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The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as...

If plattsburgh had been lost, god knows what wouldve happened to this country. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] she also details the societal attitudes towards impoverished minorities at the time, focusing on the challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ur 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. An...

It depicts this mythical encounter of brothers, one fighting for the union, one for the confederacy. Theyre embracing. If youre close enough you could see the Union Soldier has real shows, the southern soldiers shoes are falling apart. It is brandnew. Its next to, or across the hall from the plaques that talk about secession in a complicated way. But even though i think that this is very much all about reconciliationist memory, i dont know how you could possibly be more about reconciliationist m...

If you can see i cannot do anything about the space. Theres some room on the floor. Feel free to make yourself comfortable. This is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. I apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. My appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. This has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. There was an article by Nicholas Kristof w...

Christoff which triggered a conversation. Many e wrote anhe wrote an article where he said many people rendered themselves unavailable or not asking questions that were relevant to the public and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is necessary. He didnt say this is true of all intellectuals but he did argue theyre a dying breed. Others said theres many good, interesting voices out there. The point of todays panel is not so much to have a debate about whether he was right or ...

It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its...

Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that beca...

Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Pu...

Were very seriously damaged. And im wondering what the plans are to ensure that these women, especially the final three months of pregnant heat, get close to birth of their children, will there be an effort to ensure they are safe blood and be skilled birth attendant to the can save her life if she needs a csection or some other help to help mother and baby. I would not parenthetically that my daughterinlaw. My wife and i are grandparents have three grandchildren. Just in july, and a Princeton H...

Important relationship between the United States and the philippine. We have seen an extraordinary outpouring of generosity from americans across the country, especially from the fill peeb philippines i dids a practitioner. Ive had the pleasure of participating in community efforts. The way they mobilize to provide help in the hour of need is heartening. And it just underscores the humanity we all share. The United States has a deep commitment. We will stay with the people and the government of ...