Pleasure to welcome you tonight for our program. Before we get started, just a couple of quick things. If you have electronic devices, now is a good time to turn them off. As usual in our programs, theres no photography and filming. Also, if youre wondering what all the equipment is, its cspan. So, show you an isis smile and brush your hair, and get ready in case you get a cameo. When we get to the q a part there is a microphone in the back of the room, and will let you know when theres time for that. Just lined up there to ask your questions. And a politically rest of times its always worthwhile revisiting the documents that set us apart from british rule and created the framework for our government. Tonight, our guest speaker, Kermit Roosevelt explores these documents and shares their interpretation of the meeting. Professor roosevelt teaches constitutional law at the university of Pennsylvania Law School he was born and raised in d. C. And attended harvard and yale. Before joining,
From the revolution and that we should not trace values back to the founders. Instead he argues that through failures and reinventions weve use the constitution to create modern core values. The Smithsonian Associates hosted the event. Moderator good evening, can you hear me . Great. My name is ruth robbins and it is a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. Before we get started just a couple of quick things. If you have electronic devices, now is a good time to turn them off. As usual, there is no photography and no filming. Also, if you are wondering what the equipment is in the back of so show, it is cspan your nicest smile, brush her hair, get ready in case you get a cameo. When we get to the q a part there is a microphone in the back of the room and we will let you know when it is time. You will line up there to ask your questions. Worthwhile to revisit the documents that set us apart from british rule and created the framework for our government. Our guest speaker,
A class faultlines at the core of his new film for netflix the. Onus of all coming up in todays going on the ground 0 1st it was 49 years ago this month that Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of chile the latin American Country today is not only in the midst of an uprising against the liberal president Sebastian Pinera but witnessing solidarity protests for palestine after more u. K. Armed violence in the middle east involving serial u. N. Resolution violates at israel in the past 24 hours i am there would die in office overthrown and replaced by Anglo American backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and according to some leaders fighting global neoliberalism the legacy of pinochet lives on. Board they dont want to lecture and they want to. Wipe us away in a pinochet style. Sometimes we say these hard things and in europe and other places they see it as an exaggeration or extremist and its not exaggerated they want to put a pinochet in place in venezuela i mean. Today democratical
Companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long dictatorship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the Chilean Society when you have the military on the street and thats another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that trauma of land society of having the military on the street is open again with the repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is envelop aris a city that has seen violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence reminds us way the global south and even those in nature nation countries look to whats happening in chile as a chronicle of politics for told the legacy of new liberal dictatorship stupid machine chile. Well thanks 1st of all for this interview its very important where the 7 here in chile
Society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is envelop aris a city that has seen violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence reminds us way of the global south and even those in nature nation countries look to whats happening in chile as a chronicle of politics 4 told the legacy of new liberal dictatorship by a good stupid machine in chile. Well thanks 1st of all for this interview its very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventys in the eightys under the dictatorship she doesnt like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. Were livin