Hi i am Suzanne Spaulding director of the Democratic Institution project and the International Security program at the center for strategic and international studies. I want to welcome all of you to part one of a twopart conversation, connecting the issues of racism, National Security, and Civic Education and empowerment. This conversation is part of a broader Strategic Dialogue with civics as a National Security imperative. The Broader Program and todays program are generously funded by the Craig Newmark philanthropy. We are very grateful for his support. Todays amazing lineup of speakers will focus on the ways in which systemic racism in addition to being a fundamental violation of our commitment to human rights, is also a National Security issue. From sidelining essential voices and talents and National Security to undermining our influence around the world to presenting an all too tempting targets to exploit. address the inequities in the National Security threat. All of us must be
Muslim contributions to American Society. The brooklyn oracle societies muslims in Brooklyn Project and of social policy and understanding muslims for n Progress Initiative cohosted the events. Evening, welcome. Out inou all for coming this nasty weather. We are really happy to see you here. For those of you who are sitting in back, if you feel like it, we would love to have you come up front a little bit more. We always have a good and lively conversation with the audience, and it is great to see people come up front, if you feel like it. Deborah schwarz, i am the president of the Brooklyn Historical society, and it is my pleasure to welcome you all tonight. I just want to get a sense of how many of you are here for the first time. Great, wonderful. Welcome, to those of you who know us well, and welcome to those of you who are here for the first time. We hope you will make this a place you come back to often. , muslims in tonight new york city, lessons from the past, visions for the f
Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in the mid90s. That we learned from. And we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. If its happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us whats happening to the Small Business owners whats happening to the average citizen, whats happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, National Association of crimi
Im Walter Isaacson, and im Walter Isaacson and im with the Aspen Institute here and its our pleasure at the institute to be the host and the facilitator of the franklin project. The project began when general Stan Mcchrystal was out talking about the importance of National Service two or three years ago in aspen, and everybody related to it, and one of the things we try to do here at the institute is turn thought into action, so we said, well, if this is important, lets try to create a program around it. General mcchrystal agreed to chair it. He also thought to himself, im never going to raise another idea in aspen again. You get enlisted if not drafted to do something, but i think he was able to convey to us that this works on so many levels. I mean, this is an important thing that every kid in america could have the rite of passage that previous generations had. Secondly, the notion that theres an expectation and an opportunity to be able to engage in National Service. I think both a
We hope in the normalization process, the people of cuba will change cuba. In the words of raul castro, cuba agreed to nothing. Several senior i. S. I. L. Military leaders have been killed. Iraqi Kurdish Forces launched a major offensive. Therell be challenges down the road that require patients. The United States blame hackers working for north korea. This is something treated as a security matter. See people inhibited by fear and terror. Its tragic. We need to raise strong and independent individuals. Mistakes. Teach children how to deal with disappointment. The accused boston bomber was in court today. Fairly routine hearing, set for an outburst of support. We pray for you. We here for you, we know you innocent we begin with a passionate debate over the historic decision to restore diplomatic ties with cuba after 60 years of hostility. The president had the leaders of burma and china to the United States. For that reason i wouldnt rule out a visit from president castro in havana, ma