In honor of the birthday of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, feminist writer and commentator Gloria Feldt discusses Sanger’s life and work, the history of the birth-control movement, the role that birth control plays in women’s equality and empowerment, and what activists today can learn about leadership from Sanger’s organizing. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 13, 2009. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
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For nearly a decade, freelance journalist Laura Secor has covered Iranian culture and politics, including last year’s contentious presidential election, in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Her work reaches beyond sound bites and pundits to connect with everyday individuals in Iran as they struggle to be understood outside their country. Secor brings updates from Iran as well as commentary and insights that provide context to the Views from Iran film series.
In honor of the birthday of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, feminist writer and commentator Gloria Feldt discusses Sanger’s life and work, the history of the birth-control movement, the role that birth control plays in women’s equality and empowerment, and what activists today can learn about leadership from Sanger’s organizing. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on September 13, 2009. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
For nearly a decade, freelance journalist Laura Secor has covered Iranian culture and politics, including last year’s contentious presidential election, in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Her work reaches beyond sound bites and pundits to connect with everyday individuals in Iran as they struggle to be understood outside their country. Secor brings updates from Iran as well as commentary and insights that provide context to the Views from Iran film series.
The Hispanic Googlers Network in association with the Google Space Program and the AtGoogleTalks team present José M. Hernández who on his inspirational journey of achieving his dream of becoming a NASA astronaut after starting out as a migrant farm worker and applying to NASA for 12 years! He also shares his experience as part of the crew for the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 to the International Space Station. José has been featured in Oprah, 30-Minutes, and other programs. As a child, José worked alongside his family and other farm-workers in the fields of California, harvesting crops and moving from one town to another. He attended many schools and did not learn to speak English until he was 12 years old. It wasn’t until he was 41 that NASA finally accepted him into the astronaut training program and later assigned him to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-128. José also served as Chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center and previously developed equipment for full-field digital mammography at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in 1984 and a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1986, where he was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2006. Follow astronaut Jose’s bilingual feed at twitter.com About Perspectivas Speaker Series: Perspectivas is a speaker series aimed to empower and inspire …
Featuring discussions of Melville’s Moby-Dick; race and slavery in nineteenth-century America; and Lemuel Shaw.
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www.weforum.org 31.01.2010 Experts from over 70 Global Agenda Councils in a brainstorming session to map the critical global issues that emerged from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 Chaired by Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom
“Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century” Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Law, Columbia University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University. Focusing on the transformation of the state and warfare, Professor Bobbitt offers a new interpretation of terrorism. He explains the emergence of the market state, compares it to the nation state, analyzes the unique features of warfare in the new century, and brings into focus the distinctive qualities of today’s terrorism. Professor Bobbitt also describes the challenges posed for national security and offers an agenda for changes that integrate strategy and law. globetrotter.berkeley.edu
OSHO International Foundation — www.osho.com. Osho, a contemporary mystic has spoken on virtually every aspect of human consciousness. In these talks, the human mind is put under the microscope as never before, analyzed down to the smallest wrinkle. In this talk Osho responds to the following 4 questions Question 1: Are there different stages of spiritual growth? And if so, can you talk to us about them, and how people in these different stages can be helpful to each other? Question 2: Your emphasis has always been that every human being has the birthright to become enlightened, that it is nothing special. However, not many people claim this birthright, or are even interested in it. Why not? Is there some ingredient, some quality which makes some people more interested in the inquiry than others? Question 3: Often you have spoken about your rebellious childhood and how it gave you such freedom, how you insisted on discovering your own individuality. How did you know the need to rebel at this early age? What about those people who didn’t have the courage to rebel and who had a hampered childhood? Is a rebellious childhood necessary for enlightenment? Question 4: You have said that your sannyasins live individual lives in freedom. Doesn’t everyone live an individual life? What is the difference that makes a person a sannyasin? Is it meditation? ….If we can create a circle of conscious energy around the earth, that is the only hope for the world, for the new man …
Frank Capra and Dimitri Tiomkin had a part in this series of films from the Army’s Office of the Chief Signal Officer. This is Part Seven of the orientation series “Why We Fight” called “War Comes to America” and tells the tale of a reluctant America drawn into battlegrounds of World War II. Transcript (PDF): archives.gov Watch all the shorts, or “War Comes to America” in its entirety right here on our National Archives YouTube channel: www.youtube.com MORE INFORMATION: More information is available in the National Archives online catalog: arcweb.archives.gov
