This is a guy who is not afraid to talk to confront injustice. I think of something George Bernard shaw said you dont make progress by standing on guard. The fact that he used to be 65 will give you the idea of the fights i have been in. He has been more and additional to veterans for peace, he is a cofounder of the dont shoot coalition on the Michael Brown Police Killing in ferguson, missouri. He was an artillery love and based in clues and American Civil Liberties union and the Steering Committee of bringing them home now campaign. To introduce him and veterans for peace, we have a short video and then michael will be right here. [begin video clip] my name is barry ladendorf. I am the president of the veterans for national peace. Across the United States we have about 160 chapters and chapters in ireland and okinawa. We are forming a chapter in open our. We have a chapter in mexico. What we have learned in our collective experiences is that veterans is violence goes down. It doesnt p
City to where it is today. And i think it sort of speaks to how this is a natural place to settle with the confluence of Fountain Creek and arkansas river. People keep coming back to this place because its a natural place to bid a city. On book tv on cspan2, fawn amber montoya, Colorado State University Professor and author ofsome making an american workforce, the rockefellers and the legacy of ludlow, talks about the Deadly Strike between miners and the colorado fuel and iron company which resulted in a Public Relations nightmare for john d. Rockefeller junior. President frank hayes walks out to the his car and tells him to turn around. He says youre not welcome here. I cannot guarantee your safety. Then Matthew Harris discusses his book the Founding Fathers and the debate over religious in revolutionary america. Religion is interesting. They didnt a lot about religion at the constitutional convention. One of the only things they said was you didnt have to hold public office. You didn
Than u. S. Government. In u. S. Government i can talk to them about important sieve, and how to do it. But i think a big challenge to forming citizens who can tackle the problems of today is our u. S. History. It is teaching a very traditional mainstream history that reinforces the current traditions. As they say, they cannot dismantle the masters house. So when you are teaching a traditional white man mythical if you try hard enough youll get ahead type of history. Then you turn around and say, okay, now were going to talk about racial and income inequality. It conflicts. And so i think you really have to teach the roots of todays problems in u. S. History for the students to understand. You need to get down to the root causes. Ill give you an example. This summer i was very shaken by the two deaths of black men by police and the rise of trumpism. And i said i cant go on as if nothing has happen. And i emailed my supervisor and i said, i am just completely compressing the curriculum a
Wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, lets think about tax credits. Every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. It doesnt matter what your marginal tax bracket is. So if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you dont owe anything. If you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus 1,000. Now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but dont earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. And so if you make it refundable if you dont owe the income tax, youll get a direct grant. Both commissions said that about the Home Mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. Congress ignored that. Finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for people who need the h
Way we are raised. I am thankful for good parents, good parents in law and a good wife that will help me raise my children and students that way. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is robin. Im the executive director of mikva challenge, d. C. I am really honored to be on the stage with these two amazing educators. I have danced my whole career around the classroom and i have the utmost respect for classroom teachers. They are the real change makers in our society. They get up every day and educate our young people about the world around them and how to make it into what they like to see. I appreciate being a part of this panel. A minute about mikva challenge. We are named after the late judge abner mikva, who just recently passed away. We are founded by a group of people who had worked with judge mikva, a representative from chicago for a number of years on the hill, Circuit Court judge and general counsel to president clinton. When he retired, a group of people decided they wanted to