Final IA Current Event Night

I watched the recording of the final current event catch up.  I was sad I did not have time to make it to the final current event night because they were my favorite IA scholars event to attend. The first story that was talked about was how Miss Grand Myanmar spoke out against the military coup in her country. This was very shocking to many, as beauty queens tend to stay away from political statements. The unrest in Myanmar continues after the military started a coup when the democratic party won a recent election. The military has killed hundreds during protesting against the coup. By taking a stance she is drawing attention to the issue and was a brave move on her part. The second story brought up was how Oracle is in a 10-year lawsuit with Google. Oracle is suing over a copyright technology that Google stole from them. The software that is being debated over means that if Oracle won the lawsuit they would have a monopoly over modern phone technology. The United States likes to try and avoid monopolies when possible so there is a big problem trying to balance the theft of an idea and product and avoiding monopolies. The supreme court overruled a lower court decision on this case in Google’s favor.

The third story that was talked about was how pop singer, The Weekend, has promised to donate a million dollars to Ethiopians caught in the conflict in Tigray. The Weekend is the son of Ethiopian immigrants and has taken to help those millions of Ethiopians who have been left homeless due to the conflict. The million dollars he will be donating will be given to the United Nations to be distributed. In the last story, we talked about how two dozen world leaders have signed a treaty to pledge to avoid prioritizing isolationism and nationalism as an act to prepare for future pandemics. Among those who have signed are Britain’s Prime Minister, the German Chancellor, and the Kenyan President. The treaty comes after current struggles with international coordination with Covid and the distribution of vaccines. I think this is a great initiative and the United States should get involved especially because we have a bad history of taking nationalism too far.

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