My name is haben girma, im a disability rights advocate, lawyer, speaker and author. My book is called haben the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. I am deafblind. Ive limited vision and hearing and i grew up in a cited and hearing world. I was born and raised in california, and i am still living in california. I am talking to you from my living room. I dont actually work here. I work at my desk and thats where i sat down to write my book. My deafblind this is not the thing that made life difficult. It was able listen that made life difficult. Ableism is the belief that disabled people are inferior compared to nondisabled people. Its not true. We are not inferior, but evil navalism keeps moving throughout our society and saying disabled people dont matter, therefore, dont make services accessible, dont provide medical care and all kinds of unfair biases. When i was younger i wasnt sure what to do. Do i just accept inferior service . But over time i learn to advocate. I started
What hes preaching was not a positive, it was not a positive, i hear that from a lot of people coming through. A weekly average of 9900 cases per day, double the average from two weeks ago. A National Community woman. Where is the math showing abruptly credit changing criteria from 4 tiers, forcing counties to jump 2 tiers abruptly, it seems forced and not scientific. Reporter gatherings a restaurant seven order to stop at 10 pm starting saturday, takeout and delivery will still be allowed. It has been a really tough year, yes, we are in the same boat, but i guess the Restaurant Business is getting more affected than any other businesses. Reporter people can go Grocery Shopping and walks without other households, but not to do nonessential work or gathering from 10 pm until 5 am until the morning of december 21. To be clear, there are some bay area counties that are not under the restriction, but that could change this weekend . Reporter thats right, there are 41 out of 58 counties, an
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late
States armed forces remain committed to protecting the safety and security of the American People and supporting our like minded allies and partners worldwide. Well, just minutes after that announcement, several rockets hit baghdads green zone. Some landed near the u. S. Embassy. Others were intercepted by ed offense, estens. A child was killed and at least 5 people injured. Trump has fired the top u. S. Election security official, who had refused said the president s unsubstantiated claims of ford. Chris krebs was the head of the department of homeland security, is agency that monitors election security. If your peers government says its troops have achieved significant victories in the conflict with forces in the Northern Tier gray region. As strikes have been launched to the regional capital mckelway, thats the main base for the to great Peoples Liberation front which governs the 3, former prodemocracy politicians have been arrested in hong kong. Police are questioning ted at each y
Protesters continue to rally as anger builds over a Police Operation which saw a temporary migrant camp cleared from the french capital. And the developers of russias new vaccine say its not just highly effective, but also highly affordable costing as little as 20. 00 wherever you are, whenever you are, whoever you are, its time for the news that R T International on down the corridor joining you here in the studio, welcome to the program. Now in the u. S. President elect, joe biden announced his top cabinet picks for the white house. He said the world has its hopes resting on his team to restore americas historical role as a Global Leader. In calls from World Leaders that ive had about 18 to 20 so far, im not sure the exact number in the weeks since we won the election. Ive been struck by how much theyre looking forward to the united states. Reassert its historic role as a Global Leader both in the pacific as well as in the atlantic all across the world. Together, these Public Servant