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Aged 75 and older to be the very next in line to be vaccinated. The organization is projecting 100 Million People will get the vaccine by the end of february. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar today said it is likely a matter of months before life really even starts to get back to normal. It seems realistic that at the end of the february, the first weeks of march, well see more generalized vaccination programs beyond prioritized groups. Its not as if there is a moment in time where all of a sudden there are 330 million doses available of vaccine. It progressively rolls off the pro...

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 themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middl...

Some of you disagree with that. So i make my case today that you can in fact agree or disagree with. We start of course with washingtons birth. This is the original structure, home in which booker t. Washington was born. You remember from slavery he talks about his Humble Beginnings and we said that washington is establishing his , kind his credibility of street cred as a black leader. In order to entury establish your credentials as a race leader you have to have been a slave. So at the beginning of up from slavey he establishes his street credibility so to speak, right . That he was a slave ...

And you always had a sense of injustice happening all around you. Stockton, california, i was raised as another Agricultural Community just like bakersfield is so you had a lot of the same dynamics going on there. A lot of people of color did warm work and so it was always like trying to denigrate the people who did farm work and making them feel like they were lesser individuals and that kind of dynamic sort of permeated the whole community. Started in 1942 i believe when we went into the car and they brought in many people from mexico to fulfill the needs of farm labor, and what happened is ...

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 the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino...