Justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2013 in the inaugural volume in the politics and power series of the North Carolina press. Were happy to have him here and hes the recipient of many awards. So were very happy to have Gordon Mantler here, how is this going to work . Come on up and have a seat . Yeah. And our second panelist resides andworks in boil heights in eechlt lavm. It was while attempting east l.
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School, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. Tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. He went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco examiner and chronicle. I stayed in touch with him all those years. I have known him for at least 30 years. For all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s. Book,sult is this subversives, the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. It is an extraordinary book. I was waiting for years to rita. Its an extraordinary book. , it. Read it. This book is based on 250,000 documents. Some of which you will see tonight. If youve never seen a fbi document, you might be shocked. You might want to close your eyes when you see it. Handwriting i J Edgar Hoover himself. Looking out into the audience, lets do a poll. How many people remember J Edgar Hoover . Good. We dont have to do a lot of
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We can get businesses to help us develop a national streamwork for quality Work Experience and why every young person should be entitled to it. Could this happen in the campaign where completely different areas have completely different circumstances . Not every area can say the same. How could we make this into a National Campaign . Maybe thats the point. No young person should be held back because of where theyre from. That is something we champion as a youth parliament. Why couldnt we champion this message of equality through a campaign . However, even if we did manage to get Work Experience for all young people, two weeks is no ones idea of productive. If we quit Work Experience in all schools wed be condemning young people and not benefiting them. It can be the reality of the work place. Not everyone who comes out with Work Experience feels motivated and inspired the same way not everyone finishes a day of work feeling motivated and inspired. That is life. I knew that would get th