And career at the equal Justice Works conference. This is an hour. Hello everyone and welcome to the equal Justice Works 2016 career fair and conference. My name is david stern and i i am theproud and proud executive director of equal Justice Works. You are in for a treat today. A conversation between elena kagan and and claire williams, a judge on the u. S. Court of appeals for the seventh circuit. Where didly give i put my clicker . You took it. That is ok. Justice kagan needs no introduction. Her Public Service career includes serving as white house counsel, first female as the u. S. Solicitor general. 112th justice and the fourth woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Our moderator, judge and clay or williams has also dedicated all of her career to Public Service. Of colorhe first woman to serve as division chief in chicago and on the u. S. District court in illinois. She is the first and only judge of color. She cofounded just the beginning foundation. It aims to incre
Up, burned black, bleeding. Parts of the bodies were missing. The skin and flesh were hanging from the bones. And some carrying their own eyeballs, hanging from the eye socket. And they collapsed on to the ground, their stomach burst and their intestine stretching out. You girls escape to the nihearb hill. Thats what we did, by stepping over the dead bodies, injured bodies. It was a strange situation. Nobody was running and screaming for help. They just didnt have that kind of strength left. Simply whispering. Everybody was asking for water. We girls were relatively lightly injured. By the time we got to the hillside, we went to the nearby stream and washed off the blood and dirt and we took off the gloves and soaked them in the stream and dashed back and put them to hold them over the mouth of the dying people. You see, the place we escaped to had the military training ground, huge place, about the size of two football fields. The place was packed with dead and dying people. We wanted
My mother used every material, newspaper, everything to use as a diaper. But that was one way of dying. Radiation works in mysterious and random ways. Some automatically, some a week later, some months later. 71 the horrible thing is, years later, people are still dying from the effects of the radiation. Now, hibakushas in other words, survivors survivors struggled in the aftermath. Surviving in unprecedented catastrophic horror. And the unprecedented sociopolitical chaos due to japans defeat and Occupation Forces strict control over us. If i start giving details of that, that would take the whole morning. Maybe i will stop. But struggle in the aftermath was very difficult. Japan to university in upon my graduation, i was offered a scholarship. I came to virginia, very close to the city. That was 1954. The United States tested the biggest Hydrogen Bomb in the South Pacific at the time, creating that kind of situation, of the hiroshimanagasaki experience. Japan was up in arms. The Unite
Cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, a survivor of hiroshima will talk about her experience. Then, a conversation on u. S. Israel relations. The middle rice on east. On monday, the arms control seemaation honored a hero heroes she must survivor. She spoke about her experience an atomic after bombing and how it influenced her life and work ever since. This is about one hour. Good morning, everyone. Welcome. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today. Reporters. For support and contribution of members is what makes our work possible. Thank you very much for all you do for us. We could not be heard today without you. I also want to welcome those of you watching on cspan today following the annual meeting for the next few hours. You can find out more about the Arms Control Association, about our news and information and analysis that we provide ab
It is wonderful to hear your impressions, which are very special and extremely important today. Fromse we do not hear survivors that much even in washington, d. C. , or japan. It is very good. We made progress today largely because of people like yourself and your self and your colleagues, who made a stand and are speaking truth to power on the humanitarian impact of Nuclear Weapons. I think it is 126 countries that have signed the humanitarian pledge. 127 now. Good. I stand corrected. We have a couple more questions and we will try to keep the questions brief and get through everybody. Thank you. I work with physicians for social responsibility. Friendwith our mutual who sends his greetings. You just answered a lot of my questions. Physicians for social responsibility is working with the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons. To promote the prohibition and elimination of Nuclear Weapons. About the newou momentum that is happening. There is a lot of skepticism here in the U