His return to his hometown of terre haute, indiana following his release from prison by president harding after a federal conviction stemming from the war protests. And tonight were in terre haute in the debs home and museum. Let me introduce you to our guests. Earnest freebuerg. Why do we care about him . Debs was one of the most important labor leaders at a crucial time of conflict between labor and capital. But more importantly, he was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable growing and important part of the american political call chu v culture. Does he have a Lasting Legacy . Like many third party candidates, they managed to move the conversation in very important directions that have affected the development of american democracy. So in that car, he is of his time but also at a long impact on us as well. And well have time to delve into some of the elections more deeply later on, but of the fire bids he made for the white house, any particularl
Local news station. That breaking news tonight at 10 takes us to oakland where more than a 100 people are protesting as we speak you say this is new video just in from the citizen app some of the protesters here taking those orange traffic barriers moving them out of the way you can also see some Police Officers walking the streets in riot gear, it is tense. This is happening near 14th street, the protesters of course for the 3rd night in a row demanding justice for Breonna Taylor after the decision was made wednesday. Not to file charges in her death. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 10 oclock im grant lotus as we said the 3rd straight night of demonstrations, not only here in some parts of the bay area but in louisville as well in just minutes ago opd sent out this tweet the Department Says the crowd has started to become a little bit violent throwing bottles and cans among other objects you see this video froze but it will play right here. And as we saw earlier folks ar
Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality the manufacturer of a powerful painkiller that helped to set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement Purdue Pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis thats killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years but the deal does not release any of the companys executives or owners including members of the wealthy secular family from criminal liability. The unlawful dangerous scheme put profits over people by seeking to increase scripts for addictive jaros even when they were not medically appropriate and at the height of the u. S. Opioid crisis a time when in vermont where im from and across the country people were suffering under opioid addictions that sometimes ended and and so many of those addiction stories began with oxy
Cspan. Org to review a playlist of Amy Coney Barretts legal views. Democratic president ial candidate joe biden delivered remarks today in grand rapids, michigan. Mr. Biden hey, folks. Good afternoon. Before i start, i wanted to slain the delay. We wanted to make sure we were doing everything by the numbers. We had to covid tests this morning. Everything is clear. We wanted to make sure everything was clear before i came. We were supposed to have an event after this at a headquarters. But based on the crowd size and indoors, it was concluded that it was best not to do it. But i want to thank all of you. I want to thank matt. Matt, you are dead right. You were putting yourself on the line. And a lot of other people did all across this country. I want to thank the secretary of the treasury of local 951 for having me here today. Look, lets start i would like to start by acknowledging, which im sure all of you do as well, sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and t
Sitting comfortably in white princes had the recent Vice President ial debates between former California Attorney general karl kamel arrows and current Vice President my parents were a highlight reel of modern us political discourse a great example of this was seen in how the 2 candidates battled over whose Political Party has created or lost more u. S. Jobs than the other. In our 1st 3 years after we cut the thank you very best regulation unleashed American Energy this administration saw 500008 1000000 jobs created joe biden is responsible for saving americas Auto Industry and you fight it against it but in the age of 19 its not just about the creation of jobs here in america its also about keeping workers safe at those jobs and according to a new complaint filed by the largest trade unions in the u. S. The United States government has been woefully and dangerously inadequate in Workplace Safety in this time of covert 19 the Washington Post reports that the Service Employees Internati