The administrator ran the voter, the voter needs to follow instructions, ballots on time, the election administrator needs to do his or her job, you dont think about it when the race isnt close or if the election isnt in the news, once it is all of a sudden all the e election mechanics take center stage but one of the benefits is it built momentum and it gave the secretary of state a rare opportunity to make changes to reelection law. The mandate of the law is to preserve history, the state archives, the state library, we document oral history and biography is of washingtonians who have contributed to our history in some way. Sam can tell you i know he was stopped on the streets all the time, people would come up to him and say you need to write this down and thinking about it, we do have an obligation to document and as i say the big lessons our transparency, every vote does count. If anybody doubts that you can point to the 2004 governors rays in washington and say look. We honored o
But to prepare citizens with the minds, hearts and character to disdain or democracy in the future. Built on hope, not fear, encouragement not threat, on inspiration, not compulsion. I trust. Im releasing the dignity of the person, not devotion to data. Unsupportive mutual respect, not a machine of punishment and blame. And the last thing to revive collaboration humor, student, parents, teachers, principals, administrators and local communities. The american system is democratically controlled schools has been the mainstay of our communities and the foundation for a nation success. We must Work Together to improve public schools. They must extend the promise of equal Educational Opportunity to all the children of our nation, protecting our products goes against privatization, saving them for future generations of American Children is a civil rights issue of our time. Thank you very much. [applause] nonbook tv, molly raskin text that it had them and, and not addition to cofounded a comp
My shoulder and any president that puts his hand on your shoulder gets your attention. Reagan was one of those historic figures. He said look it took us half a century to get into this mess. I have been the first seven years. Maybe you guys will have to do the heavy lifting on your own later. This is particularly special to me because so many people in this room have been a part of the process of my writing the book. I mean, everybody. Im looking around and seeing people who counseled me through the book proposal writing process and encouraged me when i thought i could never get it done, friends who called me up to find out about how the book was doing, my family, husbands here, so many people here who basically help me get a book done, and so its really awesome to be sitting here tonight in a room full of people who have supported me along the way. I even think, actually, over a couple years ago when we moved to maplewood six years ago getting coffee across the street, with a lot of y
And lecturer which is beyond me, but also to be here as the speaker. My father meant a lot to me obviously as most parents to, but he was important to me as a father as well as he was to everyone else. Thank you very much for inviting me here. I have just published his book, looking for palestine. The subtitle is also important because it is called growing and confused in an arab american family. And to give you an idea how my own identity as the palestinian american has been, all i form did on my own which has been very difficult. My mother is from lebanon, from a Christian Family but they are actually quaker. That is the first problem. My dad was as many of you know, a palestinian born with american citizenship to british schools end he wrote about his own identity issues and left palestine at a young age. And he came to the United States at the age of 14 or 15 and he was also a christian, and i was born and baptized there. And i was sent to a private school for girls. And what went
This is about an hour. Good evening, thank you veryanke much for coming. Its always as somewhat an artificial situation of two people who know each other we well. Husband and wanifed, i suppose. Fall to the category to do an interview in public like this. Ould i ask a question ibreakfasa ask over the breakfast table. An on the other hand, one doesntr normally discuss Japanese Naval strategy over the breakfast subl y to discuss it a little bit further. And one of the things that i find most interesting about the book, and revealing and possibly for many readers in this country also is that it tackles a myth about pearl harbor. And one of the myths is which was, of course, very much encouraged in the postwar period not only the japanese themselves but the American Administration is that japan had been hijacked by the militarist and the civilians really were not to blame for what happened. It it was a kind of militarist cue, and the japanese people ab and the emperor himself were really s