Розділ: Повідомлення
California Governor Beats Back Recall Challenge
California voters have rejected a move to unseat their governor in a recall election, a rarely used provision of direct democracy in some 20 U.S. states. Mike O’Sullivan reports that Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, faced down 46 challengers in an election where Donald Trump became an unseen player. Camera: Roy Kim
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By Polityk | 09/16/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
«Нафтогаз» отримає в управління 49,9% акцій «Донецькоблгазу» за рішенням уряду – СБУ
Раніше вказані акції «Донецькоблгазу» були арештовані Шевченківським судом Києва
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By Gromada | 09/16/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
2 Women of Color to Face Off in Boston Mayoral Race
A preliminary runoff election in the northeastern U.S. city of Boston has narrowed the field of mayoral candidates to two women of color, ensuring the city’s next elected mayor will be someone other than a white man for the first time in about 200 years. Two city councilors, Michelle Wu, who is of Taiwanese descent, and Annissa Essaibi George, a self-described Arab Polish American, won Tuesday’s runoff, defeating three other candidates that included acting Mayor Kim Janey. Wu and Essaibi George will face off in November. Janey was the first woman and Black city resident to hold the position of acting mayor. She was appointed after Mayor Marty Walsh’s U.S. Senate confirmation as labor secretary in March. All five runoff candidates are people of color, an indication of the rapidly changing demographics in the city, where the latest U.S. census figures show that Boston residents who identify as white make up only 44.6% of the population. The figures also show that 19.1% of the city’s residents are Black, 18.7% are Latino and 11.2% are of Asian descent. Whichever woman wins the November election will govern a city with a history of racial strife. Violence erupted in the mid-1970s, when the city sought to racially integrate its public schools to comply with federal law. At that time, mobs of white adults and teens threw rocks at buses transporting Black students to all-white schools in South Boston. Simmering racial tensions in Boston escalated again in the late 1980s, when Charles Stuart, a white man, falsely accused a Black man of killing his wife. Some information in this report was provided by The Associated Press and Reuters.
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By Polityk | 09/16/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У Києві відбулася панахида за Георгієм Гонгадзе та загиблими журналістами
За життя Георгій Гонгадзе був парафіянином церкви Святого Миколи Набережного, часто відвідував богослужіння і хрестив у цій церкві двох своїх дочок
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Крим: арештованого Джеляла тримають у спецблоку як «схильного до терористичних злочинів» – адвокат
За словами Джеляла, йому повідомили, що його поставили на облік як «особу, схильну до скоєння терористичних і екстремістських злочинів»
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Мінкультури оголосило старт голосування за 30 знакових книжок часів Незалежності
Довгий список 100 знакових книжок було сформовано ще влітку групою експертів
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Львові стартував 28-й міжнародний BookForum
Book Forum триватиме до 19 вересня
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Justice Department Files Emergency Motion Against Texas Restrictive Abortion Law
The U.S. Justice Department has filed an emergency motion with a federal judge asking him to block the southwestern state of Texas from enforcing a new law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. In a 45-page motion filed late Tuesday with a federal district court, the Justice Department argued that the new law, commonly known as Senate Bill 8, was drafted “to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights” to obtain an abortion. The emergency motion is the second legal action the Biden administration has taken against Texas over the new law, after filing a lawsuit last week citing the same legal grounds. The new law, which took effect on September 1, outlaws abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy — which opponents say is well before most women are even aware they are pregnant — with no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. Texas is among a dozen mostly Republican-led states that have enacted so-called “heartbeat” abortion bans, which prohibits the procedure once a “fetal heartbeat” is detected, often at six weeks, and sometimes before a woman realizes she is pregnant. Courts in the past have blocked such bans, ruling they did not conform to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision giving women in the U.S. the constitutional right to an abortion without excessive government interference. The Texas anti-abortion law is also unusual in that it gives private citizens the power to enforce it by allowing them to sue abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion after six weeks. Those winning such lawsuits would be entitled to at least $10,000. The Justice Department called this provision “an unprecedented scheme that seeks to deny women and providers the ability to challenge S.B. 8 in federal court.” The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block Texas from implementing the new anti-abortion law in a 5-to-4 decision earlier this month that enraged supporters of Roe v. Wade, including President Joe Biden, who warned that “complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women.” Some information for this report came from the Associated Press and Reuters.
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By Polityk | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
15 вересня – що очікувати в цей день і що було в історії
Президентка Єврокомісії Урсула фон дер Ляєн звернеться до депутатів Європарламенту з щорічною промовою про становище ЄС
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
В Україні випустили пам’ятну медаль «100 років Українському вільному університету»
УВУ – єдиний український виш за межами України, який протягом 100 років зумів зберегти безперервність навчального процесу
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
California Voters Reject Attempt to Remove Gov Newsom in Recall Election
Voters in the western U.S. state of California have rejected an effort to remove Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Nearly 70% of voters overwhelmingly voted “no” in ending Newsom’s tenure early, with just more than 30% voting “yes,” according to figures released shortly after polls closed in the large state late Tuesday night. The Associated Press, CNN and NBC News are all projecting the recall effort has failed. Speaking to reporters early Wednesday morning as the results showed him prevailing, Newsom said he was humbled and grateful to the millions and millions of Californians that exercised their fundamental right to vote.” WATCH: California election Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can
download this video to view it offline.Download File360p | 4 MB480p | 6 MB540p | 8 MB720p | 15 MB1080p | 32 MBOriginal | 96 MB Embed” />Copy Download AudioThe recall was launched by Republicans angered over Newsom’s strict COVID-19 rules throughout the pandemic, including school closures and restrictions on small businesses such as bars and restaurants. Organizers secured enough signatures of registered voters to force the recall on the ballot. Voter opinion surveys in the days leading up to Tuesday’s vote showed Larry Elder, a staunch conservative radio talk show host, was the leading candidate among more than 40 would-be successors to serve out the remainder of Newsom’s term in office, which ends next year. Newsom equated the recall effort, and especially Elder’s presence on the ballot, to former President Donald Trump, a deeply unpopular figure among Democrats. “We defeated Donald Trump, we didn’t defeat Trumpism. Trumpism is still alive, all across this country,” the governor said. “I want to focus on what we said ‘yes’ to as a state: We said yes to science, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic,” he said earlier in his remarks. Newsom is a prominent figure among national Democrats, having previously served as mayor of the city of San Francisco and California lieutenant governor before he was elected governor in 2018. He enlisted the help of several Democratic luminaries in his effort to fight off the recall, including President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian, and former President Barack Obama. A potential defeat in a state dominated by Democrats could signal major problems for Biden and congressional Democrats heading into next year’s midterm legislative elections. He is the second California governor to face a recall vote. The first one in 2003 removed Democrat Gray Davis and installed popular Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some information in this report came from Reuters and the Associated Press.
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By Polityk | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Pushes $3.5 Trillion Climate Change Solution
U.S. President Joe Biden says extreme weather caused by climate change is putting America in a “code red” situation. He’s pushing two massive bills in Congress, totaling in the trillions of dollars, to reverse the damage. From Washington, VOA White House correspondent Anita Powell looks at what’s at stake. Produced by: Jesusemen Oni
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By Polityk | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Pitches Spending Plan as Key to Fight Climate Change
President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans in Colorado on Tuesday by warning about the dangers of climate change while highlighting how his clean-energy proposals would also create well-paying jobs.The trip to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Flatirons Campus outside Denver capped the president’s two-day swing to the West, and it offered Biden the chance to continue linking the need to pass his spending package to the urgent threat posed by climate change.”Here’s the good news: Something that is caused by humans can be solved by humans,” Biden said. He deemed the need for a clean-energy future an “economic imperative and a national security imperative” and said that there was no time to waste as the impact of climate change seems to grow more severe by the year.Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can
download this video to view it offline.Download File360p | 9 MB480p | 14 MB540p | 18 MB720p | 35 MB1080p | 69 MBOriginal | 222 MB Embed” />Copy Download AudioBiden said that extreme weather events will cost more than $100 billion in damages this year, and he underscored his goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 while using solely carbon pollution-free power by 2035.”We can do that. We can do all of this in a way that creates good jobs, lowers costs to consumers and businesses, and makes us global leaders,” the president said.Biden spoke about “more jobs for the economy” on an earlier tour as he checked out a giant windmill blade on the ground outside the lab and got a demonstration of wind turbine technology.And, keenly aware of the delicate work under way back in Washington to craft details of his infrastructure-plus spending package, he gestured at Democratic legislators along for the tour and said, “They’re the ones getting it all through Congress.”‘A crisis with … opportunity’Biden had spent Monday in Boise, Idaho, and Sacramento, California, receiving briefings on the devastating wildfire season and viewing the damage by the Caldor Fire to communities around Lake Tahoe.”We can’t ignore the reality that these wildfires are being supercharged by climate change,” Biden said, noting that catastrophic weather doesn’t strike based on partisan ideology. “It isn’t about red or blue states. It’s about fires. Just fires.”Throughout his trip, Biden held out the wildfires across the region as an argument for his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and additional $3.5 trillion package of spending. The president said every dollar spent on “resilience” would save $6 in future costs. And he made the case that the rebuilding must go beyond simply restoring damaged systems and instead ensure communities can withstand such crises.”In the end, it’s not about red states or blue states. A drought or a fire doesn’t see a property line,” Biden said. “It doesn’t care, give a damn for what party you belong to. … Yes, we face a crisis, but we face a crisis with unprecedented opportunity.”The climate provisions in Biden’s plans include tax incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles, investments to transition the economy away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and creation of a civilian climate corps.Biden has set a goal of eliminating pollution from fossil fuel in the power sector by 2035 and from the U.S. economy overall by 2050.’We have to think big’The president’s two-day Western swing comes at a critical juncture for a central plank of his legislative agenda. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to assemble details of the infrastructure-plus plan — and how to pay for it, a concern not just for Republicans.With unified Republican opposition in Congress, Biden needs to overcome the skepticism of two key centrist Democrats in the closely divided Senate. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have expressed concerns about the size of the $3.5 trillion spending package.In California, Biden appeared to respond to those concerned about the plan’s size, saying the cost “may be” as much as $3.5 trillion and would be spread out over 10 years, a period during which the economy is expected to grow. He also insisted that when it comes to addressing climate change, “we have to think big.””Thinking small is a prescription for disaster,” he said.The 100-member Senate is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Given solid GOP opposition, Biden’s plan cannot pass the Senate without Manchin’s or Sinema’s support. The legislative push comes at a crucial time for Biden, who had seen his poll numbers tumble after the United States’ tumultuous exit from Afghanistan and a rise in COVID-19 cases due to the highly contagious delta variant.
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By Polityk | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Лісника, який застрелив браконьєра, засудили до двох років умовного ув’язнення
Василь Григор’єв заявив, що оскаржуватиме вирок
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By Gromada | 09/15/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
КСУ не розглядає питання щодо порушення та звільнення судді Сліденка – НАЗК
У НАЗК нагадали, що зверталися до КСУ з проханням звільнити Ігоря Сліденка, звинувачуючи його в неетичній поведінці
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By Gromada | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Засідання ТСК щодо вагнерівців не відбулося через відсутність кворуму
На більшість питань журналістів Василь Бурба не надав відповіді, пояснивши, що відповідатиме ТСК
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By Gromada | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Санкції проти каналів Козака: суд попросив у СБУ роз’яснень ще в двох позовах
Суд продовжив розгляд справ за позовами компаній «Новий формат ТВ» і «ТВ Вибір»
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By VilneSlovo | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Свобода слова
California Voters to Decide Fate of Governor Gavin Newsom in Recall Election
Voters in the western U.S. state of California are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to remove Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in a recall election.
Newsom was joined by U.S. President Joe Biden late Monday in a final campaign rally in the southern city of Long Beach to urge Democrats to turn out in the polls and reject the recall.
“The eyes of the nation are on California,” President Biden told the crowd, “because the decision you’re going to make isn’t just going to have a huge impact on California, it’s going to reverberate around the nation, and quite frankly, not a joke, around the world.”
The recall was launched by Republicans angered over Newsom’s strict COVID-19 rules throughout the pandemic, including school closures and restrictions on small businesses such as bars and restaurants. Organizers secured enough signatures of registered voters to force the recall on the ballot.President Joe Biden acknowledges the crowd as he arrives at a rally to support California Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of the California gubernatorial recall election, Sept. 13, 2021, in Long Beach, California.Californians are being asked to vote either yes or no to remove Newsom from office. If enough voters select “yes,” a candidate who receives a simple majority of the vote will replace Newsom. Voter opinion surveys show Larry Elder, a staunch conservative radio talk show host, is the leading candidate among more than 40 would-be successors to serve out the remainder of Newsom’s term in office, which ends next year.
Newsom is a prominent figure among national Democrats, having previously served as mayor of the city of San Francisco and California lieutenant governor before he was elected governor in 2018. His defeat in a state dominated by Democrats could signal major problems for Biden and congressional Democrats heading into next year’s midterm legislative elections. But recent surveys show Newsom with a solid lead in the campaign.
He is the second California governor to face a recall vote. The first one in 2003 removed Democrat Gray Davis and installed popular Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Democrats are running. YouTube creator Kevin Paffrath is the most well-known of nine Democrats on the ballot.
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By Polityk | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Охочих працювати в зимовій експедиції на станції «Академік Вернадський» побільшало – Дикий
Із 137 заявок найбільше подано на вакансії: кухаря (26); системного механіка (23); лікаря (20)
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By Gromada | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Comes to California to Help Newsom Fight off Recall
President Joe Biden is providing last-minute help Monday to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is only the fourth governor in U.S. history and the second in California to face a recall election. The only other time a recall election for a California governor was held, in 2003, voters removed Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and replaced him with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. Voting ends Tuesday in the race that could oust Newsom, a first-term Democrat, and it’s being watched ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, when control of Congress and more than half of governorships are in play. “We can show the rest of the nation that we won’t let Republicans drag our state backwards,” Newsom tweeted. “Make sure your voice is heard. VOTE NO.” Amateur Republican political organizers upset with Newsom’s approach to crime, homelessness and immigration launched the recall drive in early 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic got it to the ballot. Newsom was the first governor in the country to issue a statewide stay-at-home order that shuttered many businesses for months and kept kids out of classrooms. “There’s no front that I can think of where this man has done a good job — not on schools, not on homelessness, not in the way he shut down this state,” Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio host and Republican front-runner in polls, said Monday at a campaign stop. Elder planned events across Southern California, concluding with an election eve rally in Orange County that would occur as Newsom campaigns with Biden just to the north in Long Beach. Tuesday is the last day to vote. Nearly 8 million Californians already have cast mail-in ballots. Republicans tend to be more skeptical of mail voting, particularly as former President Donald Trump has suggested it leads to fraud, so recall organizers are hoping Newsom’s critics show up in huge numbers for in-person Election Day voting. Voters are being asked two questions: Should Newsom be recalled, yes or no, and who should replace him? The results of the second question only matter if a majority wants to remove Newsom. Recent polls from the Public Policy Institute of California and others showed Newsom defeating the recall. Lead recall organizer Orrin Heatlie said the fact that Newsom is bringing in Biden to campaign with him shows Democrats are concerned. He says neither Biden nor Trump should be weighing in on the contest because it’s about California issues. “This is a matter between the people of California and their governor and really has nothing to do with the federal government; and the president, with all due respect, should mind his own business,” Heatlie said. Meanwhile, he said Trump’s statement Monday calling the election rigged was “more damaging than the actual fraud itself.” “When people aren’t confident, if they don’t have faith that their vote is going to count, then they’re not going to waste their time to cast their ballot,” Heatlie said. There has been no confirmed evidence of widespread fraud. Biden toured wildfire damage in Northern California before heading south to rally with Newsom. His appearance underscores the importance of Democrats holding the governorship in the nation’s most populous state and chief laboratory for progressive policies. Vice President Kamala Harris, a California native, campaigned with Newsom last week and former President Barack Obama recorded a television ad urging no on the recall. “Gavin Newsom can bring in all the Washington folks that he wants, but this election is a referendum on the governor’s failures,” said former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, another Republican candidate to replace Newsom. Businessman John Cox, a Republican who lost badly to Newsom in 2018, campaigned outside the French Laundry, the upscale Napa Valley restaurant where Newsom was caught attending a birthday party last fall in violation of his administration’s coronavirus rules. State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley planned campaign stops in Southern California. No prominent elected Democrats are running. YouTube creator Kevin Paffrath is the most well-known of nine Democrats on the ballot.
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By Polityk | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
14 вересня – що очікувати в цей день і що було в історії
14 вересня на НСК «Олімпійський» відбудеться матч між командами «Динамо» (Київ) та «Бенфіка» (Лісабон). Початок гри о 22:00
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By Gromada | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Out West, Biden Points to Wildfires to Push for $3.5 Trillion Rebuild
President Joe Biden on Monday used his first Western swing since taking office to hold out the wildfires burning across the region as an argument for his $3.5 trillion rebuilding plans, calling year-round fires and other extreme weather a climate change reality the nation can no longer ignore. “Even some of my less believing friends are all of a sudden having an altar call,” Biden said of those who have sought to minimize the risks posed by climate change. “They’re seeing the Lord.” With stops in Idaho and California, Biden sought to boost support for his big rebuilding plans, saying every dollar spent on “resilience” would save $6 in future costs. And he said the rebuilding must go beyond simply restoring damaged systems and instead ensure communities can withstand catastrophic weather, which doesn’t strike based on partisan ideology. “It’s not a Democrat thing. It’s not a Republican thing. It’s a weather thing,” he said in Boise, Idaho. “It’s a reality. It’s serious and we can do this.” The president’s two-day Western swing comes at a critical juncture for a central plank of his legislative agenda. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to assemble details of the infrastructure-plus plan — and to figure out how to pay for it, a concern not just for Republicans. A key Democratic senator said Sunday that he will not vote for a package so large. In California, Biden took an aerial tour of damage from the Caldor Fire after getting a briefing from officials at the state emergency services office. Governor Gavin Newsom, who faces a recall vote Tuesday, joined Biden for the briefing. As he amplified Biden’s message, Newsom said the emergency center had become his office because fire season has “just kept going.” “This has been a hard year and a half,” Newsom said. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting as he tours the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, Sept. 13, 2021.During an earlier briefing in Boise at the National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates the government’s wildfire response, Biden noted that wildfires start earlier every year and that this year, they have scorched 5.4 million acres. “That’s larger than the entire state of New Jersey,” Biden said. “The reality is we have a global warming problem, a serious global warming problem, and it’s consequential, and what’s going to happen is, things are not going to go back,” he said. Biden, who visits Denver on Tuesday before returning to Washington, aimed to link the increasing frequency of wildfires, drought, floods and other extreme weather events to what he and scientists say is a need to invest billions in combating climate change, along with vastly expanding the nation’s social safety net. The president argued for spending now to make the future effects of climate change less costly, as he did during recent stops in Louisiana, New York and New Jersey — all states that suffered millions of dollars in flood and other damage and scores of deaths after Hurricane Ida. Biden also praised firefighters for the life-threatening risks they take and discussed the administration’s recent use of a wartime law to boost supplies of fire hoses from the U.S. Forest Service’s primary supplier, an Oklahoma City nonprofit called NewView Oklahoma. In deep-red Idaho, several opposing groups leveraged Biden’s visit as a way to show resistance to his administration. GOP gubernatorial candidates, an anti-vaccine organization and a far-right group were among those urging people to turn out against the president. More than 1,000 protesters did so, gathering in Boise before Biden arrived, to express displeasure with his coronavirus plan, the election and other issues. Chris Burns, a 62-year-old from Boise, said, “I’m against everything Biden is for.” Burns was especially displeased with a sweeping new vaccine mandate for 100 million people that Biden announced last week. “He’s acting like a dictator,” Burns said. The White House is trying to turn the corner after a difficult month dominated by a chaotic and violent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the surging delta COVID-19 variant that has upended what the president had hoped would mark a summer in which the nation was finally freed from the coronavirus. Biden, while acknowledging that his polling numbers had dipped in recent weeks, argued his agenda is “overwhelmingly popular” with the public. He said he expects his Republican opponents to attack him instead of debating him on the merits of his spending plan. Besides the Republican opposition in Congress, Biden needs to overcome the skepticism of two key centrist Democrats in the closely divided Senate. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have expressed concerns about the size of the $3.5 trillion spending package. Manchin said Sunday, “I cannot support $3.5 trillion,” citing in particular his opposition to a proposed increase in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and vast new social spending envisioned by the president. Manchin also complained about a process he said felt rushed. The 100-member Senate is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Given solid GOP opposition, Biden’s plan would fail to clear the Senate without Manchin and Sinema’s support. The climate provisions in Biden’s plans include tax incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles, investments to transition the economy away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and creation of a civilian climate corps. The Biden administration in June laid out a strategy to deal with the growing wildfire threat, which included hiring more federal firefighters and implementing new technologies to detect and address fires quickly. Last month, the president approved a disaster declaration for California, providing federal aid for the counties affected by the Dixie and River fires. He issued another disaster declaration for the state just before Monday’s visit aimed at areas affected by the Caldor Fire.
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By Polityk | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
In Historic First, Woman of Color Expected to Be Next Mayor of Boston
The four front-runners in the race for mayor of Boston are all women of color, a remarkable turn of events for a city that has only elected white men to that office since its inception in 1822. On Tuesday, voters will choose the top two candidates from a field of eight, but polling indicates that only four candidates stand a chance at advancing — each of whom is a woman of color. The two winners will face off in the official mayoral election on November 2. Leading the field with 31% of the vote, FILE – Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu waves while walking in the Roxbury Unity Parade, in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, July 18, 2021.Janey took office in March when former mayor Martin Walsh left to become U.S. secretary of labor. Janey and Campbell are both Black women. George is the daughter of a Tunisian-Arab father and a Polish mother, and identifies as a woman of color. There are four other candidates on the ballot, only three of whom remain active, but none was polling above 3% last week. History will be made “History will not be made on November 2, the day of the final election,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “History will technically be made next Tuesday, because both candidates will be persons of color.” While in some ways remarkable, the candidates vying for mayor are actually a reflection of a city that has undergone significant change in its racial makeup over the past decades. Long a majority-white city, Boston is now a majority-minority city, with Black and Hispanic residents representing 19% of the population and Asians representing 11%. While still the largest single group, Whites now represent only 45% of the city’s residents. A signal of coming political change arrived in 2018 when Ayanna Pressley, a Black woman and a member of the City Council, unseated 10-term Congressman Mike Capuano as representative of Massachusetts’ Seventh Congressional District. Troubled racial history Boston, the 24th-largest city in the U.S., has a complex and sometimes troubled racial history. In the years prior to the Civil War, the city was a hotbed of the Abolitionist movement, which demanded an end to slavery. And during the war, the famed all-Black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was raised there. But the city hasn’t always lived up to its history. In the 1970s and 1980s, efforts to integrate schools that were sharply divided by race were met with violent protests from White Bostonians who objected to having Black children bused into their neighborhoods for school. FILE – Boston’s acting Mayor Kim Janey speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Boston, Aug. 12, 2021.One of the candidates, Acting Mayor Janey, experienced those riots as a child. At an event last week, she recalled being bused through rock-throwing mobs as a child. She said her presence as acting mayor and as a mayoral candidate are both “a testament to how far this city has come.” Candidates’ biographies Janey, who became acting mayor when Walsh joined the Biden administration, has already made history in that role as the first woman and first person of color to run City Hall. A native of Boston, she raised her daughter as a single mother in high school, and ultimately worked her way through Smith College. Wu is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School. She has served on the City Council since 2013 when, at age 28, she became the first Asian American elected to that body. The child of Taiwanese immigrants, Wu speaks fluent Mandarin and Spanish. FILE – Boston mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George greets people before the start of the Roxbury Unity Parade, in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, July 18, 2021.George is a native Bostonian who attended Boston University and earned a master’s degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston. A high school teacher since 2001, George was elected to the City Council in 2015. FILE – Boston mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell greets people before the start of the Roxbury Unity Parade, in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, July 18, 2021.Campbell, also a Boston native, has served on the City Council since 2015 and became the first Black woman to serve as Council president, a position she held for two years beginning in January 2018. She worked for a time as deputy legal counsel to Deval Patrick, the first Black person to serve as governor of Massachusetts. Slow to elect women The election of Pressley, and now the expected election of a woman of color as mayor, mark significant strides for a city that has not welcomed women to seats of power, said Erin O’Brien, an associate professor of Political Science and the University of Massachusetts Boston. “Boston has been very slow to elect candidates of color, and women,” she said. “And even today, we’re barely middle of the pack when it comes to electing women, amongst the 50 states. So you’ve got a very liberal state, but you don’t have a state where the elected leaders are as diverse as the populace.” One thing that won’t be unique about the outcome of the election on Tuesday is the political party of the victor. All four of the leading candidates are members of the Democratic Party. Boston has not elected a Republican mayor since 1925. Whoever prevails on Tuesday, said Suffolk’s Paleologos, the result “is going to rewrite history, and in terms of the election, in November, of a person of color, that’s a big story.”
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By Polityk | 09/14/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Верховний Суд звернувся до СБУ по роз’яснення через матеріали у справі каналу «112»
Суд 13 вересня продовжив розгляд позови щодо санкцій проти компаній «112-ТВ» та «Лідер ТВ»
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By Gromada | 09/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
ДБР припускає причетність Лероса до підпалу його автомобіля – він заявляє про кампанію проти себе
«В мої уста вкладають якість неадекватні слова, за які я би давно сидів у в’язниці», – прокоментував Лерос
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By Gromada | 09/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Man with Weapons Arrested Near US Capitol
U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested a California man early Monday near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington and that multiple knives, a bayonet and a machete were in his truck. Officers on patrol said that around midnight Sunday they noticed the truck, with a swastika and other white supremacist symbols painted on it. Instead of a license plate, police said the truck had a picture of an American flag. It is illegal to carry a bayonet and machete in Washington. The arrested man, Donald Craighead, 44, of Oceanside, California, said he was “on patrol,” police said. Craighead was charged with possession of prohibited weapons. Police said they are continuing to investigate the suspect. Security alerts remain high near the U.S. Capitol, not far from the Democratic party headquarters, in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol building January 6 by hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump. The incident happened as lawmakers were certifying that he had lost his re-election bid last November to Democrat Joe Biden, who took over as president January 20. Those supporting the more than 600 rioters arrested eight months ago are planning a rally, “Justice for J6,” in Washington this Saturday. About 50 people have pleaded guilty to an array of charges, while the rest of the cases are pending, with some suspects remaining jailed, awaiting trials.
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By Polityk | 09/13/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
