A National Heritage site in chile very nearby they also looted shops all through one of the main avenues about 700 meters from where i am right now close enough to the main protest area where we could see the smoke and smell it and here of course the ambulances and the fire trucks that were trying to get to this area so they had clearly been marring what was supposed to be and many had hoped would be a peaceful protest workers in argentina are calling for the government to raise the minimum wage and protect jobs threatened by the coronavirus pandemic the economy was already in crisis before the pandemic hit its estimated just under half the population is living in poverty. Police in guinea have tried to break up crowds of opposition supporters who say their candidate center of delhi india alone has won the president ial election votes are still being counted off a conde as vying for the 3rd term in office. As a Senior Advisor to the Opposition Leader and he says theyre calling for calm
Prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters. First tonights program has americans finally which interpretation and live captioning. Just click your closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I want to thank everyone for taking questions towards the end. You can type them into the q and a box at the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading, we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanity for your important role, support for the National Endowment to humanity and i want to encourage virtual conversations to the historical society. On wednesday a hosting jesse wegman, discussing his argument on abolishing the electoral college, next week i am excited to Host National guests talking about autocracy. Author of the new book about the reporting on hiroshima, who will be talking to th
We begin on this sunday with the new numbers on covid19 as the 0 weh toll surpasses 800,00 are dividing. The eastern or pacific 202 7488002, those in the ,ountain region 202 7488001 those in the western regions 202 7488000. Passingh toll is now 800,000. In thethe pandemic began past week nine out of 10 countries with the most deaths per capita have been in south and Central America or the caribbean. In the United States, they have her in your sevenday average of about 1000 per day or two deaths , with more than 175,000 deaths recorded to date. Midwest,ee the south, and out west in california and parts of washington state. The political gridlock over this continues with this from House Speaker nancy pelosi. The house and the senate still not in agreement on the steps moving forward. [video clip] daysmorrow will be 100 since we passed the heroes act. It is even more urgent for us to have the values this is not a discussion about just dollars. It is about values and how we value the healt
Fundamentals to keep us a safe rather than investing in prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters, first tonights program to enable the live captioning click your caption closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I also want to invite all of you to share your questions to route the program we will take them towards the end and you can do that by typing them into the q a box which is also the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading prison by any other name we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue in brooklyn and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanities new york which has played an Important Role in funding tonights program with support from the National Endowment for humanities and finally i want to encourage you to come to future will virtual conversations. This week on wednesday we are hosting jesse New Yor
Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted