Candidacy but havent release books. Next up a Panel Discussion on new orleans, ten years after hurricane katrina. Thank you all everyone for coming this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you to this wonderful public launch of robertas new new book. It is how the people of new orleans rebuilt the city. On behalf of the new school and nation books, its my pleasure to welcome everyone. Before we get started i just wanted to say a couple things about some people would have helped helped make the series possible. They are mary watson and pamela tellis from the executive deans office and they are wonderful partners. I also want to think cspan. Its so great that you are here filming us and the cspan audience. Thank you. It is such a pleasure to get to publicly introduce roberta gratz, someone who has been a hero has been a hero of mine for a long time. She is an amazing writer and thinker. She is an acclaimed urbanist and has published for previous book including the battle for gotham. Her
The continent. Niger, five nigerien soldiers and quarter u. S. Special forces soldiers were killed. We will speak with reporter nick turse who says u. S. Military activity in afririca is a recruiting tool for terror groups. Most americans to understand niger is one small part of something akin to a a u. S. Shadw war on t the africanan continen. That the United States is running about 10 missions per day all across africa. Amy we will talk about nick piece. New then as President Trump declares the Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency, we will speak with Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor carl hart. His new piece for Scientific Americanpeople are dying , because of ignorance, not because of opioids. If we are really concerned like the opioids and heroine, we need to tell people how to stay safe. If we are worried about overdose death, about 13,000 people die relatedar from heroine overdoses whereas 35,000 people die from automobile accidents. Amy all that and more
Look at u. S. Operations across the continent. Niger, five nigerien soldiers and quarter u. S. Special forces soldiers were killed. We will speak with reporter nick turse who says u. S. Military activity in afririca is a recruiting tool for terror groups. Most americans to understand niger is one small part of something akin to a a u. S. Shadw war on t the africanan continen. That the United States is running about 10 missions per day all across africa. Amy we will talk about nick piece. New then as President Trump declares the Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency, we will speak with Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor carl hart. His new piece for Scientific Americanpeople are dying , because of ignorance, not because of opioids. If we are really concerned like the opioids and heroine, we need to tell people how to stay safe. If we are worried about overdose death, about 13,000 people die relatedar from heroine overdoses whereas 35,000 people die from automobile
And quarter u. S. Special forces soldiers were killed. We will speak with reporter nick turse who says u. S. Military activity in africa is a recruiting tool for terror groups. Most americans to understand niger is one small part of something akin to a u. S. Shadow war on the african continent. That the United States is running about 10 missions per day all across africa. Amy we will talk about nick piece. New then as President Trump declares the Opioid Crisis a Public Health emergency, we will speak with Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor carl hart. His new piece for Scientific American people are dying , because of ignorance, not because of opioids. If we are really concerned like the opioids and heroine, we need to tell people how to stay safe. If we are worried about overdose death, about 13,000 people die relatedar from heroine overdoses whereas 35,000 people die from automobile accidents. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracyn
Second in 2017 Foundation Series on science in the society. The first lecture this year on the brain and video games was held in march and the third in september will be on meditation so please keep an eye out for the announcement date. The foundation is a Philanthropic Organization that supports Brain Research programs, publications and Educational Programs like this one. For the last five years, weve partnered with the foundation to present an annual lecture series on society and by my count this as the lecture in a series. We are grateful for the Dana Foundation support of the series and for the leadership in the series and our scientific responsibility human rights and law program. Thank you. Welcome. It seems to me hardly a day goes by there isnt a story i see either in a newspaper or o the n the evening news about the Opioid Crisis. And as i was thinking about that today, sure enough on the front page of the Washington Post is a story abouhas a story about he governors of marylan