Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middle class so you see a lot of issues on display that africanamerican and chicano women, native american women with working class and others are able to stress in this space of resurrection city and Hawthorne School here in the capital. How does that jive with your recollection . No, absolutely. I remember, you know, the leader and organizer of poor working plants in chicano, working Rights Organizat
Walter cronkite report what was going on in the south. And my mother used to get so emotional. So mad. Because she seen bull conners. Racist police. Our people being hosed down and dogs being sicked on them just for trying to vote or attend a rally. My mother used to get so emotional. Back in those days, later on i had nine other brothers and sisters but at the time i was the only child. And she would look at me and say boy dont you ever let nobody do that kind of stuff to you. So she just instilled that in to me. I went on with my life. And in my junior year, i was coming back from a track meet. I was on the track team for lemore high school in san joaquin valley. I used to fight every day in junior high school. And he was my physical education teacher. And he would see me fighting every day because of somebody calling me a name or Something Like that. And he came uhm to me one day and said bills you cant fight everybody. You have to pick your moments. And that is exactly what he did
About the Civil Rights Movement, california, and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So the doctor will be our first speaker. She earned her phd from the university of california at berkeley, and shes now an associate professor of history at Denisson University in granville, ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is her first book, to march for others, the black freedom struggle and the United Farm Workers and it was published just last year by the university of pennsylvania press. And our next speaker after her will be bill x. Jennings who grew up in san diego, and he was just telling us this story earlier today which i thought was great which was his pe coach in middle school was tommy smith, and he had this wonderful inspiring moment when he saw him on tv at the 196 olympics after he had won the gold medal raising his fist up in the air, and that kind of inspired him to become an activist. Also in 1968, he moved to oakland, and he joined the plaque Panther Party
Ive been disinvited. [inaudible] [laughter] [applause] a prankster who became the mayor of iceland following the 2008 financial crisis talks about the events that led to the economic collapse his plans to reform the countrys Economic System and efforts to stop the government and nato from using the city for military purposes. He spoke about his book at the Melville House in brooklyn new york. Hello and welcome to Melville House. I am the publisher along with my wife valerie and im here today with john gnarr who until a month ago was the mayor in iceland which might make you think that he was a politician, but that is not the case. Hes a comedian, actor, writer, punk rocker, tv star and a lot of other things that dont normally add up to major. He is in fact demand that said the only time hes ever been in a city hall previously was when he was walking by and one of his children have to g had to go toe bathroom urgency. [laughter] but when the economy collapsed in 2008 and people took to
I finished it. You know what i mean. President barak obama was born in the united states, period. Now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. Thank you. Now, while donald trump has moved on from this birther conspiracy, Hillary Clinton and her mignons are falsely pushing a narrative trump is to blame for starting it. Tonight well set the record straight, according to the atlantic not exactly a conservative publication, patton wrote a Campaign Memo about wanting to craft an image of senator barak obama as quote unamerican. He detailed the plan writing, quote, his roots to American Values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine america electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally american in his thinking and values. He went on to write, lets ex pl poli explicitly own. Her supporters, yes, Hillary Clintons own supporters, they circulated an email rumor obama was not born in america. The telegraph reported, barak obama