Outside sources as well as on the table. Half of nprs kitchen sisters producers of the kitchen series for the morning addition and i will your moderator for the conversation and child food is fundamental. Joining me are two of the most revolutionary food activists in the bay area. Case there the nation. Their mavericks in their field, Saru Jayaraman is a new book by beck people take on corporate food and winning. Directive you see Berkeley School Labor Research center, cofounder of the Restaurant Opportunity Center united and president of one fair wage. Alice waters is berkeleys mountain is 49th year. And the edible schoolyard project now in its 25th year. A program that has ignited a network of some 7000 Edible Education projects around the world. Alice is also the author of some 17 books including her upcoming manifesto about the power of food. Under sipping of the National Medal of honor from president barack obama. Welcome to you both. Thank you. Alice, lets start with you. Food is
Political institutions and a commitment to the traditions of democracy. But on the other hand, it saddled us with some obsolete 18thCentury Institutions. Foremost among them is the Electoral College. Back when they set up the Electoral College, the gap populous andeast most populous state, you had a 51 ratio. Today it is well over 601. The Electoral College is biased against the most populous states and biased in favor of the smaller states because no state, no matter what its population, gets less than three Electoral College votes because votes are determined by the number of congressional representatives plus the two senators. So the small states have just one member of congress, but they also have two senators. That is three Electoral College votes. It distorts our political system. Now, why the Electoral College . Why did the framers set this up . Like anything else, there are multiple reasons. The framers loved the common people, but they did not love them all that much. They bel
Donald and mike pence supporters 202 7488001. Undecided 202 7488002. For your texts 202 7488003. A tweet ato send us cspan w day and post your thoughts. Facebook. Com cspan. His religion a key factor in your vote. Mike pence and joe biden had Opinion Pieces in the christian post on the same day. Well start with mike pence. Is the bestump choice for americans of faith. The American People and particularly people of faith have a lot to be proud of. He further says we must vote to protect the very foundation of our country. The American People know the foundation of america is freedom but the foundation of freedom is faith. Our freedoms are a gift from our creator and when we defend the we make his work on a our own. On earth our own. People of faith have no greater champion than donald trump. Thats from Vice President mike pence in the christian post, the same day this piece was written by the president ial candidate joe biden. The greatest commandment has guided my politics is the headl
Working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture, and the back and forth that made early days in washington. We invite you to stay with us for questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions we may be able to do during the presentation. The majority of the questions will be at the conclusion of the presentation. Please put your questions in and i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move forward. Thank you very much for the work you have done to put this together and welcome to the platform. Chuck welcome, everyone. I am really happy to pull this off. Imaginative tell an story. So let your minds go. This is not a straightforward narrative. We will touch a lot of points. The point of departure for me came with the publication of my book. It is my b
That we had someones back to show support compassion and we used to shake hands you know create somebody and we used to offer a hand when you were actually helping someone literally with the los things from now on using is going to be a sign of careless less ignoring as opposed to where they were before or will always touchy feely behavior becomes sort of an acceptable thing as a social norm. I think to some extent and for a period of time and mean once we get the you know. The antidote to the virus and maxines i think that people will get get back to tension and kissing and and hugging each other you know we are mammals were built to touch and kiss and hold each other and i do think that were going to be more careful with people that we dont know. I think were in an age of transparency in age in which you get to know somebody very well before the touching starts and before the kissing starts and i think this is particularly. Important for singles because you know when youre married to