Fundamentals to keep us a safe rather than investing in prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters, first tonights program to enable the live captioning click your caption closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I also want to invite all of you to share your questions to route the program we will take them towards the end and you can do that by typing them into the q a box which is also the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading prison by any other name we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue in brooklyn and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanities new york which has played an Important Role in funding tonights program with support from the National Endowment for humanities and finally i want to encourage you to come to future will virtual conversations. This week on wednesday we are hosting jesse New Yor
Africa, california, london, portland oregon, germany, minneapolis and florida among other places around the world. I just want to thank you so much for being here. My name is nisha bolsey im a writer and editor for haymarket books. Im coming to you from occupied land of the confederacy, pottawatomie nations, and we want to acknowledge the original keepers of the lands that were on and Indigenous People today and for their struggle for sovereignty and selfdetermination. And i want to thank the organizer of this, haymarket books. Now more than ever its critical that we support independent publishers and book stores. You can do that in three ways, first buy books from haymarkets and others directly and joining the book club and third if youre in a position to make a donation, no matter how small, via venmo there will be information to do this and we appreciate any donations. The video, this video will be recorded and afterwards it will be shared on haymarket books Youtube Channel. Please
But i dont capitalism obtains that people are disposed it seems to me. The way it stands out. Racial capitalism is what it is. That doesnt preclude the possibility of a local Racial Coalition to strike a blow to what capitalism is, the contradiction is in full view, the last 40 or 50 years in reaganism, a deal bankrupt. All of the contradictions are in full view so part of what we are seeing in the streets, young folk who have come of age and the age of catastrophe your accumulated grief, protesting over police brutality, use your kind of solidarity and vulnerability the pandemic has generated but the judgment underneath it, the countries broke, we see all these groups and coalitions out in the streets risking their lives. I believe in the possibility of multiRacial Coalition. Weve got to have solidarity and coalitions based beginning people of color. And the treatment of indigenous people. And a democratic experiment. Within the bowels of the empire itself. And unapologetic about figh
In the Company Canteen or something but as you know im a big fan of yours and a huge fan of your first book on google, now to come back at this particular moment and talk about facebook, the inside story couldnt be more timely and am going to start off we have lots of places to go with this, im going to start off with something timely, as we came to do the show you heard about the hacking of twitter the fact that trump is going to facebook to get the message out, facebook has had a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact checked the president. Kalisher take on this, what is this relationship between facebook and the white house between facebook and free speech, im gonna throw your big question along to off. Thank you for doing this now and its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things, you cannot tease that one problem of facebook from the sea dna in its origins in the case of tru
Bronx, cape town, south africa, california, london, portland, oregon, germany, minneapolis and florida among other places around the world. Just want to thank you again so much for being here. My name is nisha bosley, im a writer and editor at haymarket books and honored to be hosting todays conversation. Im coming to you from the occupied lands of the state confederacy and pottawattamie nation. On behalf of everyone involved in the event, we want to acknowledge the keepers of the land and the Indigenous People living here today as we assumede theyll be ready with their sovereignty and their situation. Before i introduce doctor benjamin and doctor roberts, now more than ever it is critical that we support independent publishers and independent bookstores. We can do this in three ways. First buying books from haymarket and others directly, second by joining the club, and third if you were in a position to make a donation, no matter how small, there will be a card on the screen about how