Poverty in america and the role that evictions play in those on the spiral of the downward edge. And it drawn comparisons to behind the beautiful forever is another powerful work in immersion reporting about party. The New York Times has called this an extensively researched vividly realized and above all all book adding that after evicted it will no longer be possible to have a serious discussion about poverty without having a serious discussion about housing. Desmond is the winner of a 2015 macarthur genius grant. He is also the author of several other books including on the fire line in which he chronicles the experiences of a fire crew in Northern Arizona or he is currently the john l. Loeb associate professor of social sciences at harvard and hes the codirector of the justice for poverty. Please help me in welcoming matthew desmond. [applause] you get the nice chair. Thats how works. If such an honored to be here in this bookstore which is so special to the city and special to peo
Open up space for Political Action on Climate Change. Amy students, professors and alumni are continuing to blockade key Administrative Offices at harvard. Well get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers in the United States have staged their largest action to date, with some 60,000 workers walking off the job in over 200 cities to demand a 15anhour minimum wage. The actions got together fast food workers, childcare providers walmart clerks , adjunct professors and airport workers to demand wage increases and the right to unionize. Organizers staged the action on tax day to highlight the cost to taxpayers of supporting workers who are underpaid. A new study says low wages are forcing working families to rely on more than 150 billion in public assistance. Well have more on the historic protests after headlines. In iraq the selfproclaimed , Islamic State has gained new ground claimi
Fast track authority to negotiate the tpp, the Trans Pacific partnership . We will speak to florida congressman alan grayson and lori wallach of public citizen. Then to heat week at harvard. We are divest harvard. Students, faculty alumni on hover to divest from fossil fuel companies. Open up space for Political Action on Climate Change. Amy students, professors and alumni are continuing to blockade key Administrative Offices at harvard. Well get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers in the United States have staged their largest action to date, with some 60,000 workers walking off the job in over 200 cities to demand a 15anhour minimum wage. The actions got together fast food workers, childcare providers walmart clerks , adjunct professors and airport workers to demand wage increases and the right to unionize. Organizers staged the action on tax day to highlight the cost to taxp
Using its 32 billion endowment to invest in firms fueling, change. Then, years of living dangerously. Everybody thinks Climate Change is about polar bears and melting glaciers. I think it is a big mistake. This is 100 of peoples story. Film maker James Cameron and other hollywood superstars like don cheadle, matt damon, and Harrison Ford have collaborated on a new series looking at the devastating impact of Climate Change around the world. Finally, imagine living in a socialist usa. People are completely ignorant about what socialism really is. Isy are just told that it evil, that it is antidemocratic. And i thought, we really need to tell them the truth. We will speak with editors Frances Goldin and michael smith. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A secret Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the cias torture program questions the programs underlying Legal Framework and accuses the agency of impeding
We can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons. Were telling them right now that were coming in very soon, the national guard, a lot of people, a lot of very tough people. Thats where real courage comes from. Not from turning on each other, but by turning towards one another. Not by sowing hatred and division, but by spreading love and truth. And were telling right now these protesters, and many should be arrested because these are professional agitators, professional anarchists, these are people that hate our country. So theres a tell of the tape between the 45th president of the United States and the 44th president of the United States. You know, there were some sad, pathetic tools of donald trump who still shamelessly defend absolutely everything he does and think if theyre over the top and bombastic in the attacks against people that tell the truth to you that somehow that will discourage others from telling the truth about donald trump and whats go