Inequality starts at the top ill use the u. N. Secretary general Antonio Gutierrez i says the world is at breaking point and calls for a new global deal is it possible does a pandemic offer a chance to change this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im sam is a that not everyone is in the same boat the 26 richest people in the world hold as much wealth as hard for its population life chances depend on gender race and whether or not a person has a disability these global inequalities are being made worse by the pandemic and the world is reaching breaking point a bleak reality laid bare by the u. N. Secretary general and tony a good target has delivered one of the most hard hitting messages he says the disparities start with the biggest institutions and they should be eradicated under a new model of Global Governance that guarantees a fair share of wealth opportunity and power. 19 is being likened to an extremely revealing fractures in the franchise skeleton of the societies w
Across that bridge . Rep. Lewis well, during the past few years, ive been crossing bridges, rivers, mini bridges, bridges of understanding, building bridges, trying to bring people together to create what i like to call the beloved community. Brian where does the Edmond Pettus bridge come into that picture . Rep. Lewis well, the Edmond Pettus bridge is symbolic of so many bridges, but in 1965, when i was much younger, and head of an Organization Called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a group of young people, students, and others, attempted to cross the Edmond Pettus bridge in selma, alabama to march 50 miles from selma to montgomery to dramatize to the nation and to the world that people wanted simply to register to vote. We were walking in twos. And when we arrive at the apex of the bridge down below, we saw a sea of blue, Alabama State troopers. And we continued to walk. And we came within hearing distance of the state troopers. And a man identified himself and said im
Florida Governor Ron Desantis gives a briefing from Flagler Hospital in Saint Augusta on the States Coronavirus pandemic. Q a, democratic congressman john lewis of georgia, author of across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change. Brian congressman john lewis, why did you name your book across that bridge . Rep. Lewis well, during the past few years, ive been crossing bridges, rivers, mini bridges, bridges of understanding, building bridges, trying to bring people together to create what i like to call the beloved community. Brian where does the Edmond Pettus bridge come into that picture . Rep. Lewis well, the Edmond Pettus bridge is symbolic of so many bridges, but in 1965, when i was much younger, and head of an Organization Called the student nonviolent coordinating a group of young people, students and others attempted to cross the bridge in selma, alabama. Montgomery to dramatize to the nation and to the world that people wanted simply to register to vote. We were walkin
Inequality starts at the top ill use the u. N. Secretary general Antonio Gutierrez i says the world is at breaking point and calls for a new global deal is it possible does a pandemic offer a chance to change this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im sam is a that not everyone is in the same boat the 26 richest people in the world hold as much wealth as hard for its population life chances depend on gender race and whether or not a person has a disability these global inequalities are being made worse by the pandemic and the world is reaching breaking point a bleak reality laid bare by the un secretary general and tony a good target has delivered one of the most hard hitting messages he says the disparities start with the biggest institutions and they should be eradicated under a new model of Global Governance that guarantees a fair share of wealth opportunity and power. 19 is being likened to an extremely revealing fractures in the franchise skeleton of the societies we h
Few core issues that have in many ways given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 1960s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very pertinent to what well do today, what role the United States should play internationally. What role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s . So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 1965. With the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1964, the president made his case that there was aggression coming from North Vietnam pointed at the south, and pointed at the United States as well in the attack on u. S. Ships in International Waters