Today. Thank you to my friends and our support moderators for agreeing to share today to steer todays conversation. Thirtyfive years ago, david and i were involved in founding information been was to promote equal Access Representation in tech media and telecommunications through opportunity creation, Awareness Building and advocacy. Its opening our doors in 1986 and mtc has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve equal opportunity civil rights and social justice in mass media, broadband industries and close the digital divide. We are widely recognized as the leading Policy Advocacy Organization working at the intersection of Communications Policy, diversity and equal opportunity. What it does matters to both minority and female communities and the broader u. S. Democracy. Its most fitting thing that we host this gathering of those who formally left the countrys foremost Communications Policy making apparatus. Everyone in the Communications Space should listen well to the words and w
Consider colleagues, all are very accomplished and successful people and we are grateful to them for making time in their busy schedules to be with us today. Thank you to my friends and our support moderators for agreeing to share today to steer todays conversation. Thirtyfive years ago, david and i were involved in founding information been was to promote equal Access Representation in tech media and telecommunications through opportunity creation, Awareness Building and advocacy. Its opening our doors in 1986 and mtc has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve equal opportunity civil rights and social justice in mass media, broadband industries and close the digital divide. We are widely recognized as the leading Policy Advocacy Organization working at the intersection of Communications Policy, diversity and equal opportunity. What it does matters to both minority and female communities and the broader u. S. Democracy. Its most fitting thing that we host this gathering of those who
Coronavirus pandemic. The multicultural Telecom And Internet council hosts this event. The former chairs symposium. We arere glad you are here. I wont keep you long i just wanted to say a few words about the former chairs that we have here today. I can claim to know all of them. Some are close personal friends and have been for many years. Some, i have worked with and consider colleagues. All are very accomplished and successful people andnd we are very grateful to their information and their busy schedules to be here today. Thanks to my friends and our superb moderators, commissioners tate and Atul Steen. Years ago david and i were involved in founding mmtc. The mission was to promote equal Access Andse Representation in tech media and telecommunications through opportunity creations, Awareness Building and advocacy. Since opening our doors in 1986, weve worked tirelessly to promote and preserve equal opportunity, civil rights and social justice and the best media, Telecom And Broadba
What makes the mill you of sports so favorable to sexual abuse . Linda fish and nic, painfully they would see and decides to skip the kind of fun. Portland guide in this table to sport indian finds out for lunch or if youre keeping tional as close as long as the metals in money keep coming, they dont care. Ah, we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem. In fact, the why, from governments to the I O C. No one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people. Ah, i i ah, our investigation begin in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. This is the home of a former star of british. Stuart was a Premier League Footballer and plead for england. He had a successful career in waited a very long time before speaking up about what his coach did to him. One morning and late 2016 paul read an article in the Guardian Newspaper in which an extra foller, Andy Woodward described how
Response has been massive. So many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are together now love today, shocking allegations of sexual abuse were revealed, involving a former top us figure skating coach being circle. Thats also do you listen. You dont contribute to stop all external response. Me havent get into the, in recent years, theres been a wave of revelations about Sex Abuse in sport, or through all over the world. People are speaking out in 265 athletes have brought allegations of sexual abuse against larry nasser, the us olympic gymnastics, team doctor, i know now who you really are. A Child Molester and a master manipulator. More sexual abuse, accusations were raised by a group of shops before the coach of brazil, gymnastics teams that are in accused of sexually assaulting customers of young athlete. Sexual abuse is rife in all areas of sport, individual and teams. For amateur and professional sports, the athletes are often abused by the very people wh