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Good evening everybody im ilean before we jump into our event i wanted to thack you all for coming. Eventses like this couldnt be possible if it werent for your generous support showing up to them, so really thank you so much for adding to your denver Reading Community we really appreciate it. So weaver honor to talk to emily about grassroots rise an fall of marijuana in america and emily received ph. D. In american studies from George Washington university and grassroots is actually based off h...

Measure. Overnight in asia, you saw similar concerns as markets in both japan and korea came under pressure the nikkei down by 1. 3 , that is a 2 1 2 month low. Hang seng off by a third in europe, you can see similar concerns playing out there the cac is the biggest loser in the major averages declines of over 1. 25 and for stocks in italy and in spain if you want to check out what has been happening with currencies, the yen has been picking up some ground this morning. It is considered a tradit...

No clear tieup with the russian government, but an inquiry into former Trump Campaign manager paul manafort. Cheating at the debates, inciting at rallies, a candidate under investigation no wonder trump is surging and he is. Hes leading in the abc tracking poll and he was down 12 points and now leads it. And doubled his lead in the l. A. Times poll just from sunday. Doubled it in a couple of days. Varney company is about to begin. If Reince Priebus gave me the answers to a debate, or the questio...

Telephone companies. We have had in place for businessgrade Broadband Services. Title two is neither new nor outdated. It is a long standing tradition and part of the law and we are glad the fcc returned to that understanding. Turning to the majority opinion, what parts of that opinion would be used by, you know, the industry to further its arguments . What kind of holes can it try to poke in the argument . When it goes to appeal. I dont know it is going up further. What we usually see on appeal...

Substantive day. Im so excited to introduce bill of rights by introducing you to a mac sent new interactive tool for constitution of center launched on Constitution Day and is now thrilled to distribute to every student in america from 1880s. I want all of you in our great cspan viewers to follow along with me as i show you this remarkable nonpartisan tool and tell you what it can do and also the perfect introduction to her first panel about the relationship between the magna carta. It is an exc...

White folks to and understand in a lot of ways that in slave africanamericans were people. A Bruce Vaughan as property. For her to a humanize and make them people and for her readers to understand that this is wrong, the breaking up of human families is morally wrong and unchristian was the goals she set for herself in showing the wrongs of slavery in uncle toms cabin. For more information on booktvs recent visit to hartford and many other destinations on our citys toward go to cspan. Org cities...

Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first coup...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, r...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, r...

That happened as he walked through times square during that demonstration. President obama spoke from the white house asking protesters to remain peaceful. First and foremost, we are a nation built on the rule of law. And so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jurys to make. There are americans who agree with it and there are americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. Its an understandable reaction. But i join michaels parents in asking anyone who protests this decision to...