Event. My name is Curt Valentine and im your moderator for today. Todays event is sponsored by the reinventing americas schools project housed at the progressive policy institute. The project promotes a model of schools that we call 21st Century School systems or systems that provide parents with more choice and had more autonomy and returned for more accountability. The purpose of this webinar is to discuss whether giving parents the power to choose where their children attend school is a right or privilege. On this day, the second day of black history month, a month when america reflects on the krbl contributions and experiences to black americans and American History and lives up to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for all. We ask the question, is it a choice, is it worth the vigor, attention, debate for other rights we advocate for every day . Lets get started. Im going to ask everybody on my panel to introduce themselves and when were doing that well put up a poll. We wa
If you want to go to cuba we will give you a special visa and pay again. And pay again. So it was bizarre butthats no surprise to you or any other cuban. When we were there and one of the visits we werethere , miriam and i walked around. Of course i was visitingonly people. The me and we went to revisit some of the places of her child is in area where carmen and francisco at the church and all that is right there. She was so upset by the conditions that we found that she had not driving here to the building to file a complaint with the office because she was upset to show herhusband what had happened to her. The characters in the book who have now become friends were horrified that i would just walk into themunicipal building to file a complaint. But its horrifying to see the conditions that people lived in. Piles of garbage, the amount of insects and rodents all around. The municipal building, the people there were a little bit shocked that i had even gone in to try to talk to someone
Marion depalma and right ruth behar. Im the ceo of mbaf a National Accounting firm handcuffed in miami. At mba faa we are deeply committed to strengthen the community where our employees and clients live and work. Especially during thieves challenging times. The Miami Book Fair has been an institution of our great city for decades, and we are honored to support its mission to expand and strengthen miamis literary culture. Its my pressure to introduce this discussion between anthony and marion depalma and ruth behar, who authors admire. Anthony depalma send more than 20 years at the New York Times covering the people, politics ps and cultures of countries around the world but his focus most often foal latin america, especially mexico and cuba it and is cuba and its people that resonated with him most. Marion depalma, anthonys wife, was born on the island and came tos permanently in the United States in 1962. As i did myself as a child. Marian is therefrom the colonial town of a Historic
Title socialist. I think that would be a real burden for us in these states or congressional states we have to do well in. David if sanders is the nominee, how does it affect the Democratic Congress people in more moderate states . I think it will be challenging for them. If you look at polling on impeachment and all the things the house has failed to do last year. Floridians dont like socialism. I spent a lot of time in my district this last week and that is not something floridians support. David do you think the democrats lose control of the house if the nominee is sanders . I think it will be difficult for moderate democrats to overcome a Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket. Republicans will do what we can to associate him with the things nancy pelosi talked about. David nancy pelosi knows the score, presumably. Do you think the democrats will try to actively disrail the campaign of senator sanders . I dont see how they can stop hip. He won nevada by almost 27 points, 25 points
Flowed through china revealing how vulnerable Many Companies have become on the move new opportunities and new threats. The coronavirus has so far wiped 7 trillion dollars off wild stock since their record highs mid february the outbreak began in china which still has by far the most cases chinese factories dont just churn out cheap plastic exports anymore though they supply vital components to the tech sector Automobile Industry add pharmaceutical companies and the chinese are leaders in Artificial Intelligence and robotics so the partial shutdown of the chinese economy that was introduced to stem the virus is having a knock on effect for a colonies around the world. Its unprecedented i cant recall anything like it on our planet. In the call of yours if the coronavirus gathers speed and cripples more and more countries and in the worst case we could be facing a Global Economic situation like we had in 2008 and 9. Of us into the oppose it here were very optimistic we think it will be o