i am professor and on today i had the honor of representing the united faculty of my everyday college. it is an organization of over 500 professors and different disciplinary as some of whom are actually published authors. we invite you to stop by the faculty published works booth in section a of the street fair to view our work. u.s. and d.c. a have provided a green box is for you to dispose your name tag and lanyards on your way out. on the final day of the book fair we invite you to go ahead and put your name tag in the green boxes as we celebrate the green fairy that. we have long supported the fair as volunteers because we are greatly appreciative of all that they have done. along with our colleagues at the florida center for the literary arts. they have done much to do. they have done much to enrich the learning environment at the college. this year we are very proud to sponsor the best selling author of the book, the breakthrough. gwen ifill is the moderator and managing editor and senior correspondent for the news hour with jim lehrer. she has covered six presidential campaign

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zinn wrote in the afterword of a people's history of the united states, it was not until i joined the facultyl, nowhere in my history education had i learned about the massacres of black people that took place again and again amidst the silence of a national government pledged by the constitution to protect equal rights for all. so when howard died, the next morning we called two people to be on democracy now from their homes, noam chomsky -- his long-time friend and ally, and the pulitzer prize-winning author alice walker. [cheers and applause] alice was a student of howard's at spelman, and she was speaking to us from mexico. she said, he was thrown out because he loved us, and he showed that love by just being with us. he loved his students. he didn't see why we should be second-class citizens. well, 42 years after howard zinn was thrown out of spelman, he was invited back. it was in 2005. he was invited back to give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree. yes, times do change. [applause] noam chomsky, a long-time friend of howard and roz's, noam also just lost his wife, c

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united states supreme court. he's been a professor at some of the nation's premier law schools. he's earned the trust and admiration of students, facultynd opponents on labor-management kinds of discussions. his scholarly works have been published in the nation's leading lawdjourn assments his scholarship is mandatory reading for law students. whether they're prolabor or promanagement, he's often cited by fellow lawyers and scholars. 66 professors of labor and employment law from our nation's premier law schools have described berk as a nominee -- quote -- "one parallel qualifications whose scholarship reflects great respect for and deep knowledge of the law. he weighs and considers all arguments in a fair and honest manner." that sound like the kind of nominee we want on the national labor relations board. and i would add, most importantly, remember, madam president, when i said a moment ago that to serve the interests of the middle class, to serve the interests in this country, we need to fill these jobs with qualified people. and it's bad for labor not to have craig berk on that board. it is bad for management not to have craig beck