Tonight we are celebrating the release of lyons the scripture we on the future. We will discuss how capitalism is a failure to the workingclass. For those marginalized communities. With democratic socialism in the United States and by the growing membership of democratic socialist and the popularity of Bernie Sanders and representative of causey of cortez to show a future that is more democratic inclusive and environmentally sustainable. In the age of trump and beyond. Let me introduce our guest writing in the guardian and the nation and the New York Times and is a coeditor of we own the future democratic socialism and she lives in brooklyn. Michael smith author of New York Times bestseller invisible man got the whole world watching he has written for the New York Times the atlantic, the paris review author of the new republic and the guardian and has been a featured commentator on npr and bbc radio cnn, msnbc and also lives in brooklyn so now we will turn it over to our guests. After
Communities. With democratic socialism in the United States and by the growing membership of democratic socialist and the popularity of Bernie Sanders and representative of causey of cortez to show a future that is more democratic inclusive and environmentally sustainable. In the age of trump and beyond. Let me introduce our guest writing in the guardian and the nation and the New York Times and is a coeditor of we own the future democratic socialism and she lives in brooklyn. Michael smith author of New York Times bestseller invisible man got the whole world watching he has written for the New York Times the atlantic, the paris review author of the new republic and the guardian and has been a featured commentator on npr and bbc radio cnn, msnbc and also lives in brooklyn so now we will turn it over to our guests. After the discussion there will be some words from Michael Bennett later there will be q a and after that there will be a book signing when q a happens i will come back up an
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The Olympic Games till next year saying the events in 2021 will represent victory over the coronavirus. And new yorks governor makes a plea for more medical supplies saying that the state is in danger of being overwhelmed. Below the death toll from the corona virus continues to rise in europe france has just reported more than a 1000 deaths from the illness and the number of fatalities in italy are now more than double that of china for 2 days it seemed as if italys outbreak was slowing but on tuesday that number of deaths spiked again rising by more than 740 and dashing hopes that the outbreak had reached a plateau meanwhile spain has recorded its highest daily number of deaths and confirmed cases and there are concerns that Frontline Health workers do not have the protective equipment to shield them from the virus and after weeks of speculation the tokyo 2020 a limb picks has now been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay says hes determined to hold the games in ful
With any particular benefit. It does have benefits psychologically socially and there are social norms around that and we dont criticize the wearing of masks and have not done so, but there is no specific evidence to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any partular benefit. Again we expect hear something today that word could come from the cdcs will be monitoring that if they make that commendation again that does not mean you should wear a surgical mask or an and 95 those are for health care were absolutely to be the cloth masks the to be best use case for tt. Meantime the various stay at home order has been extended for another month mayor london breed says will be a formal announcement later today, yeah, in fact the Health Department is going unveil their plans kron fours Charles Clifford has more on the story. Mayor london breed said that City Residents should be prepared to remain sheltered in place for at least another month until may first as the city tries t