This upcoming 250th anniversary. Examining our american experiment as key. This revolution of ours created waves across the world. With its lasting impacts, felt even today. This symposium the world turned upside down the American Revolution. Its impact on a global scale. Well study the effects of this revolution that trans formed governments and the governed across the globe. Appropriate as we consider the birth of our nation, is to acknowledge the Ancestral Lands of our Indigenous Peoples on which we gather. We recognize the many tribes who moved through this region trading and drawing resources from the land and waterways. We honor their descendants today. Our community is shaped by the diversity of its people. Past, present and future. And we affirm that this is central to the values of the place we now call alexandria. I have a few important housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the micr
Good afternoon. G welcome to our Afternoon Keynote here. Im a director of politics weekly and with me is the author of a new book, how free speech saved democracy. Ive known chris forprobably better than 30 years. Currently hes executive ec director of the National Publishing and censorship and before that he had a long stint overseeing American Booksellers Foundation of Free Expression and so chris, i thought we would begin their. With some of your earlier background and your interest in this whole Free Speech Movement and how that will keep us free. Ive been doing this for over 40 years now and i got involved in the early 80s when i was looking for a job after i left graduate school and i found an ad in the New York Times when they used to have classified ads and it was for a coordinator for a First Amendment trade association. I had no idea what that was. But it sounded like me. That sounded like a great opportunity. I was very interested in the issue. At one point i thought i was g
Introduce you to people who came generations before and connect it in realtime. My favorite instance when i was nine years old. The first day of fifth grade sitting at my desk reading before classes began. A news today came into the classroom holding her mothers hand when she saw me reading she said look, she reads the same kind of books that i do. She quickly became my best friend and matron of honor at my wedding in hess shared many books since the fifth grade at wells fargo we would all children to have the same love we try to inspire that through reading first in interactive every allowed program to support Early Childhood literacy. Wells fargo team members have donated more than 1 million books prek through second grade and we read aloud bin donate to the classroom libraries. Although were not teaching them to read we read out loud to share our enthusiasm we feel that modeling that is teaching children to love reading. In addition we gave away 1500 bucks to children last year at t
And then he talks about the importance of research, and we have funded many people who are doing very Important Research to help make the case, if you will. Then he talks about read description. So because we engage in multiple perspectives, native americans, africanamericans, asian americans, latinos, hispanics, whites americans, we get these multiple points of view and were able to read described if you will this continuum, this history. You can no longer deny that it exists. And then gardner talks about, you must be able to anticipate resistance and in case of racial dynamics, resistance for, and it takes many different forms and so you have to be really quick and be able to respond to resistance as. He also talks a real world events t can make a major impact in bring about changes in mind and thinking. We look at what happened in the tragic death of the students in connecticut, the children, and how suddenly guns are at least a public topic. We look at the election of an africaname
The income tax is 100 years old or it look at how much it has grown out. Welcome, everyone, i and Liz Macdonald in for neil cavuto. As youre watching the super bowl, we are continuing to watch our tax rates skyrocket. Income tax celebrating its 100 are they this saturday. It was 7 of first started. Now, locale hiatus. Its about if we should raise the rates even more. Dan mitchell on what rates america will be seen next 100 years. You know, here is the thing. Basically we are seeing the income tax celebrating its 100 anniversary. Back then, it was unconstitutional to have an income tax. What do you make of the direction the country is in with where they are right now . Well, this is just an argument for euthanasia. I think 100 years is plenty long enough to have the income tax. What is really tragic is that we would not have the modern welfare state with all the economic damage it imposes if we had not given politician the ability to live levy a broadbased tax like the income tax. But a