America. He received his phd in american studies in 1983 from the university of kansas and is on the faculty of Catholic University for the past 35 years. His research and teaching interests include a variety of religion and cultural topics. Religious movements, religion and social change, fundamentalism, religion in American Culture, religion and globalization and religion and ecology. Please without further ado, join me in welcoming building us. Thank you. So, good evening everyone. I am delighted to be here and i am delighted that you are here on this rather hot, muggy, welcome to washington dc in august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Actually i had originally conjured up an image of Ralph Waldo Emerson and then i doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband and i looked at it a while and came to the conclusion that this would probably verged on sacrilege so instead, i am starting with this particular image and the title from walden pond to woodstock, the
That is the end of it for the t. V. But for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. During the Great Depression which im old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse subjectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today. Inequality is really unprecedented im sure that total inequality its like the worst periods of American History. But history find it more closely the inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys the early ninetys and so on when a situation of ill rather similar to this. Now this period 6 tree because if you look at their Wealth Distribution the inequality mostly comes from super wealthy. Literally the top 110th of a percent are just super will. Not only is it extremely unjust in itsel
Zad andy union center im in the United States among a leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of of labor raids in the basic principle in the International Labor organization is the rate of Free Association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified so i think the us maybe a loon amman majors side hes an every speck its considered so for out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been consider her number than yours has or lawn hurry violent labor history his her society but the rim had been very strong the by than 1920 days in period not on like today who is virtually crushed rock driver very. Young and. By the mid series it began to reconstruct. Her friends a dozen or roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to chris if legislation that would be an invention of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. What he meant is going to help demonstrate were going to
Open by talking about the American Dream or the American Dream is closed and diluted it will infuriate you work or you get rich it was possible for a worker to get a decent job. At a core of children go to school. To a collapse. Imagine yourself in an outside position looking for mars. What do you see. In the United States when there are professed to like democracy. In a democracy Public Opinion is going to have some influence on poesy. And then the government carries out actions determined by the population and thats what democracy means. Its important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. Democracy puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. As kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. Were. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major
Its a cynical move from a cynical Prime Minister. Prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed by the countrys leaders. In restoring ridge. With the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly on r. T. E. International our top story. Millions of weapons made in serbia are reportedly fallen into the hands of Islamic State fighters in yemen and syria after they were purchased by the United States and its allies its what documents seen by a boat carrying investigative journalist have highlighted. This an anonymous. Well documented. The queen was. Not actively crusade in the us. Tracking all the way through our births the sound of this compress idols able to identify one particular out loss of life in the language they hear it in their sub again the video. Well washington allegedly purchase weapons from 2 serbian state owned Arms Companies are partly for the police in afghanistan but those arms were then seen in on a slow mak