Media. His documentaries include i am a man, black masculinity, in america, beyond beaten rhymes and soul food junkies. In october, 1966, as you all know, bobby seale and hughie p. Newton established the original black Panther Party in oakland, california. [ cheers and applause ] seale was the founding chairman and National Organizer from 1966 to 1974. Seales an author, educator and tireless advocate for the legacy of the black Panther Party. Stephen shames is a student at the university of california berkeley, first encountered and photographed bobby seale in april of 1967, in an antivietnam war rally. Seale became a mentor to shames, and shames became the most trusted photographer to the party, remaining by seales side during his run for mayor of oakland in 1973. Stephen shames is the author of nine monographs, the latest power of the people, the black panthers, coauthored with bobby seale. He creates awardwinning photos for advocacy organizations, the media and museums. Steves image
Panelists in the most difficult position of any panel in any event which is standing between resistance and the bar. But there is extraordinary substance on this panel, and the intent is to turn us forwardlooking. I would like to turn over to ambassador john ordway, our partner in kazakhstan. John, it is an honor and a pleasure to have you here as our moderator. Amb. Ordway thank you very much. We are facing the future with an urgent set of problems and to prove they are urgent we are going to have a little time to deal with them. Let me just say i really liked from the beginning what bill perry said about the challenge of this separation of the variables and what we are going to do with this panel is separate those variables and address them separately. I would like to recall what the general said that he is optimistic, and the time to renew the work we have been talking about is not somewhere over the hills. There is it is not over the hills, but i expect there is still a lot of terr
Faced by number of inspectors general from various federal agencies. A commitment to change. Independent oversight by both the Inspector General and congress is critical and necessary ingredient to positive, constructive change. For example, the macs approach to Disaster Response changed only after Hurricane Katrina revealed at the shortfall in this operations. Consistent ig and congressional scrutiny to the problem and the administration and fema leadership committed to change the matter to respond to these events. As a side and the super storms and response, fema dramatically improved its Response Operations as a result. Tsa was likely confront with the need to change as a result of dramatic and troubling shortfalls this covered by a covert Testing Program as well as other oig reports about deficiency in key essays judgment of risk in relation to expedited screening, said airport employs a managing the access badge program. It was only through ig oversight, oversight by this and othe
Faced by number of inspectors general from various federal agencies. A commitment to change. Independent oversight by both the Inspector General and congress is critical and necessary ingredient to positive, constructive change. For example, the macs approach to Disaster Response changed only after Hurricane Katrina revealed at the shortfall in this operations. Consistent ig and congressional scrutiny to the problem and the administration and fema leadership committed to change the matter to respond to these events. As a side and the super storms and response, fema dramatically improved its Response Operations as a result. Tsa was likely confront with the need to change as a result of dramatic and troubling shortfalls this covered by a covert Testing Program as well as other oig reports about deficiency in key essays judgment of risk in relation to expedited screening, said airport employs a managing the access badge program. It was only through ig oversight, oversight by this and othe
Faced by number of inspectors general from various federal agencies. A commitment to change. Independent oversight by both the Inspector General and congress is critical and necessary ingredient to positive, constructive change. For example, the macs approach to Disaster Response changed only after Hurricane Katrina revealed at the shortfall in this operations. Consistent ig and congressional scrutiny to the problem and the administration and fema leadership committed to change the matter to respond to these events. As a side and the super storms and response, fema dramatically improved its Response Operations as a result. Tsa was likely confront with the need to change as a result of dramatic and troubling shortfalls this covered by a covert Testing Program as well as other oig reports about deficiency in key essays judgment of risk in relation to expedited screening, said airport employs a managing the access badge program. It was only through ig oversight, oversight by this and othe