Owe also coming up well go to naomi caravan e with some other redacted stories and anders link for mind blowing old news about our National Anthem but 1st heres my interview with paul pozzi mean yo the associate director of amazon watch call thanks for joining me thank you so i have a lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the indigenous in ecuador want to big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land filled it with toxic chemicals refused to ever pay for the cleanup many have died from chevrons intentional negligence and theyve now spent years running away from ever paying the billions of dollars that theyve been ordered to pay and now theyve even succeeded in getting a lawyer who won the case for the indigenous steven dons are they theyve gotten him locked up on house arrest by using a corrupt judge in. York city so im wondering is this all i have in fame as it sounds and brit where it is very a case fan now yeah its more insan
A lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the digits in ecuador won a big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land filled it with toxic chemicals refused to ever pay for the cleanup many have died from chevron intentional negligence theyve now spent years running away from ever paying the billions of dollars that theyve been ordered to pay and now theyve even succeeded in getting the lawyer who won the case for the indigenous even dons a good theyve gotten him locked up on house arrest by using a corrupt judge in new york city so im wondering is this all as insane as it sounds and b. Where does the case stand now. Its more insane than it sounds because thats the surface. And all of the unbelievable dirty tricks corruption lying rivalry in the days when you could write by. About the tactics that chevron has used all to try to escape from pain for what he did mit to deliberately doing in the 1st place in the amazon and lets be clea
Remind you, a lot goes into this kind of an event and many people have worked very, very hard, harder than ive worked, to put all of this together. One of the people who could not be here was frank cogliano, because he got stuck in newark. Hell be here later this evening. His cochair is here and shes going to say a few words. Thank you. [applause] welcome. Im sorry that frank isnt here to join me for this further welcome. Just to say how wonderful it is to see everyone here and to work with such an Amazing Group of people. I especially want to thank annette and frank, my cochair, robin, without whom we would sees to function, and also to the Wonderful Program committee, one of whose members is sitting there many are in the audience tonight and they generously of time an talent to put this program together to go through the many proposals that we had. Weir looking forward to what is an exciting, interesting, varied diverse sheer with a lot of different panels and topics. Its a pleasure
Frances Folsom Cleveland was a celebrity first lady unlike almost any before her, and the mass production of her image to sell a variety of goods by the American Consumer industry in the mid1880s angered both her and her husband, president Grover Cleveland. To help us understand the Frances Cleveland sensation sweeping the country, we begin our story inside 1600 pennsylvania avenue as a curious nation waited for the details of a 49yearold bachelor president marrying his 21yearold bride inside the white house for the first and only time in our countrys history, launching Frances Cleveland into instant celebrity. Youre standing in the cross hall of the modern white house. Its the same basic layout as it would have been on june 2, 1886, when president Grover Cleveland and his bridetobe, Frances Folsom, came down what was then the large staircase to the family quarters at the west end of this corridor. They would have proceeded down the hallway. The music started up at the east side behind
This course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincoln grows up. Alas, that is also where lincolns mother dies. Lincolns father goe