I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keit
Nowhere she is a passionate articulate defender of conservative values and shes also been one of still lives policy institutes most popular speakers from many years and shes been speaking in the mentoring young women that we work with for decades and she has helped me out so many times at the institute, hall to the institute out so many times. The american conservative calendars with very different this year not only with beautiful women but beautiful seems of america and from march of 2013 and the quote on her page courage is the latter on which all other virtues mount. Other great ladies have spoken about courage as well with it. Cade is to be talking about how despite the claims of unity when the west is dividing america with the radical policies. Just earlier this week on cnbc she appears many times on radio shows and speaks of the country and and the clare booth policy loosens to do we are honored to have cade as a member of the board of directors when. She works for the conservat
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
Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2013 in the inaugural volume in the politics and power series of the North Carolina press. Were happy to have him here and hes the recipient of many awards. So were very happy
Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and latino experience of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor, blackbrown coalition and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2