You at the next event. Thank you pj. Book tv continues on cspan two television for serious readers. Good evening good afternoon we know we had people here all over the world. Greetings, welcome. The Elliott Bay Book company. On behalf of all of the people who are staging this production today we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of Arundhati Roys new book azadi. This is been published and launched with her in new delhi. In the evening hours. I am in seattle where it is still a new day. All of you joining us everywhere around the spectrum. May even be earlier in the morning. The publication was the suspicious one. First to acknowledge all of the books publisher. In publishing this book. Haymarket is published based in chicago in the u. S. Its been around since 2001. And dedicated to social justice books. They have come around for on for the past 20 years. You can certainly got it haymarket books. Org. They are huge part of this. It is a south asian arts organization. It wa
Before class. I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . Do you want to do that . Okay. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weaner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, his functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to penn and wharton in law school where we also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant. Came home really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy, and i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him. Because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysberg address, or he would quote from shakespeare, but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was about five years old
I dont know if the individual has the courage to ask that question. Is that possible . You want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. Really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy. And i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle of the bulge when i was five years old. I know the differences in the airplanes, all
Glad to see all of you here tonight. We had one burning question before class. I dont know if the individual has the courage, who asked that question. Is that possible . Do you want to do that . Ok. All right. I asked if that picture was you. Well, its part of me. This is Maurice Jacob weiner, my father. And this lecture is in honor of him. My grandmother, his mother, was functionally illiterate in english. Spoke yiddish. Never really learned the language. He graduated third in his class in high school and won a scholarship to law school where he also boxed and ran track. He was drafted at age 35 when my mom was pregnant, came home. Really didnt mind the war. Now, he was a nifty guy. And i think one of the main reasons im doing this tonight is because of him, because he used to have me sit while he shaved every morning, which was quite a scene. And he would quote the gettysburg address or quote from shakespeare but above all, he would talk about world war ii. So i knew about the battle
Where a lot of and he wasnt necessarily pro, nor was billyson, by the way bill dyson, who told me he didnt know why we were in vietnam, but they were very much against the antipatriotism. Where am i on questions, answering [laughter] we have time for one more. Okay, one more. I guess i just wanted to say i think its important to remember that it took very, very little to provoke the fbi. I was with a tax resistor. I mean, i was just a nobody, but i decided i would not pay my telephone tax. So i closed my bank accounts, and i wrote a letter to the, you know, telephone company, the irs every month and why did you do that . Because the telephone tax had been approved specifically to fund the war. Okay. And, you know, i was a woman. My boyfriend was a conscientious objector, i felt there wasnt quite so much that a woman could do. But that provoked visits from the fbi. I mean that tiny little thing from a nobody had my, meant that my landlord was visited, you know, i was visited, and my fat