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They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet
Hello and welcome. My name is dr. Elizabeth rule. Im a citizen of the chickasaw nation and assistant professor at american university. And im so excited to sit down today to talk to Matika Wilbur about her new publication, project 562. Shes an acclaimed photographer, a fierce advocate for Indian Country, and also newly published author. So welcome, atika. Oh, thank you so much, elizabeth, its nice to be here. My name is Matika Wilbur. Im from the spin amish and tyler tribe. And i am the creator, the creator of project five, six, two, changing the way we see native america is as well as the cohost of the all my relations podcast. So thanks for having me. Absolute lutely absolutely. So lets just dive right into it. It was such a pleasure to your book and ive actually following your work several years now and so its, so exciting to have something out in the press that people get their hands on and have opportunity to look at your incredible as well as interviews that accompany each of the
Service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next on book tvs Author Interview program after words, photographer Matika Wilbur, speaks about her efforts through her photography. To shift how native americans are viewed. Shes interviewed by American University professor elizabeth rule. After words is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their work. My name is dr. Elizabeth rule. Im a citizen of the chickasaw nation and assistant professor at American University. And im so excited to sit down today to talk to Matika Wilbur about her new publication, project 562. Shes an acclaimed photographer, a fierce advocate for Indian Country, and also newly published author. So welcome, atika. Oh, thank you so much, elizabeth, its nice to be here. My name is Matika Wilbur. Im from the spin amish and tyler tribe. And i am the creator, the creator of project five, six, two, changing the way we
By japanese military. Melissa kane is at that statue in st. Marys square. Reporter we are here at the comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco. When the statue was unveiled about a month ago this whole area was private land. Because of an unrelated transaction this whole area just became public land. That means that is a public statue and it is an expression of the citizens of San Francisco. That change the facts is what has the mayor of osaka threatening to sever sister city ties with San Francisco. You would say it is just a statue however i think that we can see from all of the stuff going on around statues in the country about the confederacy how important that user. Reporter judith is the president of the comfort women justice coalition. They deny the they flamed women for sex and world war ii claiming that they were not coerced or numbers were very small. This started in 2013. The then mayor of osaka said that it was right to have comfort women. That soldiers needed comfort women.