ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the shakespeare company barred association s annual dinner and mock trial. before we begin the trial please silence all electronic devices that may disrupt this evening s proceedings. photography at tonight at trial is strictly prohibited. please join me in welcoming chair of the barred association, abbe lowell. [applause] good evening. thanks for joining us tonight at the annual dinner and mock trial presented by the shakespeare theater company and the barred association, the affinity group of lawyers, those associated with the community and those who support the legal community to bring the best we can to the stage of this wonderful theater. as you know, tonight s performance, tonight at trial is based on a production of 1984 that was presented by the shakespeare theater company a few short months ago and which in turn is based on the 1949, that s right, 1949 book by george orwell predicting what 1984 might look like. i know you all kn
why americans become disenchanted with their political leaders and how to re- forge the relationship. and on wednesday at books incorporation antonio martinez will provide it inside look for the future state of social media. and then on friday at barnes & noble and southlake texas nicholas irving will discuss his a look at some of the programs that they re covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future. i do want to let you know who is going to be introducing. did you introduce yourself? she hold a phd. she is the associate professor. that s here. she teaches courses and latin american. literature. literary theory and in all related areas. she has a manuscript currently under peer reviewed. history in the 20th century. this is extensive. it is in your program. so if you want to get rid the program and get the rest of the information from the program. in that case i will do this. just briefly the honoree for this 13
million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the summer travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary we ll be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park service experiences and we want to hear from you. our phone lines are open at 202-748-8000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 202-748-8001. what had been your experience at national parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. you can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook.com/c-span. good thursday. thanks very much for being with us. if you pick up today s wall street journal or washington post, two editorials commemorating the national park service including this from terry anderson. happy 100th birthday national parks and jonathan janis writing these lands are your lands, america. read them online at wsj.com. some background on the national park service. it was signed into law on this date by president wo
or 60 or 70 years ago. i mean, having running water, hot and cold running water, indoor plumbing, a television set, microwave and a computer, would have looked very, very good to my parents when they were young. that s quite a long time ago. but relative poverty is a very deeply ingrained belief in american society, and i think in western society generally, and as long as there are people who are conspicuously more poor than most people, i think that the concern will continue to exist, even though an n absolute terms you could argue that it doesn t. the gentleman has had his hand up for a while there. steven with basic income action, and i was pleased to hear you mention charles murray and the negative income income maintenance experiments from the 60s. want to see if you re following the discourse about basic income in europe and canada and many other places where this idea of a guaranteed floor is gaining enormous support. there will be a referendum in switzerland in
african american community. here s how to join the conversation. again african american callers only for the first 45 minutes. we have covered a number of speeches both from donald trump and hillary clinton this week as the rhetoric increases on the issue of race. and here s the front page this morning of the washington times and their headline. clinton and trump bring bigotry to the presidential race. the new york times and their reporting of that speech in reno, nevada which we covered and you can find in our library. we ll read more and show you a bit more of hillary clinton s speech. we ll start where the week started for donald trump in akron, ohio, and his appeal to african american voters. here s some of what he had to say. violent crime rose 17% in he 15th largest u.s. city. this is the legacy of president obama and hillary clinton. it can t get any worse. , what e suffering, i say do you have to lose in trying trump? what do you have to lose? i will fix this. i w