Migration issues at the u. S. mexico border. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. Advocates, students in the audience. And we are looking forward to a robust discussion among our three expert panelists and a very strong question and answer period. My name is anna gallagher, executive director of the catholic Legal Immigration network. We are an Affiliate Organization with over 370 members in 49 states across the United States. I always like to say were sort of a sleeping giant. Were a quiet organization. Folks may not know our name as quickly as they know the aclu or other organizations. However, we do a lot of the groundwork to support and represent low income immigrants across the United States. We do we help build their programs. We train them. We do advocacy. We also have religious Immigration Services division, which represents and helps bring sisters, brothers, priests, clergy to work in immigrant communities in the United States. And in the last year we added our litigation. Weave
Burning in amazons brazil rain forest. The council on Foreign Relations hosted this hourlong event. Hello, everybody. We good to go . Hi, my name is mark. Until recently, i was the ceo of the nature conservancy. Im delighted to berece nthere, the moderated of todays s discussion. We have a greattdi scupanel. To my left is monica. She is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. To monicas left is daniel, director of programs at the climate and land use alliance. And then on the screen is my good friend peter, the cofounder and ceo of neoterro, a new ngo focused on a lot of the issues well be discussing today. Petetedaniel, direct ser wer is founder and ceo of Conservation International, where he is the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest. Weve been reading about it in the news. Of course, this raises so many issues. First of all, whats really happening . Its hard to tell on the basisl of the news how much ofl this due to
Mr. Orrison good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a really good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. [laughter] mr. Orrison it is kind of funny, actually. Drew gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] time, i am at this going to introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] mr. Gruber i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis yesterday said s
Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here and enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be day loosed in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is one of the finest books i have read on southern history in a long time. It is a book i assigned to my undergraduates in this spring, and as we all know, undergraduates are tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoyed mr. Breens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, important book, and one thing patrick and i talked about, it is just a shame that one can go to southampton county today where turners revolt took place and you will see some state signage, but you will have no way of taking a driving tour to see the sites related to that important revolt. It truly is shocking. Patrick is trying to do his part and bring more awareness and audiences likeat us who go to battlefields, i suspect if we had the opportunity, w
Host good afternoon. I get the privilege of introducing a good friend. Drew and i have been arguing over the past two days, what i should do in this introduction. I will just read what you sent me. It is best [laughter] it is kind of funny, actually. Gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] going tor i am introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last from, the guy who falls dysentery, t