Is a guy who had the idea for a brain initiatives and i love that about him. With great pleasure, i give you chaka fatah. [applause] first of all, let me thank each of you for coming. This is an extraordinarily important and i hope you will find it an enlightening briefing on one of the major challenges we face. There were hundreds, well over 500 related diseases and disorders, but postTraumatic Stress is a challenge at the very forefront of the issues. I know you have heard from the general a significant percentage. 40 of our angers holger is over this period that the nation has been at war. Their injuries are in the post Traumatic Stress. So whether it is in terms of the work that one mind is focused on, which has been at the cuttingedge. I know youve heard about it today so i wont repeat it. I want to make room for other guests. I want to say a few things. I want to thank the Dana Foundation and thank alan for the gracious introduction. I found these have helped build the kind of fe
Sometimes worked within it. They help us see how the politics of religious pluralism intersects with american empire with global migration and with free market capitalism and how local and state actors shape the meaning of religion in american life. At a time of growing religious diversity and of growing conflict over what it means to assert religious values in the public sphere today. These histories can offer valuable insight into the controversies. Were facing some quick introductions of our panelists and then ill turn it over to them first. Well hear from carly bariant whos phd candidate in the committee on the study of religion at Harvard University where she works on the history of American Religions and politics with a focus on United States empire missionaries and militarism in the pacific. Before graduate school carly lived and worked in the republic of the Marshall Islands, and shes finishing up a dissertation entitled for the good of mankind marshallese missionaries militari
Fire chief even lost his house. Didnt the get any pictures out, thats the bummer to lose all your pictures. We have four kids. Just all those family memories are gone. Its the same across for everybody here. Tonight residents are being es courted in to salvage what they can. Everyone fortunate they made it out with their lives. It is just fortunate that we are all safe. Thats all that matters. We are back here live. This wasnt just one home, dozens and dozens of houses. We can pan here and you can see the view from just this streit street alone. They are digging through the ash trying toal advantage belongie item. Evak evacuatin ons, about 1500 people. Ifs they will be out here for days putting out the hot spots. Reporting live from weed. The fire in weed is one of eleven burning in california. The largest is the happy camp fire, has burned more than 100,000 acres. King fire more than 11,000 acres. Mandatory evacs in the area of paula pines, 60 miles east of sacramento. More than a tho
Sometimes worked within it. They help us see how the politics of religious pluralism intersects with american empire with global migration and with free market capitalism and how local and state actors shape the meaning of religion in american life. At a time of growing religious diversity and of growing conflict over what it means to assert religious values in the public sphere today. These histories can offer valuable insight into the controversies. Were facing some quick introductions of our panelists and then ill turn it over to them first. Well hear from carly bariant whos phd candidate in the committee on the study of religion at Harvard University where she works on the history of American Religions and politics with a focus on United States empire missionaries and militarism in the pacific. Before graduate school carly lived and worked in the republic of the Marshall Islands, and shes finishing up a dissertation entitled for the good of mankind marshallese missionaries militari
Get the United States congress to tighten gun control laws. The president was announcing what he would do by executive action without congress when the memories of these victims, 20 first graders from newtown, connecticut, six or seven years old, choked mr. Obama in midsentence. Every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. And, by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. Pelley there have been 13 mass killings during the obama presidency. And republicans voted against gun legislation. Last month, after san bernardino, mr. Obama decided to act on his own. Given the limits of his power, his actions today are not sweeping. The most significant simply expands background checks for gun sales online or at gun shows. Currently, about 40 of sales have no background checks at all. Chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford is at the white house. And from every family who who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Reporter it