That means a lot that you are here with us. Especially raising money for such great causes. I want to think first of all the best bookstore in all the land, Harvard Bookstore. I want to thank my friend jeff for hosting this discussion. The panelists are all authors of some of the most important works ever written on race and the american experience. And i strongly, strongly encourage you to purchase their text and other work you are interested in from Harvard Bookstore its another independent booksellers. I also want to think of other hosts, the incredible Boston Review and the editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual condition curated by Boston Review. I just think it is really important that in this moments before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police, prison abolition, racial and ethics of resistance and market violence, Boston Review really provided one of the major forms for these ideas to be debated with serious
Bookstore and other independent sellers. Also the incredible Boston Review and the editors all of us have been proud by what has been curated by Boston Review but in this moment before the countrys more famous publications were willing to run racial capitalism and the ethics of resistance Boston Review provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated and it still does theres not many publications who can match the commitment to get space to debate across the political spectrum or insisting on the significance of race as a broader question of justice and democracy and citizenship. Its a real honor to be here at a panel cohosted by Boston Review. As a reminder the contributions all go to three important organizations critical resistance National Bailout devoted to attending mass incarceration with pretrial detention or one womans love to empower black women and girls in stockton california. The format today is 40 or 45 minutes of discussion i will moderate before he take qu
Atlantas mayor is encouraging testing. If you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go get a covid test this week. Reporter in these 15 states and puerto rico, the number of newly reported cases is increasing. Places like tennessee, south carolina, and california, where protests are quite large. In los angeles county, theyve had to close or move coronavirus testing sites because of the chaos. Chicago and philadelphia have had to shut down food banks that were helping people who the virus has put out of work. Theres some encouraging news from drugmakers. The makers of the drug remdesivir, the antiviral that has been used to treat covid19, are now saying a third study shows that their drug is effective in treating the coronavirus symptoms with just a fiveday treatment. Authorities say they are hoping, for example, that the people who crowded this Cell Phone Store and stole all of their product wont need it. Steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. Our thanks to steve there. Kenn
Previous leader. That is certainly something we are going to watch out for here today when it comes to how that plays out in malaysia. Overall risk sentiment is cautious. David it doesnt help that markets here in hong kong and china, you have liquidity issues look exacerbating these issues. Here are your equity markets that are open. On the lighter side of things. Down about. 25 . Kospi up. 25 . Putting anything else together, we are on a threeweek streak of declines for asian equities. S p futures as you can see,. 5 down, pretty much where it has been holding all morning. Have a look at some other things we are tracking here as well. We talked about dollaryen today, which we will get to in a moment. Southeast asia is looking like this. The latest market to open is indonesia. A big day friday for philippines, reversing some of that now. Malaysia also little higher. Southeast asia as well, mx is your ticker for this benchmark. Also on three weeks of decline. As promised, look at dollary
Questioning. Im sarah kelly. Its great to have you with us. Alexis tsipras is back in athens and back in the office. He needs to be. He has two days to push a very harsh bailout agreement through parliament. It can pave the way for the third rescue package in five years. Eurozone leaders and german chancellor Angela Merkel says that the press must be under no illusions. There will be no new cash. One round of talks is over and then rest are getting underway. The 19 finance ministers are discussing immediate aid for greece as a stopgap measure until the bailout deal takes effect. There are a lot of loopholes to close and time is of the essence. We thought the beginning of the negotiations is automatic. It is absolutely conditional by the decision of the greek government and the Greek Parliament. The issue today will be bridge financing and i for see those negotiations being very difficult because i dont see many countries having a mandate to give money without recommendations. Theyre op