John today, the worst mob in the world is clearly isis. Their fanaticism reminds me of threats posed by the nazis 80 years ago. If we talk about mobs little compares to the nazis or isis. But this show is about american mobs, theyre not as deadly but do plenty of harm. We start with political mobs. Did you know that the Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs . Thats what ann coulters book demonic is about. She says a liberal mob endangers america. Come on. A mob . Yes the way they gin up their base with the slogans and the repetition bush lied kids died, and you have the image of paul ryan pushing the old lady in the wheelchair off the cliff. Republicans, the party of wall street. All these sorts of slogans republicans are terrible at slogans. John republicans have drilled baby drills secure the border. Peace through strength. I think those actually mean something, unlike bush lied kids died, theres more steps involved. To say this
John today, the worst mob in the world is clearly isis. Their fanaticism reminds me of threats posed by the nazis 80 years ago. If we talk about mobs little compares to the nazis or isis. But this show is about american mobs, theyre not as deadly but do plenty of harm. We start with political mobs. Did you know that the Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs . Thats what ann coulters book demonic is about. She says a liberal mob endangers america. Come on. A mob . Yes the way they gin up their base with the slogans and the repetition bush lied kids died, and you have the image of paul ryan pushing the old lady in the wheelchair off the cliff. Republicans, the party of wall street. All these sorts of slogans republicans are terrible at slogans. John republicans have drilled baby drills secure the border. Peace through strength. I think those actually mean something, unlike bush lied kids died, theres more steps involved. To say this
When we talk about organizing a around a singular principal, i dont think the solution is necessarily to consolidate around existing labor movements. It is not necessarily to formulate a third party platform. The solution is to use these tools and use these bodies in order to consolidate power and to use that power to challenge the way in which decisions are made fundamentally. I would like to have time for questions from the audience. Please go to one of the of mikes so it can be sure to hear you. I will alternate between mikes as long as we have people at them. Do you think cooperation does not work in this country because people do not know what it means . Noncooperation, civil disobedience. And if not, why not . In this country. I believe it should work, that is the only way to help in this country, but it does not really work. It works, if you get the numbers. The important thing is about building numbers. And sustaining it. But it certainly works. Worked in the labor movement. Th
Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts think that thats about to come to a significant, and i call, a noble end. Oh grams of affirmative action, that simply means youre going to take positive steps. You cant be passive. Youve got to take positive steps to overcome the current effects of past discrimination, the history. Not going to happen by itself. If you bring that to a close, and people are speculating that that is about to happen, in fact i saw a few days ago one of the leading scholars, legal scholars in this country who was say