And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome eve ensler back to this program. More than 20 years ago, her play, the vagina monologues, broke the longstanding silence of womens experiences with sex and sexual abuse. Her new play opens in new york in january. Its based on her memoir, in the body of the world. I am honored to have eve ensler back on this program. How are you . Good, as good can be. Every time i see you, when i say im happy to see you, i mean that literally, because i thought a few years ago when that cancer scare happened that you might not be on this set ever again. Well, thats because im good, because every day i shouldnt be here. Theres no reason for me to be here, and seven years now that i am here, so i have a lot of gratitude. A lot of gratitude. I hear the gratitude. How, to the extent that it has, and i assume it has in some ways, how did having that death scare fundamentally change your life, your work . Its a s
And b contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome rabbi steve leder back to this program, the senior rab at one of americas largest and most important congregations located in the heart of los angeles. His latest text is titled more beautiful than before how suffering transforms. Hes a great guy, more important than that, he is my friend of 30 years, i think. 30 years. Good to see you, my friend. You as well. I told you months ago when i heard you were doing this i wanted to have you on to talk about this, because were living in a moment now where so many people are suffering with and from so many things. And yet, because suffering tends to happen in dark and desolate places, we cant see how when were in it, it ultimately transforms us. Yes. Tell me the back story for why you came how you came to write this one. Well, you can imagine, being a senior rabbi of a congregation with, you know,10,000 people in it, that you see an awful lot of suffer
The suspect a white, exair force soldier who was courtmartialed and jail for a year for assaulting his wife in 2012. He was still able to purchase a military style Assault Rifle last year. Well look at the connections between, race, Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings. Then to the Paradise Papers. I intend to be quite scrupulous about refusal on any topic where there is the slightest scintilla of doubt. Amy thats commerce secretary wilbur ross, one of more than a dozen trump cabinet members, advisers, and major donors whose shady business ties and offshore tax holdings have just been revealed in a massive leak of 3. 4 million documents. Well speak with coauthor of the Paradise Papers story, Frederik Obermaier all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic Assault Rifle on a sunday Morning Church service in the small town of Sutherland Springs, killing 26 people an
In the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Accord. But what exactly do they mean . We will speak with senator markey and hawaiis senator brian schatz. But first, President Trump meets with philippines president Rodrigo Duterte in manila. Pres. Trump this has been very successful. We have many meetings today with many other leaders. Conferences have been handled beautifully by the president of the philippines and their representatives. I really enjoyed being here. Amy well speak with tetet lauron, a former member of the Philippines Climate delegation, about the significance of trumps meeting with duterte. And we will talk about the threats Climate Change poses to our nations with an activist and warrior of fiji. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More than 330 people have died in iran after a powerful magnitude 7. 3 earthquake hit the Western Province of kermanshah near the iraqi border. More than 4000 people
And by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you, thank you. Ann ravel was appointed to the federal Election Commission by president barack obama with unanimous consent. She stepped down in march and sounded a loud and blunt alarm producing a final report outlining the gridlock that has frozen the fec. The title of the report makes clear her discontent. I love this. Dysfunction and deadlock, the crisis at the federal elections reveals the unlikely hood of draining the swamp. How is that for a title . Ann, good to have you on the program. Thank you, good to be here. I pulled this one paragraph from your reported that i think gives a pretty good sense of what is wrong with the fec and speaks, of course, to what is wrong with our elections at large. I might ask you to read your words to start the conversation . Happy to do so, thank you. Public should know about fecs failures. The commission made up of six commissioners is not performing its duty. A block of three commissioner