due to reopen as a mosque for friday prayers after more than 80 years as a new. i m kyra trades and welcome to the show anger and on rest are growing in the united states following president trump s announcement that he will send federal troops into several democrat controlled cities he says they re needed to deal with a surge in violent crime but the trump deployment of federal forces already operating in portland oregon has been targeting protesters demanding racial justice but the mayor himself caught in the crossfire. very. big statements it s hard to bring the mayor of portland tear gassed by said row offices in the middle of these own city. ted willow was in a group of protesters outside a federal courthouse he said he saw nothing which provoked this response but. the irony is portland protesters are angered that the democratic man had backed his own city police using tear gas until a federal judge ordered it should only be used when there was a safety issue. for the 55
this talk is part of the civil war institute civil war conference, about an hour. good morning again. i am peter carmichael. member of the history department at gettysburg college. i m also the director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you patrick green who s an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. i should note he s also the father of one of our high school scholarship recipients from last year, correct? she came here and enjoyed herself i m sure. patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood, a new history of nat turner s revolt published by oxford university press. it is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. and as we all know undergraduates, they re tough customers when it comes to books. they absolutely enjoy mr. green s scholarship and especially his writing. it is a bold book, it is an important book and one of the things that patrick and i talked about it is
every year because of the dedicated members of the a.d.a. celebration committee, and that s a group of 30-some odd representatives of the community that makeup the a.p.a. community. so if you are a member of that group, can you please raise your hand? okay. everyone give them a hand. [applause] want to thank you so much for being part of the a.p.a. team. now please give a warm welcome to our president and founder, claudine ching. thank you, scott. [applause] thank you, everyone for helping to come celebrate lunar new year. today is the third day of the new year. some of us were in chinatown for the first day of the year with mayor breed, and when i friend, walter wong, celebrated the biggest celebration in chinatown with eight pigs, is that right? and firecrackers, so i want to acknowledge of the presence of the mayor who will be speaking shortly and the members of the council and community members of the so eve members. every year, we kick off events in the community
one day? i think we are planning on the one day. we talked about both, the week and the day and at this point we are talking about most things happening that one day, which is april 16th. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. we will see you in two weeks. any public comment? announcements? motion to adjourn. so moved. so moved. thank you. my name is randy shaw and i m a director of the tenderloin housing clinic appeared eight years ago, in january of 2011, i realized there was something really wrong with the tenderloin , that we don t have enough lights period people say they don t feel safe in the tenderloin at night, and it is because we don t have streetlights. just coincidentally with that, see pmc was planning on building a new hospital cpmc was planning on building a new hospital. and i thought the biggest impact would be all the cars driving up the street to get to the new hospital so that it was really important for the pedestrian safety of the
talk about her legislation which she s introduced. supervisor peskin gave us a few details on something he will be putting forward. basically saying after someone does has not registered as a vacancy, that time has come up. the city he s proposing we begin fining those people on a daily basis if there are long-term vacancies. the conversation conference was attended by the long beach business association and called out the fact in our neighborhood two landlords have 21% of all the vacancies in our commercial district and we need to be calling these people out and these are the kind of people we need to crackdownon. crackdown on not the small business owners who have had their space have a can t only for a short time. we have happy we got some press and encourage all the other neighborhoods to do the same. get out there and call out the names of the worse offenders and let s get going on making it possible to rent these storefronts. many in our neighborhood have been empty