good afternoon. i am the director s. it is a great pleasure and honor to moderate this panel. and really it is a celebration is a wonderful new book. but we are going to do this afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for question and discussion. and we have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion. they will speak in the order that we have determined, but it will begin with a brief presentation of the book s and its main issues in history. she is the director of the center for gender and sexuality off which is wonderful institution that we are happy to collaborate with, and she is the author of wedlock the perils of marriage equality. catherine has been working on marriage, gender justice, transitional justice, issues of gender and race in law, legal theorist, and academic, and activist, a public intellectual an amazing human being. ibeing. i am just so happy to be celebrating
editorial more and reward and in the end instead of six hours we went close to ten hours. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. good afternoon. i am the director of the institute for research on women, gender and sensuality and it is a great pleasure and great honor to be used this afternoon to moderate this panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book, a book on marriage eat quality by catherine frankie. what we are going to do this the afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion. we have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and introduce them all briefly altogether and they will speak in deep water that we determined. it is all going to begin with a presentation of the book end its main issues of history by catherine frankie. she is the professor of law, director of the center for gender and sexual along which is a won
then, to the lobster boat blockade. climate change is one of the latest crises our planet has ever faced. they humble opinion, political leadership on this issue has been gravely lacking. i am heartened that we were able to forge an agreement that both parties were pleased with and that appeared to satisfy the police and those here in sympathy with the individuals who were charged. in a surprise move, the district attorney in massachusetts drops criminal charges against two climate activists who used a lobster boat to block a shipment of 40,000 tons of coal. we will go to austin to speak with the activists and look at one of the greatest controversies in recent emory. protesters scheded at the university of illinois and urbana-champaign today over the school s withdrawal of a job offer to professor steven he posted a series of tweets harshly critical of israel s assault on gaza. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace
why did it take the nfl so long to act? what did the league know and when did it know it? we will speak with sports writer dave zirin. then, to the lobster boat blockade. climate change is one of the latest crises our planet has ever faced. they humble opinion, political leadership on this issue has been gravely lacking. i am heartened that we were able to forge an agreement that both parties were pleased with and that appeared to satisfy the police and those here in sympathy with the individuals who were charged. in a surprise move, the district attorney in massachusetts drops criminal charges against two climate activists who used a lobster boat to block a shipment of 40,000 tons of coal. we will go to austin to speak with the activists and look at one of the greatest controversies in recent emory. protesters scheduled at the university of illinois and urbana-champaign today over the school s withdrawal of a job offer to professor steven he posted a series of tweets har
thousands lined the sidewalks of new york today for a chance to see pope francis as he rolled by in the pope-mobile. but no one wanted to see him more than the parents of this ailing child. they were moved to tears when the pope gave the child his blessing. they re among nearly 20,000 people at madison square garden tonight, where the pope is celebrating mass. and remember this image of the pope yesterday with a very emotional john boehner? it has proven to be prophetic. today, the catholic speaker of the house, the highest ranking republican in the nation, announced that, after praying about it, he is resigning at the end of next month in the middle of his third term as speaker. here s congressional correspondent nancy cordes. i decided, you know, today s the day i m going to do this, as simple as that. reporter: boehner s decision stunned official washington, from the president. i just heard the news as i was coming out of the meeting here. so it took me by surprise.