Textile industry in africa was pretty stable. Or at least until the liberalization of the market opened the door for cheaper competition from asia. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost, mostly in south africa, nigeria, kenya and in ghana. There, nine out of 10 textile workers lost their jobs, leaving only 3,000 today. Product piracy is adding to the woes of ghanas fabric producers. They are proud of their unique designs and traditional techniques. But just as for the big fashion brands like adidas or chanel while consumers like their style, they increasingly shy away from the cost. Reporter makola market in the ghanaian capital accra is a paradise if you love color. There are gaudy fabrics with new patterns, but traditional wax prints with ageold designs are the most popular. Here cloth is bought the way readymade clothes are in europe. Customer when i am going for a special occasion or some occasions that i need to wear something with a name, i come to buy the ones with names. And
His were rebellious times where the echoes hung in the air. Common people who fought privatization and enclosure of land and found themselves executed and incarcerated en masse because they demanded a natural born right to the comments. Paine apprenticed, a professor took off as womens lives, not just our waists, were being shrunk from robust vital things, equal participants in life to child readers, in closed domestic objects. At least women of a certain class. In 1757, paine went to see the king of prussia as sailors and pirates protested impressment, forced labor, Forest Service in the military. Paine stood up against impressment and the rights of men. Avoid ship as a story and has taught us, he wouldve served with people from all over the world including africans, irish and blacks from the caribbean. He would have participated or at least witnessed their grumbling and perhaps their rebellions on board ships. He certainly was aware of their rebellions against the british throughout
[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Privilege. Other other issue energy independence. What did you propose that is different . We have to wean off fossil fuels. Investing in alternate Energy Resources while engaging in an all of the above strategy. We are getting to the point where we are exporting natural gas. But we have to have the all above strategy. Not drill baby drill. Who is the next generation of leaders in congress . Would you like to be speaker of the house . I am focused on what is in front of me and that is doing the best i can for the 23ered congressional district. Who is the next generation of leaders in the house . On both sides. There are a number of members on both sides of the aisle that are building toward positions of leadership but i think probably better to leave that question to others. I know nancy has her list and i was included in and pleased to be asked to be a part of the leadership and serve. So you know, right now, we have to focus on working together and getting things turned around. First
Reporter as millions of people flooded the system, the government web site for Obamacare Health care. Gov temporarily broke under the strain. The main page went from apply now to this please wait. And then for a time the system went down. Please try again later it said. And this is the web site used by 34 states. Several States Running their own exchanges also had delays. In washington state, the web site closed down. Administration officials said the federal site was overwhelmed by 2. 8 million visitors a number they never expected. White house Senior Advisor david seamus said the problems drew an allout response from web site technician at the department of health and human services. We expected a slow rampup and what we saw today was an overwhelming response that exceeded even what weve seen in medicare in any given day. So it was a good start. We identified problems. Tomorrows going to be better. Reporter despite the delays and inconvenience, the white house argued the high numbers