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anniversary of trump s inauguration and the historic women s march. we will hear from the pioneering women s rights attorney gloria allred, who represents survivors of sexual assault and is a survivor herself. plus, actresses jane fonda and tessa thompson. all three spoke here at a rally in park city. then we look at the new documentary rbg about the life of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. , we urge the court abolitionist and advocate of the global rights for men and women who said i ask no favor for my sex. ask amy: we will speak to the julie cohen and betsy west, and democracy now! speaks with ruth bader ginsburg. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. lawmakers are on capitol hill today amid the third day of a partial government shutdown. hundreds of thousands of so-called non-essential government workers are furloughed, meaning they are barred from working and won t be ....
rapist is still out their raping somebody else s serving his time. these are fantastic stories about the broken system. i would love to write all of them. i can t do that obviously. so yeah. answer your question i would love to be able to write another nonfiction. i m not sure i will. it would take too much time away from the novels novels the kids books the other books that i enjoy writing. as always we appreciate you stopping by. my pleasure. good seeing you again question are watching book tv television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at 13 .org. book tv attends book festivals. coming up next from the 2015 gaithersburg book festival in maryland david mark and chuck mccutcheon talk about their book .-dot brussels walk backs, and washington handshakes. good morning and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. i am a gaithersburg resident and a volunteer on the book festival committee. gaithersburg is a vibrant, diverse city ....
was possible to move society to the place where it should be for the better of all of us. everyone is the beneficiary of ending gender discrimination, women, men, and children. that s how the old chief was persuaded when he was justice ringquist. this was a story of a man whose wife died in childbirth. he was left as sole caretaker of the child. wanted social security benefits that would help him be able to work only part time while his child was young. both benefits for mothers, not fathers. so the court decided that case, i think it was in 1975, it was a unanimous judgment. three sets of opinions. one well of course was the discrimination against the woman as wage earner, her social security taxes don t get for her family the same protection, and then a few of them thought it was really discrimination against the male as parent. he would not have the opportunity to render personal care to his child. and ringquist all along said totally arbitrary from the point of view ....
unmanned aerial drones are allowed to deploy in theater but 99 infantry units. they re only allowed to stay back with artillery units. there is still even amongst the most advanced countries in overcoming these hurdles, hurdles still remain. so it s a little bit naive to think that all these issues are going to go away immediately in part because a lot of these developments are tactically driven. and so i m very excited that came up as a point of conversation. my own research deals primarily with irregular armed groups, rebel groups, et cetera. insurgencies. and what we ve seen is that a lot of the developments in developing world military, so for example the sri lankan military formed an all women s unit in response to the high levels of female participation in the tamil insurgency in sri lanka. so the degree to which these developments are being externally driven from our engagement in conflicts like iraq and afghanistan versus internally driven through changes in ame ....
sunday, november 18th and 19th, on c-span2. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg on her life and legal career, including her advocacy work on equality rights and social justice. u.s. court of appeals judge ann williams moderated the event. hello, everybody. my name is david stern, and i am the very proud executive director of equal justice works. thank you all for being here. i am very excited. are you excited? [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] i thought so. i saw you in the hall. you guys are awesome. just to remind you, after a couple of minutes, we ll put our phones down. just wanted to make sure we re clear on that one. of course, we re so honored to have justice ruth bader ginsburg here to have a conversation with ann claire williams from the 7th circuit court of appeals. so justice ginsburg does not need any introduction. even if she did, judge williams will be doing it over the past hour. so you ll have a fabulous person to lead you through this. but ....