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Hi everyone. Welcome to the book cafe. We are an independent bookstore about to celebrate our second years. We are also celebrating tonight, the second time weve been so fortunate to have bill here at our store and both my sister and i are both educators or former educators before we open the bookstore so this is especially, all the gratitude to have you here talking about this because this is important. I see a couple people i know who are teachers right here and im glad to hear from allstar by introducing crystal. She is an associate professor in chicago. By day she has leaders leadership pr...

Example, out of trenton, where an in mate by the name of sean washington in 2013 he was a clerk at the library and he wanted to leave the library to go bring some legal papers to one of the other inmates but a corrections officer said you cannot leave and the facts are disputed but the worst facts, the facts that the state claims, is that mr. Washington then said mother fer, dont tell me what to do. What was his punishment . 90 days in solitary confinement. That is a real example we see all across the nation. So just for time. So we know that people are being sent to solitary for many Differen...

Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Let me just say im really looking forward to this one. I was telling the witnesses, i have read all the testimony. And i generally do that as best of my ability. Sometimes the testimony before this committee can be a little dry. And as im reading late at night it will put me to sleep. Not so in this case whatsoever. I think the testimony was fascinating partly because i am somewhat new to this issue. Im going to keep my Opening Statements somewhat brief because i know senator booker would like to make a statement. Im pretty data driven. The data, ...

Turbulent times. I am now joined by sarah owen from the Writers Forum. Welcome to our meeting, and thank you so much for thinking of us and coming to join us today. Were honored to have you here. First, start off with, what this Writers Forum . The Writers Forum is an organization that had its early begins in the early nights a when we early 80s who were people who were writing and wanted to meet with likeminded folks. We eventually became a Larger Organization and more formal, and when we decided we needed a mission statement, what we decided was that our mission is to promote the craft of wr...

Beyond the turbulent times. I am joined by sharon owens from the writing department. Welcome to our meeting and thank you so much for thinking of us and coming to join us today. We are honored to have you here. First lets start off with what is the Writers Forum . The Writers Forum is an organization that had early beginning in the early 80s when we discovered that we had several people in our community who were interested in writing and who wanted to meet and network with likeminded folks. We eventually became a Larger Organization and more formal and when we decided we needed a mission state...