Much like the leader in Residence Program seeks to bring script to the world and the world to scrap by finding the intersection between the intersection and scholarship in society and culture. Presenters often linked to academic curricula and linked to issues that are vital to faculty, race, literature, and the arts. Programs provide a forum for Community Engagement and the exchange of ideas beyond the classroom and nurture the environment for inquiry ideas and intellectual exchange. While shes been on campus for the last few days, lisa has been meeting with students and faculty and sharing her perspective of the executive director of the National Book foundation and the former editor of the magaze. Im re that her conversation with argus script community will inform tonight discussion. I want to tell you that she tweeted today that claremont has been an exceedingly Pleasant Place [joining her on stage is poet, robin lewis was voyage of the voyage won the National Book award in 2015. Sh
Ever, i dull into nate than ever i sort of began realizing i was going to be gay. Theres no verb about it at this time it was only a noun or an adjective. So the response i get from people now and i think its one of the exciting things about writing for young people is when you write for young people, you dont just write for them you write more their parents and aunts and booksellers and librarians. And so what i hear just like you said, ellen is people who write to say im a 70yearold gay man, and if i had had this book when i was in middle school, i wouldnt have maybe have been in the close earth for the clottest for the or 12yearold boys who say im the only boy in my dance class in utah and it was so cool to read a character like nate. Whatever that boys going to grow up to become, i dont know but its exciting to know that there are voices on the shelves that are being published, by the way, so many publishers that are doing this. And simon and suiter has really put it out there for
Of the system cant sustain a shock and a trigger zone reaction. I would talk about black lives matter with all of the people walking through the streets and cities like baltimore saying we live in a country where almost every 28 hours an africanamerican man or woman is shot dead lethal force, usually unarmed, we have video of our Police Actually murdering unarmed civilians and yet despite the outcry it continues. And we have in the last month seen a space of shootings of police officers, one in new york, two in mississippi just the another day another one and i am hoping these are just incidental and you know but if that becomes a pattern, that is certainly would replicate the societies that are declining where people reach such a rage they lash out. The state has turned their back on people like you and me how affective are these rebellions . Black lives matter . Occupy wall street . Snowden . Well, they are affective in this sense. They expose the lie that the state uses or the myth
During world war ii and said that this provision permits the government to criminalize and her words an entire group of people and hold them in essence and internment camps or military facilities where they can sit without ever seeing a lawyer. What is happening now, we are not in a state of crisis i dont think the state needs to employ those draconian forms of control, but should the society disintegrated, should there be the kind of unrest that we see in some European Countries like greece they certainly will bring in the military if they feel that they need the military in order to retain power, and they will use these legal mechanisms which they have created for themselves against us. Were not in a moment of crisis right now. We are in a moment of relative stability. I think they put tanks on the streets of ferguson missouri against unarmed protesters, you see glimpses of the capacity of the military state. I think we would have to be i kind of freefall for us to begin to see this
Fear. A shout out, she says, came as a surprise. There was already so much excitement in the room because of the announcement that when he said my name, it really you know, i didnt realize it and i was clapping with everybody else. And i didnt realize what they were clapping for. Nbcs Kristin Welker is in las vegas where the president will speak in a few hours. What are we expecting to hear from the president today . Reporter well, joy, president obama will be here at Del Sol High School essentially to rally support for the sweeping action that he announced last night, which could spare as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported. Now, of course, this location has significance. As you pointed out, this is the same exact place that president obama unveiled his blueprint for Immigration Reform back in january of 2013. And nevada is the state that has the largest population of undocumented immigrants. 7. 6 of the population here is undocumented. So, a lot of support h