Hope and laughter. Amy goodman today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. The man who put the rainbow in the wizard of oz democracy now special. All that and more coming up. Now me to democracy i am amy goodman. Today, we pay tribute to yip harburg. His name may not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world, like jazz singer Abbey Lincoln and bing crosby sang it. Railroad, made a race against time. I built a railroad, now it is done amy goodman and tom waits. Judy collins, and dr. John from new orleans, peter yarrow,. They called meow al amy goodman thats al jolson, and our beloved odetta. Dime . An you spare a dime . Spare a amy goodman brother, can you spare a dime . May well be a new anthem for many americans. The lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. He was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. During his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his wor to express antiracist, proworker messages. Hes best known for writing the lyric
I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for all. I want to break the duality we get trapped in an the framing of issues, schools are something i am passionate about. The framing of the debate is those who want to privatize, crush the unions, measure education by a single metric at those who like the status quo. I reject that. I hate the status quo in Public Education but my answer is not to go in the direction of Corporate School reform. It is a short book, a punchy book, kind of a manifesto. You take it up on the door of the executioner.
Three titles that will be published in the fall. Host harold meyerson, in your upcoming book michael rose, the use of the word manifesto. It is an attempt to write clarity, all these issues we debate have been framed incorrectly or in a way that narrows the imaginative landscape. I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for all. I want to break the duality we get trapped in an the framing of issues, schools are something i am passionate about. The framing of the debate is those who want to privatize, crush the unions, measure education by a
Eduardo began his career in journalism over 20 years ago as a financial reporter and since then he has written for many parts of the globe including mexico and brazil, japan and the United Kingdom and further. More recently he served as a member of the times Editorial Board on related matters and today he writes back of that economic, for the time. Atwaters background help explain his unique analytics skills and he has a degree in physics and quantum field and fundamental forces. I have no idea what that means, but ive always been very impressed by it. So, welcome jim and eduardo. [applause]. Thank you for those kind introductions. As, i think, you just heard, my book deals with five topics, any one of which could be a lecture of this length, but only one of them sits the purpose of list and only one if its the time allotted to nine, so tonight im going to talk about one of the five topics im really interested in and that is inequality, so ours is an exceptional society, admirable for
A decision seven years in the making, today president obama rejected a canadian companys application to build the key stone xl pile line, saying it would undercut efforts to reach a global deal on Climate Change. The fight is far from over. Libby casey joins us live in washington. There was strong reaction to the president s decision today. Thats right, randall. Now a decision on the key stone pipe lynn had been expected, so before he leaves office in january, 2017, but there was pressure from both sides on this issue. The timing of todays announcement was certainly significant. President obama justified his decision to deny transcanada a permit to build the key stone xl pipeline saying it would not serve the national interest. The pipeline would not make a meaningful long term addition to our economy. The president said key stone is not the answer. Transcanada hoped to built it to connect the oil sounds of Alberta Canada with existing lines in canada and pump 800,000barrels a day to u