Are we good to go . I am mark tercek, and originally of the nature conservatory. Im glad to be the moderator of todays discussion. We have a great panel. To my left is monica de bolle from the Houston Institute for economics. To her left is daniel zarin with climate and landuse alliance and onscreen is my good friend peter seligman, cofounder and ceo of nia tero which focuses on a lot of issues we will be discussing today. He is the founder and longtime ceo of Conservation International where he continues to be the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest you have been reading about in the news. This raises so many issues. First of all, what is really happening, hard to tell. How much of this is due to illegal logging, industrial ag, bad government policy, or is Climate Change itself impacting the forest . Also, the question arises, what happens . Until recently the amazon was one of the great conservation success stories. Through a gre