We had to hold our elected officials accountable. I wanted tell you right now, with your help and gods will, we will change the direction of our country. We will break down what happened in this, the most expensive Midterm Election in history, and look ahead to what it means for the 2016 race. President obama starts making grand bargains with his Republican Senate in the next two years, he creates a situation where democratic hardy that still has many advantages going into president ial cycle, could lose some of those advantages. And we will look at Ballot Initiatives including increasing the minimum wage which one in every state it was put before voters. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Republicans have emerged from tuesdays Midterm Elections with control of congress for the first time in eight years. In the most expensive midterm in election history, the Republican Party took control of the senate, st
In congress. From massachusetts to florida and from West Virginia to colorado, the republicans won key senate, house and gubernatorial races. We had to hold our elected officials accountable. I wanted tell you right now, with your help and gods will, we will change the direction of our country. We will break down what happened in this, the most expensive Midterm Election in history, and look ahead to what it means for the 2016 race. President obama starts making grand bargains with his Republican Senate in the next two years, he creates a situation where democratic hardy that still has many advantages going into president ial cycle, could lose some of those advantages. And we will look at Ballot Initiatives including increasing the minimum wage which one in every state it was put before voters. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Republicans have emerged from tuesdays Midterm Elections with control of cong
People coming to new york for your book launch. And in this case it is entirely appropriate because this is a really, really important book. Its title is i think exactly right. I think this book will go a long ways towards changing things. And i think thats because, uniquely, naomi has been able to realize something thats hard to grasp, which is that Climate Change is not sort of one more problem on a list of problems that we need to take off and do something about. Its a lens through which to understand the world we live in now. Its a way of grasping what it is that everything adds up to, the power relationships on our planet. The way that wealth and power are distributed. They are all reflected in every cubic meter of air around us. Thats what those numbers mean when we say that the air is 400 parts per million co2. That doesnt tell us that much about the air we scientists have been warning us for, telling us recorder of a century exactly what that means. Want to tell us is a lot. A
Presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent, and i would say even medicinal, organization. At the beginning of this year, in january, United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, baracka. Twice winner of the american book award, who is a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. In fact, his last appearance here in San Francisco was at a fundraiser at yossis, not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. So, in our embrace, of the arc and an panorama of american art and history i want to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of a poet and writer, ameri baraka. We have quite a harvest this afternoon. And were honored by the presence of many of the most fertile writers. Who offer illumination and insight, and as i mentioned, a few moments ago, some very strong medicine, and some very ill times. So, before we get into that, id like to start with a gentleman, good friend, who cant be w
Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest