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And and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers i clike yo thank you. Thank you. Joining me for a conversation tonight for food justice sam polk here in california, ron finley, urban gardner and roy choi, chef and restaurant tourer. You all know roy. Good to have you guys here. It seems to me that across the country there is a growing conversation about what some called food justice. Food justice. You dont like that praihras. It is food injustice. Okay. I go to colleges and talking about people, who works in food justice. No, you dont, you work into food injustice. Lets call it what it is. I am glad you jumped in. What i was going with that is some people dont even call it food justice, they call it food par tie. It is not a natural ecosystem, it is a manmade segregated problems where people are having more and other communities having less. What i want to start is whats happen ng the country thats causing the conversation about food justice or injustice, to be so dynamic and
Hands by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome doug jones back this to program, the former federal prosecutor is the democratic nominee for the senate seat in alabama as if you didnt know, he joins us tonight from birmingham, doug jones its always good have you on this program. Always great to be with you, tavis, thanks for having me. Let me start with this tweet that everybody saw hours ago from president donald trump. I read, and i quote, the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate is a Schumer Pelosi puppet who is weak on crime, weak on the border, bad for our military and our great vets, bad for our second amendment, and wants to raise taxes to the sky, that is the tweet from President Trump about you, doug jones, what do you have to say . Well, you know, tavis, weve been focussing on both my record and what im saying. And if you look at my record, and you know, you know my record, tavis, you know what my record is as a
And by contributions to your pbs station viewers like you. Thank you. Please to welcome Maria Shriver for this program. Youve been on a mission to wipe out alzheimers disease which effects people from all walks of life but disproportionately impacts women. Thank you for having me here. Tell me about the genesis of your work on this issue. My father, Sergeant Shriver was diagnosed in 2003 and he was as ive said many times, the smartest human being id ever met, the most finely tuned brain of any person id ever seen and everybody who knew him would agree with that and so watch that up close, to watch someone lose their mind, to lose their ability to know what a fork or a spoon or even who you are, its really an incredible experience to go through. So i started as any journalist would asking questions trying to understand what was happening in our family but also in my fathers mind, in his brain and to try to understand it myself and then try to do something about it. Couple questions come
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome back robert reich to this program. The former labor secretary from the clinton years is now a Public Policy professor at berkeley. His most recent text, saving capitalism, is the basis for a documentary on netflix with the same name. Were on the way to becoming a twotiered society, composed of a few winners and a larger group of americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment is easily manipulated. Once unbottled, mass resentments can poison the very fabric of society, the moral integrity of a society. Replacing ambition with envy, replacing tolerance with hate. Secretary reich, great to have you on the program. Let me ask you to tell me more about saving capitalism. Tavis, the real point of the film and also of the book is that youve got huge amounts of money coming from big corporations, wall street, and wealthy individuals flooding our political system and getting a lot of benefits in ter