Coming their way. Insight andir information is ignored, it often leads to consequences that might have been averted. Friday at 8 00 eastern, Harvard University sociologist and author William Julius wilson. Every citizen does not fully understand the complex forces that have increased, for example, their economic woes. Economic insecurities create conditions that are breeding grounds for racial and at intention. This week at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Tonight on the communicators. Inthe things i care about terms of consumers being first and foremost in our mind, when it comes to policy, my interests , when it comes to serving them. That has not changed. The longestserving fcc commissioner and the only democrat on the commission talks about how the fcc is changing under Republican Leadership and what she sees as the major issues ahead. Nn stanton. Rted by ly when we go into a direction that is more philosophical than practical, we have to ask ourselves, will consumers be protected . Under th
Community. This panel was part of the National Afterschool summit hosted by the Arnold Schwarzenegger institute for state and local policy at the university of southern california. This is about 35 minutes. [applause] monica, im going to start with you and pick up on something we talked about. Is this just spoiling them . I always said when i was secretary of education we have high schools that when the National Decathlon and we have high schools that are like dropout factories. Unfortunately, that is by zip code. Re kids in poverty are not getting the same level of certified that they need. Let me go to you. You are at the Largest School in the country. What do you see the role of afterschool it is not what school is supposed to do, but how does it get the goal set that every School District needs to achieve . In l. A. , were all about 100 graduation. We talk about 100 attendance, engaged their ways and communities, and it absolutely relies on an afterschool plan. Ella unified has gon
Into what worked in organizing. One of the problems with our media landscape is i could probably go find 1700 pieces on whenever the president shot on twitter yesterday. An actual helpful account of how to organize for Community Grassroots and power is asking too much. I know the richmond, california story, incredibly important doors has been told. Ive seen a couple of articles about it and yet its one of the real stories we should be learning from. Especially atomic all tomorrow which shares with richmond, racism, poverty. One of the most important things is the lack of a luxury to kind of get hung up on not working together. Like baltimore, richmond has the left that is simply too small to have too many sectarian divisions. What i know about the richmond stories they found a way to get over those divisions, Work Together in a perfect alliance, but an alliance thats able to get stuff done including the lack and the only really significant Green Party Mayor in the United States. Really
Call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here, and im looking forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the isis threat and instability in the middle east, the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan African area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Ben, even with large letters i cant see anymore. [laughter] including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power africa legislation, which were all very proud of and appreciate the way the administration has led on that effort also, that we hope will help bring investment to a key sector for Economic Growth and opportunity. Whereas in the middle east we have been reacting to abhorrent state and terrorist violence and the uprooting of millions of people, in africa weve had the opportunity of years of influence thro
Service steps down is the Security Breach over or just beginning. Behind the picture 35,000 walruses converged on a slither of land in alaska. What the image says about their plight and climate change. We begin this hong kong where the call for democracy is growing stronger. Its 11 oclock thursday morning there now. Protestors have given the chief executive of hong kong a deadline to resign, saying they want him out of office by thursday night, or theyll begin to occupy government buildings. Scott heidler is amidst the tents and umbrellas in hong kong. What are you seeing this morning where you are . What we are seeing is a little bit of a shift. Not many protesters have come down to where we are. We are in front of the chief Executives Office. The main protest area is down the street a little bit. Again, dozens of protesters, its 11 oclock in the morning. Before we see a peak in numbers of protesters, but dozens have come down here. This is something we havent seen for a couple of day