Page 21 - Left Progressive News Today

Citys homeless czar about his efforts to get people off the streets. He is a bay area native that is back playing for the oakland raider. We catch up with t. J. Carry on his Community Work during the offseason. Yes, i did pick one of my favorite songs. Dont go breaking my heart elton john. The weather story is going to change in the next 12 hours or so. Rain is coming back. I am gasia mikaelian. Sal castaneda, mike mibach along here. Mid 70s. I love that song. I know every word. We are going to ...

With amy goodman on q and a. Susan newsmakers is pleased to welcome this week congressman raul grijalva, a democrat representing arizona three. He is the cochair of the progressive caucus in the house of representatives and a longtime member of the hispanic caucus and the senior democrat on the National Resources Natural Resources committee. Thanks a lot for being with us this week. Rep. Grijalva thank you. Appreciate the invite. Susan on the political level, you are among the very first members...

Members of congress to endorse Bernie Sanders in his president ial campaign as well. Rep. Grijalva thats true. Susan let me introduce the two reporters who will be asking questions this week. Jason dick, cq roll call deputy editor, and mike debonis, Washington Post congressional reporter. Mike, you are up first. Mike thanks, susan. Congressman as susan mentioned, you are among the first supporters of Bernie Sanders in congress. We are at a point now in the campaign were we are looking at where t...

So but you know, it is the way we were brought up some socalled standardized english was what we spoke. It was not surprising to me. I am getting a wrap sign. You want to see the debate. Take two more. Okay. Beautiful woman in the back. You mentioned in the beginning that you grew up in terms of class and then structuring class and class, upperclass, lowerclass. Are you surprised that today most we still live in that manner, especially with a lot of gentrification that is going on now. No. No. A...

Buyer of u. S. Weapons. Country that is invading other countries and actually killing lots of innocent people. It is saudi arabia. Look at yemen, the thousands of minute people killed. Crushed the uprising in bahrain where i have been teargassed and saudis crushing this beautiful nonviolent peoples uprisings, and where were most of the hijackers from on 9 11 . So i could go on and on. I should go on and on. I should say, what. The internal rerepresentation door re repression in saudi arainarch a...

Host Medea Benjamin, one of the books youre reading this peter schrag dares clinton cash. Why . I am reading that book because i have been looking at saudi arabia. And why is it that there is all this talk about iran and the bad regime, but if you want to look at a really bad regime, look at saudi arabia. A country that has been responsible for spreading extremist ideologies all over the world, the country that is the largest buyer of u. S. Weapons, the country invading other countries and killi...

Coming up next, contributors and editors from the book the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement, discuss their personal experiences and that movement. The Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office Hosted this event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. Of thee director Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start du...

This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Me...

[inaudible] [inaudible] welcome. Thank you for coming out today. Im james taylor. Good afternoon and thank you for coming to the Commonwealth Club of california. The place where you are in the know. You can find us online at Commonwealth Club. Org or on facebook and twitter and on the youtube channel. Im james taylor, professor politics and director of africanamerican studies at. I also teach at uc berkeley. Your moderator for todays program. Today we have the pleasure of hosting david brock, th...

Delighted to see you hope you had a happy new year and ready to hit the ground running i should tell you those of you who know she officially assumed the position yesterday but i can assure you during the month of december she met on a number of occasions with mr. Anyone art to discuss the issues including the drafting of the button and the implementation regulations that are going to be the subject matter of this monk meeting so that although it is unrealistic to expect her to address both of t...