Introduce myself first. So you know not who to complain to later. My name is gregg barrios. Former book editor of the express news, worked for many years and los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently i write for the los angeles review of books. I am on the board of directors for the National Book critics circle. Im also the author of the book of poetry that deals with cute its called look house. This time i would like to introduce iowa miriam pawel. She is the former Pulitzer Prize winner and spent 25 years working at news day and the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of Caesar Chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic leader. She is also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of Caesar Chavez united form workers move. She recently received the National Endowment for the fellowship to support her work in the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. applause thank you
The headlines in the most human way possible. Here at aljazeera we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. Where march against the monarchy in thailand and its amount for political reform the protests have been the biggest in years so what can the government do to quell this growing anger and what does this mean for thailands king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how he had seen a wave of protests as great thailands since february its been led by the young mostly 1st time voters who say they want to modernize them on a key over the weekends tens of thousands of people in the park used for one of the ceremonies and they cemented a plank in the grand palace that expresses what they say is the peoples will the protesters also hands its over a letter with their its a monster to the boil guards well these demands include the removal of Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and wanted to species election last year they also
Were march against the monarchy in thailand and thats amounts for political reform the protests have been the biggest in years so what can the government do to quell this growing anger what does this mean for thailands king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how he had seen a wave of protests as gripped thailands since february its been led by the young mostly 1st time voters who say they want to modernize them on a key over the weekends tens of thousands of people in the park used for one of the ceremonies and they cemented a plank in the grand palace that expresses what they say is the peoples will the protesters also hands its over a letter with their its a monster to the boil guards well these demands include the removal of Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and wanted to spaces election last year they also want to parliaments dissolves and new elections to be held there demanding that the constitution which was draf
A studs and recognize ritual poor weak or strong or enemies its affecting all of us and it shows that we need to come together in order to fight this fight is unfortunately the United States continues to prevent iran even from buying medicine and vaccine to buy just by will definitely discuss that in details but let me ask you one more question about the workings of diplomacy because from what you mentioned i understand that when it comes to you know making. Public statements or prepared statements its ok to do with online but the use still came to moscow for some reason is that because certain things that you sound sort of to discuss the only this is this is actually my 3rd visit to moscow after the corona. Breakout so there are things that you need to discuss in person. Of course. We all use Video Conferencing as zoom or whatever other. Platforms as out of a book but it comes to a point that you diplomat of your statue would be grounded for i mean i mean you cannot be serious you can
Mr. Secretary, please call the roll. [laughter]. Thank you, madame chair. Prior to calling roll, i would like to note that julie chang is sitting in as director. With that i will now proceed to call roll. Directors, please respond when i call your name. Chang present. E. Forbes present. M. Hursh present. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin present. Vice chair gee present. Chair sesay present. Secretary directors, we have a quorum. Chair sesay and secretary, if i may just a point of clarification, this is a regular meeting, not a special meeting, just a point of clarification for the record. Chair sesay thank you, i appreciate that. Secretary thank you. Directors, the next item, item 3, is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the published number, 18552826330, and enter access code, 126 729 5295. Then pound and pound again and listen to the meeting. As they wait for Public Comment to be anno