to moderate this discussion it is my pleasure to introduce professor lorraine, lawrie is director of the center for law and equality and the professor of lawyering skills at seattle university school of law. after earning her j.d. from the university of san francisco school of law, professor practiced with what is now the san francisco firm of unami tanaki. while in practice she was on the legal team that successfully challenged the conviction for violating military orders removing japanese americans from the west coast during world war ii. she has written and spoken widely on the issue of the wartime incarceration. including testimony before the senate judiciary committee and presentations before numerous academic and civic institutions such as the commonwealth cause, the japanese american national museum, and pacific coast branch of the american historic aeashsoigsa. association. welcome, lawrie. lawrie: thank you so much, valerie, for those remarks. welcome, everybody, t
director from the center for a lot and equality and professor at seattle university school of law professor practiced while in practice on the legal team that successfully challenged for violating military orders removing japanese americans from the west coast from world war ii she has spoken widely on the issue on incarceration my testimony before the u.s. senate judiciary and presentations before numerous academic and civic institutions of the commonwealth club, japanese american national museum and pacific coast branch of the historical association. welcome. thank you for those to the remarks made in the face of hate. and then if we can confront that racism so to the active participants and with that live comment section and via facebook or on the acs website please know in order to participate in the comment section you have to d be logged into facebook to have questions for the distinguished panelists. the congresswoman will be joining us she is running a little bit la
school of law, professor practiced with what is now the san francisco firm of unami tanaki. while in practice she was on the legal team that successfully challenged the conviction for violating military orders removing japanese americans from the west coast during world war ii. she has written and spoken widely on the issue of the wartime incarceration. including testimony before the senate judiciary committee and presentations before numerous academic and civic institutions such as the commonwealth cause, the japanese american national museum, and pacific coast branch of the american historic aeashsoigsa. association. welcome, lawrie. lawrie: thank you so much, valerie, for those remarks. welcome, everybody, to this panel. really extraordinary panel of leaders. who will be addressing the topic of leadership in the face of hate. these leaders will be talking about the recent resurgence of anti-asian racism and violence, their leadership in seeking to combat it, and in the p
our conversation this week is on a subject we all wish were not necessary to address. the rise in anti-asian racism and violence. but we know that our panel of extraordinary leaders will help us to identify ways that we as lawyers can be forces of positive change in our communities. to moderate this discussion it is my pleasure to introduce professor lorraine, lawrie is director of the center for law and equality and the professor of lawyering skills at seattle university school of law. after earning her j.d. from the university of san francisco school of law, professor practiced with what is now the san francisco firm of unami tanaki. while in practice she was on the legal team that successfully challenged the conviction for violating military orders removing japanese americans from the west coast during world war ii. she has written and spoken widely on the issue of the wartime incarceration. including testimony before the senate judiciary committee and presentations befo
another staggering number: nearly 3.3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. that s more than the population of chicago. and this graph says it all. since 2,000, weekly claims had been in the hundreds of thousands. last week s numbers are off the chart. today should have been opening day for america s favorite pastime, major league baseball. instead, tonight the president is talking about reopening the economy, saying the country has got to get back to work. the president says he will be giving states new guidelines on social distancing, getting some people back on the job in places that haven t been hard hit by the virus. our team is covering every angle of this crisis, and mark strassmann leads us off from just outside atlanta. , and mark, is it possible that those jobless numbers could be even higher? reporter: well, here s what you have to coder, norah. as grim as those numbers are, the reality is likely worse. america s latest jobless numbers hit like an