Good to see you. Cant wait to talk to you about all of those things. What kind of a grade would you give on the direct listing yesterday . I would give it an a. It didnt have the wild volatility or a huge amount of money left on the table that traditional ipos have. I think it was a pretty good day for direct listings. Spencer, good morning, you took zillow public nearly a decade ago if you had to do that again with a company, that is the same, would you do Something Else . I would either do a dreskt listingov or a spac merger. They dont allow the company to leave money on the table we went public at 20 a share. We closed at 37. So we lost a lot of money on the table for an ipo so i think that there is a lot of innovation in the ipo space since a decade ago when zillow went public and i think there is now great alternatives available. Its julia here we look forward to sees what you do with your speak a question for you now that it is a public company. We have seen so many of the Public
Himself and a great author and you know thinker who explores ideas and is willing to be challenged just like david graber was wrote David Greenberger he was a real intellectual very real not one fake cell in his brain not one fake bone in his body he thought independently he was monstrously original he had intellectual courage the world seems much smaller today than before september 2nd david rest in peace yeah he is a intellectual giant i guess you could say that era and wrote about death he took a point of view which i guess would some would say would be anticapitalist in a lot of ways and he explored that vigorously i remember a very long walks with him through the city of london and he would reveal his extraordinary sense of humor hes a very very funny guy as most highly intelligent people are they do. Who are capable of it its not always what david graber would want to show because hes known as a public intellectual so you dont want to show that side of yourself too much but priva
To see this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city i was standing nation and for the world what does that mean for ill get on to abolitionists as regards the Prison Industrial Complex and the police but obviously the f. B. I. Targeted you set in media circles people know about watergate do you think itll take a lot longer to know about cointelpro well increasing numbers of people are aware. The extent to which show the government attempt it to wipe out all of those who were resisting those who actually represented the possible future of democracy in this country it usually takes a very long. Long time for radical change to begin to be made but then on the other hand there are moments such as the current conjunct show were bringing together. A range of struggles a r
Angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argued that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the son ginny against climate inju
We begin tonight with that dire new death toll. The tally of those reported killed by the coronavirus in the u. S. Has reached 1,500 people in just one day. Thats a number we havent seen since may when much of the country was still locked down. Tonight, the nations Infectious Disease doctor says hes not ectious with stopping the virus, saying the pandemic has become too partisan. Today, the head of the c. D. C. Warns things will only get worse this fall when the country will be battling both covid19 and te flu. Attempting to show how their administration would be different than the one currently in office, joe biden, the Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee, and his new running mate, senator kamala harris, are calling for a nationwide mask mandate. They say the governors of all 50 states should require face eeverings for the next three months to stop the months to stop the spread. Moment ago, President Trump rejected that idea, though he did urge americans to wear masks when ap