their book free speech and why you should give a damn . the national archives hosted this event and provided the video. many thanks to everyone at the national archives for hosting this event. as someone who obviously reveres the ideals that are reflected in our nation s founding documents, which we ve been working hard to approach in reality, the national archives for me is one of the most moving, inspiring places in the world and it s a great setting for this great book, because john and signe s book brilliantly transmits our ideals to a younger generation, inspiring them to continue the enduring efforts to translate those ideals into present-day realities for everyone. so i m going to start with you, john. why did you write the book? who are your ideal readers? what message do you want to convey? the real reason i wrote the book is signe emailed me and asked me to write it. when you get an email from her, you act, when you re talking about one of the greatest cartooni
from gaston, where the taliban now control the whole i ve got capital except for the airport. well, these are recent pictures from that location or a vacuum at the currently on the way. thousands of people from the terminals in parking lot in desperate search of flights out with gunshots occasionally heard at the scene. i mean one insurgents, i ve seen the presidential palace in the afghan capital president should have gone leaving the country and resigning a ton about now says that the afghan war is over. it will soon declare and islamic amorous of dentist on representative of the group still seen as a terrorist organization by many states, has already addressed the nation, was what it would be in jersey. how was i m going to diplomatic institutions that function properly for the past 20 years should continue to function as a representative of the afghan people, i ask you to continue your work and to establish diplomatic relations with the afghan people. the process of power
restrictions in france today with thousands turning out in paris for the 5th consecutive week. ah, parking lot from our studio here in moscow. this is art international and whether you re watching from wisconsin or interlocking in michigan, we re glad heavy with us. but we start this hour with breaking news. at least 20 people are reporting dead. and 7 more are understood to have been injured in a gas tanker explosion in northern lebanon. now the red cross has been deployed to the area to transport burn victims, both dead and wounded to local hospitals. and a number of people are understood to be missing as well. the cause of the blast is as of yet unknown. the country recently marked the one year anniversary of another explosion at the capitals port in bay route, in which $2800.00 people died. it was by the countries worst economic crisis in decades was hardened by fuel shortages. the military stepped into confiscated, hoarded gas, and several fuel tankers were seized by peo
either propaganda or let s say, hey speech, how would you personally go about separating all those things? it s important to make some distinctions just because i believe in the right to free speech. doesn t mean that i agree with all speech and doesn t mean i endorse it. i endorse the really just people to say what they think. that doesn t mean i agree with what they think and often they don t. i m sorry, often i don t. so you medicine have speech. he speaks is protected in the united states were protected. mean says that the court said that the constitutional wow speak the say he thinks i agree with that. but i also believe in raising one s voice against hateful speech. so i both believe that it will be, should be allowed and the people of good will should release their voices against it, which is itself a form of free speech. so the question is whether the state should be in the business of regulating and i don t believe it should be. so in this context what that 3 is refe
thank you. it s good to be here. now let s start with, i m sure, purposefully ad g, the title of your book. why should anyone and specifically, why should any american give a damn about free speech? well, i think the reason they should give a damn it is that every great movement for social justice, every great campaign to fight oppression in history, the 9 states was powered upon and depended upon free speech. that s really why we wrote the book to remind people about the radical uses in the radical potential of free speech. unfortunately, in my view, free speech and course the united states has now been coded as a conservative value. and i find this ridiculous and a historic and the reason we wrote the book and the reason that you should get down is that if you want to make anything better in america, you need free speech. and every campaign to do that has relied on, i think, not only in this part of the world, but also many americans. i see free speech as something that is