Property and just that theres a lot today sect here you were the former governor of minnesota where george played with killed so i want to hear from you what is your reaction to these terrible events well version of my reaction 5 to these events are really this 1st and foremost as a former governor and a former mayor this is the worst situation as an elected official you could possibly could put into because its a no win situation in many ways youre between a rock and a hard place and what i mean by that is simply this no matter what decision you make someone is going to vehemently oppose it and let the world know about it so its a tough position to be and now moving forward this affects me a great deal bridgette a because of this what youre seeing on t. V. In minneapolis is my neighborhood lake street i grew up there from aig. 0 to 18 you saw it youre seeing on t. V. Right the dividing line that used to be Roosevelt High School and South High School i went to minneapolis Roosevelt Hig
Institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country super wealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a normal fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut from donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not as good to. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic G
Cities across the United States over the last few days fueling protests went on following the killing of george Floyd Atlanta Los Angeles Chicago philadelphia minneapolis and washington d. C. Were among some of the cities that imposed curfews still protests continued protests that began peacefully ended in may 1 windows were smashed buildings were vandalized and Police Vehicles were set on fire stores and even Small Businesses were looted a number of retailers including target c. V. S. And walmart all temporarily closed some of its stores are cross the country nearly 5000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were deployed in 15 states and in washington d. C. And more than 4000 protests were arrested actually banks is reporting from minneapolis. My dear any of the people who are divorced lloyd was killed by her job in the boat a week ago today great. Well there are about 50 to 75 people who are looking down flour or something at all ready to leave for those who knew him and they feel that
A good question the boy is bigger than george floyd and its bigger than the criminal Justice System so were going to things with the black lives matter protest in 20131415 was really this argument and understanding that americas criminal Justice System is in fact a gateway to panoramic systems of racial oppression and economic impoverishment so this is about the criminal Justice System in the way in which United States over the last 52 years went from the Great Society in a war on poverty to a war on crime that criminalize the entire Africanamerican Community and were thinking about whether people are poor or rich in the context of everything from racial profiling to an equal sense as between blacks and whites for committing the same crime so we think about why are people protesting people are protesting because one they want policy changes and transformations they want to change the money thats being spent in the criminal Justice System and have that invested in communities that are a
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