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Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit wh...

Downtown chicago. And so were going to buy a tract of lan somewhere, and they ended up in east tennessee, about 100 square miles down here. The purpose of this facility at oak ridge it wasnt oak ridge at the time. It was just a farm community, and the purpose here was to not only build what we know today as the graphite reactor to produce these trace amounts of plutonium, which would be used as a fuel and a weapon, but also to enrich uranium, because the arm corps of engineers, which ran the Manhattan Project under general listly groves, groves was sort of a fella that said, well, we dont know...

He will be the bride is president for the next 50 years. And. That did say lobar. [laughter] but thanks for your time today [inaudible conversations] our speaker is an Award Winning science advocate a man of many talents he is quite impressive when you get to know him a writer and teacher and speaker cofounder of science debates. Org in which he received the usa National Service award is a novelist and a filmmaker his novel since of our fathers which is a literary thriller which was a book prizes that house of cement in fog that isai years ago with ed is a terrific film and i would suggest tha...

Provoking this incredibly Important Supreme Court decision which led the country on a road to civil war, which, of course, eventually freed all the slaves. Dred, unfortunately did not live very long after the decision was rendered. He died probably of tuberculosis in 1858 only a year after the case was decided. His wife lived on until 1876. She saw the civil war and saw freedom come along. For a good share of their lives the scotts lived here in st. Louis. They died here. They are buried here. So in many respects, you know, we can say that the scott family were st. Louisians and their case sta...

[inaudible conversations] heres a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening in september. On september 18th the brooklyn book festival in brooklyn, new york. Later in the month the annual baltimore book festival in the inner harbor. On saturday, september 24th book tvs live from the National Book festival at the Washington Convention center in the Nations Capital including author talks from an at gordon reed and joey warwick as well as your phone call for authors john lewis and others. For more information about the book fairs, booktv will be covering watch previous festival coverage...