Everything there is to say about the subject, which could obviously be an entire course in its own right, but rather today im going to focus on a few recurring big picture problems that Environmental Issues pose for the subject matter of this class, namely law and society. If you remember when we went back to day one, day two of this class and we talked about what law and society is, we talked about how law and society is often the study of law and legal issues outside of the box of legal doctrine or sort of outside the box of legal logic, all right . Well be looking at environmental law and litigation, not simply through questions and american legal doctrine but more broadly as kind of social, philosophical issues to grapple with, all right . We also talked in the beginning of the semester how law and society deals, at times, in aggregates, right . Its sort of the big picture or sort of the effects of large numbers of kind of individual personal disputes on the big picture, all right
And sal you take ship well my friends this has been quite the last few weeks here in the United States and around the world the tragedy damage and pain caused by covert 19 and worldwide pandemic is without a doubt pushing humanitys fragile economic and cultural structures to the break but despite the many heartless greedy and very brainless actions of our socalled leaders in both the world of business and politics that got us here and continue to make the situation worse as well as the crushing personal and economic hardships we are facing as a result we cannot lose ourselves in the darkness we have to remind ourselves that there is still an amazing amount of good in this world and that there is still hope. There is always hope so today let us celebrate some of the good that has come from all d of this bad starting with the tremendously fantastic moves that since us humans across the globe and spending more time indoors the outdoors has had the time to start healing itself yes the guar
Welcome to francie and fitch book shop. We have a lot of helpers. I want to point out if you havent noticed, weve got cspan in the room, tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. So youre going to be on cspan. Ill find out when, im not sure when, but ill be finding out so you can spread the word and let people know. Mary anne andre is here, awardwinning producer of documentaries, among them under the milky way. It was absolutely beautiful. And were kind of in a little fish bowl today, right . [laughter] which is great. I also want to recognize stephanie, shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. Well kind of try and streamline that process a little bit. How the agendas going to go is im going to youre going to get some introductions of some great people that are going to talk to you about this book, therell be a q a, and afterwards youll be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, theres a lot of people
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years
The investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the Standard Practice is troubling because while u. S. Investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors Family Members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. I mean its almost my friends its almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties dont exist when the u. S. Pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. On a city street. Or so you would see. Joyce. Grays. Systemic deception.