Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much pride for coming on to as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy i think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only with their behavior im also not sure that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we can know kind of Political Risk but were you know things and also relax a little bit and do reasonable decisions route decisions prufrock for. And the men play and this again in the context of for instance massive numbers of ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the a key problem in our society is that we all have learned how to read and
Touch them up quietly where the cameras rolling because that visual image was absolutely essential for movement to be able to see the violence of jim crow but that did not mean to this moment was over and Bobby Kennedy knew it and jack kennedy know it subject kennedy is giving his state of the Union Address and president kennedy is all we are fighting for democracy and freedom and there is an opportunity for what is happening here on the globe because we have all of these people this is the middle of the colonization africans asians arab latinos those nations are becoming free. Imperial bonds are loosening and he sees this as an incredible moment for freedom in the global self but he didnt mention the american south. In this freedom struggle the kind of silence there but he needed that silence because what he was dealing with it just come back from that vienna summit remember the one that his brother was really trying to get the freedom riders for well that summit didnt go so well. He
Look at what it means for one farmer in south africa and even as the world makes progress improving the lives of people with disabilities well take you to me where the disabled are still confronting huge challenges. Im for in golf its good to have you with it todays nato meeting in london has opened with National Leaders seeking to paper over the cracks amid divisions in the allied its right now as leaders are at Buckingham Palace for a reception hosted by the queen to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of nato and it follows a very public spat between french president emmanuel back wrong and u. S. President donald trump when the 2 leaders sat down together earlier today it was hard to predict how that meeting would go. Would you like. To give. Everyone you want. Not quite cordial combative tone pervaded the News Conference with u. S. President donald trump and his french counterpart have manual mark on at the nato meeting in london on tuesday trump sharply rebuked mccraw for sa
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