And 15 minutes long. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this committee will come to rnder. Good morning, everyone. This is the first of a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the impeachment inquiry, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at the committee of any time there is a quorum present. Here is how the committee will proceed for the hearing. I will make an Opening Statement in the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make a statement. We will go to witness statements and then to questions. For audience members, we welcome you and we respect your interest in being here. In turn we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention to proceed without disruption. Man making a polymer entry inquiry. This is our first hearing under the new set of rules, House Resolution 660 gives you the discretion to allow yourself in the Ranking Member
Rights commission has got an Ongoing Investigation into the party, so this is usually serious and i hope that it will be causing a lot of people in labour tonight to sort of reflect. Because it is quite a shocking state of affairs that this is happening. I suppose the other thing i would say is that i think a lot of voters with a very angry and enabled and so my idea angry, because you have the eh rc investigating labour for institutional anti semitism and on the other side i conservative party where there are very serious allegations of institutional islamophobia. A former chairwoman of the party has said she thinks there is an institutional problem and there is certainly concerned so that they conservative leadership is not telling those allegations properly either. Again, you have sent councillors, for example, conservative councillors and members share islamophobe post, sometimes get suspended and get back in a week later. So a very shocking sort of affairs. This is a dire warning
Were going to talk about a very piece of california history which is not ignore ward, but certainly overlook it most of the time and so we have Jean Pfaelzer here with a new book, california a slave state. And were going to go through the history that im going to talk about the ideas behind it a little bit and also her work on the reparation committee. So jeanie, thanks so much for for joining us at the Commonwealth Club. Thank you. Im glad to be back here. Thank you so as i said, lets start with history. So lets go back as far you into this history as we go we wont go all the way back to the native american tribes, but thats a good place to stop it. Lets do terminology first. In your book, you use lots different terminologies. Native americans native indians. How you make that choice. First of all, you use a lot of different. But i know that this is sort of a an important issue because a lot of tribes, like certain names, dont like other names. And i thought, how did you make your aca
Were going to talk about a very piece of california history which is not ignore ward, but certainly overlook it most of the time and so we have Jean Pfaelzer here with a new book, california a slave state. And were going to go through the history that im going to talk about the ideas behind it a little bit and also her work on the reparation committee. So jeanie, thanks so much for for joining us at the Commonwealth Club. Thank you. Im glad to be back here. Thank you so as i said, lets start with history. So lets go back as far you into this history as we go we wont go all the way back to the native american tribes, but thats a good place to stop it. Lets do terminology first. In your book, you use lots different terminologies. Native americans native indians. How you make that choice. First of all, you use a lot of different. But i know that this is sort of a an important issue because a lot of tribes, like certain names, dont like other names. And i thought, how did you make your aca
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