Organization, what is it . Guest she the people is a National Network of women of color, black, latino, asianamerican, and indigenous from all over the country. Women of color who are united in a common cause around gender, racial, and economic justice. Host who supports organization financially . Combination of foundations and individuals. Certain there a political structure . Doesave progressives there have to be progressives, conservatives . Guest most women of color are democrats and most definitely hold progressive or a social justice frame of mind in voting. But is not required. The issue we deal with is bigger than party. It is bigger than politics. It surrounds helping to shift the culture to make space in our multiracial democracy for the group of voters, 20 of the population, who are least represented, but who the country needs desperately. Host leading up to the announcement last week of senator harris being joe bidens Vice President ial pick, you called it a watershed momen
Will help Public Health officials and emergency authorities make decisions, but they should shut down events, weather reactions to the pandemic are working. That is the power of gis. We are going to transition from medical geography to how gis can help you moving forward because you are going to leave here in a few moments from this online conference and you are back to the reality we live in. Think of, in your work, when does location matter . About distance . Direction . Territory,d, region, or, with my kids, i say turf. Working from the regional, national, global scale. If you teach and you have any of these themes, you need to consider getting gis a try, particularly as many of us will be teaching online, i will share resources that are ready to go in which you can have your students doing gis at home and it might not be as powerful as you in front of the class, but it will be pretty powerful given that you are far away. To show you one option, we will be eating every day. I have a
I know will be a compelling presentation. These guys are money. As many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight we welcome our two guests. They had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great ape starring James Mcqueen Steve Mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. All of the guys in my class fell in love with it. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. He survives. The movie was based on a true story. Only three of those men who escaped state escaped. Two norwegian pilots in another pilot from the netherlands. No americans. Escape was not often tried and when it was it did not succeed. When it day, it really was an inspiration. It was often hollywood staff. This is the third time david has spoken here at the library. The last was a little less than a year ago. Thank you so much for making the trip. These join us in welcoming both of them. [applause] good evening. Thank you for coming out. Looks like
Of basketball. Wall street is looking at Sports Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. A big travel week. Maybe some people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and they talked about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could be amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends or at least feeling better about the economy is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybody is like, it does not seem to
Live on the cspan networks online, cspan. Org, or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. Remarks from several former white house officials who served during that time, including former secretary of state james baker. They also examine the state in fallhat led to the of the wall. Hosted by the Atlantic Council, this is just two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former abc news anchor stan donaldson. Stan well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this mornings program. There are dates all of us have that are very personal, and dates that we have is a country that we all share. In my lifetime, december 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. 9 11. All terrible dates for the country. And november 8, 1989, good news, the fall of the berlin wall presaging the end of the soviet union. A subject we will discuss today, how did it happen . What were the consequences . Who did this . Who knew . For a look at what is