Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
I am. I pulled him toward the optimistic side and he pulled me toward the other side. A lot has happened since writing the book, obamacare, that would lead you to think of big problems. I was talking to a women who said i dont have hope, but i think the American People will fight, but we have a lot to go through. I love our last line in the book. Everything we write isnt great, but occasionally i believe i hit it out of the park. Lets hope the United States doesnt give the wish of give us a king and we will be like every other nation out there. All mankind will pay the price. We were talking about the lights going out in europe at the beginning of wwi. You would see dark ages like you have never seen before if the light goes out. On that cheery note [laughter] comments . Questions . Concerns . What should we be doing . Buy ten copies each . You know, there is a time to meditate. I mean children of israel were in the wilderness for 40 years. They were supposed to learn something. We hav
Her lessons from winning a legal battle against Pacific Gas Electric in california when they polluted her citys water supply. Millions of americans are on the edge of a hunger cliff as republicans push for cuts to food stamps and Unemployment Benefits. Politics . Whats that . Example. Ve you an Ronald Reagan campaigning in 1980 and complaining about welfare queens. Race on doesnt mention its surface. We will speak with professor Ian Haney Lopez, author of the new book, dog whistle politics how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism wrecked the middle class. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More than 200 south sudanese civilians have drowned in the white now river while attending to flee violence. An Army Spokesperson told afp as many as 300 people died in the accident on an overloaded ferry including children. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the conflict in south sudan. Talks between t
Leaders. My money is on tecumseh as the greatest. He was just remarkable. Brock was incredible and brock felt tecumseh was the best. Tecumseh was remarkable and he felt brock was the best. There are letters from some of the officers that went tecumseh would meet some of the other british officers he would say be gone go put your petticoat and dress on. Youre not a man and when he meets rock he says now here is a man. They were both cheerleading one another. Guess when we have read back in history we always need to be careful of the folks who say the fish with this big. When i was in high school i walk 30 miles through the snow to school. But there are so many accounts of William Henry harrison who was tecumsehs enemy for years. William Henry Harrison says its one of those men that comes along once in a century that changes times and creates revolutions. The documents that survived history are consistent about those two. They are all the same. Can i ask a question not associated with ba
A very solemn public tribute to a son. The body of the late reverend Clementa Pinckney is lying in the State Capitol rotunda. People loved him here and are going to miss him a lot. A black drape blocking the view of the flag outside. What began as a push to remove one flag has grown to a national movement. Alabama just removed its Confederate Flag from the state capital grounds. In mississippi, the republican speaker of the house called for the emblem to be removed from his states flag. Our future as a nation has been changed. South carolina senator tim scott introduced a resolution honoring all nine victims. One of the victims sons said with great enthusiasm this evil attack would lead to reconciliation, restoration and unity in our nation. Those were powerful words. Change can happen at anytime, any place. We still have so much to do to correct the ills of our society. Alabamas segregationist governor George Wallace first raised the Confederate Flag over the state capital dome on apr