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AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, or place of birth, reflecting the harsh inequality that has characterized our world for centuries." ...

Do you agree with the tactic of nancy pelosi, no state of the the union, at least not in the house to a joint session of congress until you end the shutdown? >> there's uniform support in the house democratic caucus for the position that speaker pelosi has taken, which is simple. open up the government and then we can return to some degree of normalcy, which will allow the president to deliver the state of the union address. but given the fact that you have coast guard folk who is are working without pay, you have border patrol agents working without pay, tsa agents working without pay, the fb...

The union, at least not in the house to a joint session of congress until you end the shutdown? >> there's uniform support in the house democratic caucus for the position that speaker pelosi has taken, which is simple. open up the government and then we can return to some degree of normalcy, which will allow the president to deliver the state of the union address. but given the fact that you have coast guard folk who is are working without pay, you have border patrol agents working without pay, tsa agents working without pay, the fbi working without pay, more than 800,000 americans in total ei...

Should not assume anything when it comes to what's going to happen next in terms of this government shutdown and in terms of what's coming out of the white house. alex, we often talk about a rare presidential speech on saturday or a rare saturday session of senate. rare is commonplace now. the senate will be in session. the senator, the democratic senator from virginia, a lot of federal employees in virginia and washington suburbs, tim kaine will be bringing the senate in. he'll make a speech on the senate floor. he keeps asking for what's called unanimous consent to bring up bills that were p...

Feeling the effects. some tsa employees aren't showing up for work. joining us now alex hutchins a member of the american federation of government employees union, a former combat veteran and a tsa agent working without pay. thank you very much for being here. you are working noon to 8:30 every day and not being paid. obviously that's causing personal stress. tell us why some of your colleagues, your fellow screeners are not coming in to work. >> it's starting to get difficult on a lot of personnel as far as coming to work. you are put in a tough position where you have to decide if you buy so...