Good afternoon, everybody. Oh, my gosh. You to full familiar faces, lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss a
This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss an important topic, which is antipoverty. The congresswoman recently packageut a legislative called they just society.
Issues. She also took questions from her constituents. This is about two hours. Hi everyone. [cheering] how is it going. [applause] good afternoon everybody. Hey malika. Lots of beautiful familiar faces, lots of people new faces. Welcome everybody. We are super excited, this is our monthly town hall and we are really excited and of course we are on track, we have not skipped a single month so weve kept on track for their promise at the beginning of the term, at least one town hall per month and this is nine out of nine town halls in addition to many, many local Community Events that we have been participating in. Very quickly before we start i want to acknowledge everyone here, our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Id like to acknowledge them. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. There we go. And marcus, sorry. Marcus is live streaming. Destiny, sorry and forgetting everything. And we have Translation Services this year today shes and we also have apollyon transla
Inquiry. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are rep. Ocasiocortez hi, everyone. Hows it going . Hey. Lots of beautiful, familiar faces. Lots of beautiful, new faces. This is our monthly town hall. We have kept with our promise of the beginning of our term commuy events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss an important topic, which is antipoverty. The con
Senate democrats have rebelled against president obama over the tpp, the Transpacific Partnership. What we have just witnessed is the Democratic Senate shutdown the opportunity to debate the top economic priority of the democratic president of the United States. Amy we will speak to lori wallach of Public Citizens global trade watch. Then we look at how the fbi has been caught spying on activists in texas who tried to stop the construction of the keystone xl pipeline. And it was 30 years ago today when the Philadelphia Police bombed the headquarters of the radical group known as move killing six adults, five children and destroying 65 homes. We heard the loud explosion. The house kind of shook, but it never entered my mind that they dropped a bomb on us. Amy wheels it to professor journalist. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded after an amtrak train