On Peaceful Protesters in october, killing 12. This comes after cnn aired of military using live ammunition. We will speak to cnns Award Winning Foreign Correspondent nima elbagir about the killings in nigeria, as well as the crisis in ethiopia. Then we to india where an estimated 250 million workers, farmers, and their allies recently participated in what is believed to be the largest organized strike in history. India is my country and delhi is the capital. Im not even allowed to enter. Our Home Movement has been peaceful. Theyre shooting this with Water Cannons. We were also beaten. But no farmers retaliated violently. Amy this comes as Indian Farmers continue to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modis move to deregulate agricultural markets. We will speak to indian journalist p sainath, founder of peoples archive of rural india. We will speak about Narendra Modi and covid in india. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im a
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Greetings everyone we have the distinct pleasure to welcome our to guest today author of the furious sky of the hurricanes in america. Louisiana was blasted this week and our thoughts and goes out to the whole area speaking earlier to say many weeks or months to have trouble with the water system and with shreveport and monroe is still without power. So with jack davis today in conversation with our author who is a professor of history specializing in sustainability studies. The New York Times book review calls it a beautiful homage and with the Pulitzer Prize the notable book for 2017 and several other best of list including washington post, npr and forbes. Welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. We will turn the floor over to jack and lets start the conversation. If people have questions they can bring into the chat room and also to encourage people to have signed copies here at the bookshop they can go to the website we will be happy to ship books for you anywhere in
Everybody in lake charles, we were saying, probably have many weeks if not months of no power, trouble with the water system and even people as far north as shreveport and monroe, still without power. We are here today with jack davis in conversation, a professor of history so specializing in environmental history and sustainability and the author of Pulitzer Prize winning the gulf the making of an american city. New york times book review calls this book a beautiful homage to a neglected in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, notable book for 2017, made several other lists including the Washington Post and npr and forbes. Welcome. A pleasure to have you with us today. I turn the floor to jack and derek and have a conversation. One final thing, people have questions they can write in the chat room and get to the question if not during the talk, at the very end. And encourage people who have signed copies at the bookshop and go to our website, www. Districtbookshop. Com. Give us a call anyw