And there is billions of dollars communities will be able to use for policing. And the frustrations of being the negotiator in chief, Infrastructure Talks between that Bipartisan Group of senators and the white house havent just hit a pothole, they are at the edge of a chasm over some big Sticking Points. The latest on that this just moments. Were following Breaking News as well out of the Supreme Court. A big decision on students free speech. It is an 81 ruling that former cheerleaders online profanity about her school is protected under the first amendment. Pete williams has read over the decision. What stands out to you . What stands out to me is who things. What the Supreme Court is saying here is that it is wiping out a Lower Court Ruling that said that schools can never punish students for what they say off campus. The court doesnt go that far. But it is the next best thing to that far as far as free speech advocates are concerned. Because the Court Suggests that the circumstance
Amy in philadelphia, a black mother who was attacked with her family in october by a horde of Police Officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia young was driving an suv with her twoyearold son and teenage nephew when officers descended on the vehicle, broke all its windows, assaulted and arrested young, pulled her 16yearold nephew frothe car, and grabbed her child. We will he rickia her own wordand speato her aorney. Then we look at how the ridehailing Companies Uber and lyft scored a major victory against Worker Rights with the passage of proposition 22 in california. Theyre now pushing similar measures in other states. With this passage, this will basicivers like me from protections afforded to most in the state. These companies are promising to roll out this model tionwide. It foretells a grim future for gig workers across the country. Amy we will look at other Ballot Initiatives around the country. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democr
Featuring events, interviews, archival films, and visits to college classrooms, museums, and historic places. As a big surprise to one of your grandfatherour shared his story late in his life. It was actually my husbands lthiest father a reporter who covers poverty and voting issues. It was because of this family experience. Was in it got started 1998, my fatherinlaw called us up one night out of the blue and said i have something i need to tell you. I have beenhing keeping inside for more than 60 years. When he was a teenage boy growing up in new york, he went to school one day and he came home and his father was gone and he never saw or spoke to his father again. He was not even quite sure what happened to them. He knew he had died a few years later but he did not know where he was taken and he did note his father had leprosy. It turned out that it was the hadic Health Service that taken him away and brought him. O carville it was a leprosarium that was run by the u. S. Government fo
My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her time as a grad student to go to work in the mid 1980s. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post after three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with caroline frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best books of the year and won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The National Book critics cir
Germanys Health Care System has not crashed yet. But hospitals were already understaffed, and the workload was too high before the pandemic. Despite all the problems, zinah has rediscovered her passion for nursing care. She couldnt even imagine quitting her job in the, in the stock. But for that she says, hospital working conditions would need to improve. Ok, heres a look at some of the other developments in this pandemic africa now has more than 2000000 confirmed coronavirus cases. Officials, a woman warning of an impending 2nd surge. Japan has hit a record daily high of more than 2000 infections. The Prime Minister is a maximum caution, but stopped short of calling for new restrictions. And china says nearly a 1000000 essential workers have been given doses of an experimental vaccine. And no serious Adverse Reactions have been reported. Fountains of people have marched through warsaw to protest against the tightening of polands abortion goes out term elections for fetal abnormalities