Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
Good afternoon. My name is barbara and i am a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual storytimes. Im very honored to introduce a conversation between david, great writer and historian of medicine and many other parts of the world, who works with the Washington Post and marie arana. With david and marie our colleagues at the Washington Post. Im happy to introduce author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council of the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and her work and bodies who she is as a historian, novelist, essayist and human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, american liberator and silver, stone and sword three crucibles in the latin american story. Silver, sword, and stone is an epic book. It is a history not of only 11 america for over a thousand years going back, but it brings all of this h
Autarky basically returning industrial selfreliance policy autarky for those unfamiliar was an economic and industrial policy of selfreliance wherein a nation need not rely on International Trade for its economic survival this is not to say that the nation rejected International Trade or isolated itself from the Global Economic order rather it merely could survive on its own if necessary and i know with the left wing you know hamilton was a huge hit over the past 5 years 6 years and hamilton was one of the big proponents of this notion of our talk yeah i am one of the countries that was really the premier autarky in the world before that coronavirus would be friends france was often described as an autocracy to some degree more though probably than the other of the big countries of the industrialized countries that had a mindset of individual sovereignty farming ourselves you know everything is a local. All if you go to a restaurant france you flip over the cutlery and a says made in f
Sense of Self Reliance its going to be a difficult adjustment dont dont get me wrong theres going to be a huge just meant but it is ultimately a hyper amerikana shows like ours and many other people mostly on blogs and in alternative things hanks theyre called heterodox thinkers and many of them by the way have been marginalized over the past 3 years since trump was elected because of the whole conspiracy minded ness of the divine class the celebrity thinking class on television the philosophers in our think tanks and theyve conspired to basically say you know try to maintain their domain jevon by data and driven by efficiency and driven by this consistency of globalization they expected to all say the same and people have been saying not just you and us but all the other people put on these lists of russia gators that are supposed to be marginalized if weve been saying that this. Globalization how its been managed especially in the past 1020 years is it well since china became part of
Reliance was a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesman f. Loss of furs and divines i would say the philosophers are modern day think tanks and the divines are celebrity cable news hosts and they have these little minds that focus just on certain numbers the stock price number efficiency globalization making sure everythings just in time and this is what theyve been seeking and the think tanks and the cable news has been telling us this is the best thing for basically everything for the American Economy and what we found out so far during this crisis caused by the pandemic is that we have 0 Self Reliance as a nation where basically sitting here waiting for some miracle some you know there is a lot of praying going on in the white house and the Vice President s office but theyre waiting for somewhat some sort of personal Protection Equipment respirators ventilators all these things to just magically appear out of thin air when we cant make them our