Nice and i know i say it a lot, but it was, it designed wardrobes was designed from day one to disrupt and destroy minority and activist community. And for anyone whose brain is functioning so poorly, that you now think to yourself, well, back to this, the minority didnt do drugs, then they would be locked up. But the numbers show that those groups partake in drugs at the same percentages as almost every other group of people and a lot less than investment bankers. The problem is that our police choose to enforce ridiculous drug laws, specifically against certain groups of people. Its like jay walking or driving over the speed limit. Everyone does it only some of the time you know of your year later youre borrowing a friends car and you want to see how fast it can go. Or you, you have somebody tied up in the trunk and you want to see if you, if you go over the speed bump at 75 miles an hour, whether you can get it had to bang on the inside of the trunk and then hell yell out in that wh
Promote them to vote. What we want is for the elected president to help us get peace back. So we can go back home safely. Hello, im christie. Its good to have your company. The number off coronavirus cases in africa has surpassed 2000000. 00, including 48000. 00, deaths, africas infections and deaths make up less than 4 percent off the global total. But the World Health Organization has warned the continent is heading toward a 2nd wave of infections. Africa has not experienced covered 19 infections on the scale that experts had predicted. But the threat of a new wave has raised fears that the continent is not out of the woods. Yet. 20 countries have had coronavirus spikes in the past month. And thats for a range of reasons in most of the affected african countries, the rise in new cases is coming from workplaces and family gatherings. And of course, we know that there are several political elections coming up in a number of countries campaigns going on and gatherings as far as is conce
Of tireless hours of work of activists and protesters and organizers. And no, no, im not talking about the fact that i finally did the wounded peacock yoga pose. But i did. It might have yet to unfurl. Ok, im lying. I didnt do the wounded peacock because i dont know what the wounded peacock is because i dont do yoga and i dont not do yoga out of some toxic masculinity belief that men shouldnt be in unit charge with their feet behind their head. I dont do it because i dont want to talk to people about yoga. Thats the main reason. Anyway, there was a Seismic Shift in this country that played out in this election, and its only barely being talked about in every single state where some aspect of the drug war was on the ballot. The people, the voters, the human beings on these things voted to legalize, or decriminalize drugs in every single one montana legalize marijuana. South dakota legalize marijuana, mississippi, legalized medical marijuana, or again, decriminalized all drugs, arizona l
A rather difficult information to digest and what about the rest of Europe Nicole how is that pandemic evolving in other European Countries while at the moment it seems like were seeing new hotspots by the day whether its be the belgium or the Czech Republic the netherlands germany has reached almost 15000. 00 cases just guess that they which is a new high also but germany that has done quite well it to me is now closing cinemark and theaters again and this putting them curfew from 6 so you can see that europe is quiet like the virus is quite active in europe and it looks like a long winter for each of us who live in this area really indeed and we could be seeing additional restrictions also another European Countries cynical or is thank you very much indeed for your reporting. Voting is underway in chile in a historic referendum on whether to keep or toss out the current constitution which was created during the military dictatorship of augusta pinochet voters are deciding whether it
Cornell University History professor or Lawrence Glick man describes the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new. Deal hes a professor of american studies in that department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise in 2019, he has written four other books. He writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] the Boston Review and dissent with his articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for the behindthescenes work and pete, eric, and christian and all organizations that make this possible. Thank you to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience. No historian works alone. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and i would like to begin by mentioning the many scholars whose work helped me identify Free Enterprise as a topic worth exploring. I ha