The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
The cspan cities tour is exploring american stories as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. We travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will experience the history of this south, texas city. Starting with a visit to the San Antonio Missions National Historical park. Following that in about 20 minutes we will hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. And in about 40 minutes visit one of the citys most recognizable features and biggest attractions, the historic river walk. Later a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest buildings in the city dating back to the founding. We begin our special feature at Mission San Jose, one of four remaining colonial Spanish Missions in san antonio. Welcome to our Spanish Governors Palace. What youre looking at is actually the last visual remnants of the presidio, the original facility was built in the 1720s and it was really the residence for the captain. What we are looking at toda
When a fellow learns to fly with the army air corps, he does not learn it all in a day, week or month. The gateway is a big schooling ground in san antonio texas, the primary training point for airline pilots. We are here at Randolph Air Force base, where airpower begins. Iconicthe great buildings in air force history. From here, you can see the entirety of the air force base, the circular design. It is a beautiful place. It is a functional base. It was built in time to help the air force build their numbers so they would have a winning air force by 1942, and they build it to be the showplace of the air force and it became known as west point of the air, with engineers and artillery specialists in the army, this is where you learned the craft of flying and supporting flying operations. So it started here and many have come back here. A lot of people mention the base as being important to san antonio. It is. Why is it important . It has always been a generator for technology and innovat
From here, you can see the entirety of the air force base, the circular design. It is a beautiful place. It is a functional base. It was built in time to help the air force build their numbers so they would have a winning air force by 19421934, and they build it to be the showplace of the air force and it became known as west point of the air, with engineers and artillery specialists in the army, this is where you learned the craft of flying and supporting flying operations. So it started here and have come back here. A lot of people mention the base as being important to san antonio. It is. Why is it important . It has always been a generator for technology and innovation. Some of the best of American Society come here. It is one of the most diverse bases in the air force. If you want diversity of thought, diversity of backgrounds, religions, the air force is the place to go. Randolph might be more emblematic of that than any other base because we all learn to fight, flight and win he
The union in the U.S. says Starbucks has illegally refused to negotiate in good faith over issues including staffing and scheduling that are particularly onerous during such promotions