Facts, treated the people like ,dults, got his agenda through and he is in for a very tough fight again this year. The media is out to get him. The long knives are out. If you can win for the third time in wisconsin, he should at least get a look from our side heading into 2016. [applause] he looks great kicking off the summit a year ago. Lots of us were here. As we wrap up the panel, we catherine hamm, James Goldman and guy benson, and as the rookie, katie, we want to initiate you. I hope we have the slide. Thanks. Back up a group of leaders advocating for social, economic, and political justice talk about their work and communicating their message on reproductive life, racial profiling, health care, and lgbt rights. This is part of the net roots nation meeting in detroit. I spent most of my days on twitter and use the tool to test out jokes and content. I get the feel of how many people who follow me follow the news. You get smart people who say hello to you a lot. And, i think, what
An example is the issue of abortion. We believe expanding the hispanic electorate could be part of a stabilizing force in american politics. I think a lot of people are worried about the state of polarization in our country. I am always sorry when any of us have an interaction with an individual, we need to all learn and also give each other praise so that hopefully, one bad apple does not paint our whole perspective of the community. Host whats another example of a position alignment with the africanamericans . Guest policing, i think we all want to see safe policing. Where are communities are not unfairly targeted or racially profiled. We have both been shown to be disproportionately subjected to the search and seizures for example. Without due cause and to more by police. Those reforms are really important for both communities. The area of voting, both communities continue to strengthen, certainly the black community has been at this for a long time. Making sure the the path to the
Internet. So homework can just be homework. Along with these other Television Providers giving you the front row seat to democracy. Clarissa martin as the castro joins me now to focus on latino voters in the midterm elections and serves as the latino vote initiativeaking to house, economic wellbeing, and immigration. Also, the policy and we do policy work in those areas including civil rights. We are funded by foundations, corporations, foundations. We work with a lot of corporations. We run programs in which we partner with the federal government. Host you work on polling, pulling latino voters ahead of the midterms. Talk about their priorities this election cycle, what have you found . Guest as part of our work, as a Civil Rights Organization we are committed to a Civil Society in one way we do that is make sure more people are actively engaged. Voting is one of those ways. We have programs to help eligible americans vote and because there are a lot of misconceptions about the hispan
That we will not have enough money to handle crisis problems that come up later in the year. The way we define crisis is a family receives their benefits but then something happens where they lose jobs or someone becomes ill and they cannot afford to pay their energy bill anymore and we can provide some kind of supplemental payment for that. The real opportunity is that yes, we have funding to reach families but it is tight. Surplus not a lot of capacity in the program now. It has been cut to the bone. Host for more information, you can go to the National Energy assistance Directors Association da. Org. Nea thank you very much for being with us. That does it for todays washington journal. This is Martin Luther king day and thank you for watching and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 2014] a live picture of the Martin Luther king memorial. Washingto
Poverty. We stand for multicowell churel inclusion. Thats been sufficient to define the distinctions between the parties. When you have both parties saying were for ending poverty too. Were for Cultural Diversity swevpl then have you to dig deeper. Democrats are not used to doing that actually and are going to actually have to be more intentional and assertive around putting forward what they think should be the agenda to meet peoples needs. Looking at our current senate, they are a little bit no or the youse for not being able to pass any bills at all. This is an issue that both Political Parties are going to have to address. Do you see an area we could compromise around this issue of color voters and where both parties come together to create a beneficial agreement that benefits both the Political Parties and the people that are oting . Give me a minute. I think it is no accident there are so many efforts to suppress the vote now. The more diverse the voting population wks the expect