How are you doing . Thanks. Hello. As a reminder, this event adheres to social distancing guidelines. Restrictions, there will not be individual photos today. Thank you. Frmr vp biden that is assuming you would want one. Thank you, Vice President , the third here in Congressional District in one of the most fantastic places in the city and the state. You will seeally today and hear from all of these fantastic people some great stories. The residents of West Philadelphia, where we are, they things, andntastic this is a great opportunity. Tiffany, dont be bashful, the Vice President invites you, it is your chance to speak your mind. Tell me what you were telling me in the back room. How are you . I am the owner of a fullservice optical store in West Philadelphia as well as having my business in West Philadelphia, i am a resident. We have been in operations for three and a half years now. I have a lot of ideas of what should happen in West Philadelphia. Frmr vp biden i am looking forward
The first i guess is a little disturbing that it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. Particularly in the news media, the development of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were
The second choice of everybody. Well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose im not the first choice of a great many. Our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. I know, it kind of gets you right there. Giving up your first love. So the themes we will talk about and im going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party. They actually ran a very well organized campaign. And at the same time there is an old saying in politics that if your opponent is imploding, dont do anything to stop him. In this case there were some implosions on the part of the other parties involved. And we will get to those as we go along. We will do a little bit of the background leading up to the 1860 election and we will talk more about why slavery was a key issue both leading up to the election and then in the out come. This next one might make you stop a
These and many other sorts of Public Policy issues, one of our intellectuals. Thank you. Welcome, one and all. This session will examine the Civil Liberties issues that have been raised by Government Actions to content with the coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from four imminent legal scholars. One from new york law school, chairman of the american Civil Liberties union. School,f the ucla law host of the eponymous website of conspiracy julia of the university of Virginia School of law, who specializes in property, public finance, and constitutional law. Mia Love University of Virginia School of law, who specializes in comparative constitutional law and international law. Further information about each of them is available at the. Onference website our session will run up to 90 minutes, concluding not later than 5 15 eastern in the United States. We will have individual presentations and a general Panel Discussion and questions from attendees. When question time arrives, i will ask th
George floyd, breonna taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others. [background sounds]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. Madame speaker, yot here. Do we read right from here . [inaudible] we stay right here . [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. Speaker pelosi good morning everyone prayed it is an honor to bee here. The members of the black caucus in thousand stand in our distinguished chair prayed the cares act and senator booker. In distinguished leader democratic leader of the senate mr. Schumer. We have gathered here in this hall, named for those who got the capital. Numberr of us went to observe e 400th anniversary of the first life come across the atlantic. That tragedy, the horror of history, slavery in our own country, and then all of the consequences of that. We are here to observe the pain. We are here to respect the actions of the American People to speak out against that specifically manifested in police brutality. We are here to honor george floyd. In a moment we will have a moment of sil