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Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see t...

Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in ...

Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and b...

About the Civil Rights Movement, california, and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So the doctor will be our first speaker. She earned her phd from the university of california at berkeley, and shes now an associate professor of history at Denisson University in granville, ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is her first book, to march for others, the black freedom struggle and the United Farm Workers and it was published just last year by the university of pennsylvania...

That are lgbq and because their families come from a culture different from america and because they have to pay homage to that culture yet they are in america, they are at a struggle. Its not surprising when they come home and they want to talk to their mom or they want to talk to their dad or talk to their siblings about something a happened at school or something that happened at a Community Organization they are involved in, they just cant because they feel that they cant. They are afraid to...

With some leadership from the community or a Faith Organization or a parent i think it will actualize. The sunnyvale safety and Police Department have been really spectacular and have spearheaded this with officer holly lawrence. She has the program, its in place, we call it train the trainer where we train other Police Officers to take it back to their counties. Its a spectacular program and is available now. So we dont have to wait. A good thing about the digital age is were going to take some...

Is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes Good Business sense to them and theyll dedicate the resources to you. So, thats whats worked for me. applause anybody else up there . Everybody okay with that answer . I think were pretty grateful here in San Francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. So, we know hes totally on top of it and involved. Do you have another question . This isnt geared towards any...

[speaker not understood]. Do we have anybody up there . We have one pioneer over here thats willing to take on that one. By the way, is that oakland, that accent . [laughter] i guess from my perspective, it never hurts to ask. We have a huge variety of sponsors. For example rona who is like a lowes or home depot who is supplying or providing paint. They are a sponsor of my program. So, they provide me a 45 discount on paint as well as they give me a 25 discount coupon that we give to everybody. ...

The virus grows, if you follow the metaphor that bullying is a systemic virus, then the environment has to change so the virus cannot grow and the only way the environment changes is if youth and adults begin to speak with one voice about changing the social norms that allows it to happen. It makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. We must educate. But we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. We have to remember a school is a community and i...

Department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. So i thought id mention that. The other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. Well see less textbooks and more Digital Learning and with that we are promoting a Digital Literacy policy which deals with a number of issues and im going to go back and look at the draft policy to see how well it deals w...