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Of americas and it is an honor to be here in the franklin room that was named after one of our Founding Fathers also International Diplomacy in the United States as the chairman of the council of Americas Society and of course, then eric will be before the subcommittee tomorrow so getting a good nights sleep rebuild really you hard. [laughter] i think this is an exciting time with regard to the western hemisphere it is an opportunity of policy outside of normal conventions. Certainly since the end of cold war something that needs to be reversed because in the end of our future and securities is deeply tied to our region because we talk about the western hemisphere. We are a part of that. You know, full well culturally and socially and politically. I want ....
I hope you get a good nights sleep. We are going to grill you hard. It is an honor to be part of this conference. Its an exciting time because it gives us an opportunity to rethink policy. In many ways outside of normal convention. Let me again by saying there has been consistency, lack of focus at some of the highest levels of our government in the hemisphere. Its something that needs to be reversed. In the end our future is deeply tied to our region. I say our region because we talk about something that is happening somewhere else. We are part of that. If you live where i do you know full well you are part of it culturally and politically. And so its an opportunity to be here with you today. I want to take an opportunity to gather over five or six years in the senate. Im troubled by u. S. Foreign policy that is tactically driven versus strategically driven. Military action or no military action. Diplomatic engagement. If they are not in furtherance of the strategy youre wasting a lot ....
Good, well researched, deep dive into what works in organizing. One of the problems with our media landscape is i could probably go find mike 1700 pieces on whatever the president put out on twitter yesterday. But an actual helpful account of how to organize communities, grassroots, anticorporate power, that is asking too much. And i know the richmond california story is an important story and has been told. Ive seen a couple of articles about it. And again it is one of the real sort of stories we should be learning from especially in a town like baltimore that shares a lot with richmond in the deindustrialization, racism, poverty and really one of the most important things is the lack of luxury to kind of get hung up on not working together. Like baltimore, richmond is simply too small to have too many divisions and what is exciting about what i know about the story is they found a way to get over the divisions, worked together in alliance that was able to get stuff done including ele ....