The things that the occupy movement brought up, whether it means the affordability of college, right . The 1 . Those things are still happening. I actually think the movement is still continuing. Maybe its just different. That is whats different about our generation. Were still the civil rights movement, unfortunately it still has to happen in our day and age. Im sure during lbj and Martin Luther king jr. s time, they would have never wanted us to continue to have to fight that. We see it today. Through the eric garner stuff. I want to ask. I get asked by friends all the time, who are overseas, living in arab countries, they cant understand after the arab spring why young people dont stand up more and protest, and arent out in the streets. If the situation is really that bad, why dont we speak up. Is there something to this point that young people just engage differently when they want to make their voices heard and not maybe in the 60s sensibility of what it meant to be an activist .
Americas civil religion, a term given to a shared set of values, belize, and rituals. Next on American History tv, Yale University sociology professor Philip Gorski shares his view on the cultural wars to finding the nation. The Arizona State University Center for the study of religion and conflict hosted the event. It is just over one hour. Todays lecture is part of the Speakers Series on religion and conflict. As dear friends, the marshals and doubt the speakers endowed the speakers because reflected their concerns to promote Peaceful Solutions to pressing complex in our world. Ther generosity funding series continues to bear fruit long after their passing. It is also important to remember many kindbutions of support the work we do in the center, including student research, fellowships, travel, and public programming in public education, so i would like to thank all of our friends at the center who are here today, and this being an event on the top pic of civic religion come i salute
Cities regarding the immigration law. In San Francisco 1. 2 of t 1. Citys 9 billion budget was at stake, as the city worked on the budget. The court sided with San Francisco on every issue over President Trumps executive order on sanctuary cities and also that San Francisco wouldnt stand by. This is why we have courts. The attorney general and president either dont understand the constitution or choose to ignore it. This is why we have stand up. This is not just a victory for the cities but also in my opinion it gives a little more calm to the residents of San Francisco particularly immigrant populations, theyre living in shadows, some of them are not going to school or seeing a doctor or reporting to the police because they just dont know whats going to happen to them. The mayor said the city promised residents city officials would fight for their rights and they did. In San Francisco abc 7 news. Abc 7 news was in san jose today where santa clara supervisors celebrated the decision, e
Intelligence report, we were the first to report theres kind of a pattern of behavior when it comes to congressman hue byes questioning the legitimacy of republican president s. We kid some digging, some reporting, as you call it, and we found this article in the washington post. It is dated from january 2001, and it reads, i quote john lewis, for instance, spent Inauguration Day in his atlantic district. Atlanta district. He thought it would be hypocritical to attend bushs swearing in, because he doesnt believe bush is the true elected president. Finish huh. You know, that quote that we found and shared with you, that bit about him not believing that president bush was the truly elected president kind of sounded familiar. It got a whole lot of pickup after we showed it with even president elect donald trump weighing in. Here he is tweeting john lewis said about my inauguration it will be the first one that ive missed. Wrong, or lie. He boycotted bush 43 also because he thought it woul
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