Of baltimore book festival continues with a history professor spencer on the black part but black Panther Party from california. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for coming welcome to the book fair pavilion things to everyone for coming summit you have heard the spiels already but to mnuchin day couple of things with a cooperative bookstore and coffeehouse at about 14 years at the Current Location with that pavilion with the baltimore book festival over the last decade it has been an exciting opportunity in the midst of the city to marginalizes histories and forgotten narratives and that is what we are here for it is exciting the past couple years due to the resurgence of political activity from grassroots that generated a further interest of the precursor. The black pamper party specifically founded in oakland 1966 with Inspirational Organization that that would be prebe easily discredited and to say those that criticize where those bands of the black panthers dependin
By Police Violence. [inaudible conversations] i am so glad to see this. Un gone to the overthrowing of a russian were at the radical. It is worlds where you find those books you cannot find anywhere else . They are breaking down information this is a subject we are come getting into also a working in collective and we are a vegetarian restaurant so you will come and find out it is quite tasty we have of baltimore preschool to teach with the community we have a project in we are affiliated with the copy that you drink when you visit us is organic at the corner of north and maryland make sure you grab the schedule defined what is going on. Im excited to hear this conversation today because tenures ago this november when nephew was killed by a Frederick County deputy on what should have been a routine noise complaint. That ended up in his death half a couple of hours later. The civil trial that my family brought against them or ruled against all seven counts so even in my processing none
Eletrical equiptment was making it hard to put out so they brought in a Carbon Dioxide truck. It suffocates the fire and removes the oxygen and cools it downafter several hours the fire was finally put out and pge could tell us the cause of both that. And the massive power outage that effected such a large swath of the city. We had a Circuit Breaker fail it created a fire around the breaker the insulation around the breaker burned and thats what created the situationpge says exactly why the breaker failed is still being looked into. But its age relatedits simply old equiptment. They are in the process of spending 100 Million Dollars to upgrade that substation. Which is scheduled to be done at the sometime next year. maureen live no one was injured in that fireand so far theres been no reports of any injuries or traffic accidents related to this widespread outage. Maureen kelly kron4 news vicki the massive outage also took a toll on people and traffic in San Franciscos financial distric
Was in attendance had that sense of warmth and and regard for each other and for the country. It was really special. Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. By thes hosted California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible surney through john muir life. That legacy is stronger than ever. To hearing forward you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect ou
Coming up next, sierra Club Volunteer harold wood discusses the legacy of con survey shifts that conservationists and National List john your john muir. This was hosted by the California Historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. We want to hear harold would tonight. He will give us an incredible journey through john muirs life. That legacy is stronger than ever. Im looking forward to hearing you talk. I promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. And thank you all for coming. I want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. The California Historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. And the partner, the sierra club. For all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect our Natural Landscapes here and throughout the nation. What a legacy. A couple of quick questions,