In their communities. Next, juma ventures, which strives to break the cycle of poverty by helping youth through work, education, and financial capability. Then we highlight the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, considered by many to be the leader in hispanic philanthropy, inspiring greatness for families and children by, among other things, increasing the number of latino students that excel in high school to enter and graduate from college. The president and ceo and former mayor of san Jose Ron Gonzales will join us for that. For more information on the project innovation, that will be coming up later on our show today. Well, our first group deserves an award just for its name. Hack the hood is an awardwinning nonprofit that helps working class youth of color harness their talents and creativity while also contributing to the vitality of their communities. As we said, hack the hood helps them by hiring and training them to build websites for small businesses, and along with it bu
The rhetoric is much more aggressive much more pursuit for us the agenda is much more pernicious and its become a centerpiece of u. S. Partisan politics the whole russia gate issue troubles announced he had signed an executive order to keep the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center open that is despite get mo becoming notorious for various human rights abuses including torture from the predecessor barack obama vowed to close the facility back in two thousand and nine but was blocked by congress and was never able to deliver on that promise. In the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists only to meet again on the battlefield including the isis leader. Who we captured who we had who we released. So today im keeping another promise i just shy. Prior to walking in an order directing secretary to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay thank you when trump came into power he said not only that he bel
Supervisor peskin good morning. Welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for tuesday 13th 2018. Alberto, could you call the roll please. roll call supervisor peskin could you please call the next item . Item two, an information item citizens advisory report. Good morning chair peskin and vice chair tang and members of the Transportation Authority. I will be presenting the report today. Starting with item five on the agenda, approval for allocation of appropriation of propk funds, but there were concerns about the lack of lighting on bayshore, cesar chavez, potreto and if the project budget could be increased. There was discussion about the muni tracks that fit the market being in Poor Condition and the bart grades presenting a hazard as well that inquires course coordination with bart to remedy. With regard to item 6, the approval of the expenditure for clean air program, in particular appreciate the c02 reduction even though its not criteria for the chief sca. A major item of d
Williams. Sworn in after a confirmation by the United States senate. As assistant attorney general, she serves as the primary and as the chief regulatory officer here at the department. Prior to becoming the assistant ag she was a litigation and pel ant partner where she focused on First Amendment litigation. From 20005 to 2006 severed as special counsel and assisted with a and associate justice sam mall junior to the United States Supreme Court. She graduate from the Harvard College with a degree in history and literature and earned her law degree from harvard law school. As the harvard journal of law and Public Policy and i turn it over to beth williams. Thank you so much patrick. On behalf of ft office of legal policy, i want to thank the attorney general, the and associate attorney general and rachel for their leadership on this t. Im proud to be working with the department to take steps to fight Human Trafficking. Im happy to with here with this panel discussing the department of
Killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. There were eleven of us in the vehicle only i survived the other ten people including my parents and cousin were all killed why didnt they see the children and women while they were carrying out the bombing why did they say theyre able to protect everything on the ground from the air and then when they observe people on the ground why do they target us over the last year the United States dropped more than four thousand bombs in afghanistan its reported that twice as many airstrikes were carried out in the space of just a few months compared with the last two years combined Robert Naiman the director of the group just Foreign Policy says washington apparently has no strategy to end the longest war in u. S. History. There is no way to do this kind of bombing without producing civilian casualties the main problem is the escalation the f