You at the next event. Thank you pj. Book tv continues on cspan two television for serious readers. Good evening good afternoon we know we had people here all over the world. Greetings, welcome. The Elliott Bay Book company. On behalf of all of the people who are staging this production today we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of Arundhati Roys new book azadi. This is been published and launched with her in new delhi. In the evening hours. I am in seattle where it is still a new day. All of you joining us everywhere around the spectrum. May even be earlier in the morning. The publication was the suspicious one. First to acknowledge all of the books publisher. In publishing this book. Haymarket is published based in chicago in the u. S. Its been around since 2001. And dedicated to social justice books. They have come around for on for the past 20 years. You can certainly got it haymarket books. Org. They are huge part of this. It is a south asian arts organization. It wa
Facesat moroccan David Cynthia loomis. Enzi is retiring. All people in the United States. I believe that we need to address this if we are to face the challenges of the future. With theecovery deal with a recovery of the economy. We need to make sure that we have food on peoples tables. I think that we definitely need to revisit our tax code. Talks the trump tax reform provided Household Income that increase. Household incomes searched. We have a tax code that is so much better then it was four years ago. The advantages of keeping President Trump and his policies of low taxes and both regulation and a Strong Economy help us work out the challenges that we the faced due to covid and results of covid. Income inequality was the cause of the great depression. Inled to major changes american lives. We are facing exactly the same condition right now with billionaires making billions within weeks during a pandemic. While millions of americans have are standingbs and in distribution lines to f
Monday, fourtime governor of new york and the first catholic candidate for Major Political party. On American History tv, on cspan3. Isabel wilkerson, near your new book is entitled tapped. What is its main thesis . Guest the main thesis is that we live in an old house. We often cannot see the pillars and the beams in the structure beneath it. We often focus on what we think we can see, but we may not be focusing on the structure underneath. We may have inherited a hierarchy that harkens back to enslavement and live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffects to this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language that we apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to wr
Where is vanessa . Thank you, vanessa. Thank you so much for that introduction and for your leadership and all you do for the community. Thank you. It is good to be in the house of labor. I had a chanced to visit the indian Veterans National memorial and take tribute to the aid of americans who have served our country in uniform. We were joined by cindy mccain, a longtime friend of joes, and someone i admire. I was fortunate to serve with john mccain in the senate and what an incredible american. He was a patriot of the highest order and cindy is supporting our campaign. [applause] and she is doing it because she knows that joe and i will always do what she and john did, and that is put our country first. Cindy, wek city are grateful to be in arizona today. Talk with workers and Small Business owners who are working so hard and doing everything rights, but still struggling to get by. I was thinking about last night at the debate. This election, more than any other in our lifetime, will
Its so intrinsic memory that its hard to get free from what kids would come to our town for sports teams and then say your town smellslike [bleep]. Kerri, tell us about the bleach room at the mill. Ive never been there. My grandfather worked there but what happens in the bleach room is where the magic happens. Its where the pulp turns white. And to do that, at the beginning our paper mill opened in 1901 and up until 1997 a process was basically the same. Two bleach paper they would use elemental chlorine to bleach it and what happened in the combustion process of that had this byproduct, its a family of dioxins. And fat dioxins are one of the most dangerous toxins known to humankind. There the thing that is used in agent orange. Equally as nefarious. And that bleach room up until 1997 the use elemental chlorine and created those dioxins all over across the us and the world and the mills had to change their bleaching process and they changed it to elemental chlorine free bleaching, whic