We would like to present our junior group performance. How the tragedy of polio and the triumph of public accountability. Changed how america reacts to Infectious Disease. Infectious disease has caused death and suffering. Changing the course of human history. These casualties were real people. With real dreesms real families. And real lives. According to a historian, the death toll was 10 million. The roman leader calmly responded to the second century outbreak. Using his personal resources to keep panic from the streets. When you arrive in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive. To breathe. To think. To enjoy. To love. The bubonic plague. Unlike the romans, the sufferers of the bubonic plague lacked a strong leader to regulate panic. It has been reappropriated into a symbol of pop culture, including the plague doctor. A highly recognizable symbol of fear. And even references such as montsy python. Bring out the dead im not dead yet smallpox. Dating back to the third
President trump condemns White Supremacy, but fails for acknowledge his own ratist rhetoric t that was echoed in t man necessary owe of the antigunman who killed 22 people in el paso. Trump proposed no new major gun control measures but instead blamed video games and Mental Illness for the spike in Mass Shootings. President trump Mental Illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. Amy well get response from two leading gun control advocates, plus well speak to manny and Patricia Oliver. Their son joaquin was killed last year in the Mass School Shooting in parkland, florida. They just happened to be in el paso on saturday to unveil a mural near the u. S. Mexico border on what would have been joaquins 19th birthday. And we will get an update on the political crisis in puerto rico. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The death toll in saturdays massacre at an El Paso Walmart has gone up to 22 people
Taxes, american cartoons and comics during world war ii. I can remember, from my days in tokyo chapel school, where our pastor gave us a sermon that has stuck with me ever since. The lesson of it drove from two part. To separate to biblical text, one is from second kings if youre interested, chapter 4, where the private elisha, not elijah but elisha, has him bringing 20 rolls of barley and he has to feed 100 men. And his servant asked him, how are we gonna do that . We only have 20 rolls of barley. The prophet says, give them to the men, that they may eat, for that as of the lord they should eat and have some rest. So he said it before them in the eight, and they had some left, just as the lord told them, theres an incident from the new testament where, jesus is confronted with a crowd of people 5000, how will we feed all these people . One of his disciples says heres a young bully, with five barley loaves and two fish. Not a lot. It could take like six months of pay to feed the crowd
Stewart. You can also follow the cspan city tour on twitter where behind the scene images and video. Cspan cities. [inaudible] good morning and welcome to the Franklin Roosevelt president ial museum. I am so glad you could join us today for the 17th annual reading festival. We have tried piped a tremendous lineup today. About a 30 minute talk there will be some question answering that a book signing, because we are joined today by her friends at cspan, if you are going to ask a question please use the microphones so your question can be heard. This is a important part of the leg us. When he built this library 1941, he assumed he would be leaving office and he wanted a place to come that would be a center for learning and Public Forum Discussions and we have tried to live up to the reputation and the legacy and this was one of our most successful components of that. You are about to hear from eric rolle who is a professor a graduate at stanford, he has written six books three on Frankli
Not only did he say that proposed program was impractical he said it would be destructive of american civilization. The new deal would bring destructive changes. Upon which this government is founded. It would break down the savings, the wages the equality of opportunity among the people i would break down our form of government. Free speech does not live many hours after free commerce dies. The new deal with the same fumes of apparition brush in the courtroom. Spread over the whole of europe. If roosevelt were elected. They would grow in the streets of a hundred cities. A thousand towns. Its always good for a few quotations. Indeed it leads to some of my favorite moments of amusement which i did put in the book the have of the Womens Division were marked during the inaugural parade the inaugural parade included a series of men with lawnmowers coming through the streets. Contrary to myth the 1932 election was happily contested. It was very clear which candidate was promising what with