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Another know. You say we gave. Our to keep this Company Running and now this company is making record profits theyre making now our labor they dont want to even give any bag what they want to continue to take and thats not right this trade. Experts say both sides will feel pain from a long strike u. A. W. Workers have a strike fund of 850000000. 00 from which they will receive 250. 00 in weekly strike wages meanwhile Industry Experts say g. M. Will lose about 50000000. 00 each day the strike goes on General Motors stock fell more than 3 and a half percent in monday morning trading. And there was a dramatic though expected turn in the legal drama surrounding part Purdue Pharma the corporate career creator of oxycontin the drug experts place at the center of the u. S. Opioid abuse addiction an overdose crisis on sunday night Purdue Pharma filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to shield that staggering profits from more than 2600 pending suits still pending over produce role in creat
My name is Cameron Blevins. Thank you for cosponsoring this event might particularly Jeffrey Engel england john phipps. Its my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last night whether to fly in from denver where he teaches u. S. History and humanities at the university of colorado campus in the mile high city. Before moving to the Current Ratio is assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston and the core faculty member at the school lab for networks. Cameron is in of the nutmeg state to does anybody know what the nutmeg state is . A number of you. I was hoping id be able to enlighten you. Although he posted palm streets and sunny skies of Southern California when he studied as an undergraduate he loved the west so much that he moved up interstate five to stand for where he his ph. D. In history in 2015. He argued boasts an impressive publication record and tonight he is here to to discuss with this his most significant accomplishment today, paper trail
Finish thanks so much for coming out. My name is andy gray bell, and im the director of the center for southwest stus here at smu. Studies here at smu. Let me start by thanking the many people, or at least a few of them, who have helped make this evening possible starting with our friends at the center for president ial history with whom we are cosponsoring this event tonight, particularly jeffreying brian and ron that. I also want to thank Vivian Elmore who coordinates things on our end for the Clement Center. It is my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver where he teaches digital humanities at the university of colorado campus in the mile high city. He was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston and a core faculty member at the schools lab for tech, maps and networks. I learned last night cameron is a native of the nutmeg state, for those of you anybody know what the nutmeg state is . A number of you. I