Politics, the ongoing wars in the middle east, u. S. Empire, and working with the late historian howard zinn and more. In the Police Boycott of director plus films of speaking out against Police Brutality. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Doctors without borders has released an internal report on the u. S. Bombing of its hospital in kunduz, afghanistan. The airstrike killed at least 30 people, including 13 Staff Members, 10 patients, and seven unrecognizable victims get to be identified. Doctors without borders has said the strike appears to be a war crime. In a report describes patients burning in a beds, medical staff who were decapitated and lost limbs, and Staff Members shot from the air while they fled the burning building. The report described doctors and other medical staff thing shot while running to reach safety in a different part of the compound. Doctors without borders says it provided the
Please wait outside if you care to speak submit a speaker card to make sure youre aware your name has been called for a particular item okay. As soon as an overflow room is made available ill let you all know where that is id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner wu commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner moore and commissioner richards thank you, commissioners commissioners, the first item on your agenda is item for continuance item one the go affordable unit general plan amendment and two Affordable Housing bonus planning Code Amendment and next Affordable Housing and public Zoning District are proposed for that continuance until december 3rd, 2015, item 4 at 1126 irving street has been withdrawn i have a number of speakers commissioners. Okay. Opening it up for Public Comment for continuances Katherine Howard calling names and if you all want to line up on that side of the room pent. For those members of the publ
That, freshman congressman mark walker of north carolina. State legislators from maryland, north carolina, illinois, new york, and missouri part in aook discussion on race relation and responsibility. Many of them are from places that have recently received significant Media Attention on race relation issues. Thank you all. It is a great honor to be here. Engaged with such a distinguished panel and i know that they are known to all of you, but just for the purposes of the record i would , like to acknowledge who is on the panel. We will proceed by way of posing some questions, asking our panelists to talk about some of the very crucial issues that we are all facing at this time. First, we have the honorable catherine she has been a Public Servant for over 20 years and been a part of the baltimore Maryland City council. She is currently the majority leader that is the best politician for getting the job done by the city paper. She has been an entrepreneur by trade and currently also som
Center of policing. He is an advocate of the just the database as a solution to weighing public trust and solutions. He worked with the Salt Lake City Police Department from 1991 until his retirement of june of this year, where he was appointed to chief of police in march of 2006. He has been selected of the member of the enlightened 50 most influential leaders in the state of utah and one of the six Police Chiefs in the nation to discuss with president obama regarding gun violence. I could go on, but i think we would much rather hear from these people, then hear about these people. At this point, i am going to raise a couple of questions, and hopefully get a lively discussion in hear from them about the Important Information and work that they have been doing. In many respects, you all represent baltimore, South Carolina, illinois, new york, missouri, there is a powerful thread that really connects all of these places and a kind of racial the accuracy. These are all places where over
The south during the u. S. Civil war, that the winners would want cuba because there had been a lust for taking cuba for decades previously. This had been this effort to make cuba a state of the United States of america. So thats one idea thats sirlating in the circulates in the minds of the rulers in cuba. Another idea thats circulating is they should be in solidarity with their comrades who are slave owners in the south in order to defeat the north. But then again, as i said if the south had won, the south would be after cuba ousting the spanish. But in any case, at the end of the day they decided to open their ports to the Confederate States of america, socalled. But after the defeat of the Confederate States of america there was tremendous pressure on cuba to abolish slavery, and a bloody war e erupted to that end leading to the rise of a figure who may be known to many of you. Im speaking of antonio ma say owe. Like many of you know, he was considered to be a hero amongst black am