Vote tonight on whether to accept harsh measures required by creditors. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed to defend the bailout, despite saying that he signed a deal he does not believe in. I overestimated the power that the people with the right on their side have, as well as the reactionary mike against the founding principles of europe which are a respect for democracy and peoples choices. What is the message sent to us by our partners . It is that there is no point for countries are in a program to hold elections, this is a very harsh message for europe. Amy president obama has continued his push to reform mass incarceration. Tuesday, he described the criminal Justice System as broken. Books the United States is home to 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Think about that. Our incarceration rate is four times higher than chinas. We keep more people behind bars than the top 35 European Countries combined. Become more of president obamas speech after head
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
The research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy, business losses wider ramifications of key technological trends and development. He testified before congress more recently on drums, privacy and intellectual property and also the broad for the Global Agenda Council and cybersecurity. John is going to go through the basics of sections of a note to and sort of like a onetoone introduction and for the rest of our program today. John, welcome good thank you for coming today. I realize theres probably some countrys top experts on seven of two of the room and perhaps people who know a little more. If youre one of the countrys top, you will learn nothing in the next 25, 30 minutes. The goal of this portion of the talk is to make sure we are all starting to think foundation. Im not going to argue in favor or against section 702. I am going to lay out the same place. My understanding is programmatically this one goes until 12 45 in the without much for you and will come back and
Programs Like Community Development Block grants and home, cut funding for Public Housing repairs by 70 . We all know the condition of Public Housing. And to cut their funding for repairs by 70 to eliminate funding for 250,000 housing vouchers next year. It reduces the funding for lead housing control to protect children from lead poisoning and other health problems. Senator portman knows in cities in my state, in housing built before senator portman and i were born, the house, the lead conte content, the lead exposure in those homes are overwhelming, in some cases according to the Health Department 99 of those homes have toxic levels of lead. Five months ago in this room dr. Carson scoffed at the notion that he would support a 10 cut in the hud budget. He said he understood from his experience as a pediatric neurosurgeon how it was far less costly to avoid lead poisoning than to treat it. I was one of five or six democrats who voted for his confirmation on the floor of the senate. I d
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, legislation that gives Government Authority to monitor internet activities of nonu. S. Citizens. The Stanford University Hoover Institute hosted this event. This panel is an hour and 15 minutes. Tiny little table. All right. We are about to get started again. There are still a lot of seats in the front, too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. Im russell wald, the manager manager here at the Hoover Institution. For our next portion of todays conference, we will focus on the law and Civil Liberties of section 702. Im going to do a very brief introduction of the esteemed panel and tush it over to the moderator. First i would start with Julian Sanchez whos a senior fellow at the Cato Institute where he focuses on the intersection of technology and privacy. Alex abdo is senior attorney with columbia universitys knight First Amendment institute. Formerly a senior staff attorney at the aclu where he has argued cases before the federal