She is also a lawyer. Ms. Girma, what kind of law do you practice . Guest would you call me haben . Host haben, yes, maam. Guest and the kind of law i do is disability rights. Im focused on using my skills to advance opportunities for people with disabilities. Host why did you choose that type of law . Guest i was born deafblind. Most of our world is designed for people who can see and hear, and when we ask for accommodations for example, getting materials in braille instead of print a lot of society refuses, putting up barriers. And that limits our ability to get an education, to go and get a job, and thats not fair. So i experienced a lot [inaudible] and the law is one way that we can create change. And i wanted to create a change and remove barriers so people with disabilities for people with disabilities. Is so my own personal story and struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Host and here is her book, has beenen the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. First deafblind pe
Flints deadly water on the contaminated water in the michigan city. As always, well take your calls you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. His next. Is next. Host this is the washington journal for september 10. The House Judiciary Committee will markup gun control bills this afternoon. Look for more information on those events at cspan. Org. For our first hour, we want to hear from republicans only about the three announced primary challengers to President Trump. Mark sanford, bill weld, and joe walsh. What do you think about these declared challengers to the president and do you support or oppose their efforts . If you support the efforts, 2027488000 is the number to call and tell us why. You can also tell us if you oppose at 2027488001. If you want to tweet us this morning, cspanwj is how you do that. Before the start of this program, on our facebook page, 300 of you commenting. You can participate in a poll at the facebook page. Making his sanford comments about his
This talk is part of the Civil War Institute civil war conference, about an hour. Good morning again. I am Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Green whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year, correct . She came here and enjoyed herself im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates, theyre tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoy mr. Greens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, it is an important book and one of the things that patrick and i talked about it is just its just a shame.
Border and efficiently how to manage it and important for communities and the United States and mexico and our economies as a whole. I dont think thats enough. Not enough for Mexican Border communities to really have the vibrant communities that we want and quality of life the people in the border region aspire to. We need do more than move wigets back and forth across the border. It requires strategies that leverage unique positions for communities across the border as a way to attract Companies Across the region. There is a unique value there and competitive of the United States and mexico side by side that makes working and producing in the border region particularly attractive and interesting. If we look back in time and see the Border Industrialization Program of the 1960s, it was the beginning of free trade between our two countries, focused on the border region, Mexican Border communities in particular. It was effective in attracting a certain amount of investment to the mexican
At the civil war continues now with author Patrick Breen on his book the land should be deluged in blood. This talk was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institutes annual summer conference. Its about an hour. Good morning. Good morning, again. Im Peter Carmichael. Member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Im also the director of the Civil War Institute. It is my pleasure this morning to introduce to you Patrick Breen whos an associate professor in history and classics at providence college. I should note, hes also the father of one of our High School Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here. And enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be deluged in blood a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. I can say to you its one of the finest books ive read on southern history in a very long time. It is a book that i assigned to my undergraduates this spring. And as we all know undergraduates,