Heads keep rolling in ferguson missouri. The police chief Thomas Jackson is stepping down. John shaw resigned, joining the local judge and court clerk who have already done so. They were slammed in a report last week that accused the city of fostering racism. It says the city police and local court colluded in targeting fergusons black residents with petty fines arrests and incarcerations. Why . To boost the citys finances. Meanwhile, fergusons mayor john knowles says he plans to stay put. Cleared officer Darren Wilson saying he shot Michael Brown in self defense. But fergusons profit driven Law Enforcement system poisoned relations with the community. Now resignations or not, the only way for things to change in ferguson is if the community exercises its civic duty and votes. Its only had two black City Council Members in its entire history. Only one of the current Six City Council ors isors is black. Today is the last day for voters to register. This past Weekend College students fro
Council. Im ali velshi and this is real money. Heads keep rolling in ferguson, missouri. The police chief Thomas Jackson is stepping down. John shaw resigned, joining the local judge and court clerk who have already done so. They were slammed in a report last week that accused the city of fostering racism. It says the city police and local court colluded in targeting fergusons black residents with petty fines arrests and incarcerations. Why . To boost the citys finances. Meanwhile, fergusons mayor john knowles says he plans to stay put. Cleared officer Darren Wilson saying he shot Michael Brown in self defense. But fergusons profit driven Law Enforcement system poisoned relations with the community. Now resignations or not the only way for things to change in ferguson is if the community exercises its civic duty and votes. Its only had two black City Council Members in its entire history. Only one of the current Six City Council ors isors is black. Today is the last day for voters to r
Yet in standing alone, israel will know that we will be defending many, many others. s israels Prime Minister comments come days after a phone call between president obama and the iranian president rhani, the highest level u. S. Iran contact in decades. The death toll from a more than in sudan hasckdown reportedly topped 170. The International Federation for human rights says hundreds have been wounded and more than 800 have been arrested since a cut to get subsidies sparked to mr. Nations last month. Their current unrest is said to be the worst incidents urban areas during bashirs 24 year rule. Tens of thousands of people rallied in mexico city to mark the 45th anniversary of the massacre of student demonstrators. On october 2, 1960 eight, just days before mexico city hosted the olympics, Government Forces opened fire on protesters in the plaza de las tres culturas. The exact death toll remains unknown, but human rights activists say as many as 350 people were killed. To date, no one
On todays program was delighted to have the president of the International Association of art critics. Dr murray the box only to be our special guest to talk about the state of the International Community of art critics will come to the program mart. Think youre a man for inviting me its a great pleasure to be here was the place is ours to have the key on the program today. Then lets talk about the International Association of art critics and the uae elected its president banking october of two thousand and eleven. He told was a little bit about the association what its function so well planned activities to do cause guess. So will we go back to the late nineteen forties. How association was established by unesco up to the second word for it. And we owe one of the end she owes established on. By that organization up to promote through independent culture and arts international. So since then. I mean it was so originated as their relatively small but Important Association and it has gro
It started when my coauthor david fisher approached me. I did not know him well. He said to me there is this amazing story out there of Abraham Lincoln in the final case he ever argued. There is a transcript of the trial. It is the only transcript that exists of a case lincoln argued. He said do you want to join me in writing a book about this case . I did not believe there was this Great Lincoln case with a transcript out there no one knew about. He was right. The transcript had only been found in the 1980s. There had been no serious book written about it. We joined together in this effort. It led us on this journey where we would look for great cases with transcripts of the actual trial involving wellknown people. President s of the u. S. Or former president s, cases that had largely been forgotten to u. S. History. That is how it all started. We continued to mine for those great cases with a transcript that had been lost to history. It was in 2018 that lincolns last trial came out.