Microphone located on the side of the room. Now it is my pleasure to introduce the authors for this session, Shelia Collins and Trudy Schaffner Goldberg. The book when government helped learning from the successes and failures of the new deal provides a rich portrait of policies and programs with a new deal with special attention directed to the impact of the powerful social movements on social reform. And Trudy Schaffner Goldberg is professor america of social polity and a Delphi University where she directed the phd program. She is cochair of the columbia seminar on full employment and social welfare and cofounder and chair of the National Jobs for all coalitions which advocate the 21st century vision of the innovative Jobs Creation programs of the new deal. Sheila collins is professor of Political Science and former director of the graduate program in Public Policy and International Affairs at Williams Paterson university. The coauthor of six books and numerous book chapters and an
The starting opinion of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence from which we all suffer. Its evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, and the bp blowup and oil spill, worse environmental disaster in the nations history, and numerous food safety crises and disasters that killed dozens rue teenly, and the new england Compounding Pharmacy scandal, and washingplace safety and Health Issues that arise at workplaces across the country daily, and much more. You have to step back and say we as country dont do a very good job of dealing with these problems, and one marker is they persist over long periods of time. So we have an issue how we set the rules for what is permissible for corporations to do. When we say, no, you cant imperil human life you cant 2013 the environment you cant rip us off. We dont do a good job of setting the rules. The rules we have, we have to have some kind of enforcement system, insp
Provides rich portrait of policies with new deal with special attention directed to relevance, impact on social movement and president roosevelt position. The author or editor of seven books. She is professor where she directed ph. D program in social work. Shes cochair and cofounder in the National Jobs coalition. Sheila colins is professor of Political Science and director of Public Policy in international affairs. Shes the author or coauthor of six books. She cochairs the colombian seminar and the seminar on globalization, labor and popular struggles. Please join me in welcoming to the Roosevelt Community festival. Thank you very much. Im going ton begin from quoting from roosevelt, unfortunately a catastrophe seems to be necessary in ideals and government and proper relationship to its citizens. Of course, its more unfortunate that it doesnt happen. The crisis of 2008 seemed to us similar kind of opportunity and sheila and i hoped that perhaps we would be able to take stock and to
Inside the city stadium which i saw had turned into a huge prison for anyone who oppose their rule. Reports. Kurdish fighters triumphantly into right there celebrating the capture of the city which was a main stronghold in syria but taking. Wasnt easy for. The Syrian Democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u. S. Began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling but. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to safe areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. I heard the news of a cease fire and took my family but then we c
Fifty thousand refugees refugees have arrived in baghdad theyre sure that just since saturday its the bangladeshi authorities to speed up its vetting process the refugees are stranded on the bangladeshi side. Are crossing every hour from daybreak b. And while the u. S. Says they need to be moved further inland to safety and to better conditions our correspondent. Has travelled to a refugee camp bob the border with me about to see first hand what conditions are like. A list ten to fifteen thousand people are stranded here in no mans land what is called zero line between myanmar and bangladesh brought out this area. This babe will have fled me on my within the last two days that been stranded you have and has no safety to go to most of the people are exposed to whether majority are women and children or elderly people that the government has given permission to some of the aid agencies to bring Critical Care medicine and food but the idea theyre still taking shelter in the pedophile and