Behalf of the more than 19 Million People in our nation and half a Million People in michigan who show us every day what service and sacrifice and love of country is really all about. These patriots landed on beaches in normandy and their pacific theater, crept through jungles in korea, shed blood in vietnam, survived attacks in iraq, and fought terrorists in afghanistan. These people are heroes. They love our nation so much, theyre willing to put their lives on the line for our democracy, our people, and our way of life. Thats why it is so incredibly shocking and infuriating to hear the president of the United States, the commander in chief of our armed forces, disparage our veterans. President trump called them losers and suckers. Losers and suckers. He said he couldnt understand why anyone would join the military, because whats in it for them . He said veterans who have lost limbs shouldnt be in parades. Why . Because he couldnt handle seeing them, didnt think people would want to s
Meltdown. The american working class you starting in a way they have not been hurting since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Tens of millions of our fellow ireszens have lost their jobs. They lost their incomes, they have lost their health insurance. They have depleted their life savings. They cannot afford to pay rent, they cannot afford to put food on the table. And they are scared to death than any day now, it will get a knock on the door from the sheriff, evicting them from their homes and throwing them and their belongings onto the street. Mr. President , the United States of america, the riches country in the world. No man woman or child should go hungry. None of us should have to live in fear of becoming homeless. And no one should be the healthcare that they need especially during the worst Public Health crisis in 100 years. But that is precisely what isin going on all over our country as we speak this evening. Just the other day, national. R public radio, mvr releases survey
30 action this is the moment he goes on fighting we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the on the edges there are a. Growing number of iconic brands are pulling their ad down from states where we think its going to lead them to rising patagonia just sun on the companies doing stuff for Profit Campaign thats incredibly strong and advertisers to the point that facebook is for allowing both racist and violent and verifiably all this kind of rooted into a long term boycott. Hello im Richard Geres person youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week facebook gets hit by a big brand advertising boycott designed to get hate speech off the site will anything really change. China passes a new law in hong kong that has journalists there running scared well read talking heads and the bookshelves the just lose credibility plus with all those racist statues getting taken down who or what will take their place the 2 bigges
Growing number of iconic brands are pulling their ad dollars from face but only to think its going to lead them to rising patagonia just sound on the companys doing stuff for Profit Campaign thats incredibly strong and advertisers to be quite a focus for allowing whole range system violent and verifiable its kind of rooted into a long term boycott. Hello im Richard Geres person youre watching the listening post working from home here are the media stories were covering this week facebook gets hit by a big brand advertising boycott designed to get hate speech off the site will anything really change. China passes a new law in hong kong that has journalists there running scared well read talking heads and the bookshelves the just credibility plus with all those racist statues getting taken down who or what will take their place the 2 biggest news stories of 2020 the pandemic and the racial inequality protests have triggered what the United Nations calls a tsunami of hate speech a surge i
A new law in hong kong that has journalists there running scared well read talking heads and the bookshelves the just lose credibility plus with all those racist statues getting taken down who or what will take their place the 2 biggest news stories of 2020 the pandemic in the racial inequality protests have triggered what the United Nations calls a tsunami of hate speech a surge in phobia online the social media platforms involved now find themselves the focus of an advertising boycott a campaign called stop hate for profit that is designed to get them to clean up their act by hitting them where it hurts the primary target has been facebook for years Mark Zuckerberg and company have resisted demands to take a more active approach a harder line on moderating hateful content 909 percent of facebooks revenues 70000000000 dollars last year reportedly comes from advertising however given facebooks size. This boycott is unlikely to seriously damage its bottom line at least in the short term