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Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight program. We are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufecki. She is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and Library Science at the university of north carolina. And shes also the author of twitter and tear gas which is for sale after tonight program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy, and commerce were solutions to our problems lie. We are recording ten nights event with both cspan as well as for radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones, and would like to thank the audio engineer who is joining us this evening. You will notice we have a blue question cards on your seats so pleased to make use of them thought the program and writer programs that and i will bring them up
Already announced plans to boycott his speech on the capitol hill. We will speak to a Domestic Worker who walked 100 miles to greet the pope in washington, as well as an indigenous leader opposed to his decision to canonize father Junipero Serra. Then we look back. You have a big church, you are christian, the church is not open at all. What we ask you for his faith, that is all. You supply the manpower, the food. All you supply is the faith of the church. Amy from waging a garbage offensive, we look at the young lords founded by puerto rican activists took to the streets demanding reform in health care, education, housing, and one, and policing. We will speak to one gonzalez. Uan gonzalez the young lords in new york showing at three major new york cultural institutions. All that and more is coming up. To democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has kicked off his historic u. S. Tour. You will share his message of compassion and simplici