Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
observation of juneteenth as a federal holiday coming as our largest blue state has a historic conversation on reparations for its black residents. i am conflicted tonight. as i watch any number of republican politicians and voters pledge the enduring support for donald trump, seeking a return to the white house well facing a 37 count federal indictment after years of white racial grievance for political gain, paving the way for other gop politicians including the 2024 competitors to attack racial progress in public life. i struggle to justify why, in my mind, america deserves a day off for work, made possible by black history so many republicans now insist should be banned from our institutions. despite the conflict in, me i m still grateful to see that black history recognized at a national level. i just want to see our nation at large are in the holiday created in its name. me now is congressman barbara lee the democrat of california. currently running for the u.s. sen
Everybody, thanks for joining us, i am robert weissman, president of Public Citizens. We are here for a conversation about Rena Steinzors nuke wonderful book why not jail industrial companies, corporate malfeasance, and government inactio inaction, Rena Steinzor will speak for about half an hour and then Russel Mokhiber and i will talk about Rena Steinzors book and her remarks and we will open it up for discussion. The first step before we dive in, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence which we all suffer. Is evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, above bp oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the nations history arguably, numerous food safety crises and disasters to kill dozens routinely, new england, pounding pharmacy scandal, Workplace Safety and health issues, work places across the country on a daily basis and much more and you have to step back and say we as a count
President johnson signed the Voting Rights act of 1965 into law 52 years ago this month on august 6, 1965, and its widely considered to be the most significant and successful pieces of civil rights legislation enacted and has been used to combat Voter Suppression tactics targeting communities of color and limited English Proficiency voters. Im proud to highlight the commissions role in creation of that landmark legislation. In the years leading to the passage of the Voting Rights act the Commission Held a number of hearings and issued reports on Voting Rights abuses. March, 1965, president johnson called to the new voting legislation embodying the recommendation of the commission and in the state of South Carolina versus cason back the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Rights act relying on data published by the commission. Since our first report on voting issues in 1959 we have issued 20 reports on Voting Rights, most recently last fall on
I received briefings on the Strategic Forces subcommittee on a weekly basis. We are told about the classified information we are getting and it is part of how i make my judgments on the floor and in the votes we take in the committee. Theres no excuse for secretary clintons use of a private server. I have said that over and over again. However, i do believe that secretary clinton does have the experience and certainly the relationships in the congress to move our country forward. She knows the world leaders. She knows the leaders in the congress, both in the house and the senate. Thats a critical part as we move forward to have those kinds of relationships. Thank you. You have 30 seconds. The emails she had were 2,000 classified emails. Some were top secret, some had information about agents that were serving our country abroad. It undermined the National Security of our country and then she lied to the American People for 16 months. Shes still lying that some of the information was no