And she is also the author of twitter and tear gas, which is for sale after tonights program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy and commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event with both via cspan, as well as more radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones. Ask is we would like to thank kqeds audio engineer who is joining us this evening. Youll notice that we have blue question cards on your seats, so please do make use of them and write your questions down, and i will bring your questions up to the moderator. And given that we will be talking about social media in tonights program, we invite you all to get involved in our online conversation. You can use the hashtag World Affairs live if youd like to engage in online discussion. And id now like to introduce our moderator
And she is also the author of twitter and tear gas, which is for sale after tonights program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy and commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event with both via cspan, as well as more radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones. Ask is we would like to thank kqeds audio engineer who is joining us this evening. Youll notice that we have blue question cards on your seats, so please do make use of them and write your questions down, and i will bring your questions up to the moderator. And given that we will be talking about social media in tonights program, we invite you all to get involved in our online conversation. You can use the hashtag World Affairs live if youd like to engage in online discussion. And id now like to introduce our moderator
And be sometimes several screens simultaneously. And were getting messages sometimes from the same person in different channels, and then tough figure out you have to figure out did this text message come first or did this email saying, no, im going to meet you at the movie theater, and then you have to look at the time stamps, and the past is mixed up with the future. Meanwhile, we have tremendous is access to the past. We know more about the lives of bach and beethoven and mozart and mahler and have zinn sky than any of them knew about their predecessors. We have instant access to all of their music. The music from our personal pasts, the music that we loved when we were kids, its as available to us as music from ancient times and music thats just being recorded yesterday. And it all gets mixed up together. So were in a kind of eternal present. You say that theres a philosophy in our society that we should live in the present. Thats exactly where we should be. But that doesnt really
We should not be chagrined if the process of unifying is difficult , even wrenching at times unlike any other party, we embrace men and women of every color, every creed, every orientation, every economic class. We have gathered everyone from the abject poor to the enlightened affluent of the gold coast. In between is the heart of our constituency, the middle class, the people not rich enough to be wore a free worry free. [applause] gov. Cuomo they were because they have to, not because a sick type just told him to do it as a convenient way. And bluecollar, young professionals, men and women and small business, and desperate for the capital and contracts they need to prove their worth. We speak for the minorities what not yet entered the mainstream. We speak for ethnic someone to add their culture to the magnificent mosaic of their culture. We speak for women who are indignant that this nation refuses to etch into its governmental commandments the simple rule without shouts not sin aga
We attracted mercedesbenz to be the sponsor for our facility. There was another milestone an indication that are building was brandnew and worldclass. Brings back to those discussions as the city was devastated. Was there any voices saying we should move to an entirely different location . Im a strict bottomline sense that make sense . It made sense because people were there, but it was a very difficult conversation to have daily. I was asked by people, where you back . I knew that whatever played well was going to get covered, but you have to send messages to all the people you work with that well had to be there. Everyone from every socioeconomic background was forced to leave that and yet we made a financial commitment to go and be there. It was not easy. We had to have people. First of all, you had to have a building. The first year you had to set the schedule for the nfl for the first year. We were in multiple different locations. Knowing that people were there and also that the c