Laura kiswani. Thank you, chair and supervisors for giving me the opportunity to speak. Im just introducing myself. Im shawn sex ton. Im a captain with the alameda sheriffs office, and i had significant roles in urban shield in the last few years. And i just wanted to talk about one component of urban shield. Yell command is an exercise that prepares all of the Emergency Management and manage Operation Center staff for any kind of disaster, whether its man made or natural. And the whole purpose is to create an event that tests our regional capablities. And weve had these tests since 2013, and each year, we test a certain event. This last year, we tested our community or our availability to distribute our commodities in an event of an earthquake, and these are the types of things that yellow command prepares all of our regions and our Emergency Management centers to respond to. Thank you. Supervisor cohen thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Members of the
27 four month after giving birth to her second child. Attributed her Failing Health to the trauma of racial injustice. Racism kills. Amy we will look at a remarkable investigation by propublica on how hospitals are failing black mothers. Bottom line is in the United States we have some of the highest rates of Maternal Death in the industrialized world. This is driven by the high rate of black mothers. Like mothers are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth, and this is something we should all be talking about. Amy we will discuss how the fallout of Police Violence is killing black women like erica garner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President donald trump hardened his position on immigration wednesday, a day after he appeared to support a widereaching deal on immigration that could grant millions of undocumented people a pathway to citizenship. During a meeting with congressional lea
Speaker vos, speaker pro dem, majority leader fitzgerald, minority leader schilling, minority leader hence, Supreme Court justices, constitutional officers, tribal leaders, members of the cabinet, members of the legislature, distinguished guests and most importantly, fellow citizens of wisconsin, it is an honor to come before you this afternoon to report on the state of our great state. Before we start, i want to recognize my wife and our two sons matt and alex. Last year as you might remember, my wife joined me at this podium to talk about her Ground Breaking work called fostering futures. She and her team continue their efforts with tribal counsels, county governments, nonprofits, colleges and universities and employers from across wisconsin. Our state agencies have been trained and how to incorporate trauma and form care into the daily routines. She brought together group of first spouses and staff to wisconsin to talk about this important work and she went to washington to get the
Speaker vos, speaker pro dem, majority leader fitzgerald, minority leader schilling, minority leader hence, Supreme Court justices, constitutional officers, tribal leaders, members of the cabinet, members of the legislature, distinguished guests and most importantly, fellow citizens of wisconsin, it is an honor to come before you this afternoon to report on the state of our great state. Before we start, i want to recognize my wife and our two sons matt and alex. Last year as you might remember, my wife joined me at this podium to talk about her Ground Breaking work called fostering futures. She and her team continue their efforts with tribal counsels, county governments, nonprofits, colleges and universities and employers from across wisconsin. Our state agencies have been trained and how to incorporate trauma and form care into the daily routines. She brought together group of first spouses and staff to wisconsin to talk about this important work and she went to washington to get the
Credibility and accountability and will tip to do so. Do you have another question. Im going to make a quick note on that. And see if dan agrees. Afghanistan is going from a fairly corrupt patronage system to a system which will be professional, transparent and noncorrupt. That is a long hard road to travel. And if president ghani moves too fast he will break his politics. And he will cause so many groups to be disgruntled with him and organize against him. So we have to be patient and recognize that this kind of transition is very difficult. Hes got to be on that road he has to be convincing of the afghan people, but we have to give him a little slack. Because if he moves too fast and breaks his politics and we lose the government, then we lose the possibility of moving to a professional, transparent and nonrupt system and go back to the old afghanistan and that is not good for anybody. Sorry. And i absolutely concur with that. And i guess finally the last question on reconciliation a