There are 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 100,000. For a list of rules, go to studentcam. Org. Next on American History tv, maria varela, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, shares her experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This was the keynote address hosted by the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. It is about an hour. I want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. We had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. We are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. I know some panelists are here. We have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. Joan mulholland. The recordings are now available online. At h
The new military act you refer to is an important contribution to democracy. But we also have to make sure that we safeguard and protect the integrity of the voter. And we have to make sure that the machinery that we use is not used to subvert the very vote that were trying to lift up. [applause] so i got you. There are places like oregon that are experimenting and its a positive thing. But im going to say this, brother. Im on twitter. Bottom line the bottom line is we are going to use those social media tools. But we also have to engage where people are. There are people who are not plugged in and need to cast a ballot. There are some who are and they can have alternatives. But our job is to organize that community in the broadest sense and link issues of importance to what they do. You talk about economic jeff, my last point. Payday lenders is a scourge, a scourge in our community. [applause] their are potential regulations that are going to be issued soon determined by the Obama Adm
The initiative. We are indebted to them in ways that none have not been fully a. Allant or are reticulated we have i think one or two other members also part of the struggle. Joan. This has been the critical and the principal incidents behind the recordings made on the web say on the webpage, and youtube channels. Lunch time at halftime a Sports Metaphor comes in losing. At lunchtime, as we say in the out on, you can check the back monitor some of those interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not already done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead interviewers to be the moderator for the final session. He will end the proceedings as he began them in february with glenn piercey. It is the organizing principle of having these people articulate what they went through in this symposium, so without further ado, let me introduce you to betsy peterson, director of the american folklife center. [applause] as he mentioned, the name of the
Flat screen tvs, some of the items people are bringing to cuba in luggage. Could new restrictions bring this to an end . Also in the program, alice look at whats happening in business. You have unusual friendliness. Absolutely right. Theyre hugging it out. Indias new Prime Minister in japan and abe are not holding back. They want to strengthen their economic ties. It is midday in london, 3 00 p. M. Moscow, 2 00 p. M. In the port city of mariupol where the Ukrainian Government is sending reinforcements to fight the separatist rebels. Battle is complicated by what appears to be russian tanks supporting the rebel fighters. Were hearing the Ukrainian Army has left positions at luhansk airport just northeast of mariupol after they were attacked by a column of tanks. Ukraines president poroshenko says russia has changed the balance in favor of the separatists. The Russian Foreign minister lavrov says there will be no military intervention into eastern ukraine. He says he wants an immediate c
We now have the top 50 law firms in the country, over half that dont just donate their time, they fight over who gets to donate their time for the privilege of doing these cases and defending our country. [applause] and the result of that is twofold. Number one, for every case we spend, for every 10,000 we spend on the case begins 60,000 donated from these attorneys. Where will the multiple resources. Additionally, if you look at the nonprofit legal groups and their when loss record 5050, maybe they are 6040. Or when rate now for 12 years straight has been about 9 . [applause] because when we do , our attorney lives in montana is that is where the cases. Hes from one of the biggest law firms there. He grew up there. He is known there thought the beauty and the judge were fishing buddies when there were 12. When the aclu that flies in from new york city he has a disadvantage. Are people of the best of the best of the best. A government where some nonprofit. The statue was built on relig