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To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to stand at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, Edna Greene Medford who many of you know. She is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group and one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication the emancipation proclamation review. And editor of the price of freedom series, slavery and the civil war. We also have if you have not seen the series by Southern Illinois university press, she is the author of lincoln and emancipation. If you do not know the series, you should become acquainted with it. A series of articles, publications, small books really good Stocking Stuffers about lincoln, a variety of topics. Let me read you a little review from this publication. This is by john martz lac
[inaudible conversations] i think well get started. I want to thank julia before i introduce her for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome to the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the center for capitalism studies. For a couple years if taught a course another Eugene Lang College on understanding global capitalism, and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that whats first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of the countries on the board, and i it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable in the post multifiber arrangement era that the production is still quite diversified but what we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding in fashion design, the relation between trade and
By 16 . What is your rationale for that cut . Well, i mean, dealing with this whole problem of Sexual Violence is something that is obviously not on yougsly but is extremely important to us. Were making, i guess, changes here. Its a cut. As there theyre fazing out the prison rape review panel. These are grants. Yeah. I mean, there are ways in which you know, we have to make determinations about how were going to use the money that we have. We have a budget that is good, not as great as we would want it to be, so weve had to make some tough determinations about how we spend the money that we have. And to the extent that there were cuts there, we think that they were ones that were difficult to make but nevertheless will leave us with the ability to enforce prea in the way that was intended. I doubt that you really support cutting the grants by 16 . But unicor is beginning to use the authority to allow them to repatriot jobs back to the u. S. Increase the products. So that men and women
Hill and meeting with both republicans and democrats to talk about trade and tpa. We do need strong support from the white house and the president , ask as i said in my opening statement, we need to be really all hands on deck. What is the administration doing to build congressional support . Well, we have a wholeofgovernment approach to this. As you know, the president talked about this in the state of the union. The Vice President has talked about it, they have met with members of the Democratic Party as well as with the Republican Leadership on this issue. Weve had the chief of staff of the president up here talking about it as well as the secretary of treasury, secretary of commerce, secretary of agriculture, secretary of state, secretary of defense has been writing op eds on the importance of our rebalancing towards asia including tpp as a critical component of that. So we work with all of our interagency partners at the cabinet and White House Level on down to build support up he