Maria rousseau. So much of raising children these days seems to be about what we dont want them to do, keeping them away from dangers, both real and virtual, no dout this is a feature, perhaps and a bug of our helicopter in age but this attitude often fails to promote a sense independence in kids. Not only do they not know how to walk down the street by themselves but theyre also much and incapable of editing themselves completes without a device in hand. So for reasons both selfish, parents need a break, and selfless, we know this is important life skill for them, i think the Current Situation is untenable, our kids have trouble with any kind of unstructured activity that reading for pleasure is perhaps the activity i think a suffered the most, according to recent analysis of the american study, the share of americans who read for pleasure has actually fallen more than 30 since 2004. If there is way to reverse this trend i think it will have to start with our children and i can think
A 20 year period. And the forthcoming book about fascism which concludes with the essay the pandemic is the portal which is the conversation today and haymarket publishes critical radical thinkers such as angela davis and so many others. In this moment in this crisis with deep injustice it is especially important to support Freedom Fighters and part of that task i encourage you to buy books from haymarket book club and inviting people to make donations and there will be information on how you can do so. And to be recorded on haymarket books Youtube Channel you are invited to subscribe and on that channel you can see a number of different events that have taken place and there will be a special program on may day 5 00 oclock p. M. Discussion between a workingclass vision for the future and at 7 00 p. M. May 1st to host a special may day Poetry Reading online. So now little more housekeeping. Was so many people joining the call today we may need your forbearance if we have technical issu
Thats a word for the in crowd to show their part of thesmart crowd. Brother robbie and i we dont believe in smartness in this isolation, we believe that wisdom in its deepest level and the smartness is tied to richness with no acumen to donald trump who believes hes the smartest and richest in the room, its a sign of his spiritualvacuum he and emptiness that hes a symptom of a society that has idolized smartness and richness. We wont even talk about obama, obama dropped 172,000 bombs his last year, he got the Nobel Peace Prize ties twice as many drone strikes. He got 506 he won the Nobel Peace Prize so what happens is this practical hide what your substance is when it comes to morality and spirituality. This is what breaks through ideology, not just rightwing leftwing cynicism. This substance is always deeper than any political ideology so what im trying to say in this introduction is we are in catastrophic times. Ideological catastrophe, nuclear catastrophe, war catastrophe of the fil
Which is her base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joined you in your home, were trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know we were founded in 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house, but also in Education Mission to teach and to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 7092 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating education materials and content is a a core part of our mission, and thats what we do everyday through the wonderful, wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we h
General Charles Brown currently the Pacific Forces commander has been nominated as air force chief of staff and James Anderson is the nominee for Deputy Defense undersecretary for policy. The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today consider the nominations to be secretary of navy and us chief of Staff Air Force and deputy undersecretary of defense for policy thank you for being here. We appreciate all the contributions you have a made me appreciate the fact you are coming back again. Some of these are necessary we have to ask you the required question i would like to have an audible yes or no on each question please. Have you adhere to the ethical laws regulations . Yes or. Yes sir. Yes sir. Do you ensure you will request communication deadlines for the record it hearings . Yes sir. Yes or, yes sir. Will you cooperate. Yes sir. Yes sir. With those witnesses be protected from reprisal of testimony . Yes sir. Yes or. We agree to testify before the committee. Yes sir. Yes or