Host i am so happy to be here with zerlina maxwell. Im honored to have the time to discuss your book the end of white politics. This book challenges but we have expect it as a status quo and i think right now as we are rooting for 2020 it couldnt have come at a better time. This is a critique that couldnt be more challenged them right now but we also understand that it is imperative to people take your book to heart and look at it as an opportunity to change the game. So, with that i would love to basically recognize the wonderful work youve don you hs an author and an activist and political operatives were self. I believe the work you di did ce the book youve written is going to provide an insight that isnt part of the political politics. Guest thank you so much. I am so happy to see you. I know all of us are in quarantine, so its nice to see those faces and to see them healthy because this is a scary time so im glad to be here. Host i want to get started i think all the work you are
I am so happy to be here and i only and honored to discuss your book the end of white politics it challenges we have excepted as the status quo for the Democratic Party in right now reading the tea leaves of 2020 it could not have come at a better time. We also understand that america right now it is imperative us to take your book too hard to look at it as an opportunity to change the game the selection also recognizing the wonderful work you have done as an activist and political operative yourself. So to provide inside baseball inside politics welcome. Thank you so much. I am so happy to see you. And then to see that they are safe so its good to be here. It is so relevant because working as part of the Hillary Clinton campaign and i think we both got to know each other with analysis on msnbc but in the campaign and Mainstream Media we forget the narratives what we are seeing in the street translating to the voting booth. Talk about what that means. You talk about identity politics o
I wondered, could have made the choices they had to make to protect ones family, to protect myself. Could i have found the perseverance, the fortitude, the courage, to get to. Its where i am now where i wrote my book, if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns those are frogs croaking away in my pond at college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice and you callawhen i was up your writing i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what was like to live in world war ii. Wishing i could find the apathy, the understanding, to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next. What its like to live through a great unknown. Now its a previously unimagined year later and all i can say is, be careful what you wish for. I am not saying that our battle against the pandemic is the same as fighting world war ii. There is not an
Can do via a link in the chat which i just posted. We support our authors. With that out of the way, i welcome sonia shah the science of journalists and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics and human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Foreign Affairs among many others and has been featured on a radio lab fresh air and ted. Com. With her talk, three reasons why we have not gotten rid of malaria. Also author of the 70 several books including pandemic. Today we will talk about her new book, the next great migration which provides an overview of migration and often the negative responses it provokes. Some may claim its a Destructive Force that she argues migration is an ancient lifesaving response to environmental change in the book makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of a fear. Without further ado, here is sonia. Hello and thank you for joining us tonight. I wish i could see you in person , but im tired we can do
Lifetime and opportunities and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting. And certainly people will face china challenges rather a typo help should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. I was blessed to live in the great United States of america. And i hope to share in the story with other people. Peter the book is relatively revealingly will go through some of the things. But was that tough to expose yourself like that. Joni it was very hard. Ive been through an number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman rated with my first boyfriend. In a really suffered from that. And then moving on and going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage. Those are all things that i really did not want to share publicly. But i was obviously going through a very public divorce a couple of years ago. That information came out through that process. And so many other women and men who