Hall seattle and we are set up in the cafc right over here and our special guest tonight is you know howard, theyve been set up in the library showing off really cool mask games and im so excited to welcome you to tonights very special math theme doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This event is presented by townhall as sort of our big homecoming festival. Im hoping many of you might be returning for the first time after a couple of years while weve been remodeling the space and for a lot of you this might be your first time at town hall. This is the type of things we exist to do. Im excitedto present these fantastic authors tonight. We love all our lecture programs, all the political costs, all of the art programming that we do but i am especially fascinated by mass, mathematical approaches to thinking. Im a reformed college math student so having a chance to present Eugenia Cheng who we posted and a couple of times and Amir Alexander as a doubleheader was a great oppo
September 20. Amy is millions of students plan to walk out friday in a Global Climate strike, we spend the hour with naomi klein, author of the new book on fire the case for a Green New Deal. Growing climatehe crisis and once the globe is fafacing the beginning of climae barbarism. We sometimes talk about how governments are not responding, particularly like the Trump Administration. But the truth is we are seeing a response to ththe climate crisi. We are seeing climate adaptation, and it is taking the form of borders, the form of rising white supremacy, natitionalism of all kinds thats actually using fears of resource scarcity to fuel this agenda. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iran has rejected possible talks with thehe United States as tensions between the two countries continue to mount following weekend drone attacks on major Oil Facilities in saudi arabia. T
September 20. Amy is millions of students plan to walk out friday in a Global Climate strike, we spend the hour with naomi klein, author of the new book on fire the case for a Green New Deal. Growing climatehe crisis and once the globe is fafacing the beginning of climae barbarism. We sometimes talk about how governments are not responding, particularly like the Trump Administration. But the truth is we are seeing a response to ththe climate crisi. We are seeing climate adaptation, and it is taking the form of borders, the form of rising white supremacy, natitionalism of all kinds thats actually using fears of resource scarcity to fuel this agenda. Amy today, naomi klein for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iran has rejected possible talks with thehe United States as tensions between the two countries continue to mount following weekend drone attacks on major Oil Facilities in saudi arabia. T
Made their lives suck down there youve got to take out a loan to get a can of soup but as long as their government is pillaging the people of on doors appropriately our government is cool with it. Lets move on to the tiny country of brazil which. Happens to be the 5th largest come country in the world which makes it the largest of the countries americans dont care about that recently a nationwide strike called by brazils trade unions disrupted public transport and triggered roadblocks ahead of protests against far right president balls and pension reform an estimated 45000000 workers had taken part in the strike 45000000 people shut down brazil can you imagine getting 45000000 americans to agree on and he said thank. You good to get that many do agree that sneezing and farting at the same time is unacceptable during a p. No recital. But this is not a story your Corporate Media will cover because its not good for the fascist president we support down there and be it might make American
Id ask each of the witnesses for the second panel to please take your seats. I apologize for that delay. We went through the three votes we had. We will now begin the second panel of five witnesses. Each witness will have a fiveminute Opening Statement followed by rounds of questions. Our first witness is Mister Dennis prager. Dennis prager is a bestselling author, columnist, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and also the cofounder of Prager University, an institution of Higher Learning on the internet which produces fiveminute videos in which experts distill complex topics in political science, history, philosophy, economics and psychology. Mister prager was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the us delegation to the vienna review conference on the helsinki accords. He was also appointed by george w. Bush to the us Holocaust Memorial council. Our second witness is facing kint, ceo of Digital Content, a trade association that serves the unique needs of Digital Content companies. Be