Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
Thank you for joining us all tonight. For ideas and action with alisha garza and krista jackson. Im committee occasioned director for countrys Largest Online Racial Justice organization and im here to introduce. We are partnering with oneworld tonight to make a virtual space for critical conversation between editor in chief of oneworld, ms. Jackson, one of our powerful organizers and visions of alicia garza. In 2014 alicia wrote a Facebook Post that changed the world and created a movement. It read, black people, i love you. I love us. Black lives matter, that Movement Continues today. Tonight alicia will it discuss the importance of resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in a vision for collective humanity. A color change we believe everyday people are powerful enough to end the practices that are Holding Black people back and harming our country. We championed solutions that move us all forward. In the last two weeks we have held 6. 5 Million People take action for Ra
Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, and it is day 10 of the situation dealing with the civil unrest after the murder of mr. Floyd that we all saw on tv. The president held up the bible the other day in washington, d. C. Here in new york, we actually read the bible, and there is some passages that i think are especially appropriate for today and this time of where we are. Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of god. Matthew 5. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. That was mark 3. Actually, before abraham lincoln. Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace and work to maintain it. Psalms 34. The seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. I think those words are all appropriate for where we are today. Another quote that i think is applicable to where we are today. You cannot use the military as a political weapon. You remember who said that . I said that. Another quote the option to use activeduty
To my left is the lieutenant governor. To my right is the director of new york. With thatng the cover big warm smile he is famous for. Today is day 95 of the situation dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, and it is day 10 of the situation dealing with the civil unrest after the murder of mr. Floyd that we all saw on tv. The president held up the bible the other day in washington, d. C. Here in new york, we actually read the bible, and there is some passages that i think are especially appropriate for today and this time of where we are. Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of god. Matthew 5. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. That was mark 3. Actually, before abraham lincoln. Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace and work to maintain it. Psalms 34. The seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. I think those words are all appropriate for where we are today. Another quote that i think is a
You have been silent long enough , you can be silent one more day. But i have to tell you, you ask the whole community to come together. Look what happened. You have chosen the path of love , the path of perfect love that casts out fear. I want you to know that is the path not only to your own healing, but the path to the healing of the whole world. It is the path of partnering with god and redeeming the world. It is a difficult path. You have been asked to carry a burden that would have crushed most people. You have borne it with grace an courage. You called those who disrupted protest with violence or to honor georges life with love. You called a president who sought to dominate to live in a Peaceful World where we deliberate. You called those people whose perfect fear cast out anything that even looks like love with perfect love that casts out fear , and you have been a model for not just america, but for the whole world. And now we must follow your goo example. Calling out anything