sell the people would listen. so on that day's sitting in my office i decided it was time to talk to my people, it is time to go on the offensive, and we did. i went to every building that was attacked as it down to my people about what was going on. and here is the amazing thing. i don't care what their background is. wanted them to know i cared and i was in cincinnati talking to a group of 40 full-time employees. want to talk about the intimidation the promises you will get double wages and not have to work as hard. before i got that out of my eight mouth there was a black lady who waved her hand negative me and said mr. bego may i speak? i had no idea what she would

say. but i said sure. she looked around the room and said you need to listen to this man. we may get double wages in new york the cost of living is twice as much we have the right chemicals and a treatise right they make sure we're safe they treat us right. you need to listen to mr. bego. everybody got up and applauded and they understood. the understood. the problem is they are like most people and cannot stand up against the intimidation factor when people hold your car door shut or pushed their way into your house. so i had to do more than that and we did. we started to take the same attack we publish that half page ad.

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annual -- sorry folks. welcome to the fifth in a tucson festival of books. and the senior writer for the tucson weekly and hosted easy illustrated politics airing each friday here in tucson. it's my great honor to be here today with eric larson -- eric laursen, author of "the people's pension: the struggle to defend social security." through the use of television magic, we are here with c-span on booktv, so hello from tucson, arizona. i would like to thank the city

of tucson for sponsoring the station a big thanks to everyone who helped the tucson festival of books come together. we'll be talking for about an hour here in the first 40 minutes will be q&a with mr. larsen and myself and then questions from the audience. hang on to your questions until then. when they get wrapped up because southwest of the student union so he can autographed copies of this book. if you turn off your cell phones now, that would be great. let's get introductions out of the way. eric laursen is an independent financial literal activists and in addition to writing "the people's pension," he has cowritten understand the crash and is written for a wide variety of publications the village voice and the "huffington post." please