Pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges talks about his book wages of rebellion next. He discusses the causes of revolution and resistance by looking at stories of rebels throughout history and examines what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hi there. Hi there. Can you guys hear me . Can you hear me in the back . Great. Im one of the owners here. Its great to see all of youd a labyrinth tonight. Welcome. Just a few practical things and then well get going. First, please turn off your cell phones if you havent done that already. Also our event season is islanding down but were planning great events for the fall so if you dont already get our email invite and would like to just leave us your email address on the back counter theres a signup sheet for that. In terms of the event tonight the logistics are i will do a very breath introduction, chris will speak and then there will be time for q a. I would just like to ask you w
Situation. When you talk about the recalls i would rather have a recall that allows us to get some corrected we are working hard to make that happen everyday. First on the mission problems gm didnt resolve the condition issues into the latest recall has reports of at least three deaths. Deaths. Are they going to look at the new recalls to see if gm didnt beat the fiveday requirement to report them in a timely fashion . As a standard practice, we will take a look at the recalls. There is always a sort of decision points whether this stems from the same as the previous ones. That determination will have to be made by ntsa so we obviously will be taking a careful look and will point out that work with the gm auto resolution to the initial problem we have been able to extract from gm unprecedented commitments to fix things Going Forward. And so we are going to keep putting the screws on this until it gets right. How big of a concern across the industry as it is that they are moving out of
And data we are divided on thats been the reason rand paul got a standing ovation they dont have problems with most social issues. I agree completely but id like to come back to history. For those of you better students of history with the first evangelical president was elected jimmy carter 66 percent the evangelicals got mad. Four years later he lost with Ronald Reagan carrying 64 my point is social conservatives have to be kept with in the structure or we will complete the reformulate i cannot speak for senator paul because i know the man they he is the social conservative to the best of my knowledge it with the issue he tries to ram down the throats. I paid three. Fact is important. Day concept that might be useful how do you relate to the concept with the term american exceptionalism to the allied presented . We have 17 kids to readers of the book and to talk about that in the book to say we are losing that the way that we stifle the market our government is involved in by freeing
You to give me a moment to come to you with the mic so that the whole event can be heard as well as seen. I also want to ask you to try to formulate a question rather than a statement in fairness to everyone else. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you and to welcome back to labyrinth a friend and neighbor subthree whose book subone wages of rebellion the moral imperative of revolt. He has reported from one of 50 countries working for many major news outlets. For 15 years he was Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times where he was part of a team of reporters that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the coverage of global terrorism. He is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books which continue to influence and inspire those looking for ways to understand and resist structural inequality and injustice. Chris is a senior fellow at the nation institute. He has taught at Columbia University nyu and in addition to publishing what seems to be out a book a ye
I want to thank helen thorpe so much. Thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] please dont forget shell be signing upstairs. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv, or post a comment on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com booktv. And this is booktv on cspan2, and we want to know whats on your Summer Reading list. Send us your choices. booktv is our twitter handle. You can also post it on our Facebook Page facebook. Com booktv. Or you can send an email to booktv cspan. Org. Whats on your Summer Reading list . Booktv wants to know. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan starting at noon, politicians, white house officials and Business Leaders offer advice and encouragement to the class of 2015. Speakers include former president george w. Bush and melody hobson, chair of dreamworks animation. And at 9 15 p. M. , former Staff Members reflect on the presi