Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and latino experience of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor, blackbrown coalition and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2
Eve. The stateoftheunion address. The state of the union. President obama will pivot back to the economy. That is not a prescription for getting a budget deal with the House Republicans. The sequester turned into a ridiculous blame game. He is the one who proposed it in the first place. It is completely wrong and to make that argument requires a sequestration of memory. We have had plenty of spending cuts, what we need is growth deva vu all over again. There is a lot of energy coming from the tea party. The gop will not present a unifiy eied front. They want an independent voice. Marco rubio, rand paul will both be giving responses. When the Republican Party chose paul ryan to give the official response. We want to work with the president. The tea party issued their own rebuttal. The tea party is a Dynamic Force for good. The republicans problem these days is a brand problem. Tomorrow is make or break. There is no shortage of things to say about the state of the union. The stateoftheun
It is the state of the union eve. The stateoftheunion address. The state of the union. President obama will pivot back to the economy. That is not a prescription for getting a budget deal with the House Republicans. The sequester turned into a ridiculous blame game. He is the one who proposed it in the first place. It is completely wrong and to make that argument requires a sequestration of memory. We have had plenty of spending cuts, what we need is growth deva vu all over again. There is a lot of energy coming from the tea party. The gop will not present a unified front. They want an independent voice. Marco rubio, rand paul will both be giving responses. When the Republican Party chose paul ryan to give the official response. We want to work with the president. The tea party issued their own rebuttal. The tea party is a Dynamic Force for good. The republicans problem these days is a brand problem. Tomorrow is make or break. There is no shortage of things to say about the state of th
Thank you for joining us. I am honored to be here with my women colleagues who have taken the lead on when american succeeds women succeed. And we have the leader of the issue here. She is the booster of it all shall we say and sets the pace for all of us. Donna edwards the share of the Workman Group is here. We have the vice chair of the ste steering community. You will be hearing singing from Michele Grisham from new mexico and judy chew of california is here of the asianpacific organization. At lunch we presented what we will present to you to our members. It was not only advocacy, but a case study on how we are using Traditional Press on this issue and rosa will talk about our 16,000 person teleconference. As well as the social media. So with that, shall we play it again . [video playing] give sherrys berries. Lets pea treated equal this valentines day. What a girl wants, what a girl needs is equal way for equal work. For valentines day flowers, chocolate and a fine dinner are all
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