Can you tell us they realistically are like and how long a site is active or on a. Slide 12 also has as well. While you are looking for that, my mother grew up there and is from scranton. Back then they used a turnaround and pile up the refuse from coal. So if you look at our drill patterns, my mother refers to it as this dumb. Theres no question that it was disruptive or there is no question that there were a lot of trucks. And theres also no question that one of the largest environmental problems we have is the amount of diesel that is used in this entire process and that is another talk entirely. But its also very important to bear in mind that you cannot turn around and look at a snapshot from anyone moment of time and say that this is wyoming county. I live in northeastern pennsylvania and i can walk 27 miles from the back of my house to the back of the house of Gifford Pinchot and not cross a major road. Another thing i wont cross is a tree that would be older than my father. Tha
Looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in addition to waking from the dream he has written inside is of the Civil Rights Movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. He has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. Please go to the microphone in the middle. It 3 15 we will move to the activity building for the book signing. All the
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Now from the Annapolis Book festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming to our panel and the Civil Rights Movement. Im the chair of the Humanities Department here in at the school. I would like to ask you all sign out of any cell phones are and Electronic Devices of the panel isnt disrupted. I would like to start by acknowledging yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the estimation of Martin Luther king. If we could all just take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. And they have an interesting array of oaks represented here. A kind of chronology of the silver rights movement. So i will introduce them in the order of the periods that they cover. An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as
Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. Some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. We have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind of citizenship examp