Continue to push and make strides and fight for civil rights things do get better we do have various achievements that we can point to but it cheap mints without control achievements without ownership only gets you so far so thats one of the key. Problems that artists still face we you mentioned Little Richard earlier Little Richard is from macon georgia from georgia and one of the things that he always talked about was how so many people were stealing his craft stealing his material and reuse again and he never got the credit that he ultimately deserved the same thing is kind of happening now but just not want to wider scale as it was in the past and a bow did lead to poor you know. Our legacy dot com you quoted Patricia Hill columns and she said challenging power structures from the inside. Working the cracks within the system requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly for content creators is technology shifting that power in olden times a writer would go man
And sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now world powers have approved a thirty day humanitarian ceasefire for syria a resolution was passed in a unanimous vote at the u. N. Security Council Headquarters in new york arties came up and has more for us there has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leaves the United Nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and its a place thats under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the Syrian Government since two thousand and thirteen it has been surrounded by Government Forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and were hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being killed were hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the United Kingdom theyre saying that that syria with the support of russia is hurting. Civilians and
Incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us now world powers have approved a thirty day humanitarian ceasefire for syria a resolution was passed in a unanimous vote at the u. N. Security Council Headquarters in new york artes and has the latest. There has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leads the United Nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and its a place thats under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the Syrian Government since twenty thirteen it has been surrounded by Government Forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and were hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being killed were hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the United Kingdom theyre saying that that syria with the support of russia is hurting civilians and committing atrocities
Of thinking about this proposal thats on the table. Lets thank beth. [applause] and thank all of you for your terrific questions which made for an enlightening discussion and as i said before that this book is on sale outside. Please help yourselves. [applause] [inaudible conversations] im very honored to have a chance to be with you today and to be able to moderate our Wonderful Program on the Death Penalty. I am Michael Gerhardt a constitutional law professor and also i have the honor of being a scholar at the National Constitution center. We have three terrific panels today who are going to be available after the program to be able to sign their books and talking about those books. Although the next panel will start promptly at 2 15. Just to get us started we have on my far left sub122 was judge robert m. Parker and dominant of law into his right ms. Carol steiker the in closest to me is grace and justice on death row widely regarded as one of the nations leading Capital Punishment
Really in advance of direction from the u. S. A print port court. This is a case building the record for a case that might ultimately arrive at the court where the Supreme Court can decide if they only faced this question once in history, and 1976 whether the Death Penalty as a punishment is unconstitutional. This federal judge at least believe so. We are running up against time, give about 30 seconds on concluding thoughts. I think the recent decision is a prediction of the eventual future of the Death Penalty. Whether its in the short term or depending on who is on the Supreme Court the longerterm. We feel confident the Death Penalty is on its way out as an american institution. The only way that places like texas, alabama, or louisiana will fully abandon the Death Penalty is if the Supreme Court tells them to have to. We think that day is coming. Im sure john mason hopefully when Justice Breyer is still around to enjoy it. Right 90 think back in the history, you wrote about torture