There was none of that for congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green who for years has spread lies and conspiracies rooted in bigotry. Greenes no longer the outlier in her party and the pervasive spread of lies, much of it on social media, has trickled down to exploit fears. When President Biden was sworn in i was just crying. I mean, i couldnt stop. It was that ugly cry that you do, just kept going. I was like, oh, my gosh, im seeing the funeral of our country. I went into panic mode. I called my mom and i told her, were all going to die. Were going to be owned by china. I might have to pull my daughter o you the of school because theyre going to take her. I was scared to death. Thats someone who does not believe the lies anymore but she wasnt forced to confront reality until trump left office. The spreads of qanon and likeminded conspiracy groups have left those outside the party looking in. So today republicans will have to go on record about what kind of party they want to have. More fro
With life programming. Please consider donating to help us continue our work. Please visit us at commonwealth club. You can find us and the description box below. Welcome to todays virtual program. I served as a supervisor in the city and county and most recently at the california director for bernie 2020 where i could work very close with sean campaigning for senator sanders. Theres not too many things more that scare me than writing a book. [laughter] and how to fight injustice. Sean will share with us a little bit about his journey and if you have a question and then reserve time at the end. And those that can order on the link that commonwealth put up but we encourage you so what the process was like theres nothing more difficult than telling your own story. We originally planned on doing this as a live event back in may with my book coming out in april. I love the bay and so many of my closest friends are there. We have five kids. We had all taken off of work and school and going
Karen bass, and several other members of the black caucus who you will be hearing from momentarily. Thank you for joining us on this emergency town hall meeting, living while black in america, 401 years later after our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles, we now that while we have come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. We are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continued to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and an economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic dislocation and in terms of death. And then, of course, youre dealing with the continued epidemic at the same time of Police Violence, Police
More First Responders here in the bay area are contracting the virus. For Sheriff Deputies did test positive. One of them was assigned to a Custody Division at county jail system. A second open Police Employee has covid19. They are both in self isolation now. Weve also learned his sergeant has the coronavirus. They are self quarantined and work partner is also isolating at home. That officer works with the special victims unit at the hall of justice in San Francisco. The Union Representing doctors and magoon a hostile hospital in San Francisco says that they are worried because 2 Staff Members have now tested positive for the coronavirus. Rejoin now live from laguna honda hospital, the city is saying they have adequate Safety Equipment to keep residents and staff were safe . That is what the city is saying. We try to get as close as we could. This is about as close as we can get. We went out a bit earlier today and the deputies said the entire campus is now close to visitors. In the me
Im heather holmes. Im andre senior in for alex savidge. The centers for Disease Control report more than 15,000 u. S. Cases of the coronavirus. A sharp jump from yesterday when they were just over 10,000. And numbers compiled by Johns Hopkins university are higher at over 18,000 infections. The number of deaths sup from 150 yesterday to 201 today. New york and ilnonotice have joined california issuing stayathome orders for residents. Health Officials Say there are 1,06 confirmed cases inical will, up from 675 yesterday. 19 people died. And we are getting word of at least three more deaths in the bay area too. In santa clara and one in contra costa county. In clair, the two people who died were both men, one in his 70s, the other in his 80s. This death underscores the urgent need for all contra costa residents to follow the stocks down 4 as we see more sprefd the widespread stayathome order, maintain economic toll on the social distancing, and also the state order just issued by coronav