The starting opinion of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence from which we all suffer. Its evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, and the bp blowup and oil spill, worse environmental disaster in the nations history, and numerous food safety crises and disasters that killed dozens rue teenly, and the new england Compounding Pharmacy scandal, and washingplace safety and Health Issues that arise at workplaces across the country daily, and much more. You have to step back and say we as country dont do a very good job of dealing with these problems, and one marker is they persist over long periods of time. So we have an issue how we set the rules for what is permissible for corporations to do. When we say, no, you cant imperil human life you cant 2013 the environment you cant rip us off. We dont do a good job of setting the rules. The rules we have, we have to have some kind of enforcement system, insp
Who was sort of the artist, and sort of the oppositions between this man, and this tyrant niro and how he tried to survive in that time period while being on the on the other hand a. Senior adviser to nero and it was a very tricky business. A great piece of roman history. A very easy and great reading. So thats my Summer Reading for now and i hope to be back next year with an equal number of recommendations. Book tv wants to know what you are reading this summer. Post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. And now in book tv rinna rrvecion Rena Steinzor. Everybody thank you for joining us. Im president of Public Citizen. Here here for a conversation about Rena Steinzor about why not jail. Rena is going to talk and i will have some comments ond renas books and remarks and we will open it up for a discussion. I think maybe for a step back from where rena is going to dive it, recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse and violence from which we all suffer. Its
Unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri, there is a similar script to the events that played out recently in ferguson a grand jury in Staten Island section of new york city decided not to indict new York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of eric garner. Garner died after panaleo and other plains clothes Police Officers attempted to arrest him on the selling of a loose cigarettes on the street. Unlike ferguson, the protests in new york from peaceful and local. New yorkers have been following the garner case since his death in july, a week after a similar grand jury decision in missouri, and the violence sparked there, its clear that eric garner will signal something bigger to most americans. That yes, sir were devoting the show to the garner case. Mike viqueira joins us from washington where he heard that the attorney general is announcing an investigation into this death. Michael, what do you know . Reporter well, thats right, Al Jazeera America has confirmed that the
Unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri, there is a similar script to the events that played out recently in ferguson a grand jury in Staten Island section of new york city decided not to indict new York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of eric garner. Garner died after panaleo and other plains clothes Police Officers attempted to arrest him on the selling of a loose cigarettes on the street. Unlike ferguson, the protests in new york from peaceful and local. New yorkers have been following the garner case since his death in july, a week after a similar grand jury decision in missouri, and the violence sparked there, its clear that eric garner will signal something bigger to most americans. That yes, sir were devoting the show to the garner case. Mike viqueira joins us from washington where he heard that the attorney general is announcing an investigation into this death. Michael, what do you know . Reporter well, thats right, Al Jazeera America has confirmed that the
Studies is your host for this event also i want to welcome the cspan audience in those who are also watching Live Streaming later through the archives. We are here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to statutory and constitutional law. Immediately were here to mark the publication of a new book on that subject religious liberties for corporations . And i note that the title and with day question mark. Is in the book are the two main speakers ilya shapiro and david gans who provide comprehensive analysis indicates burwell v. Hobby lobby the blockbuster decision of the Supreme Court handed down at the end of last term which rejected the obamacare regulation of the Employer Sponsored Health care plans that require them to provide free contraception and coverage. The book is based on a series of debates that took place earlier this year at the National Constitution center in philadelphia moderated by Jef