this event was part of the greensburg community high school program in greensburg, indiana. it is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome to greensburg .ommunity high school i am the principal of the community high school. we are flattered to have everyone here for our annual program and we are excited about this year's guest. i would like to welcome mr. john pratt up to the stage to begin our program today. [applause] >> good morning. 2018, aer 19, philadelphia newspaper ran an opinion article entitled -- why we need holocaust education now more than ever. according to the anti-defamation league, anti-semitic incidents rose nearly 60% between 2016 and 2017. the largest single year jump the organization has ever reported. therstanding how and why holocaust occurred helps to demonstrate not only the horrors that humans are capable of in desperate conditions, but also the hope that can survive even .he most terrifying trauma teaching students about the holocaust shows the dangers of prejudice and how dehumanization and scapegoating are used to advance an agenda. it is one th

the greensburg sit-in began on february 1, 1960. early that morning four well-dressed african-americans again dressed in respectable clothing, exemplars of black respectability, set out to desegregate restaurants by sitting in. black people were welcomed to shop at woolworth's but not dine at the lunch counter. making this a painful sight of white supremacy. the sit-in was not spontaneous, it was everything but. it was me tick lusly planned and executed. they were aware of the current changes flowing through the south. at 4:30 in the afternoon, the students entered woolworth's and sat at the lunch counter. they received no service that day but sat quietly until the store closed that day. word spread. the next day more students joined them. soon black women students from bennett college and a few white students joined the protest. bennett college students, i should add, were integral. they served as foot soldiers by providing picketers, marchers, and carpools and replacement protesters. here are two images of bennett college students

we make in these companies big and make a million dollars down this wall greensburg a kid all these people is making all this money but all the people doing the legwork is just not getting the money and that call me right away you know that was my my grabbing point and i've been a fighter since from that. this is. why . i just because cities are on strike today fast food workers and retail workers i knew about the first strike but i think jennifer start because i was nervous and scared that was the second strike. the lord gave that good. the federal minimum wage is seven dollars twenty five an hour but each state can set its own minimum. the highest is nine dollars and fifty cents an hour in washington d.c. to work if. i start. work for coming. here now well it's ok to make billions but will we do want to live we're going haven't seen any of the paper all i want is what i want and he wants to. change overnight. and is not going to. come. back on you know should there be a compromise in there. because two people working minimum wage or even just a little bit more than minimum wage where can

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mayor of greensburg north carolina. mayor of rochester minnesota. >> good morning, mayor of lansing michigan. john hamilton, bloomington, indiana. >> mayor of richmond, california. >> mayor of annapolis, maryland dick >> kathy franklin, mayor of everett, washington. >> marty davis, augusta georgia. >> mayor of toledo ohio. >> of course you know john cranley who introduced himself. we were very blessed in the city this year to have a reduction in both homicides and gun related batteries but what we know is that there is no one strategy. we have used a variety of strategies from lawsuits, ordinances, to the strategy and efforts that are community- based. mayor, william peduto from pittsburgh will talk to us about some local ordinances that he has championed in the city of pittsburgh a little later he will talk about the terrible tragedy at the tree of life synagogue and he may even mention it here today but please welcome mayor william peduto. >> thank you. just some background and a little bit about myself. i grew up wit

them until the action they took the phone day not knowing when they showed up at what worse in greensburg with any of the others would be there. she says we want to go beyond what her parents had been in the worst thing that could happen was that the could kill us but i had no concerns for my personal safety. the day i sat at the counter had the most tremendous feeling of celebration. i felt that in this life nothing else mattered because heaven, it got me for a few minutes. i just thought u. can't touch me come he can't hurt me. there's no experience like it not even the birth of my first child. a few years later may of 63 in birmingham alabama at burly white fleece officer attempted to intimidate some black schoolchildren to keep them from joining the growing anti-segregation protests. they assured him they knew what they were doing and continued their march toward the park where they were arrested. a reporter asked one of them are age. six she said as she climbed into the paddy wagon. the following month in mississippi civil rights campaign fanning mill hammer overheard a fellow activi

caroline greensburg. >> caller: i want to know what else you are reading that is not political although that may have political overtones, what are you able to do in writing about other things because so much of what you're doing is political but there's a whole world of people out there hurting. i would like to know more about what you are reading and writing on the subject we are doing today. >> guest: i found in the last two years as an antidote to some of the craziness to come up with a bit of a routine and that is i try as hard as i can and i couldn't do this until after the book was done at 10:00 at night, turn off all screens. so i would look at my twitter feed, e-mail, see if anything breaking, check my messages and my mother jones and then okay, turn it off. then they d i do some exercisint also read. i found the way i can get to sleep best is by notha reading anything that is happening directly related to my day-to-day job, whether it's mother jones or writing a book. so, i've bee been doing a lot of history. i read a great book earth in human hands. it's sort of like a histor

carol, greensburg, pennsylvania. caller: hello. i want to know what else you're reading that's not political, although it may have political overton overtones. what are you able to do in writing about other things other than political, because so much of what you're doing is political, but there's a whole world of people out there hurting. i would just like to know a little bit more about what you're reading and writing other than the subject we're talking about today. host: you are a political journalist and political author. guest: right. i do like to read about other things. in fact, i have found in the last two years as an antidote to some of the craziness, i come up with a bit of a routine. that is, i try as hard as i can, i couldn't really do this while i was writing the book but after the book was done, at 10:00 at night, turn off all screens. so i would look at my twitter feed, i look at my e-mail, see if anything's breaking, check my messages in my internal mother jones snapchat, then i say okay, turn it off. then i try to

carol, greensburg, pennsylvania. hi, carol. >> caller: hello. i want to know what else you're reading that is not political? although it may have political overtones. what are you able to do in writing about other things other than political? because so much of what you're doing is political, but there's a whole world of people out there hurting, and just like to know a little bit more about what your reading and writing other than the subjects we're talking about today. >> host: you are political journalist and political author. >> guest: right. but i do like to read about other things in familiar i found in the last two years to -- as and -- neck dote to the craziness -- anecdote to the -- crazyiness, at 10:00 at night, turn off all screens. so i look at my twitter feed, i look at my e-mail, see if anything is breaking, check miss messages and my internal mother jones chat, and then i say, okay, turn it off. and then i try to dish do some exercising and often read, and i have found that the way i can get to sleep best is not by reading anythin

laura greensburg, our political editor, suggesting that fee might be scrapped. resolving their concerns over the backstop for the irish border, that insurance policy designed to stop a recurrent hardboard insurance policy designed to stop a recurrent ha rdboa rd on insurance policy designed to stop a recurrent hardboard on the island of ireland. she has been having cross— party ireland. she has been having cross—party talks, downing street are suggesting they will continue. let's listen in. thank you, mr speaker. i'm sure that the whole house willjoin me in condemning saturday's car bomb attack in londonderry. and paying tribute to the bravery of the northern ireland police and the local community helped to ensure that everyone got to safety. this house stands together with the people of northern ireland in ensuring that we never go back to the violence and terror of the past. turning to brexit, following last week's build it is clear that the government's approach had to change, and it has. having established the confidence of parliament in this government, i h