Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u
Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u
Morning. Each week, american tv sits in on a lecture with one of the college professors. You can watch it. This week, we join professor ellen wu at Indiana University where she discusses japanese internment in the United States during world war ii. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. On tuesday, we begin our discussion on the japanese american internment camps by thinking about the ways which wars function as flash points for redefining the terms of membership or belonging in the american nation. In other words, wars are these critical moments when the nation rethinks who gets to be considered or treated as members or citizens of the National Community as well as who gets excluded. Right . These are really critical times. We saw in the frantic weeks of pearl harbor, president roosevelt, members of congress and ordinary people all came to the consensus japanese americans needed to be completely excluded or shut out of that National Community. Of course, we know this was based on the u
Just hours from forcing the first government shut down in nearly two decade autos putting the american peoples hard earned progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility. It doesnt have to low pressure. This afternoon, Democratcontrolled Senate did as expected. It rejected a measure passed by the house on saturday keeping the government run temporarily but delay the Health Care Law by one year. The republican government shut down has pure and simple. In this game of shut down ping pong, the ball is back on the house side this, morning, john boehner indicated he wont budth when it comes to turning the Government Spending bill to obama care. This is law is not ready for prime time. The house has done its work. A poll found a majority of americans disapprove of house president obama, Congressional Republicans and Congressional Democrats are handling negotiations. But its republicans who get the worst marks. About 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential will be forced to stay home
Agenda for the board, it includes four action items related to preliminary layoff noises to certificate other representative employees and this is necessary by statutory deadline which is march 15th. This year marks the First Time Since 2007, where we are not facing hundreds, upon hundreds of preliminary layoffs due to anticipated budget cuts to the state of california and i want to thank our community and all of the voters for the passage of prop 30 which is making this possible, and if you do take away those positions lost, due to the anticipated end of the School Improvement grand, the sig grand and other categorical funds and other grants that are sunseting, we are issuing over 200 percent fewer, 200 percent fewer prelim layoff notices this year as compared to last year. Although this is a significant reduction in layoff notices, it is still a very difficult decision that we take very, very seriously and it is a very difficult decision and we do not take that lightly. We still need