party files suit in ohio, arizona, nevada, and pennsylvania alleging donald trump s campaign and the republican party are conspiring to threaten and intimidate voters on election day in violation of the voting rights act and the 1871 ku klux klan act. we will speak to carol anderson, author white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide. plus, we look at morocco where thousands have taken to the streets after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. and we will go to iceland where the pirate party made big gains in sunday s national elections. change the system so they become more functional and more humane towards the people that need to live by them. and make a we will speak with birgitta jonsdottir, who cofounded the pirate party of iceland. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. in election news, controversy continues to swirl
i think the title was the archetypal world of henry moore and he sent me a copy, which he asked me to read. but after the first chapter i thought i better stop because it explained too much. and i thought it might stop me from ticking over if i went on and knew it all. (narrator) moore was english to the bone, he carved his reputation in english elm and boxwood, cumberland alabaster, and portland stone. when his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. for all its rain and taxes it w h and he cleared a new path for english art. (anthony caro) you look at the history of english art, and it s pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. you know, he was in that same league. and so it made people realize you can be an artist - and you can be english. (narrator) sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussaud s. other celebr
when his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. for all its rain and taxes it was h and he cleared a new path for english art. (anthony caro) you look at the history of english art, and it s pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. you know, he was in that same league. and so it made people realize you can be an artist - and you can be english. (narrator) sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussaud s. other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. (dorothy kosinski) i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artist s sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame? (narrator) henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. his career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to
Congress House, which is the headquarters of TUC, was a familiar landmark but now it is up for sale and staff at the national trade union centre now face an uncertain future