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- Dr. Joseph Varga, assistant professor in the Indiana University Department of Labor Studies, delivers a talk entitled "GE lies : surveying the post-industrial landscape of southern Indiana, 1980-2012." Varga describes the history of protest movements, particularly against General Electric, in response to the continuing de-industrialization and anti-union legislation in southern Indiana. Varga is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series co-sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Stanford University history professor Estelle Freedmen delivers a talk entitled "Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation." Freedman explores the efforts of both women's rights and racial justice advocates who have tried to change legal and cultural constructions of sexual violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her talk revolves around the following three points: the historically fluid concept of rape, rape's relationship to citizenship, and the particular historical context in which legal changes have occurred as well as their limits.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Stanford University history professor Estelle Freedmen delivers a talk entitled "Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation." Freedman explores the efforts of both women's rights and racial justice advocates who have tried to change legal and cultural constructions of sexual violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her talk revolves around the following three points: the historically fluid concept of rape, rape's relationship to citizenship, and the particular historical context in which legal changes have occurred as well as their limits.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Joseph Varga, assistant professor in the Indiana University Department of Labor Studies, delivers a talk entitled "GE lies : surveying the post-industrial landscape of southern Indiana, 1980-2012." Varga describes the history of protest movements, particularly against General Electric, in response to the continuing de-industrialization and anti-union legislation in southern Indiana. Varga is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series co-sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection