Dedication, we are armed and ready. We cannot give up. We will not give in. No more than ever before, we need your art to continue to be the wind beneath our wings. And, again, i congratulate you and thank you and salute you again for this welldever offse honor. [ applause ] this concludes our program. I would like you to join with me in one final applause and recognition for our t honoree a he helps the next generation of americans. Thank you. Youre watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming of American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter cspan history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest news. The next, the participants in Landmark Supreme Court cases talk about the legacies. Koramatsu versus United States. During world war ii, brown versus department of education and tinker versus des moines during the vietnam war. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. My name is vince stango. Im the execu
Some cases, and the courts opinions in them so profoundly , alter our constitutional understandings that they can only be rightly called landmark cases, markers of where we have traveled as a nation. As a part of an initiative begun in 2015, the National Constitution center partnered with cspan to create a 12part series illustrating the history, issues, and people involved in monumental landmark cases. Through the resulting online videos and other classroom Resources Available at landmarkcases. Cspan. Org, students and educators can carefully analyze some famous and infamous cases. Last year, we continued this initiative through a series of town hall discussions. Indepth articles on our constitution daily blog and the publication of our 2017 popular civic calendar, which featured 12 beautifully designed mini posters highlighting 15 landmark cases. Todays event is the culmination of this initiative and we are thrilled that our three panelists have joined us to celebrate Constitution Day
Mounts a new fight to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagging. I shut my hog operation down. I got out of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as International Workers day. This year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant work
We will hear voices from the streets of new york and speak to an immigrant rights organizer here in raleigh. In the aclu melds a new fight mounts a new fight t to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagginin i shut my hog operation down. I got ouout of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome e to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Amy goodman has been cover ing politics for 20 years now. Her newest book is now available in paperback. She joins us tonight from stanford, california. Good to have you back on the program. Its great to be with you. Are there still in fact movements that are changing america or are we up against something we havent seen the likes of ever . And if not ever, certainly in quite a while . Both. I think there are major movements that are changing this country still. In fact, our escalating, you look just at these three. The media played a lot of the first 100 days of donald trump, as we should have. The evaluation of what he has managed to do so far. What wasnt done as much is evaluating the movements, and theyve been quite astonishing, the day after President Trump was inaugurated. Three times the crowd for his inauguration came out. A lot was made of the fact that Donald Trumps inaugural crowd was smaller than pre