so if we think about upton sinclair writing about the meatpacking industry. carey mcwilliams there's something very similar for the agricultural industry. he's the first one to really write about california from an immigrant lens. he writes about mexican laws and filipinos, and he really is trying to write about this new vision of the united states, one based on immigrants and workers here, too, like sinclair, is a political leftist and an activist and these could be seen as parallel books. but what changes this is up to? about the 19th thirties. okay. and then in the early 1940s, we have the run up to world war two. okay. and in world war two and war business all of a sudden is having a labor shortage. you begin to have more and more workers. and in the industry, you also have men who are going to fight in world war two. and this means large agricultural industry in california are starting to say, wait a second, who's going to actually pick the crops? right. we're not having as many workers as we're used to. we don't have enough people at the time of the har

you will have upton sinclair, who's living in new york at the time.he will go to the rockefellers mansion. he will knock on their door when he's kicked out. he will stand at the gates of the mansion protesting and saying, you have killed women and children in southern colorado and you have to answer for this. so this is just a news report, newspaper president wilson considers taking over the coal mines. and then this is another newspaper article at the time, talking about a plead for truce in the strike zone. and then over here you have this uprising in mexico. so a lot of people were comparing what was happening in the mexican revolution at this moment to what was happening in southern colorado and wondering if it was similar agitations that were occurring. wilson will call out national guards troops. they'll actually come to southern colorado, stop all the fighting. but the strike won't end. the ludlow tent colony gets rebuilt and the strike will end until december of 1914. so i'm going to talk a little bit about the memorial in modern day. has anyo

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emotionally, save him, as it seems, at first glance, his acquaintance with another writer, the great upton sinclairn of this picture, and isenstein gets carried away, they go with alexander atis to mexico it turns out that indeed, firstly, this is a unique culture that combines the indian, catholic, spanish, and fairly developed modernity, on the other hand, an amazing coincidence arises in mexico, about which even then and what is everything here the best components for shooting a film: the brightest mexican sun, the best film - american codec, the best german optics and the best cameraman of the soviet school. well, this is kind of just for filming, yes, that is, and here, of course, it coincided, with on the other hand, of course, seriously, this is the coincidence of separate different structures of the primitive, some rudiments, such a semi-feudal structure, the fact that it is all at the same time, as it happens, by the way, at the same time in the russian village, where he was filming the film old and new or the general line, how it was all in einstein’s head at the same time, because it’s n

emotionally, what saves, as it seems at first glance, is his acquaintance with another major writer, upton sinclair raise money for the production of this paintings, and isenstein gets carried away, they go with alexander matise to mexico, it turns out that indeed, firstly, this is a unique culture, which... itself has an indian origin, a catholic, spanish origin, and modernity is quite developed, on the other on the other hand, in mexico, an amazing coincidence arises, which they joked about back then, that here are all the best components for shooting a film, the brightest mexican sun, the best film, the american codec, the best german optics and the best cameraman, well, that’s exactly what it’s like for shooting, yes , that is, and here, of course, it coincided, but on the other hand, of course, seriously, this is the coincidence of separate different structures, almost primitive, some of them a rudiment of such a semi-feudal structure, the fact that it’s all at the same time, how is this by the way, was at the same time in the russian village, where he was filming the film, old and new, or the

it goes down to the upton sinclair quote that is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends not understanding it. but that's only i'm in a cynical mood. i just they've been sort of propagandized against it. but i honestly think parts of the medical profession are are bigger obstacles to this than than many of the politicians. yeah. and just to build on that specifically for veterans, i have i'm principal investigator of a study. right. actually called i account for veterans. i did a research study with veterans in 2019. and you know for veterans they access care for a different system from the va. and so it's a lot harder for them even though veterans are finding significant relief in the studies that i've been leading and reducing unwanted use, improved quality of you prove back to work. so, you know hopefully you know when federal happens you know va system will open up but it's just an it is very interesting because it's different the health care systems that are you know for the general population until a few years ago physicians at the veterans admini

he read upton sinclair's the jungle, and, you know, he was instrumental in creating the food and drug administration. he read ida tarbell series in mcclure's on john de rockefeller, and he went hard after standard oil and the trusts. so he embraced the culture and used it to advance his political ends. other examples of using culture wisely are eisenhower. the song i like ike was actually written by irving berlin and the disney company produced a commercial for eisenhower. and then you also think of bill clinton in the 1992 campaign. he's kind of an unknown. he's young. he's the pictures of him as a hippie. but he goes on the on the arsenio hall show. right. and he plays the saxophone wearing sunglasses to kind of show that he's hip and cool. but he also has that song, the fleetwood mac song that makes him kind of approachable and safe from the perspective of the baby boomers. so i think those people are examples of people who used it well. one person who i don't think took good advantage of culture at all was jimmy carter. jimmy carter watched. 480 movies while he was president. that