Rev. Jim Wallis, president and founder of Sojourners, spoke with HuffPost Live at Davos about being arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, saying his arrest was much different than the arrests of young black men there.
Wallis said he spoke to at least one officer in Ferguson who told him he knew change would have to come. But Wallis said that change can’t be limited to law enforcement, or the town of Ferguson.
“If Christians were more Christian than they are white, black parents would have less to fear for their kids,” Wallis said.
Wallis did praise the creation of the Ferguson Commission, but said it won’t be enough to create permanent social change in America.
“We need more than a commission, we need a movement,” Wallis said.
Wallis said he supports the use of body cameras by police, but doesn’t think they are a solution to ending police brutality against black men and women, citing the Eric Garner case in New York.
“I’m for body cameras, but we have some deeper issues here,” Rev. Wallis said.
“We need to make some concrete changes in policing, that would help, but the underlying issues are the issues in race,” he added.
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New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to HuffPost Live about her new blog on the on-demand economy.
Desmond-Hellmann, who sits on the board of directors at Facebook, said more must be done to include women in leadership roles.
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Abousteit said she thinks there should be more women at Davos.
“I just think there should be a very hard quota, 50/50, to make sure there’s enough women there,” she said. “[Davos should] also give women a chance who are not in that position yet, that they couldn’t get to because there is a glass ceiling… give them a chance to get more visibility.”
Abousteit said making clothes isn’t about saving money.
“It’s not about the saving,” she said. “It’s about doing something that makes you happy.”
Nora Abousteit advocated for doing a job that you love.
“I studied what my passion was… but then I saw an opportunity at work that made my heart beat faster, and I pursued that, and it was always about a gut feeling,” she said.
She said working in a field she’s passionate about makes it easier to get through hard times.
Nora Abousteit, founder and CEO of Kollabora and the Kollaborator Network, said her company helps people “start making.”
Abousteit said she knitted the sweater she wore on HuffPost Live while she was on her honeymoon.
Abousteit she grew up crafting, knitting with her mother and welding with her father. She said she saw growth in people wanting to know the origins of their products and wanting the experience of production, which is what inspired her company.
“I realized there was a lot of potential, because a lot of young people were staring to make things,” she said.
