[inaudible conversations] next up from the san antonio book festival, Tim Hernandez reports on the 1948 california plane crash that killed four crewmembers and 28 mexican citizens were being deported. The fifth annual then in 200 book festival and i want to thank the Southwest School of arts and the library for their generous donation of their space, beautiful space, for the book festival. We also, given given the age we live in, want to encourage all of you to use your social media talk about the festival and mr. Hernandezs work while were at it. Thank you all for being here. Please turn off off your phones or put them on youtube. Its really my pleasure to introduce Tim Hernandez, he is a an author done a lot of Different Things from Performance Art to scholarly work to nonfiction historical fiction, writing and hes especially known for his poetry. As was said earlier, he didnt cross genres, they crossed him. I dont own that line. [laughter] hes really written a Remarkable Book about
The president and ceo of Americas Promise Alliance is here for a conversation this morning about the social and educational issues affecting our nation youth. Thank you for being here. Remind our viewers what Americas Promise Alliance is and what its mission is. Guest if the nationss Largest Network of organizations, communities and individuals devoted to improving the lives of young people. We have over 400 national organizations, 200 communities and thousands of leaders across the country. All of whom are focused on creating conditions of success for all young people in america. Host it is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year . Guest this month. Cspan covered walltowall the original event, the president s summit for americas future in philadelphia in 1997. Host all living president s. Guest and that he reagan representing her husband came to philadelphia to call the country to attention and action on behalf of young people. Host how and why was this organization founded . Guest
Plane crash that killed four crewmembers and 28 mexican citizens were being deported. The fifth annual then in 200 book festival and i want to thank the Southwest School of arts and the library for their generous donation of their space, beautiful space, for the book festival. We also, given given the age we live in, want to encourage all of you to use your social media talk about the festival and mr. Hernandezs work while were at it. Thank you all for being here. Please turn off off your phones or put them on youtube. Its really my pleasure to introduce tim hernandez, he is a an author done a lot of Different Things from Performance Art to scholarly work to nonfiction historical fiction, writing and hes especially known for his poetry. As was said earlier, he didnt cross genres, they crossed him. I dont own that line. [laughter] hes really written a Remarkable Book about an event that has been lost to the memory of a lot of people in his efforts to bring that story back to us is a tou
Thats a look at some of the events of book tv will be covering this week and many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the new theater on book tv on cspan two. I wrote this book in the haze of depression. Not that occupy was depression, i found it invigorating but this was written after that and at that time in 2011 me and some folks created a show living in form and looking at socially engaged art or politically engaged art from around the world. Particularly, the artist artist blurring the space between art and life. While working on that show i was very aware of a different show that i wasnt doing in the show i was doing was people trying to make the world a better place. I knew there was another show of people just trying to get their own in the world using culture. Its a bigger show and when i grew up with and i thought of it as the b side in the sense of the exhibition. The exhibition was about artists, and activists using culture to get things done in
Thats a look at some of the events of book tv will be covering this week and many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the new theater on book tv on cspan two. I wrote this book in the haze of depression. Not that occupy was depression, i found it invigorating but this was written after that and at that time in 2011 me and some folks created a show living in form and looking at socially engaged art or politically engaged art from around the world. Particularly, the artist artist blurring the space between art and life. While working on that show i was very aware of a different show that i wasnt doing in the show i was doing was people trying to make the world a better place. I knew there was another show of people just trying to get their own in the world using culture. Its a bigger show and when i grew up with and i thought of it as the b side in the sense of the exhibition. The exhibition was about artists, and activists using culture to get things done in