tucker: sandy cortez spends a lot of time telling you that she s on the side of the worker, like a modern wobbly. the walter luther of our day. and that s why last year she got to stand alongside striking workers at amazon staten island warehouse, and we are for that because they need the help. but at the last minute, sandy cortez bailed on the whole thing, and that infuriated labor organizers who just wanted to unionize at the staten island facility. amazon is stepping up its pressure to crush the union. amazon has just banned words like union. it s employee chat app. christian smalls is a union leader at amazon we are happy to have him join us now. thanks so much for coming on. were you surprised that sandy cortez alexander because cortez, who has said repeatedly that she s on the side of the worker against the corporation, wasn t standing leg the barricades? yeah, i mean, you know, it wasn t just her.
i thought it will be just for a moment and i dozed off. walter luther was a constant advocate of civil rights, human rights. there is a lot of noble talk about brotherhood, and then some americans dropped the brother and kept the hood. reuther explained to us the importance of the role. how many dead we had sound systems. they paid for signs, paid for caps that said uaw on it. in fact, union contributions towards the implementation and execution of the march were more than civil rights organizations themselves. 25% of the uaw membership was african-american. it is the responsibility of every american. they share the impatience of the
they had the flags flying, and the bands playing. as late as act 1914, they describe the last battle the germans try to attack in belgium attack against the british. and the german general announced that tomorrow s renewed of sort of the bands would lead every bandsman surviving would be awarded a cross. he had that in writing. the next day, you see [inaudible] and so and so. or the dead. and it was all sour like what came later. and it would equally terrible. but in a different way. many people have no idea of the scale of what happened in serbian. 16% of all serbians were killed. it was the largest single casualty rate of any nation in the war. and as for the russians, i mean, the russian cavalry, the rush shuns had one raid in 1914. a hundred squadron of cavalry. the russian casualties were [inaudible] they were pretty dreadful. it s an amazing story, and i found i have found i have written stories about world war ii, but world war i, i learned so much. host: unf
a panel on independent bookselling. that is our lineup for today live from the gaithersburg book festival on the grounds of gaithersburg city hall. here is john turner. good morning. welcome to the gaithersburg fourth annual book festival. my name is johnny susman and i make gaithersburg resident. gaithersburg is the vibrant diversity that celebrates and supports the arts and humanities. we are pleased to bring you this event, free of charge thanks to the generous support of our sponsor so please visit them today and say thanks. a couple of quick announcements of consideration for everyone here. please silence all of your devices. in order to keep improving his event we need your feedback. surveys are available on our web site paired your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out. by submitting a survey you ll be entered into a drawing for a net e-reader. john turner will be signing books immediately after this presentation. copies of h
i doubt that that happened, but there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said, but this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states, so abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. you can watch this and other american artifacts programs site, c-span.org/history. and watch american artifacts every sunday at 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the john f. kennedy presidential library convened a discussion on jfk and civil rights. in this discussion, this panel is discussing the president s actions on civil rights. this program is just over one hour. so, if we could have your attention. we ll now go to our next panel on the presidencies of john f. kennedy and lyndon baines johnson. so now it is afternoon. good afternoon. and remembering that we re honoring two presidents, george washington and abraham lin