Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian
This film, from the natural archives, contains graphic scenes of war some viewers may find disturbing. President roosevelt yesterday, december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. The United States of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and at the solicitation of japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the pacific. Indeed, one hour after, japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American Island of oahu, the japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our secretary of state a formal reply to a recent american message. Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive, extending throughout the pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the
She will be introducing one of our favorite lecturers from the university of wisconsin, press minor who is actually a georgetown at the moment. I will let her discuss what he will be speaking about. Justice ginsburg has been a great friend to the society and has been a storm narrowly generous in giving her time. No one in the society can call a time when she declined other than when she has been out of the country when we requested for assistance. We thank her again this evening. [applause] but we have just a moment. Let me have just a moment. I know. Give me a moment because Justice Ginsburgs special, as we all know right now. Justice ginsburg was born in brooklyn on the ides of march in 1933. She graduated with a great distinction from cornell and she was doing superbly at harvard for the first two years when she moved to new york and finished at columbia. Workingt two years for a federal judge in new york. She learned swedish to be able to write a book about swedish civil procedures
Imagine, destroying much of Southeast Louisiana and coastal mississippi. Less than one month later hurricane rita slammed into southwest louisiana as another one of the most intense hurricanes in history. With senatork landrieu and the rest of our louisiana delegation as well as some good friends to secure the necessary Disaster Recovery assistance and also to make reforms the army corps of engineers to better protect our families and communities from future naturalists disasters. Louisiana has survived other major disasters including hurricane gustav in 2008, year, camen the same isaac, the red river flood in northern and central louisiana and the thousand year flood event and greater 10 roush this past august. Rouge. Aton into 2010 the deepwater horizon rate exploded off of the coast of louisiana killing 11 men and devastating power coastline. The disaster followed by the misguided sure drilling moratorium president obama put in place caused environmental chaos in louisiana. Work wit
Anything like dont interact physically and pull out a camera. Not only new yorkers getting abused by police, everywhere. I hope it gives people the coverage to not be courage to not be scared. It is a lot of he said she said. Amy while no Police Officers were indicted for eric garners death, the man who filmed the attack, ramsey orta, is now locked up in jail. He was first arrested the day after the coroner declared garners death homicide. His mother brother, and wife have all been arrested. We will speak to his at and the family attorney. We will also look at the debate over growing calls to require body cameras for Police Officers. And we will speak to a yemeniamerican man who had to escape yemen by sea after the u. S. State department refused to help citizens evacuate after the saudiled attack began. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 charges