York university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting women and lowwage workers in
The program hosted by New York University in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting wom
Hi. This is really id like to welcome [inaudible] [inaudible] is that better . I would like to welcome everyone to the turn 11 book launch. We are so happy to be here at the beautiful housing works bookstore in lower manhattan. Our thanks to them for hosting us and a big thanks to the able and helpful staff at harpercollins for having faith in a book and working so hard with us to promote it. [applause] for those of you who havent seen this book yet or dont know what its about, i thought i would read a blurb written about it by glenn ford who is the executive editor of the black agenda report. This will give you a feel of whats coming tonight and whats in the book. The death of capitalism sooner rather than later is a certainty. Transition to socialism the only system that can Save Humanity from the i committed contradictions of its path, officer generalized as to be useless in todays struggles. How does the great human constellation make a break from our particular spaces in the here
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis bestselling writer Nikki Giovanni is one of this countrys most honored poets, commentators, and educators. Her eloquent voice comes through in more than 30 books and as a University Distinguished professor at virginia tech. Her latest collection of poetry and prose is called chasing utopia, but the utopia here is not the one envisioned by thomas more in 1516. Its Something Else entirely different. Well get to that later in this conversation, i suspect. [laughter] first of all, Nikki Giovanni, its always good to have you on this program. Oh, its good to be here, tavis, thank you. Tavis let me start where anyone with good sense would start with you [laughter] and that is by not asking a question but by asking you to read. I guess that is a question. Will you read something for me from the book . I would love it. Tavis all right. I would like to see you cooking. I would like for you to cook for me. I would li
Cspan what does it mean . Guest what it means is thatit refers to a constellation of opinions and views that is not traditionally conservative but is conservative and is certainly not liberal. And since i and others who have been called neoconservatives move from being liberals to being a kind of conservative, then neoconservatism seemed like a pretty good term. Cspan i did some calculations on the 41 different essays you have in the book as to what year they were written. I dont know if youve done this. Guest no. Cspan fortyone pieces, and they were written from the 1940s to the 1990s. The most were written in the 70s18 of the 41. Why would you guess that the ones you chose for this book were written in the 70s . Guest i think its because things, particularly intellectual, political things, intellectual and political ideas, were more in flux in the 1970s than either before or after. I mean, that was the decade of transition, so far as i was concerned. Now in 1968, i still voted for hu