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Reaction to unionization efforts. The case is most clear in what i write about which would have been two parts, nine years apart, both in reaction to a strike. Both times, the strike was organized into its really appealing to White Working Class families to say, dont cross the color lines in hopes of improving your life. You should Pay Attention to us, your betters, to keep things as they were. Watch the full program anytime online at cspan. Org slash history by searching Aaron Thompson or smashing statues. Okay so what we are talking about today is picking up where we left off on thursday wit...

About today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a littl...

Think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and t...

Mind if i give away the ending, which is that he concludes that by demonstrating the parallel between kennedys quest for peace and our generations quest for Sustainable Development. And that is why it is so fitting that we are hosting an here today at the world bank. In his book, professor sachs shows how president kennedys 1973 peace speech was up metal turning point in the cold war, but we should note that the time some critics dismissed it as rhetoric. But it showed that rhetoric mannered and could help us imaginative possible, help change counterproductive use such as the one at the time o...

I would take all those billions of dollars being wasted right now on at the corporations, and i would put that money into three full years of the best preschool education in the entire world. If they cannot afford to do that, talk about 30 billion if we cannot afford to do that, i do not see what help we have upholding any sense of dignity, pretense of democracy, in the eyes of people in the rest of the world. [applause] i just have to add one thing to that one point i will add, to deny this to children is an act of thievery, but it is worse than stealing a car. This is an irreversible theft. ...