Georgia voters. Race. Not just the future of the senate which republicans currently hold but the future there are. Very important you have to get out you have to vote you have to make sure you have every vote count everybody. Because at stake in this election is control of the u. S. And that really. The voters are determined which party runs every committee right every. Controls every single taxpayer dollar. The democrats are. Largely still a. Result of. The supreme court. Will never surrender. The u. S. Has reported a Record Number of covert 900 infections in the row in the 230000 cases recorded over the past 24 hours according to Johns Hopkins university the u. S. Has seen a huge resurgence of the virus over the past month. Trade talks between the u. K. And the European Union etc on sunday the 2 sides are deadlocked over issues of governance fishing and competition rules but more on the negotiations. Theres been a lot of talk in the press about british on happiness or the European Un
Senior news editor of publishers weekly, editor of pws online coverage of comics and graphic, and im also a cohost on more to come, pws weekly podcast, and aim also placed to welcome you to the 2020 brooklyn book festival online, a little different platform this year but still exciting and still doing what he brooklyn book fair does so well, to bring artists together to talk about their work. Were here today with a great trio of artists and start with dave chisolm, and emei butell and joe sacco. Theres a blinky you, purchase the books so please indulge. I want to tell you but the panel. Its called makers of the road, writing Hidden History and were league to book at three authors skillfully use the graphics medium to investigate the culture of different personalities, creative graphic nonfiction at it best. Lets tart with dave chisolm, chasing the bird, Charlie Parker in california, groundbreaking book that looks into the life and music of really one of the most revered and influencal
The Democratic National convention. This afternoon, my guest is independent senator from vermont , bernie sanders, the former democratic residential candidate, longestserving independent and congressional history. Senator sanders, you spoke monday night. Thank you for being here this afternoon. Sen. Sanders my pleasure, bob. Thanks for having me. Bob senator sanders, your speech, and president obama called President Trump a threat to american democracy. That was a theme running through both of those remarks. Is that breaking through at this convention, that idea . Sen. Sanders well, i truly hope that it is, and not just to the convention but to the American People. Bob, just within the last week alonge, sent out a tweet that said if i, donald trump, lose the election, its because the election is rigged. Now, stop and think for a moment what that means. Hes behind in every national poll. That doesnt mean he cant win. Lose,es saying is if i its not because i really lost the election. Its
A primary focus for those discussions we have a tough so today so lets go and dive right a. Big stimulus this week as the g. O. P. Rolled out their new one trillion dollar Coronavirus Relief package bill on monday Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell unveiled that plan dubbed the heels are. We manage Senate Republicans ministration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal. With what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be good to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars. And weve allocated it in a way that we think makes the most. For the country at this particular time. Already theres a split between Senate Republicans on the bill but next come to go sheesh and what the democrats this is ahead of some looming deadlines all Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer called the relief package totally inadequate perhaps the most controversial is the unemployment a that runs out on friday and Unemployment Ins
The ruthlessness and violence of capitalism and the commodification of a land that to the dentist is not only a living being a sacred joe is unsparing in his reporting documenting the evils imported into the den a culture from the outside that include alcoholism drug use domestic and Sexual Violence and suicide but by the end of the book the reader discovers that this is not only a book about the long efforts to extinguish indigenous communities and Indigenous Culture but it is a book about us about our demonic lust for profit at the cost of human life and ultimately the earth itself joining me from his home in Portland Oregon to discuss paying the land is joe sacco so joe what is it that drew you to this story which youve spent 4 years of your life documenting and telling. Well i wanted to do a book about Climate Change but i wanted to do something that was a little more sort of oblique. And i thought a do it about resource extraction and where resources extraction extract extract its