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Pleased to be in conversation today with my colleague, judith butler, discussing the new book the forc of nonviolence. Judith butler is a fundamental voice in our understanding of gender, sexuality, politics, theory and of the author of 13 books including like i said the force of nonviolence. Judiths a professor in the department of compative literature and prossor in the program and critical theory at uc berkeley. So, welcome, judith. Im pleed to be here and speang with you. Im excited to talk with you about your new book. I thought we might begin our conversati helping readers understand that intervenon of the book the sort of conceptual basis in your argumen for reimagining the conception for nonviolence. The book sort of encourages an understanding of nonviolence thats left rooted in a kind of individual morality and a more than concerted politic practice. I thought we would sort of bin by taking a minute to explain why thehift away from kindf indidual morality as you put it someti ....
Talk more about what happened reyna. And its right it was hard to miss it 30 foot tall statue here right behind me and now its replaced with a sign from the city the city letting people know this morning why they decided to remove that statue again were going to show you what it looks like here before it was removed. You can see this sir Francis Drake statue it had been here for many years i talked to residents in the area this morning. We were confused as to why was in here this morning. They are so used to seeing on their morning jog. Now people have been calling for the removal of the metal statue for weeks protesters said they wanted the statue gone because sir Francis Drake was a slave trader. Now theres a sign left by the city like i mention that says they temporarily remove the statue in response to demonstrators saying they were going to remove the statue them sales and ....
Getting better and better a future cast for map showing us the fog will continue to roll out said through midday and then well see it just sticks to summer coastal spots. There were the remainder of the day but really look at that the east bay south bay and north a nice and clear with a lot of sunshine and the temperatures like i was saying getting into low 90s once again. Let you know exactly where coming up in just a bit back to you daria thanks a lot of 2, 9, oh one and breaking news weve been following overnight the controversial statue of sir Francis Drake and marin county is gone. But it might just be temporarily lets go to kron fours reyna harvey shes been live monitoring the story all morning long reyna. Darya good morning and the reason why we think its for just a limited amount of time is because of that sign behind me thats where the statue used to stand right here and now theres a letter from the city and the city say t ....