Feeling unsafe. Reporter and this graffiti found wednesday in a boys bathroom, the words white and colored over the urinals is a racing a question about race in a school that the population is only 2 african american. This is scary. Reporter the district barely began investigating when new graffiti showed up, the same words and the same way, as this picture from the same school last month. That perpetrator was caught and punished. A second case a few days later, still unsolved. Could they be one person or more likely copycats . I dont want to speculate. For us all four now ugly and harmful. Its important we be kind to each other. Reporter monte vista began an assembly, all 2400 students that ran two hours long, talking about rt incident, what it says about them and their school and their willingness to do the right thing. It starts with you. You need to take on this call to action and follow through. You need to do the terrifying things of telling one of your peers. What you did is not
They heard the letter written by the victim and the brock turner case. Everyone here is hoping that this is an eyeopener for change. You took it way my worth, my time, energy, safety, intimacy, confidence, and my own voice. After sharon stone tearfully read those words known by emily dont who was unconscious dough doe. I didnt know if it had been contaminated, who had touched it i wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital. Law enforcement officers administrators from bay area colleges are participating in a symposium. It addresses how Sexual Assault is handled on College Campuses. Statistics show wanted five victims will be a victim. And, they told stories of alleged rape cases horribly mishandled. And, they never contacted the survivors. There is no effort made to secure evidence and the women never received any updates about their case. One case told a student to win best to where told a student to wear sneakers. Another suggested she take a year off schoo
American history. And its really a worrisome thing that so Many Americans dont know American History and are swept up by this mans rhetoric. Its a commentary on our education and thats why its so vitally important that we know our history and particularly the more shameful parts of American History. Because we learn more, i think, from those chapters where our democracy faltered than the glorious chapters that were exposed to all of the time. So people like donald trump need to know our history. The mayor of roanoke has also expressed the same kind of comment and i extended an invitation to him and i talked to him over the telephone as well. You did . Hes a charming southern gentleman. [ laughter ] and he hasnt responded to invitation yet. But he extended to me, and he has a commission, Human Rights Commission or Something Like that, that extended an invitation to me to come and speak there. And so i am serving as an exam. For the mayor of roanoke. I have accepted that invitation and w
Although you probably know a fair amount of the plot already. Your own allegiance is based in part on your experiences and inspired by them. I should say my book is, too. I read your bike your autobiography as the start of my research. Byhaps you like to start setting a bit of the Historical Context for the audience. The detention of japaneseamericans is not covered in our schools as well as it should be, it is not a subject that is as wellknown as it should be, because there is so much to learn from it. Perhaps you can start by telling us about the historical background before we go on to your own personal experiences. George i know the power of stereotypes. There is a long history of the stereotype depiction of asians and asianamericans in the media in the United States. The set the backdrop for bombing of pearl harbor to trigger this hysteria. We happened to look like the people that bombed pearl harbor. By of the stereotype images the media fed into that hysteria. There was also ra
Coming up next, contributors and editors from the book the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement, discuss their personal experiences and that movement. The Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office Hosted this event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. Of thee director Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. Me methodists actually hired right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and