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The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by rencheds jacob issac pack, beckley united pentacostal church, beckley, West Virginia. The chaplain lord, god, we want to say thank you lord for being a part of something bigger than ourselves, thank you god for trusting us with this awesome responsibility of continuing the great traditions. We thank you lord for the heritage of sacrifice that has been passed down by those who came before us. As we endeavor to continue in that noble heritage, we ask you for your wisdom and guidance and grant unity to your people. We ask that ...

Clinical. Com. Thanks sarah. Guest thanks so much. Next a discussion about balancing Law Enforcement and National Security with civil rights posted by the Muslim Public Affairs counsel in los angeles during their annual convention. Good afternoon everyone. For those of you i dont know my name is seema ahmad on the chair of the board of directors for the Muslim Public Affairs counsel. Thank you so much for joining us. Im personally thrilled about the Panel Discussion we have lined up first for you. I want to be doing very brief introductions for each of our speakers. We will kick it off with a ...

Security on one hand and civil rights and Civil Liberties on the other. Immediately to my left is professor jody armour a professor of law at usc teaching torts and criminal law and he has written and spoken to and simply about the criminal Justice System, race, mass incarceration and we are really to have the jody, thank you. Next to professor jody armour is mike downing former deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police department. Mike was with lapd for 35 years recently retired but gave his entire professional career to the department and is a very very special friend of the Muslim Public Affai...

Some faith providers from kenya on the subject of Family Planning. So i think it is true what the first panel really emphasizes, that things are evolving and developing and this is an important moment to be exploring this further. And with this panel were eager to talk about it from the focus of the u. S. Policy perspective. And i think to begin with well turn to sandy thurman. Given your long involvement with hiv policy from the u. S. Government can you describe to us more about how pep far began partners with faithbased organizations and how that has evolved. Sure. Thank you. And thank you a...

Here. It is interesting, the Faith Community has been a partner in response to hiv since the beginning of the epidemic both domestically and globally. So i think pet far was an out growth with faithbased organizations on the domestic side for a number of years. When we really began looking at the disproportionate impact of the epidemic in africa back in the late 1990s and early 2000, it was a lot our interest and a lot of the pressure that was brought to bear on the u. S. Government and policymakers was from faithbased organizations who were on the ground in africa seeing the devastation that ...