They are blocking the street. 1700 block pennsylvania avenue. We have a wagon headed up that way. [radio chatter] [sirens] we have a report of two cars overturned. Anyone in the area of Dupont Circle they are placing barricades. Attention all units. Teargas is being used in the area of of 34th and prospect northwest. [indiscernible] unit in the area we have an injured officer. 607 you have it. At dupontrge group circle blocking the street. Another large group at at 34th and prospect. Large group at 34th and prospect. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching. This was the spring offensive, the mobilization of masses of people at a given time and place attracts worldwide News Coverage and attention. For the protest organizer, it is a vital and necessary tactic. On april 24, 1971, the National Peace action coalition, supported by welfare rights groups, labor
Wrote it. Because today, we can definitely go to the stores and not be able to find everything we want to, such as Hand Sanitizer or toilet paper or pasta. And this was one of the big problems that provoked the bread riot, were shortages in the market. So well be talking about that tonight. And what i want to do at the beginning of the talk is kind of set the stage for the bread riot , give you an idea for the conditions under which it could occur. Then i will talk about the riot itself, and then ill end with the aftermath of the riot. I have a slight up here of robert keene. He wrote some insightful things in the days leading up to the bread riots. I want to share something from his diary. On march 7, this is what he said. He was an official in the War Department. He said, flour in the city is 30, but butchers are closing their stalls. Meat, 1. 25 per pound. Farmers are making preparation. Then he went on to say, they resent the secretary scheduled prices, which are often 50 below the
Worst how korea launched the cold war. Is thethbreaking book capstone of sams distinguished career, of which the Wilson Center was his home for over four decades. Sharing in todays celebration is sams family, his wife of 50 years to whom the book is dedicated, daughter lauren, and wife. Ristopher, and his i would also like to acknowledge jane harman, who has provided special leadership in expanding the centers focus on korea. Todays event is cosponsored by the Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and Hyundai Motor career and policy center for Public Policy. Sam has played a vital role in the history of the Wilson Center. Initially came in the mid70s as a wilson fellow on leave from his professorship at the university of North Carolina chapel hill and went on to join the staff, founding the International Security studies program and serving as the Centers Deputy director. It was his harvard doctoral sam tosor who introduced the arts of using history to analyze issues of curr
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Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense