Have not told you is not a single political leader supported the movement. Matt won the crusade for voters. And naacp down. Elected leadership down. Nobody anywhere supported it so we asked the city council would you at least put the measure on the ballot so that the people can decide whether they want it or not. Would you allow the people to vote on it, and they didnt do that. At the time i think tim kaine was the mayor of the city, and i said, tim, can you work something out to at least put it on the ballot that people decide it . He said i can only get four votes. I cant get five votes, the majority to do it. Now with that, so what we had to do was to go out and get the people to sign the petition, and if you get the percentage of numbers of people to sign the petition, then it can go on the ballot, so we were able to get about 15,000 signatures to make certain that it had gone on the ballot, and even though the entirety of the leadership was against it, when the people voted, 80 of
The most powerful typhoons ever, haiyan has left its mark across the philippines. Thousands have been killed. That death toll is expected to rise. Margaret ortegas has more from the capitol of manilla. Sur viefrdz walked through whats left of their town, still in shock over how quickly their lives were turned upside down. Reminders of what they have lost everywhere. Thousands of people are missing across the central philippines and many areas are unreachable. For the missing and those who have been confirmed killed that is a concern. We are working toward the leads of those living. The extent is making rescue and reoperations difficult. Operates in the central philippines have been difficult. Many of the roads are impossible Emergency Personnel haare havin to walk for hours to reach survivors with aid. The storm hit on friday and since then, for many of the victims, there has been no access to basic necessities. Survivors are finding shelter where thing. Looting has become a problem. D
Emergency aid is being rushed to the philippines bringing desperately needed basic essentials to the victims of typhoon high, the recordbreaking super storm destroyed villages and hundreds of thousands have no power, food, water or shelter and hospitals are over run and good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, the philippines red cross said 1200 people were killed in the storm but could top 10,000, slowly relief efforts are going to efforts caught off by bridges and roads and they reached the airport on sunday seeking supplies or a way out. A 2 million Relief Program from the United Nations food program is underway and the u. S. Military sent marines for search and rescue efforts and al jazeera has more detail. Three days after suffering one of the worst typhoons ever the devastation is coming into view. Many of the hardest hit are unreachable and hard to say just how bad it really is. With a death toll expected to be in the thousands and impact felt by millions typhoon survivor
Journey of 900 jewish refugees aboard the cruise liner ss st. Louis that departed hamburg germany may 13, 1939. The ship was denied landing in cuba, the United States and canada and ultimately forced to return to europe. This is about one hour and ten minutes. Welcome to todays program cosponsored by the Library Services at the library of congress and the library of congress professional association of the language table. The program is presented today in honor of the 75th anniversary of the sailing of the st. Louis. One of the passengers of the st. Louis is with us today. Eva is sitting right there and im wondering if there are any other passengers or families of passengers that are here with us today and if so, could you sta stand. There is another one. [applause] i would like to think that u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who is the reason that the program is here today. She arranged the speakers and then have the idea for the program. Roberta schaefer of the librarian of congress, A
I would also like to thank a few people. From the u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum whos the reason this program is here today, she arranged the speakers and had the idea for the program. Roberta schafer, associate librarian of congress. Beecher wiggins, our aba director, Audrey Fisher and the staff of the Public Affairs office, suvita who let us have the wonderful pavilion, and galena of the ij section. Also, of course, marvin kalb and our panelists, Martin Goldsmith and Diane Afoumado. I will be stepping aside as soon as i introduce mr. Be kalb, and he will take over the program. Marvin kalb spent 30 years as an awardwinning reporter for cbs news and nbc news. Hes written or coauthored 11 nonfiction books and two fiction books, and hes currently working on a new book, the soviet spring the rise and challenge of putins russia. Hes a nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy programs at brookings and is a Senior Adviser to the Pulitzer Center on crisis reporting. He focuses on th