Manage how it has worked in educational system. Imagine how it has worked in banking system. Imagine how it has worked we have some very dope works coming out now to help us understand how central racism has been in the building of this country. One is the 1619 project that is the New York Times just publishing. And the other is a book staffed from the beginning by kennedy and you read the language with of the one who wrote the constitution. Looked a language black inferior even Abraham Lincoln calling in six people to the white house and saying hard for black and white people to get together look like they have a civil war to e preslave but heres our godly deal for you. Abraham loik well free you. But then what we want you to do, consider this is go back to the country where you came from because it is good for us trying to mix it together here. As abraham loik a bad terrible man ignorant like the rest of us and weve been waking up and im l one person who happens to be waking up and w
[inaudible conversations] good evening friends. Welcomed. I am director here at the school. What you may not know but i suspect that you do you are in a quaker school. If you have met a quaker you have met a friend with a fuppercaseletter. We are part of a National Network of 78 friend schools. Where the obama daughters in Chelsea Clinton and the quarterback from the Atlanta Falcons in the chartered philadelphia. Mostar are located in the northeast we are the only one in georgia but the quakers inform each a School Community in those values are complicity, peace Integrity Community equality and stewardship. From the acronym spices. So i will clear up some miss misconceptions they should not be confused with the amish. [laughter] they do believe electricity and technology and cars and also believe in disrupting social conventions with the radical notion that every single individual is there worth. When at the very first quakers founded the elma matter in 1689 putting democracy to work a
Complete schedule and now we kick off the weekend with helen pregene on her work to abolish the Death Penalty. [inaudible conversations] good evening, friends. Can you hear me . There we go. Good evening. Welcome to atlanta. Im the director of advancem t advancement. You may not know this but i suspect you do that you are in a quaker school. If youve met a quaker you met a friend. They are synonymous terms, we are part of a National Network of 78 Friends Schools. You might have heard of the obama daughters, Chelsea Clinton attended, matt ryan, quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons played High School Football in philadelphia. Most Friends Schools are located in the northeast. We are the only ones in georgia. What unifies all Friends Schools are the quaker values that form each school community. Those values are simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship. Summed up by the acronym spices. Let me clear up some conservations about quakers. Quakers should not be confused
Church now will transform the global catholic. Palmo warman survivor and fighter against sexual abuse welcome to the show its great to have you with us today so you have been complaining for accountability of clerical child abuse for more than 20 years what kind of change have you made over this time what are your successes. Well i think our gracious success has been finally exposing the fact not just that the abuses happened on us on the scale that weve been talking about for many years but that its endemic within the Roman Catholic church that its systemic. And that the cover up of abuse by Church Authorities was a willful intended program that was designed to protect the institution its power and its money and that it was operated and directed by the vatican at the global level and that its been a global cover up i think thats something weve never really clearly exposed so were going to go through all of that step by step but 1st ireland is a very catholic country when you came out
I made a documentary with a European Television station in 2002 and when that aired there was a very very strong in support of response from people here in our in our into particular but of course there were people who didnt want me to speak about what was happening i mean i got people warning me that i should spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder i got Death Threats but in the main i got a huge amount of support i think people were uphold not just the the the crimes of rape and abuse that reflected on me and many others by the priest in my own case with more by the cover up of those crimes the facilitation of the collusion with them that we were able to expose by catholic bishops and indeed by the vatican itself so how hard was it for you to make your case how did church resistance change things for you where you prevented it from speaking out what was i mean 1st of all it was very difficult to get to the point where i could challenge my own. I suppose internal inhibitors