Resilient is going to be increasingly important because we are going to see more extreme weather events as the result of Climate Change. Deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms. Amy we will spend the hour with new orleans native actor Wendell Pierce, best known for his roles in the wire and treme. Monique harden and journalist. Ary rivlin. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds more people fleeing violence in syria, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, Subsaharan Africa and other regions have reportedly died en route to europe as the world grapples with whats being described the worst migration crisis since world war ii. As many as 200 people may have drowned when a boat headed to Southern Europe sank off the libyan coast thursday. Another boat with 50 people on board also reportedly capsized thursday. Swedish Officials Say they also found the bodies of more than 50 people who died from breat
You, but i think those show of hands give you an idea of what youve accomplished. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you, ginger. [applause] thank you guys so much. Thank you guys so much. If we could just have a round of applause one more time for gyppinger and tom. [applause] and a round of applause for our tremendous, tremendous panelists. [applause] so they will be up here to talk to you, to sign books. The books are up there, obviously, and thank you for coming. Have a beautiful night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] and youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Well, this is the tenth anniversary of the landfall of hurricane katrina, and were going to bring you a series of authors and books discussing that tragedy. At a 5 p. M. Eastern time, roberta talks about the rebuilding of norld of new orleans. Then at 6 30, former governor of mississippi, highwayly haley bad his new book discusses his role during the storm. At 7 30 p. M. Eastern ronnie gr
You, but i think those show of hands give you an idea of what youve accomplished. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you, ginger. [applause] thank you guys so much. Thank you guys so much. If we could just have a round of applause one more time for gyppinger and tom. [applause] and a round of applause for our tremendous, tremendous panelists. [applause] so they will be up here to talk to you, to sign books. The books are up there, obviously, and thank you for coming. Have a beautiful night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] and youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Well, this is the tenth anniversary of the landfall of hurricane katrina, and were going to bring you a series of authors and books discussing that tragedy. At a 5 p. M. Eastern time, roberta talks about the rebuilding of norld of new orleans. Then at 6 30, former governor of mississippi, highwayly haley bad his new book discusses his role during the storm. At 7 30 p. M. Eastern ronnie gr
In it he focuses on events that took place am to the almost to the day almost ten years ago in new orleans. It was only days after Hurricane Katrina had wreaked havoc on the city and its residents, many of whom had lost their possessions, houses, loved ones and hopings. Police also were confronted about their own fears. These two realities collided on september 4, 2005, on the danziger bring and evolved into a decadelong narrative that still has yet to be fully resolved. And its a narrative that has become all too depressingly familiar across our country, from ferguson to Staten Island to baltimore and beyond, the shootings of unarmed black citizens by Police Officers whose actions and attitudes seem to represent a wholly different system of blue on black justice. I wish i could say, ronnie, that your book was neither so timely, nor so urgent, but alas, here we are in 2015 with those shots echoing more loudly than ever. So thank you for continuing to shed light on this really important
He also discussed Climate Change , despite a request by louisiana governor bobby jindal not to do so. Making our communities more resilient is going to be increasingly important because we are going to see more extreme weather events as the result of Climate Change. Deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms. Amy we will spend the hour with new orleans native actor Wendell Pierce, best known for his roles in the wire and treme. Monique harden and journalist. Ary rivlin. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds more people fleeing violence in syria, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, Subsaharan Africa and other regions have reportedly died en route to europe as the world grapples with whats being described the worst migration crisis since world war ii. As many as 200 people may have drowned when a boat headed to Southern Europe sank off the libyan coast thursday. Another boat with 50 people on bo