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After that Doris Kearns Goodwin and i was an Exchange Student studying in china in 1989, so im very, very excited to be able to introduce our next speaker. I think most of us here may not recognize her, but we certainly recognize her voice. T im here to introduce louisa lim to talk about her book, the peoples republic of amnesia. She is the voice, as i said, from china for National Public radio or has been, and appreciate that she work prior to that she worked for bbc. That she worked for bbc. Over a decade of reporting she has earned many prestigious prizes and broadcasting awards for her work. During the previous Academic Year 2013 to 2014 louisa was a mic wallace fellow at the university of michigan and i just learned for the next Academic Year she will be teaching at the university of michigan in journalism school. For me reading her book brought back to me a flood of memories from my year in china and especially the events that surrounded tiananmen. Having been in china around tha
Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. This ear ferguson is on our minds. I think locally it has to be these ferguson problems are local problems. They ar
After that Doris Kearns Goodwin and a call in with that historian. This is booktv on cspan2. I was an Exchange Student studying in china in 1989 so im very excited to be able to introduce our next speaker. I think most of us here may not recognize her but we certainly recognize her voice. Im here to introduce luisa lim to talk about her book the peoples republic of amnesia. She is the voice as i said from china for National Public radio and prior to that she worked for bbc. Over a decade of reporting she has earned many prestigious prizes and broadcasting awards for her work. During the previous Academic Year 2013 to 2014 louisa was a mic wallace fellow at the university of michigan and i just learned for the next Academic Year she will be teaching at the university of michigan in journalism school. For me reading her book brought back to me a flood of memories from my year in china and especially the events that surrounded tiananmen. Having been in china around that time i found a rea
That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a result of god then thank you god. Host do you view this as a Christian Movement . Guest it was a religious movement not christian. There were as many jews involved in the rights as christians. There were other religions. I studied all of the great religions. The first a i got in college was in comparative religion. My father was a minister. I grew up in the fundamentalist church. We believed in dunking and my wifes church believed in sprinkles. All of these are symbolic of how to live and find t