Author of the excellent book, give work, reversing poverty one brick at a time. Laura tyson, phd will be the moderator. Here is a challenge. Turn to someone you do not know in introduce yourself to get started. More fun with a new friend. [inaudible conversations] okay. That is like the perfect 32nd friendship. All right. Lets come back. This is our kind of audience. I hope you are like this when it comes to Live Audience questions. In exciting news we are the second event to take place in this auditorium. [cheering and applause] that is worth a round of applause. We are freshly moved into a brandnew home where 114 years old and we have been renting. This is really nice. Were incredibly excited and its possible because of donors and members like volunteers and attendees like you. Thank you for showing up and giving us a reason to build a brandnew building. Anyones first time here at the club . For people who do not know we are a nonprofits we can only do this and by this i mean more th
Book tv is on twitter and facebook if we want to hear from you. Treat us or post a comment on her facebook page. Good evening. How is everyone doing . [cheering and applause] this is my kind of crowd when you talk to the video. Weirdly, that gives me a good feeling. Everyone here is excited to be here and excited to talk to each other. My name is marissa, im intractable in four of here at the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to this [inaudible] tonights conversation will be moderated by laura tyson, phd at uc berkeley. I thank you already do this but here is a challenge. Turn to someone you do not know and introduce yourself before we get started. More fun with a new friend. [background noises] that is the perfect 32nd friendship. All right. This is my kind of audience. I hope you are like this when it comes to Live Audience questions. That would be good. In extremely exciting news you are the second event to take place in this auditorium. [cheering and applause] that is worth a round of app
Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
Prejudice, the small contractors but it is going to be good for the city. And it is going to reward, the good contractors, and the many good contractors, large and small, and who do good work for the city. And so, i do and i just scribe these amendments in the beginning i would ask that the committee would adopt them and to forward this item with the positive recommendation. Supervisor yee . Thank you. First of all, i also want to thank the public for coming out. And thank you for supervisor weiner for putting this forward and i am happy to as you mentioned join you as a cosponsor. On this and i think were right this is really the much of this will be on the shoulder of city staff to figure out the languages so that that is going to be effective when were talking about the subcontractors i felt like in the contractor can continues to keep on using the same bad subcontractors will be reflective how youll rate them for me advertised im not looking for the city to go after a after a contr
The deadly shooting that started it all. Our mary saladna begins our coverage at the breaking news desk. Mary. Mary maria, ed, the first images we are seeing am cofrom the cell phone of the victims wife. We want to warn our viewers, it is disturbing. Hes into weapon. Dont shoot him. Reporter keith scotts wife begging Charlotte Police not to shoot her husband. Dont shoot him. He didnt do officers with guns drawn move in on scotts truck. Edont have a gun. He is not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine. Reporter he pleads with the husband. Keith, dont let them break the windows. Come out of the car. Keith. Dont do it. Keith, get out of the are car. Keith, keith, dont you do it. Keith . Keith . Dont you do it. beep did you shoot tim . Did you shoot him . If. Reporter scott documents it all on the cell phone. Her husband now motionless. A Police Officer shot my husband and he better live. Reporter he was waiting for his sons school bus. Officers in the neighborhood ar