[applause] good morning Everyone Welcome to scranton pennsylvania my name is rosemary boland. I am a teacher and president of the scranton teachers local. [applause] thank you for that. Thats not usually how i am greeted. [laughter] i would like to say i am a member of the American Federation of teachers perform on the executive board of the American Federation of teachers pennsylvania and Vice President of the aflcio pennsylvania so that tells you who i am. [applause] i am extremely proud and honored i was asked to do this introduction this morning. Im just a teacher from the south side of pennsylvania of south scranton and i am honored that this happened to me. I taught ten and 11 yearolds that these things could happen but i didnt think they would happen to me. [laughter] so the fact we are here and i can speak with you this morning is truly amazing to me. I like to say how much i am appreciative that joe biden entered this race. [applause] not just because he is friendly but becaus
Please welcome rosemary boland. [applause] good morning Everyone Welcome to scranton pennsylvania my name is rosemary boland. I am a teacher and president of the scranton teachers local. [applause] thank you for that. Thats not usually how i am greeted. [laughter] i would like to say i am a member of the American Federation of teachers perform on the executive board of the American Federation of teachers pennsylvania and Vice President of the aflcio pennsylvania so that tells you who i am. [applause] i am extremely proud and honored i was asked to do this introduction this morning. Im just a teacher from the south side of pennsylvania of south scranton and i am honored that this happened to me. I taught ten and 11 yearolds that these things could happen but i didnt think they would happen to me. [laughter] so the fact we are here and i can speak with you this morning is truly amazing to me. I like to say how much i am appreciative that joe biden entered this race. [applause] not just b
Will commute this afternoon i am live in alexander i am chair of humanities tennessee board of directors. We are very glad we are here at this festival today. The festival is free but it depends on donations from people like you to keep it that way. If you know enjoying the festival, and you enjoy the session and you have a chance, if you look at our website, our facebook page, the app or go by the tenth in the plaza, we would love to have you help support the festival. After the session, paul will be signing books at the signing tent that is on the plaza and the books are for sale at the parnassus tent and a portion of those to sales go directly to the festival. We are here today, to hear paul talk about his latest book. He has published numerous works of fiction. In 1991, he was awarded the james black memorial prize. This was for his work the Mosquito Coast which was adapted into a movie in 1986. After moving to london in 1972, he said often in epic journey by train from Great Brita
John delaney, senator cory booker, senator michael, marianne williamson, and the husband of senator Amy Klobuchar met voters. Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming air this morning. Im the chair of the National Democratic city committee. Thank you. This is one of those weekends where i think most folks in this room realize how lucky we are to be democrats here in New Hampshire and the special place we have with the first in the nation primary. Fantastic convention yesterday which i know many of you are part of. And it is just going to keep rolling between now and the first time mary in febrile. Have a long program this morning, great program, we are very fortunate. A lot of the candidates realize that if you want to win New Hampshire, you have to win nashua. Have a lot of people who are coming through. Before we hear from congressman john delaney, i want to think sponsors for todays event, we to help fundunds arming biggest bolt elections, our campaign for our need is for electio
[applause] thank you all for coming. Thanks to cspan and its important audience as well, my new book, the rise and fall of peace on earth, revolves around a particular question. The question is, what are the prospects for peace . That is a timely question at any point and i will give my answer in the course of my remarks but it does presuppose, another question not often asked but one that is also relevant to the book. That question is, what do we mean by peace . How do you define peace . The obvious definition is, peace is the absence of war. Thats always welcome but its not very rigorous. After all, the world hasnt spent its entire existence in a continual war. War isnt continual if its episodic. So i propose a somewhat regulation or deep peace. As the absence not only of war but of the eminent threat of war. Emergent preparations for war. Its the absence of Foreign Policy conducted under the cloud of war. That is an unusual circumstance. Indeed by my reckoning as i see in the book w