Chelsea manning and edward acts. N, courageous they fulfilled the responsibility of someone who takes citizenship seriously. That is who believes the people of the country ought to know something about what their government is up to. Amy noam chomsky for the hour in a public conversation i had with him in cambridge, massachusetts. All of that and more, coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In this democracy now special, we spend the hour with the worldrenowned linguist and political dissident noam chomsky. In a public conversation we had in april, we talked about climate change, Nuclear Weapons, north korea, iran, the war in syria, and the Trump Administrations threat to prosecute wikileaks founder Julian Assange. We also talked about Noam Chomskys new book, requiem for the American Dream the 10 principles of concentration of wealth power. Hundreds of people packed into the First Parish Church in cambridge, massachusetts, for ou
Twitter and instagram for behindthescenes pictures and videos at booktvs or handle. We kick off this year savannah book festival with retired air force Major General robertbo latiff on future war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival. Isto presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the gm family and mark metcalf. Many thanks to jack and Mary Raimondo our sponsors for this glorious venue the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to wire litter rowdy members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival of them possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have savannah book festival this year for your phone. Please look in your program for information on downloading it. It just takes two seconds and it will be very helpful to you today. Before we get star
Later in march its the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the National Black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. In april were headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and well be live once again at the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about up coming book upcoming book fairs and test values, click festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv. Org. Lets dive in a little bit more. Who is eric garnersome. Eric garner excuse me, who was eric garner. Yeah. The reason i wrote this book, let my back up for a moment, is because on the day that the grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer responsible for or his killing and ill use a different word, but i cant legally but i went over to staten island, and i started talking to people in the street asking, you know, what was he like. And i immediately found that everybody had a story about this guy, and he was, he was just interesting and funny and complicated an
Church, one of the sites of the savanna book festival. Starting now is offer Celeste Headley talking about the importance of civil communication. Good afternoon. Hope you are enjoying the book festival. My name is our styles and im delighted to have you join me in the 11th annual savanna book 1st. The festival is presented by georgia power. David and nancy cintron, she and family foundation, and mark and pat, many thanks to jack and mary romanos come our sponsors for this glorious venue Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. We are very excited to have savanna book festival apps available for your phones, just look in your program for instructions for how to download it. Immediately following the presentation, celeste will sign copies of her book out here and if you are planning to stay for the following
I did get to know to students who had been adopted by American Families as well and their stories are in the book and i probably dont have time to share with you the whole journey, but theres some very moving moments about adoption and an American Family welcoming them into their home here as well. Maybe thats a good note to end on. Youre actually a very expert guide. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Im going to be signing books. [applause] what is your next project . I wish i knew. Inaudible conversations yeah, i can do that. Im glad you guys told me. And now we are live from savanna, georgia for the citys annual book festival. But a full day of authors ahead including ryan curtis, 1942 rose bowl was moved from california to North Carolina after pearl harbor, Scott Shapiro and the peace pact of 1928 that outlawed war around the world. Celeste headley on the importance of communication in the install in on the relationship between hitting bull and buffalo bill.