Incredible Boston Review and its lead ed editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual tradition curated by Boston Review, and i just think its really important to say in this moment before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police and prison abolition, racial capitalism, black radical thought and the ethics of resistance, the boston the review really provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated with seriousness and subtlety, and it still does. There are not many publications who can match Boston Reviews commitment to publishing black thinkers, giving space to black liberation across the political spectrum or the bolder questions with of justice, democracy and citizenship. So its a real honor to be here at a panel cohosted by Boston Review. And just as a reminder, as serena said, the contributions from this evenings event which i hope you continue to contribute all go to three important organizations. Critica
That means a lot that you are here with us. Especially raising money for such great causes. I want to think first of all the best bookstore in all the land, Harvard Bookstore. I want to thank my friend jeff for hosting this discussion. The panelists are all authors of some of the most important works ever written on race and the american experience. And i strongly, strongly encourage you to purchase their text and other work you are interested in from Harvard Bookstore its another independent booksellers. I also want to think of other hosts, the incredible Boston Review and the editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual condition curated by Boston Review. I just think it is really important that in this moments before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police, prison abolition, racial and ethics of resistance and market violence, Boston Review really provided one of the major forms for these ideas to be debated with serious
Bookstore and other independent sellers. Also the incredible Boston Review and the editors all of us have been proud by what has been curated by Boston Review but in this moment before the countrys more famous publications were willing to run racial capitalism and the ethics of resistance Boston Review provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated and it still does theres not many publications who can match the commitment to get space to debate across the political spectrum or insisting on the significance of race as a broader question of justice and democracy and citizenship. Its a real honor to be here at a panel cohosted by Boston Review. As a reminder the contributions all go to three important organizations critical resistance National Bailout devoted to attending mass incarceration with pretrial detention or one womans love to empower black women and girls in stockton california. The format today is 40 or 45 minutes of discussion i will moderate before he take qu
You can also send us a text, that number 202 7488003. Please include your name or where you are from. Therwise on social media a very good thursday morning. You can start calling you now. To let you know where we are on capitol hill, the houses and at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, the senate is in at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. President trump headed to wisconsin to participate in a town hall and visit a shipbuilding firm. We do not know when that promised executive order on mound events and statues will on monuments and statues will come but the president had plenty to say at the white house yesterday. [video clip] we will have a strong executive order. We have the monuments act, which means 10 years in jail. We will have a strong executive order, i should have that by the end of the week. We will have a very powerful statement. We have arrested numerous people for what took place outside of washington. In addition, the fbi is investigating hundreds of people throughout the country for what they have
Are, bernie. They are not with you. Amy two out of seven. That is the number of Democratic Candidates at last nights debate who are billionaires with Michael Bloomberg and at either end of the stage, frontrunner Bernie Sanders was at the center facing a barrage of criticism. Your hearing it tonight, the ideas im talking about are radical. They are not. In one form or another, they exist in countries all over the world. Amy we will speak with anand winnersdas, author of take all. Just wrote the billionaire election does the world belong to them or to us . We will also then go to columbia and charleston, South Carolina, for reaction. And we will look at billionaire Michael Bloomberg facing calls to release his tax records. I got into this race only 10 or 12 weeks ago. We have been working on our tax returns. We probably have another couple of weeks to go. We have complied with every single requirement for disclosure. And when i was mayor in new york, we had tax returns out 12 years in a