London ambassador thanks so much for coming on im going to actually start with the fact that the media isnt being allowed into your country to cover the war people might not know the history the regional tensions why you know allowing journalists from britain or any other country into azerbaijan i think this ones 1st of all thank you very much would like to start by 2 a very very brief remarks your measure of playing a war on which are correct you know. d it is award as the region. Is by army an absolute russian and. I want to believe that were this close sure georgia being as you know. We should join the. Ways that this graphic was removed from this all of. Its been a show. Or our meeting our 2 are using misao and. For a journalist. Unfortunately its not true. Vanity the way the journalist would travel it was it hard or that has gone over the state a lot but what you type but this is the reality we categorically object to the very i you know deliberately take for george and expose a d
Covering wars in recent years theyre trained to cover dangerous situations are you saying its more dangerous than the war in libya the war in iraq the war in afghanistan thats why im adding journalists from coming to azerbaijan what im trying to say is that you know the army. As chosen to ignore its obligation to short of journalists and youre this foreign d journalists. Are going to leave a lot see that there is no desire whatsoever the chinese side to risk their lives because we try to make sure that were there which they or the aussie. And i was all due respect i disagree with you because i know that. My good friend of all ali we used to work with me when i was in best ship has taken several groups. Over the line of call it but we try to do it with utmost record making sure that the shortlist excessive move us can watch the context of this conflict our early on on this channel ive got to ask you and obviously armenia deny that theyre in the wrong what have you made in the past 48 ho
So i tell the story of black women in the union and im going to tell you about the story, too. They say, that, well, history is biographical. In my case, it is. Im an immigrant. And i went to university and, you know, started doing history and very much interested in immigration and you know what were women doing. And the story is that is that, you know, you have these women coming from the south end work on the great migration and from the british west indys. They worked as domestic servants. They came across a book and there was one line in it and said that, well, they were also garment workers. And i was just fascinated because it was a new narrative. I it made the difference to black folk the an opportunity to break into industry you have men going to war but in the case of the Garment Industry in new york, the sort of sensation of transatlantic you didnt have the supply of eastern and workers and that was the traditional supply for the Garment Industry. Well, there were all of the
I welcome you to the Historical Society and center this eechk. If you do not know about us, its time you did. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the United States. And its about time. Im not going to take too much time, too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shoutout to our moderator, post doctoral fellow in womens history and public history here at new york his r historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague and i am so absolutely thrilled that hes been with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shoutout to the Melon Foundation itself, which about four years ago, gave us a giant vote of confidence and very lovely grant to get the center up and running because at the Melon Foundation, we are here and we are here to stay. And really, really happy about that. In any case, nick went to columbia university, got his phd there just a couple of years ago, as
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