This is an hour and 20 minutes. Okay, welcome welcome everyone to this talk with mike davis. It is exciting to see people joining from all over the country, all around the world really. It is exciting to have this chance to hear and engage with mike. And a longtime comrade, we are also both publishers of mike davis, very proud and we are teaming up to do a series of things during this pandemic crisis as part of our political, intellectual, Cultural Mission but also because we are on lockdown, trying to find new ways to share information. It is very exciting for me to be collaborating with my close friend, you might have cut haymarket, with naomi klein, marvelous events, superinformative, inspiring, 15,000 of us participated aiming to be a theory they put together, haymarket in fact has already organized a followup to naomi klein, and they are going to reconvene these three and discuss the politics of coronavirus and that next talk will be broadcast on thursday april 9th, not this thurs
Hope. I have seen. From thees nonot come governments or corporations. It comes from the people. Amy 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses World Leaders here in madrid just hours before being named times person of the year. Well hear her full u. N. Addrdress. Just hours after gretas speech, hundreds of climate activists are ushered out of the Conference Center by police. This is exactly what has been happening across the world. We have been shut out and we have not been heard. We, the people, havave been kept out by the very polluters who drive this crisis are kept in. Amy well hear voices from the speak with vanessa nakate, the first fridays for future climate striker in uganda. Then we look at ground zero of the Climate Crisis, the Marshall Islands. We e have been totold that ie wawant to stay in our islaland,e and to adapt t and e elevate with migration as the only plan b. We are having to deal with these issues that we in the first place amy we will also speak
Thanks are being with us for the first time ever. Guest my pleasure. Host i want to start and ask you, what exactly is the ftcs responsibility when it comes to telecommunications . Guest the federal trade commission has no jurisdiction over common carriers, although it can investigate and challenge conduct that the pilots is the antitrust laws or the Consumer Protection laws if it is a noncommentary activity thats undertaken by common carriers. The Net Neutrality debate took away jurisdiction from the federal trade commission for broadband isps when the isps were categorized under title ii as common carriers, and with the rolling back of the Net Neutrality regulations we do now i can have jurisdiction over broadband isps. Host define a common carrier. Guest im sure theres a very technical definition but it is an entity that falls within title ii of the ftc jurisdiction. Host with that be a landline phone company . Guest yes. Host when it comes to the Net Neutrality provisions or lack t
Test test. This is a captioning test. Test test test so this is another way to essentially decimate the asylum system. Im curious, sue, as to the roam of unhdr along the border, i dont know, just a moment, sue or dylan if you can talk to us and share that. I think pr is on the next panel hdr walk. Perhaps she can speak more on that, just sort of off the record what ive heard is its just very tricky for them. The u. S. Is the number one funder to uchdr. There are some some what are they called borderly liaisons or whatever, there is pun in el paso and one in san diego. But they have to keep a low profile and its unhcr mexico that is funding our work on the mexico side of the border. But its like an emphasis on mexican accessing mexican women. It has, we have to be tricky about it. We still provide information and referrals to, on the u. S. Asylum system. But you know they cant come out and be as strong apparently about this issue. But ill leave that to our unhcr colleagues to go into mo
[inaudible conversations] were live for remarks by 2020 president ial candidate including mike bennett and Pete Buttigieg. Expecting this to start shortly. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome J Street National board member, ambassador. Good morning, j street. And welcome to another huge day at the J Street National conference. During the first few days of the conference we spoke in a great deal about the Pivotal Moment in which we find ourselves, as americans, as american jews, and the supporters of a safe, secure and peaceful future for israelis and palestinians. [applause] were gathered together as a movement at a time of many of our most sacred democratic norms are under assault. When the United States global standing is at an alltime low, with a relationship with many key allies has never been more in doubt then when our president probably allowed himself with autocrats, demagogues and extremists around the globe here in israel we are face