the corporate world and had he first kind of full-blown lifestyle brands, which is an idea we all take for granted now, but these were companies that for the first time were declaring that their business model was not to sell products but to sell ideas, a lifestyle, a sense of belonging, they could then extend into kind of self- enclosed brants cue couldn t and nike ways to first one to do this, didn t ever own their factories and the main thing learned when i was researching no logo is there was a relationship between the aggressive kind of marketing that was constantly sort of trolling youth culture to find the most cutting edge ideas, to get adds into places that had never had ads before, like schools, to co-brand with every like music festivals and so on. there was an inverse relationship between that aggressive marketing and the cutting good jobs on aufner the economy because the way that these companies were freeing up money to spend on this much more aggressive kind
good afternoon. i m sarah perry, director partnerships here at the family research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce today s lecture and a co-author of the book upon which it is based, why meadow died: the people and polices that created parkland s shooter and endanger america s students. as a reminder to those of you in the audience we will be taking questions during the last 15-20 minutes and we will let you know when opening it up. the lecture will be archived in our speaker series library at frc.org/speakers. when completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. bill wrote tonight is the untold almost unbelievable true story about the world corruption rot by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable school shooting in history somehow inevitable. broward county, florida was ground zero for a new approach to school discipline prompted by radical leftist organizations and enforced by an obama dep
i do the free public programs in this building so thanks very much for coming tonight to talk about this really necessary and timely book which you are going to hear a lot about in just a few short minutes. we are very honored to have anthony with us. he s a valued friend and supporter of the library, not to mention one of our great thinkers and writers. we are equally thrilled to have with us annette gordon-reed who is not only a brilliant historian but was a fellow at the coleman center for writers. this is a very library-centric event. you hopefully have printed programs in your hands, yes? everyone got one? good. i would like to draw your attention to a couple of things if you will allow me. on the back page, you will see some of our upcoming fall programs, those that cost money and those that don t. all are excellent. next week, we are going to have singer m.i.a. speaking with a writer who wrote one of my favorite books, called half god which will also very much be on
you get your podcasts. harassment and sexual assault survivors testify on the use of forced arbitration before the house judiciary committee. the hearing also includes legal scholars discussing the impact of nondisclosure agreements. this is just over 3 1/2 hours. the house committee and the judiciary will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee any time. we welcome everyone to today s hearing titled silence. forced arbitration keeps victims of sexual violence and sexual harassment in the shadows. we ve established an e-mail address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions or other written materials that members might want to author as part of the hearing today. if you d like to submit materials please send them to the e-mail address that has been previously distributed throughout the offices and we ll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as possible. i now recognize myself for an opening