On sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the Political Advocacy Group code pink on in depth, our live monthly callin show. Shes the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. Other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cubas use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. Her other books cover topics such as how to aid People Living this the third world profiles of Inspiring Women and further examinations of cuba. Media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. And you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook. Com booktv, on twitter booktv or call in. Ginger adams otis talks about the 100year struggle to integrate the new York City Fire department which continues today. The fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000. During this event held
Thats one of the breaks. Every brick in the home was a hand cut piece of italian marble the wealth and saddams personal home was unbelievable and so one day as i walked by it was getting late at the mission and i knew we were going to be going home before too long. Host you talk about the crystal. What are the rules of taking Something Like that . Guest the rules largely where we gave specific instructions to our soldiers that anything that was museum related antiquities anything like that was absolutely handsoff. Armed combatants and enemies that you fight are different story. We brought back uniforms. I have a uniform of saddams one of only two that im aware of in the country. On display at the Oklahoma History center in a hama city. I think the other one is on display in florida. Im not aware of any others. I have a lot of other interesting things but they were all related to the people we were fighting in a wizardly chew that we are fighting saddam and his henchmen during the hunt.
Year from 2003 to 2004. Host what month of 2003 . Guest i got there in may and i left in april. Host why do you refer to to the special ops guys as guest many of these guys are still serving and i dont want to give away their identities. Some i was able to on the conventional side. The folks on the unconventional side have been respectful to them and they have been respectful to me. The book really tells that relationship between the conventional and unconventional and how we operate together and it wasnt necessarily by design. Like i said it was by geography and we worked very well and closely together. Host congressman russell you recount in we got him your conversation with paul wolfowitz. What did you tell him . Guest well he came to look at some of the afghan training efforts. Secretary rumsfeld have asked that we train the iraqi army. I have had great experience in that area was training the Afghan National army and was on the initial mission of that in february 2002 very early o
Fighting for change. Im natasha brown, thank you for joining us, gunfire erupted at the feltonville club. One man is dead and two others are recovering, Alicia Nieves is tracking the latest from the case for us. Alicia. Reporter well, natasha, tonight please say this morning shooting at the night club and lounge stems from argument involving a two men and Security Guard. People familiar with the lounge say this is not the first time Something Like this happened there and in fact some refer to it as essentially hot bed for homicide. Two men are in the hospital and one man is dead. People need to know the amount of homicides happening at the a lounge its a death trap for people that could go in there. Its the fourth homicide weve covered there in recent years and there was one a few months ago zone athis one in january of 2015 claimed the life of 34yearold alejandro rohas garcia. Day my son was murdered i woke up that morning and was given the news and today i woke up again and heard tha
Which is getting the best possible education for your kids. But we will see. People disagree. We have time for one more question. That was good a good one to end on. Thanks. [applause] she will stay for a few more minutes if anyone wants to ask a question personally. Thank you so much for coming today. You are watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. This land is your land, this land is my land from california to the new york eye lens from the redwood forests, to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you in the a note of welcome to tulsa, oklahoma on booktv. Locator on the arkansas there its the second largest city in the state with a population of almost 400,000 in the early 20th century it thrived as old town oil town. With help of our documentation cable partner we learn about its history and literary scene from local authors. We begin our special feature on tulsa with oil magnate Frank Phillips and the founding of