Good, well researched, deep dive into what works in organizing. One of the problems with our media landscape is i could probably go find mike 1700 pieces on whatever the president put out on twitter yesterday. But an actual helpful account of how to organize communities, grassroots, anticorporate power, that is asking too much. And i know the richmond california story is an important story and has been told. Ive seen a couple of articles about it. And again it is one of the real sort of stories we should be learning from especially in a town like baltimore that shares a lot with richmond in the deindustrialization, racism, poverty and really one of the most important things is the lack of luxury to kind of get hung up on not working together. Like baltimore, richmond is simply too small to have too many divisions and what is exciting about what i know about the story is they found a way to get over the divisions, worked together in alliance that was able to get stuff done including ele
Into what worked in organizing. One of the problems with our media landscape is i could probably go find 1700 pieces on whenever the president shot on twitter yesterday. An actual helpful account of how to organize for Community Grassroots and power is asking too much. I know the richmond, california story, incredibly important doors has been told. Ive seen a couple of articles about it and yet its one of the real stories we should be learning from. Especially atomic all tomorrow which shares with richmond, racism, poverty. One of the most important things is the lack of a luxury to kind of get hung up on not working together. Like baltimore, richmond has the left that is simply too small to have too many sectarian divisions. What i know about the richmond stories they found a way to get over those divisions, Work Together in a perfect alliance, but an alliance thats able to get stuff done including the lack and the only really significant Green Party Mayor in the United States. Really
Account on how to organize with community guess that is grassroots and corporate power, asking too much. I know the richmond, california story is an incredibly important story, has really been told, i have seen a couple articles about it but it is one of the real stories we should be learning especially in baltimore, in terms of deindustrialization, racism, poverty and one of the most important things is lack of luxury to get hung up on not working together, like baltimore, richmond too small to have too many sectarian divisions and what is exciting about the richmond story is a found a way to get over those divisions, Work Together in an alliance that is able to get stuff done, significant Green Party Mayor in the united states. Really excited to learn. Join me in welcoming steve early. Thank you very much for that great introduction. The privilege to be here tonight. I apologize for the formality of the arrangements. Good friends at cspan booktv are here so this is an opportunity for
Tonights event is going to be a doubleclick event. Talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. His birthday was actually a week ago. This guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. We are going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. First of all, let me say that its an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. I was here months ago to introduce two other new books that ive written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that theyve invited me back again. For those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. And he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. Im thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten island, new york and Mich
Havens. And we will look at how puerto rico has stunned washington and wall street by voting to suspend all payments on its 72 billion public debt. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In the race for the white house, tuesday was a big night for the underdogs as democrat Bernie Sanders and republican ted cruz secured decisive victories in the wisconsin primary. Sanders beat rival Hillary Clinton by winning over 56 of the vote. Ted cruz easily defeated frontrunner donald trump by 13 percentage points. Sanders spoke during a rally tuesday night in wyoming, which holds its Democratic Caucus on saturday. With our victory tonight in wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries. [cheers] almost all ofn them with overwhelming landslide numbers. Amy senator ted cruz celebrated his victory during a rally in milwaukee wisconsin. Asa result of tonight a result of the people of wisc