My honor to open this occasion with a libation. This comes from the people of ghana, west africa. It is an ancient form of prayer. I will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up theks to the creator, to energy of the creator, and to our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This is a is maturing activity. So we would like for you to join i would like for you to join me in this. So when you hear me say this will, i would like you to respond. Beautiful. Dr. Adwoa tano [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] dr. Adwoa tano host ya. [speakingtano foreign language] to the oldie mighty Divine Energy of the greater, we call on you. Tubman,other, harriet we call participation from you. He daughter, we call you to come and drink. Daughter Harriet Tubman, masterful perception, we call you to come and drink. Harriet tubman, divine warrior woman, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of sovereignty, of truth, we call
The libation i will be performing comes from the okung people in ghana. It is an ancient prayer. Language,ak in the and then i will continue in the language of english. You will hear me say various words. What i am doing is offering up thanks to the creator to all of , the representatives of the creator and our ancestors, especially Harriet Tubman. This a participatory activity. So, we would like for you to join, i would like for you to join with me in this. When you hear me say the word, ensah, i would like for you to respond yah. Ensah. Audience yah. Beautiful. [speaking in ghanian] yah. Yah. Yah. The Divine Energy of the creator, we call on you yah. To our beautiful queen mother, Harriet Tubman, we call on you. Yah. The daughter of a we call you we call on you. Yah. Masterful conductor, we call you. Yah. Divine warrior woman of righteousness, of justice, of freedom, of liberation, of truth, we call you yah. The one who said i could have freed 1000 more if only they knew there were e
A certain kind of mainstream niche way of thinking about gender. Coming out of Judith Butler and other scholars as a part of what we put under the umbrella of wokeness. So maybe some economic views that people term woke. Socialism and things like that, maybe evenrejuvenation of marxism. They are not all the same thing but often times are clustered together not everybody subscribes of whats driving us all crazy other questions we can turn to. On this perspective i couldnt agree more, what does it mean . That is a problem in the general pretty good job trying to definable not defining term from a social perspective, i cannot measure and i have no jihad and engage with the. I agree things are very soppy and a finery approach the world is far too complicated to any of this in my view. I completely agree, another question that we have willspo weakness, were we exhaust herself or will he get worse . One piece of data incidentally, im a data person we sink insulation much more prominent among
The socalled institutionon thas largely responsible for checking the government provide information toto the citizenry d so on fallen prey to a rising pressure from the woke, or the pressure to be woke . Today batyaya ungarsargon, the deputy opinion editor at newsweek says yes. Just a y forthcoming book. Its a great cover. I know were not supposed to judgeo books by its cover but this is a great cover called bad news how woke media is undermining democracy. She chronicles the radical shift in american journalism over the last few years and what it means for democracy asea a whole. Im looking forward to explaining this with everyone today, and to helpe me do that a number of guests. First batya isr of newsweek. If or that she was the opinion editor of the largest jewish media outlet in america and shes written for places like the New York Times, washington post, Foreign Policy to name a few. She also holds a phd from the university of california at berkeley and when a book comes out in
Geothermal, biofuels, the way they are doing now in europe and even in countries like china and india, then 25 years from now, tom and kay will know that a sustainable lifestyle is possible and their children can look forward to a much safer and more secure second half of the 20th century. From kim marion of westminster, massachusetts, i expect to see more Severe Weather patterns, colder colds, warmer warms, drier days, wetter floods, bigger storms, higher which winds, more dust, more mud, loss of marginal growth plant and animal life. I have many, many more letters. As i said, i received more than 5,000 letters from people in massachusetts and across the country. I wish i could read every one of them. I dont kid myself. We are up against an army of lobbyists, and we will not win all the fights ahead. But here in the United States senate we have leaders who will fight as hard as we can to protect our environmental future. The senator from rhode island, senator whitehouse, has shown ded