How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
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Today. The county has reported nearly 1000 new cases in the last 2 weeks and 4 new deaths if the county cannot get the case rate under control in the next 3 days. It will be forced to shut down into operations for several businesses 93 of the states population is now on the states covid19 monitoring list tonight, the bay area death toll is more than 750 this is california reports a singleday high. Of a 197 deaths and the United States surpasses a 150,000 fatalities. More than 48,000 covid19 cases have been confirmed in the bay area most of the cases have been reported in Alameda County. More than 10,000 infections. There. Theyve also been a 181 deaths there Santa Clara County has seen the most deaths in the bay area though at 187. And legally not allowed to work in the space is how can i be forced to pay for something that im not legally allowed to work in. With many Small Businesses not back to work some landlords are starting to panic many have tried to be flexible. But its been mont
Good evening everyone. Tonight at the seaport we are really happy you came out and tonight we are celebrating the release of re own the future the democratic socialism americanstyle. And we are excited to have with us kate aronoff to discuss how capitalism and neoliberalism hadap filled the working class. With the current the surgeons in the United States as exemplified by the growing membership of democratic the democratic socialists of america and the popularity of politicians like Bernie Sanders to explore how this energy might be channeled to achieve a future that is more democratic and environmentally sustainable. Let me introduce our guest tonight journalist kate aronoff writing has appeared in the guardian. And the New York Times. And she is a co editor of wii on the future democratic socialism. Together with peter dreier. And she lives in brooklyn. The author of the New York Times bestseller invisible man that got the whole world watching. And a fellow at the nation institute.
A great collection of stories that reveal america. This is the first guy that ive had on stage with a phd in physics. He used a phd in physics to go into finance and when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day i will abridge the story because it is in the book. Walks got longer and longer and he ended up at hunts point which isnt terribly close to the district. He was exposed to what he called the back row of america. Drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes. P it convinced him he needed to figure out what was going on in his back row across the country so from lewiston maine to bakersfield california, he traveled the country, talked to people and again he wasnt doing the same sort of going around the country trip that a lot of people do, he was visiting the back row, drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes, homeless, formerly homeless, veterans, people who hated the immigrants and all that, but then recently if you follow twitter you will know that he has visi