Distinguished leaders in the field of athletes rights and representation who can speak to a number of current challenges facing athletes across the movement. As we do, i want to take a moment to remind our witnesses and to all those who are here with us and listening on the live stream, that this commission is not just focused on olympic sports, but paralympic sports as well and i hope we will all be mindful of that. Id like to introduce our witnesses. First we have donald. Until last year he served as executive director of the National Hockey League Players association and he was previously the executive director of the Players Association for major league baseball. He has spent nearly half a century as an advocate for athletes and in doing so, not only help make our favorite pastimes more equitable and fair, but stronger and more commercially successful as well. We are also joined by a former prosecutor, champion athlete, pastor of the u. S. Opc, a longtime advocate for athletes Due
Everybody in america. Everybody. But today i want to focus on one aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed by race and by wealth, a source of inequity that has ripple effects on families and on communities and ultimately on our nation. That is our criminal Justice System. [applause] now this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. There is a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had videotaping of interrogations because there were problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias and traffic stops that too many people experienced. We talked talked about how too many cases of criminal Justice System comes from a pipeline of underfunded, inadequate schools to over crowded jails. [applause] what has changed though, in recent years the eyes of more americans have been opened to this truth. Pa
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Democratic rivals first debate. So we begin in syria where war is in aleppo and tens of thousands of people reported to be fleeing to turkey for safety, diplomatic talks on ending the crisis are on hold and saudi arabia plans to send in ground troops. Well, Syrian Government forces backed by russian air raids have stepped up their offensive in the east of aleppo and opposition fighters appealed for help as the main supply root to turkey is under pressure and observatory says 30,000 civilians are making their way right now to the Turkish Border and gerald tan has the latest. Reporter out of their homes, out of aleppo and out in the open, they spend the night under the sky under the border with turkey hoping to get in. Over the past few days syrians and tens of thousands have escaped aleppo since the Syrian Government and its russian allies began a new offensive in the province. Translator under pressure like never before Syrian Rebels issue a call for general mobilization to defend thei
Well, as the offenses stretches into its 27th day the human cost continues to climb. 64 Israeli Soldiers have now been killed and three civilians, one of whom was a thai national. At least 9,000 gazaens have been injured. And quarter of a mill are now taking shelter in u. N. Shelters. We went to the shelter in raf a and we have this update. A number of people were killed and injured. Ill let my camera show you where this drone hit. We understand it was a hell fire missile. Its a fairly small hole. Apparently small point where it targeted but again were hearing ten People Killed and many, many more injured. Let me give you an idea of how close it is to this u. N. School, which has been used as a shelter for several weeks now. The shelter where more than 3,000 people displaced by this conflict live. Many of them children. Lets go take a look at this school. Now this is the rafa preparatory boys school. Its a school in times of peace, but its been home to people for several weeks now. As