David cortright eight, who is Professor Emeritus at the university of notre dame and the former director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace studies. Hes the author of many books, including peace works the citizens role in ending the cold war peace a history of movements and ideas and as the springboard for this session, a peaceful superpower. Lessons from the Worlds Largest Antiwar Movement, which was just published this year on the 20th anniversary. More or less of the start of the u. S. War in iraq and i think all of you who registered in advance for the conference received a pdf of that of that book. From 1978 to 1988. David was the executive director of sane first and then sane freeze after. The two organizations merged. He was an antivietnam war activist as an an enlisted soldier, and he was later in 2000 to a founder of win without war, which he discusses in the in the book a peaceful superpower. We will next go to my right, carolyn, rusty isenberg, w
Rightfully incarcerated, its as though they are no longer citizens. What the president of the United States said is they are citizens too. He was talking about people in prison without question people who are out of prison and served the time for which were sentenced, but they are not full citizens without the right to vote. Therefore, this also has to be regarded as a key democracy issue for this country that we have to confront. Can i just add quickly on that . They are actually ending laws is one area there is some new bipartisan support that is very interesting. Criminal justice issues are rising even as an issue within the republican primary. You now have very conservative people who are talking about the need to end or at least curb mass incarceration. There have been efforts in the senate where rand paul has talked about the need, not necessarily to end felony disenfranchisement but to e relax the laws. And obviously i think there continue to be movement with the country focused
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Rebuild a life. Maria donald trump and Hillary Clinton sending their thoughts to those affected by matthew but clinton is facing criticism this morning after her campaign planned oh to buy ads on the Weather Channel in florida which theyve now canceled. The candidates are spending the day away from the trail preparing for the big debate on sunday night. Economy and jobs, of course, top issues for voters and we get updated look this morning of the health of the labor market. The september jobs report is out 8 30 a. M. Eastern. 175,000 jobs. A flash crash in the british pound. The sterling plunging 9 overnight. We are taking a closer look at the major selloff in the pound. Broader markets this morning across the world looking like this. We are expecting a lower opening for the broader markets. Right now we are looking at lower performances. In europe mixed performances, the ftse 100 up better than 1 . The other showing fractional decline n. Asia overnight. Here are the markets, china mar