Woodruff and, the darker side of one of americas most moral characters. A look at racism in harper lees second book go set a watchman. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff greece reached a debt deal with european creditors today after an all night emergency summit in brussels. It agreed to a strict timetable for enacting further unpopular austerity measures in exchange for a Third International bailout. Now greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must push the cost cutting proposals through his parliament over the next two da
And can see them over video. Woodruff and, the darker side of one of americas most moral characters. A look at racism in harper lees second book go set a watchman. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff greece reached a debt deal with european creditors today after an all night emergency summit in brussels. It agreed to a strict timetable for enacting further unpopular austerity measures in exchange for a Third International bailout. Now greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must push the cost cutting proposals through his pa
Audience across the country. The only official duties i have far to open the literary season of the congress in the fall by giving a reading in the closing lecture in maine to end the literary season and to choose the two poets were the one in some years who is to receive from the award and introduce them. Do you get a salary . There is a stipend that comes with it but it isnt funded by the american public. There is an endowment that does that. What is the scholarship that you referred to . The scholarship recognizes an american poet who is doing extraordinary work. How do you become the u. S. Poet laureate . Are you a poet . You have to be a poet first so if youre thinking about doing it first start writing some poems. The poet laureate is choose by dr. James billington the library of congress. And hes given that duty by congress. Congress enacted law that made or i suppose maybe its not a law, but the position of the laureate ship in 1986. It used to be the consultant in poetry for m
Its a thick book, theres an enormous amount of information about whats going on today in it, both qualitative and quantitative data. So survey numbers and accounts of what people think, what they do and what the consequences of their actions are. I cant possibly tell you everything thats in the book tonight, but im going to give you a sense of the phenomenon of global antisemitism, its rise and its threat so that i hope you emerge from here with a greater understanding of something that everyone, really practically everyone, jew and gentile, old and young at some point wonders about, why the jews . Why are they hated so much, why have they been persecuted so much . So, first, relate me tell you a let me tell you a few snippets of things that will give you a flavor of whats out there. In surveys of European Union, we find regularly that 4050 of them, of europeans, say that jews have too much power in business and too much power in international finance. If we just stop and think about w
Issued or the fbi issued a report of an anarchist threat because on top of the building there was some graffiti near, i guess, where some of the delegates were and a brick. And so taken alone and even though there were very few protesters there, they issued a report, the media carried it, and it continues to perpetuate negative stereotypes about individuals who are merely, in cases, exercising their First Amendment rights but are being deemed because they question the status quo and corporate or government policies, theyre now called anarchists. But the labeling is very real because, as you know, that can be used to stigmatize, alienate groups and even in the case of Animal Rights activists create federal legislation. The animal enterprise terrorism act that in many cases punishes what we traditionally called civil disobedience and other forms of protests such as leafletting or chalking a sidewalk. They imbue those with sort of evil connotations and higher fines and higher penalties. S