Everybody, thanks for joining us, i am robert weissman, president of Public Citizens. We are here for a conversation about Rena Steinzors nuke wonderful book why not jail industrial companies, corporate malfeasance, and government inactio inaction, Rena Steinzor will speak for about half an hour and then Russel Mokhiber and i will talk about Rena Steinzors book and her remarks and we will open it up for discussion. The first step before we dive in, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence which we all suffer. Is evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, above bp oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the nations history arguably, numerous food safety crises and disasters to kill dozens routinely, new england, pounding pharmacy scandal, Workplace Safety and health issues, work places across the country on a daily basis and much more and you have to step back and say we as a count
Year. If we do follow through and repeal obama care. They will not be able to do it. They do not have the votes. They have alliteration, but not votes. Tomorrow, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer discuss the democratic partys agenda. Next tuesday, President Trump speaks to a joint session of congress. Will have their live remarks beginning at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch cspan is President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of congress. Pres. Trump this congress is going to be the busiest congress we have had in decades. And following the speech, the democratic response given by former Kentucky Governor steve bashir, along with your reaction to the president. Live tuesday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. And listen live on the free cspan radio app. I think a lot of these kids look at these huge ideas. You take twitter, cooper, airbnb, and it seems like a seinfeld episode. They feel like they can do this, and it is so much harder. Night on q a,
Year. If we do follow through and repeal obama care. They will not be able to do it. They do not have the votes. They have alliteration, but not votes. Tomorrow, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer discuss the democratic partys agenda. Next tuesday, President Trump speaks to a joint session of congress. Will have their live remarks beginning at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch cspan is President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of congress. Pres. Trump this congress is going to be the busiest congress we have had in decades. And following the speech, the democratic response given by former Kentucky Governor steve bashir, along with your reaction to the president. Live tuesday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. And listen live on the free cspan radio app. I think a lot of these kids look at these huge ideas. You take twitter, cooper, airbnb, and it seems like a seinfeld episode. They feel like they can do this, and it is so much harder. Night on q a,
Year. If we do follow through and repeal obama care. They will not be able to do it. They do not have the votes. They have alliteration, but not votes. Tomorrow, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer discuss the democratic partys agenda. Next tuesday, President Trump speaks to a joint session of congress. Will have their live remarks beginning at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch cspan is President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of congress. Pres. Trump this congress is going to be the busiest congress we have had in decades. And following the speech, the democratic response given by former Kentucky Governor steve bashir, along with your reaction to the president. Live tuesday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. And listen live on the free cspan radio app. I think a lot of these kids look at these huge ideas. You take twitter, cooper, airbnb, and it seems like a seinfeld episode. They feel like they can do this, and it is so much harder. Night on q a,
To kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between whats being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the sort of movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today. These are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. And so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reeds distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with Highlander Folk School and the bus buck offs to all of the Defense Committees she served on to all the antiPolice Brutality work she did sitting on the peoples tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. I think seeing that scope giv