Jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep c
Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep cool, and there were stuffing envelopes. And i am thinking, i am mesmerized by their arms, their j
[cheering and applause] [inaudible] [cheering and applause] [inaudible] suggested to joe that he ask me out and i called my mother at 1 00 oclock in the morning and said mom, ive met a gentleman im a mother and a grandmother, friend any teacher, wife and a sister. Every role i have played has taught me so much about what family means. I have learned and am still learning about the bonds that make up a family and this is the truest thing i know that love makes a family home and does not matter if youre blending a family with biological and nonbiological children or healing the wounds of a loved one but this is the story of how joe and i created our family. We had no roadmap or master plan but we faltered at times but we never stopped working hard to keep the Family Strong and we did it all together. We built our family, rebuilt it when we had to and discovered along the way the meaning behind the beautiful words of the 13th century persian poet, let a teacher waive away the flies and pu
A labor and saying that mexicans are criminals and murderers and rapists. Sometimes they got readers to disclose this to get our countries. To. Encourage. I dont think. Its tight ive never seen it so close to the border that. You can see for it but it. Also coming up in china issues in starkest warning yet to demonstrators in hong kong saying their demands will not be met and that their violence may be met with force. Because soon as the liberty and equality and equality is the in a the end of all right so every citizen on that. We want to reign 100 full of violent criminals in the measuring hands behind them that those who play with fire will perish by it. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day beginning to bury the victims of americas hate it has been 3 days since a gunman opened fire at a walmart in El Paso Texas he killed 22 people as burial plans are made in the 1st of the dead are laid to rest the community of el paso
Four seventhgrade students present alice paul, the fight for the 19th amendment. We are doing a performance titled alice paul, the fight for the 19th amendment. Alice paul, a suffregette activist and fighter for equal rights was an American Woman been able to vote despite the tragic and unjust treatment of the suffrage activist they continued to fight for womens right to vote. Even after achieving their goals. They fought for the 19th amendment in many ways. After finding the National Womens party in 1930 and participating in protests concerning rights. They learned from experiences of womens rights in england. That doesnt mean it was easy. Many parts of the 19th amendment were established. But lets start from the beginning. Alice paul was born on january 11 in new jersey. She had two brothers, william and perry and a sister. She grew up with her family and a strong quaker faith. After that, she went on to do graduate work. In 1906, she got into the womens Suffrage Movement. Men and wo