Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what america is all about. The irrational and the ideals. Those two opposites have defined my life totally because i grew up as a child imprisoned him barb wire american prison camps. Pearl harbor was bombed and overnight, american citizens of japanese answers straight ancestry were looked at with suspicion and fear and outright hatred. But despite that, young japaneseamericans, like all americans, rushed to
Europe and asked several questions. Affirmativeaction means a lot more than just the use of race or sexbased preferences in university of michigan. Section 26 only focuses on this one aspect of university of missions. Another point to understand is that section 26 is not all about university of missions. This is a much broader law that applies not just your race and ethnicity but also sex and other this is a broadbased law that was primarily motivated by the people of michigans decision to move past the day when we always focus on race and exactly as greater invited the states to do you can you can see how that discussion gets mired when you look at some of these statistics that we have been talking about. Is someone who has multiple racial boxes checked more or less diverse than someone who only has one box checked . Is someone who comes from outside the country say from mexico youve done something much more. You are basically saying, because fisher and grutter weve always applied str
And from that, by working long, hard hours, they gave their three children fine educations in outstanding, Great American universities. The university of california at berkeley, the university of california at los angeles. The university of Southern California and the university of wisconsin. They were our change agents and yes, those drag queens at the Stonewall Inn also are much age agents. Just are my change agents. This nation has been defined by change agents. When this nation was founded, women had no rights, they could not vote, they could not own land, they could not even have rights over their own children. Because determined women and fairminded man challenged and debated and marched for equal rights for women, today we have three women sitting on the Supreme Court of this country. We have had three women serve as u. S. Secretaries of state. And weve had a woman astronaut lead a team of astronauts and go soaring out into space. They were all change agents. The first change ag
Activist george takei. Anytime you need to say the word gay, you can simply say the gay. You could safely proclaim your supportive to gay marriage. If youre a no more festive mood, you can march in the takei pride parade. We will speak with george takei about the attack on gay rights, growing up in a japanese internment camp during world war ii. And we will look at how fracking poses not only a threat to the nations water supply, but also the air. This stuff starts happening and i noticed there into my noseing up and there is this heaviness on my chest, and it feels like an elephant sitting here. It feels like somebody is choking the air out of me. I cant get a breath. Fracking the eagle ford shell. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brewer hasernor jan vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to deny service to lgbt people. In recent days, the bill generated a nationwide chorus of condemnation, n
Building a house, but it may be something about money that comes up in the play but actually was drawn from our financial struggles trying to build this house in the berkley hills. But it also sort of shows you how real life intrudes into your work and how we either can listen to it and put it into it or try to ignore it. I usually choose to sort of put everything thats going on around me in the world when im reading what i find intellectually curious into the work, no matter what the story is. So lets turn our attention a little bit to these characters you have created, 9, i think, characters, all very extremely different from different backgrounds. You spoke just now about wanting to find an authentic voice for each of them and working from the inside out. So how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an African American character, for all these different characters . I know you worked with specific actors. Did they help at all