Manufacturing jobs council. This event was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Here we go. Folks. Here we go, here we go thank you for coming. , i am david cook. From the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. Our guest grew up in the pennsylvania coal fields. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest United Mine Workers of america the youngest person in , history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. He brought the mine workers into the aflcio. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in and reelected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus end
We are literally the largest Minority Group in america and one in every five people in our nation have a disability. The majority of people have a loved one with a disability is 12 and we are the only Minority Group that anyone can join at any time due to accident, illness or aging. Respectfully is very proud to be a member of the ccd, a group of more than 110 National Disability organizations who want a Better Future for people with disabilities. As we have seen recently, overall the Disability Community is quite good at protecting key lifesaving benefits and advancing civil rights. So many great organizations already out there and so many fantastic leaders already in the Disability Movement already, why was there a need to get another disability organization. And what specifically is respectability trying to achieve . Respectability fundamentally is about the opportunity agenda. We know that people with disabilities and the people who love them wants opportunities for education, skil
Mountain home an escape from the ordinary. A former tech engineer captivated by the 3700 square foot house looks like a hawaiian retreat tucked away in the hills. Or at least it did until winters wrath arrived. For three days without a ton of rain. My weather station was showing three quarters of an inch an hour. Reporter rain water rushing down the slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Eroded the soil beneath his deck. It gave way sliding almost into the road. You heard a big snap and it was all the legs going because the rest of the hill went. And that is what is sitting down there now. Reporter the deck and the hot tub are complete losses. Cupping clear the mud and debris which finally reopened last weekend. But there are fears more rain could produce more slides and more damage. We might be in more trouble. With all the gopher holes and all the saturation of the banks and water coming different holes that are coming out uprooting the trees. I think were going to see more landslides. A
Some of his points about how important it is going to be moving forward i want to really hold that up because you know, palestine and my view will continue to be a central issue, but we are going to see so many communities under direct attack and what has happened with the Real Movement for a cognitive real organizing between communities will demand this kind of support, this kind of standing up for the most vulnerable among us. And finally common you know, eds is a tactic i shifted the way folks here are active on the issue of palestine. So i will talk a little bit more about bds specifically in the u. S. Its global and theres a lot going on all over the world. We know that boycott are not a new tactic necessarily. Palestinians have used it before and during the british mandate during the first thing to fontana, et cetera. The bds movement which dates to 2005 in the calls from over 170 Palestinian Civil Society organizations to the International Community has created an a new level of
Cspan two. S on the sunday morning we want to turn our attention to politics and the latest recordings released late last week by the showing donald, trump supposedly talking about being his own publicist as the miller. M john do these recordings matter . We will let you know in just a moment. In onand comments, coming the line for democrats. 202 also, share your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan, or send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. More on these recordings is Available Online. Quoting laura ingram, a conservative regular truck talk show host says the media is treating this like its watergate. It doesnt matter, he told chris wallace, questioning whether or not it matters at all. It is stupid, but this is going to heres a portion is released by the Washington Post, last week. Host donald trump claims that that is not his voice. We will hear from him and in his interview from friday, John Cassaday is writing about it this morning. This is the headline a trumpf characte