For well over a year from his universe activists have been making full use of their constitution in trying right to protest against the economic policies president emanuel but the often uncompromising response in view sororities has raised disturbing questions about the appropriate use of force to police those demonstrations giuliana roofless has been to investigate claims from shes democratic principles of being a demotion. Barely a year old may 16th of march 29 teams yellow vest protesters were back on parish. A famous street that they felt appeared to my eyes the political and Economic System that had excluded them. Shops were broken into and fire snapped. It had become irrelevant strategy to protest without permission and in places of power where the government had never tolerated demonstrations protests that had been authorized by the government they said had failed to get results. The Police Responded with unmitigated force using military grade tear gas grenades and riot control
Coat our mistake we should admit but what is good is that the a. N. C. Did at some point listen to Civil Society and they did a tear to the will of the people and hence the many lives were saved. Or not note were going to shift to our audience whove been waiting here to come in. Here in the 2nd row thank you tamala balika while the state was being looted universities were being chronically underfunded and in 2015 in 2016 the Fees Must Fall Movement shook the country and put this on the National Agenda many of us suffered injuries from Police Brutality at the time in fact some students were killed Benjamin Petilla was killed by police how do you as an activist reconcile that the policing in south africa right now by the a. N. C. Is reminiscent of the policing and apartheid that you yourself were a victim of as an activist at the time thank you. I think when police have been brutal their law must take its course them as well and so we as government cannot be hippie with a bad elements am
Millions along to you i said did you agree with that assessment of i mean this is serious stuff we could law for 23000000. 00 on pools of amphitheatres in a country where half the population lives on less than 5. 00 a day you accept a net and lets use no its not a question of accepting or not accepting part of the challenge that we have is that part of that is actually Government Property which was actually for purposes of ensuring that there are Health Facilities nearby for the president to be able to be looked after or any of the stuff in 2016 there was a Landmark Constitutional Court ruling that said. Jacob zuma should pay some money but it also ruled against the National Assembly that you were speaker saying you would quote fail to fulfill its constitutional obligations to hold the president accountable thats a thats an indictment of you years a speaker of parliament is not an indictment of an individual because the individual actually does not determine the position that parliamen
There are emergency hot lines for Community Members to report i. C. E. Activity. The goal is to ensure individuals who are picked up have access to attorneys and their families understand their legal options. Reporter i. C. E. Plans to round up 2,000 undocumented immigrants who have received summons to answer charges of being in the country illegally but have ignored them. Reports say San Francisco is one of ten cities where i. C. E. Agents will stage raids beginning sunday. On monday, President Donald Trump tweeted about plans to deport 1 Million Immigrants just two days before he announced a 2020 reelection bid. In a written statement today, San Francisco mayor london breed had this reaction to word of this weekends raids. Quote, it is unconscionable that the federal administration is targeting innocent immigrant families with secret raids that are designed to inflict as much fear and pain as possible. San jose mayor sam liccardo said in san jose, we reject this administrations polit
Me a statue that he fought to get a wrecked in in 2017 so this is mrs maggie cleaned out walker. Born to an insulated mother Maggie Walker was the 1st black woman to charter a bank in the United States the st luke penny savings bank. Statues say to the community and say to the world this is someone whose fault to put on a on a literal pedestal that is a woman to be honored and that is a woman to be memorialized so thats what is so disheartening and despicable about the confederate statue because they fought for slavery. Sedition secession and racial segregation and so those are not honorable virtues for which to fight nor are they american there is no other country on the planet that honors and statuary the losers of a civil war itself that my ancestors who were burned be brutalized raped by a confederate confederate thinkers that is a constant symbol to me the confederate statue that we have now honoring a dishonorable man and a dishonorable cause and a dishonorable confederacy. Statu