Of words with campus officials. Confusion continues to swirl around the event. Today the berkeley patriot told kqed the event was being canceled while may loilo yiannos said it wasnt. Joining me now is the faculty member. More than 200 faculty members signed the letter. Whats your reaction to the confusing developments today . I think this confusion part of the problem. It speaks to the Chaotic Organization of the event itself. That chaos, i believe, breeds danger. I think it breeds threat. It means that this event is going to be hard to contain. Its going to be hard to police. And it threatens the kind of violence that those of us that led the boycott are most eager to avoid. Do you think University Officials should have allowed this event to happen in the first place . No, i dont. I think that the university of california at berkeley is an institution of Higher Learning dedicated to the production, preservation and dissemination of new knowledge. That is our role. And the everyday fr
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Baptist Church in the city of new york. Were delighted that you can join us tonight. Were looking forward to a very informative and inspiring night. Tonight youre joining us for a conversation on women and incarceration and im delighted that the new press who has publishing the book becoming this burden, sent me a note suggesting that we tick a look at the book. Now, i will tell you that across a year, i may get from various publishers maybe 20 or 30 new books. Asking me to read them and i have to share my opinion or else share my share my opinion on a cover or share my opinion with members of our congregation. I cant rad them all but fortunately i read this one and i read it because it had a forward by an author, and an activist and a lawyer named Michelle Alexander. I was coming out of a program similar to this at the library one evening and one of the panelists was the late Vincent Harding i knew him from my days at a student at
My mom used to say i know but i cant put my finger on it. I knew, but i just couldnt name it and described it and the new jim crow put everything that i experienced through the criminal Justice System, through my community in plain and distinct order. So as i stayed around and continued the work, my understanding and analysis grew and with that, my commitment and determination grew to change things. Not only for myself, but for everybody who crossed my path. And that resulted in Movement Building and systems change, in Leadership Development and in building a Strong Community that sticks advice together thank you for that. Susan, let me ask this of both of you because you talk about your own sort of narrativearc or your learning curve. Michelle, certainly before that as well and im very aware that we have a much larger consciousness about ending mass incarceration now. It wasnt this big when we started critical resistance in 1997 with angela davis and i wonder what it was that was disr
Fatalitiesay succeeding percent, industry and fatalities increased. We are going to take you to atlanta for the net roots nation conference. The conference has been underway since thursday. You will hear from a candidate for georgia governor, the Vice President with the nea. Senator ofarren it, massachusetts will be coming up. Introductions are now underway. This is live coverage on cspan. For the of not in here, what yesterday, the organizers are doing a great job. [applause] the sessions are amazing. I just really want a round of applause for the amazing organizers. We really need to be pulling ourselves together. Whatrday i talked about Joel Stillman was talking about, the strategy to discourage us. I want to talk about being distracted, which is not very difficult, to get us distracted. We live in a society that is nothing but sit distraction. Point,ppens is that some the Opposition Party got clear about what was important. We need to be able to do the same thing. We have to have a
Agenda, dwight jones, my counterpart with mcgraw hill education, who is not here as he is currently serving on his Civic Responsibility of jury duty. I mentioned who is not here but in my brief introduction i would like to share with you how i, we, mcgraw hill education, got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa, and with the opportunity to introduce our next keynote speaker, dr. Mark fidel. You see the role that dwight jones and i work is identify Strategic Partnerships with National Alliances that also align to the core values and mission of our company. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science company, we identified with one of our longtime partners, aasa, with their work on Digital Learning and transformation and as a result of this alignment we took a lead role, an active partial with their digital and personalized learning symposiums. So our partnership continued and quite hone