My name is theo tyson. It is my distinct and sincere pleasure to welcome you and our speaker christina wolbrecht, this evening. Before we begin, i want you to please take note of the two emergency exits that are marked at the front and rear of the room. If you will also take a moment to please silence your cellphones so that we do not disrupt this fascinating top. While you are doing that, i would love to share with you and installation that i have recently curated on our north while entitled anti suffrage. Using materials from he boston athenaeum special collections, we take a look at how the Suffrage Movement contributed to be designing womens roles and responsibilities and society from various perspectives as they abide for quality. It represents the complexities to secure and protect Voting Rights for women and people of color in the past and today. Please take a look after the top. Id love to hear your feedback. If you have any questions ill be here to answer them. I should also m
The oranges we have seen the past couple of days once the sun eventually does come up, you will notice that the air the smoke has a bit of a tinge to it but its going to look more just and healthy than anything else air quality continues to deteriorate and now almost all of the bay area is in our very worst category as far as air quality goes this is the worst weve ever put on this smoke map. Not all season long so far weve seen some bad air so far but as that smoky level continues to sink further and further down. Now this is where were sitting and likely will be sitting throughout the course of the rest of the day so its not just fog. Its a lot of smoke imbedded within that fog thats making its way on shore visibility in Half Moon Bay below a mile right now San Francisco also has some visibility problem spots as do the hills above the east bay and fog is going to be sitting with us for some time so do expect kind of a gloomy start to this friday morning and not a friday that you want
Most prominent critic of the russian government is in a coma alexei of on his supporters suspect he was poisoned this is not the 1st time such an attack has occurred so a russian critics now at risk more than ever this is inside story. And i welcome to the program. The leading russian opposition politician. Is fighting for his life at a hospital in siberia his family and supporters say he was poisoned now vonnie fell ill during a flight to moscow forcing an Emergency Landing in the city of his stuff suspect boys and was put in his tea at an airport cafe not fun his family wants him moved to germany for treatment but doctors have told his wife his condition is unstable and hes too ill to transfer now bunnys team says the hospital is blocking his move under pressure from the kremlin and im going. With a team of specialists was reportedly sent from germany to collect him well bringing guests in a moment 1st this report from aurora challenge. The groans of a man in obvious pain medics come
You want to send in at any point you will see a q a box down at the bottom right of your screen. You can send us a question in the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of them. So to start us off, as im sure many of you know is a Research Director of the Great Program of extremism at George Washington university which has become the go to resource for many people studying this topic. And so why dont we start by asking how you came to take an interest in Anwar Alawlaki and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on the background as you explain that. Guest thank you scott thanks for doing this we had the shared interest of the New York Times in particular the back in the two thousands in the last decade were incredibly helpful for me and that is the book objective choice and my pleasure to do this. So this came across my radar in around 2007. I just started as a junior researcher, looking at activism and jihad in the uk in particular. As a look at the individuals and networks
It is an honor to be asked questions about him will be doing this for an hour or maybe a little longer and if you have questions want to send in, you will see a q a box at the bottom right of your screen and you can send a question the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of those. To start us off, alex is as im sure many of you know, the Research Director Great Program on extremism at George Washington university which has become a go to resource for many people letting this topic. So why dont we start by asking argue take an interest on this and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on your background explain that. Think you for doing this. We been in touch over the years with shared interest in her article the 2000 the last decade with incredibly, it is my pleasure drinkers. Came across my radar around 2007 i just started as a researcher looking at activism into the uk in particular. As i was getting to know if the individuals and the networks in the uk, this name kept c