Who blows up churches and kills christians, i think youve lost track of whats going on. If you were to send a message to christian leaders in the united states, in government or churches, or just citizens who care about their religion, about their fellow human beings christians, what would you tell them . I would remind them that when the state of israel was created, it was not created on empty land, it was created on land where millions of indigenous palestinians lived, including palestinian christians. And. Our numbers continue to decline, and so we ask you, listen to us, talk to us, and my message as a christian leader right now is that there is a very very brutal war going on in the gaza strip, which i described as genocide, because that this is a war in which even famine is being used as a remedy and fellow christians are suffering because of this war, the time has come. Christian leaders, to recognize that war is not the answer, be it iraq, afghanistan or libya, when we realize t
I always say that it seems to me that many christians in the west repent of the sin of antisemitism, they repent on our soil in sin committed on their land. So, to answer your question, no, i do not think the bible condones or calls for unconditional support for political education. I think the bible calls us to be Good Neighbors to all people, jews, muslims, buddhists, atheists, i think the bible calls us to love everyone and not show. We ask you to listen to us, talk to us, and my message to christian leaders right now is that there is a very, very brutal war going on in the gaza strip, which i described as genocide because it a war in which even famine is used as a remedy, fellow christians are suffering because of this war, it is time for christian leaders to admit that war is not the answer, be it iraq, afghanistan or libya. When we realize that war does not help, when we take seriously what jesus said about the peacemakers about mercy, there must be other ways, so i would invite
Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally about talking about the bigger and bolder issues. We have a great panel here today. They are going to be with us talking about issues. Im going to let each person kind of say whatever they want to about themselves, other than a brief introduction, everyone has five minutes to make initial comments. And then we will ask a couple questions from the panel based on that discussion and then well like t
Cspan programs are available at cspan. Org on our homepage or by searching the video library. Next a look at the first days of the Trump Presidency with Political Consultants and professors from university of southern california. They discussed Public Opinions based on polling from before and after the election. This is one hour and a half. Good morning. Im bob shrum, director of the Unruh Institute politics, on behalf of the institute the Political Science department, the door inside college of letters arts and sciences. Welcome to the next and this is a conferences that we are holding designed to bring together a lyrical actors, journalists and academics to discuss major issues and inflection points. We have two changes today. First anthony who was close to President Trump phoned yesterday to say he had been summoned to a meeting in washington. Ambassador who was in china when she accepted this conference put the date and time into her phone there. And so she showed up yesterday prim
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a