Rachels work has covered a period of topics and she has reported extensively on the activity of the altright and their supporters. Rachel will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. Please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. As he said my name is rachel and im an Investigative Reporter with the Southern Poverty Law Center and i want to thank all of you coming out here in sporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute to tell you some of the specifics. We do three things. Seeking justice, fighting hate, teaching tolerance. The first and the third of those things weve got lawyers and legal staff that are much more talented than myself that do litigation on civil rights work all of the south and the rest of the country. Teaching tolerance staff introduces materials for educators so that they can promote diversity and inclusion in the classroom. What i do and what dave does i
Years and counting. It is my pleasure to introduce rachel Investigative Reporter and frequent contributor to spl center. Org journalism sector. Her wor work has covered a myrif topics and she has reported extensively on the activities of the altamerican and their supporters. She will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. So please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. My name is rachel and i manage Investigative Reporter for the wall center and i want to thank all of you for coming out and supporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute in case you dont know the specifics of what we do. Seeking justice, fighting hate and teaching tolerance. The first, seeking justice we have lawyers and legal staff that are more talented than myself but do litigation on civil rights work all over the south and all over the rest of the come trade and Teaching Staff they produce material fo
The political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause weve ever had in the political system disintegrated. Have three people to talk about this. We have tried to mix the generations. Comment. State general we like to mix the generations. We dont want everyone as old as me. Our first speaker will be pamela brand line. She holds a professorship in Political Science at the university of michigan. She has also taught at ut austin. Historians andof social scientist to. She is the author of two important books. Rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. A title long before the age of trump. That was a slip, i didnt mean that. Honestly. Pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking Party Appeals and capitalist contexts. Lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. Hes part of the macmillan center. He did his phd at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Is teaching a course here at yell on jacksonian de
We speak to thomas frank author of listen, liberal or, what ever happened to the party of the people . He says the problem is not that they have been bribed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others, but they have been supplanted they have supplanted the gop as the party of wall street. Then we look at the white supremacist who killed jo cox, the british member of parliament. We speak with the former paid fbi informant who met the killer mair at a neonazi gathering the informant set up in 2000. Then to california where plans have been announced to shut down the states last Nuclear Power plant and replace it with greenhousegasfree Renewable Energy. We will speak with damon moglen of friends of the earth, the group who negotiated the historic agreement. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A group of senators have unveiled a bipartisan measure to prevent people on the fbis terrorism watch list from purcha
Trump recession, clintons own economic policies are coming under criticism from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. We speak to thomas frank author of listen, liberal or, what ever happened to the party of the people . He says the problem is not that they have been bribed by goldman sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others, but they have been supplanted they have supplanted the gop as the party of wall streetet. Then we look at the white supremacist whoo killed jo cox, the british member of parliament. We speak with the e former paid fbi informant who met the killer mair at a neonazi gathering the informant set up in 2000. Then to california where plans have been announced to shut down the states last Nuclear Power plant and replace it with greenhousegasfree Renewable Energy. We will speak with damon moglen of friends of the earth, the group who negotiated the historic agreement. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im