The largest election the world has ever seen, you spend the hour with indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy. She is just out the new book called, capitalism a ghost story. After the opening up of the economy, we are in a situation where 100 of indias wealthiest people, their combined wealth is 25 of the gdp, whereas war that 80 of its population is less than less than one dollar a day. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A standoff continues in ukraine where prorussian separatist have seized government buildings in eastern areas. Demonstrators have barricaded themselves and and readied fuel bombs. The government in kiev has warned of sending in troops to restore order. Testifying before senate panel in washington, secretary of state john kerry accused russia of direct involvement. Everything we have seen in the last 48 hours, russian provocateurs and agents operating in eastern ukraine, tells us they
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On the life work impact of worldrenowned investor philanthropists and founder of the open Society George Soros mr. Soros is i believe the longest most consistent. And in many ways the most impactful advocate of open society values. In our times and therefore he is also the most consistently attacked falsified. And just plain misunderstood person if our times that means we need some explication. For the library, all of this is not about party politics. Its about a debate. About and four the values. Of open society mr. Soros is the subject of the book that brings us together tonight george soros a life in full a collection of essays edited by our friend peter ostinas the book is really an astonishing array of essays. And for those of you familiar with mr. Soross work and work about him. I think you will find this really revelatory and and so compelling and direct the contributors have a Hoffman Michael ignatius sebastian. Malabi whose work whos essay on reflexivity is masterful orville s
Thank you for joining us at live. From nypl. My name is tony marks, and im the president of the new york public library. Tonight we are so delighted to host this important conversation. On the life work impact of worldrenowned investor philanthropists and founder of the open Society George Soros mr. Soros is i believe the longest most consistent. And in many ways the most impactful advocate of open society values. In our times and therefore he is also the most consistently attacked falsified. And just plain misunderstood person if our times that means we need some explication. For the library, all of this is not about party politics. Its about a debate. About and four the values. Of open society mr. Soros is the subject of the book that brings us together tonight george soros a life in full a collection of essays edited by our friend peter ostinas the book is really an astonishing array of essays. And for those of you familiar with mr. Soross work and work about him. I think you will f
Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middle class so you see a lot of issues on display that africanamerican and chicano women, native american women with working class and others are able to stress in this space of resurrection city and Hawthorne School here in the capital. How does that jive with your recollection . No, absolutely. I remember, you know, the leader and organizer of poor working plants in chicano, working Rights Organizat