the children of the niger delta and never knowing a dark night. and yet not profiting from the trailing and taking it the power out of the earth and giving it to the most powerful on earth, it is impairing the host communities from which it had come. i had met this man in 1994 when an nigerian activist brought him into the studios of the wba i. we were doing wake-up call that morning in the bernard white and i sat there and this man who was not one of the scheduled guests that morning held forth. and he told the story of what he was confronting in nigeria saint the world had to know and ending by saying i am a marked man. he returned to nigeria, was imprisoned, was tried, and he was executed. last week as we sat in the studios of "democracy now!" we broadcast of the voice of a him from those days on the wba i and we broadcast his son who was announcing that they had just won a settlement with the shell that took 14 years but they would then wind $15.5 million for their family and other victims and the people of the land. [applause] we also play th

ball all over the world, african americans from one part of thj united states to the other africa, niger, and other countries and we are extremely excited the first african-american men woman in the white house as a response of the african americans around the world.Ñi we have laurie and betsy [applause] we will invite them a little later in the program to say something what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us what we have found we develop day network or a sisterhood that is comprised of women who contributed to this outstanding work and historic work as was mentioned. we want you to know them a little better as well so we will have them say something as we go through the program. we want to tell you a little bit about what motivated us to write this book and how we got started. we will talk about the uncrowned queen soleil tours in the question-and-answer because this has been a passion for the uncrowned queen is a two the missionxd is to identify collected preserve and disseminate the histories of african-american women we call community builders.Ã

the teetsy fly in numerous african countries, the fruit fly in canada, improving cancer diagnosis, niger, mali, and zambia, and the central american republic. these are the kinds of programs they are involved. once in a while there may be a project such as in iran or syria that may provide a small amount of useful experience in general nuclear science and radiology. but the most important part is to the extent that some of these programs are about enhancing safety. the u.s. is totally free on the board to vote against those projects at the board of governors and does so. the u.s. already denies extra budgetary funding for technical cooperation projects for state sponsors of terrorism. which the countries, the yeal mentioned, are -- the gentlelady mentioned, are, however the propossed amendment mandates the withholding not of the voluntary contributions, not of the extra budgetary support, but of the u.s. regular dues to the iaea. so what does it do? it hampers the agency's primary function which is the inspecting and safeguarding of nuclear material in foreign countries. this is cutting