The new teach frer a screen. This as the district and the Teachers Union are butting heads over how Distance Learning is going to work for everyone this semester. Melissa colorado joins us live from oakland with more on what the district superintendent is saying about the start of the new school year. Melissa, parents cant be happy with this. Reporter you know, the superintendent called it unprecedented and weird. She used that term to describe the first day of school or the first day of zoom here at ousd. Right in front of the Oakland Tech High School which is obviously closed. But earlier today we saw a line of students and parents coming here to receive textbooks as well as chromebooks. Now, we got some new attendance numbers. The district says attendance numbers are still coming in but so far more than 21,000 students showed up or, i should say, logged on to their first day of school. The district anticipates that number to grow as more students receive chromebooks and hot spots th
Most recent president ial nominee has delivered a speech condemning the president ial front runner. Donald trump is a phoney, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from front university. In utah, mitt romney was unrelenting. The 2012 g. O. P. President ial nominee attacked trump as immoral and cruel, and said america would be led into the abyss. His domestic policies would lead the recession. Foreign policies would make america less safe. He has neither the temperament or the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities means that america is a shining city on a hill. Romney listed the quality one by one. The bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogamy, the thirdgreat theatrics, at a rally in main, trump fired back. Midis a failed candidate, he failed. Reporter trump noted it was mitt romneys loss four years ago giving president obama a second term. He said romney had everything going for him during the 2012 protection. Election. Including his endorsement. I
Imagine your children and grandchildren act being the way he does. He should have won. Live from new york city, im tony harris, and we begin with that war of words between donald trump and former president ial nominee, mitt romney. Aljazeeras David Schuster joins me with more on all of this. David. Tony, this is the first time in political history that a partys most recent president ial nominee has delivered an entire speech condemning the partys current frontrunner. Donald trump is a phoney, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. In utah thursday, donald trump was unrelenting. The former president ial nominee attacked trump as immoral and cruel and said that he would lead america into the abyss. His domestic policies would lead to recession, his foreign policies would make america less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president , and his personal qualities would mean that america would cease to be a shining city on a hill.
Presentation, a brief presentation of the book and its main issues, history by Katherine Franke and Katherine Franke is a professor of law. The director of the center for gender and sexuality law, which is a wonderful institution that we are happy to collaborate with and she is the author of wedlocked the preils of Marriage Equality, nyu press 2015 just recently out. Catherine has been working on marriage, gender justice, transgender justice, issues of gender and grace in the law. She is a legal theorist, academic, activist public intellectual and an amazing human being. I am happy to be celebrating her that afternoon. Our speakers will go in this order with first Patricia Williams who is the james dorr professor of lot condit. She is the author the blonde goddess. You no doubt know her through her monthly column for the nation magazine entitled diary of a mad law professor in which you can subscribe to add ww w mad law professor. Our second speaker will be mignon moore is associate pr
Editorial more and reward and in the end instead of six hours we went close to ten hours. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon. I am the director of the institute for research on women, gender and sensuality and it is a great pleasure and great honor to be used this afternoon to moderate this panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book, a book on marriage eat quality by catherine frankie. What we are going to do this the afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion. We have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and introduce them all briefly altogether and they will speak in deep water that we determined. It is all going to begin with a presentation of the book end its main issues of history by catherine frankie. She is the professor of law, director of the center for gender and sexual along which is a wonderful instit