describing why they were there you had a thousand students thousands of students marching from new york university in columbia city university of new york kids coming from high school and then you had the doctors coming from montefiore in the bronx running a south bronx clinic doctors against poverty as it were. why are you dealing with this issue and they said when people are poor they can't afford medicine when people are poor they don't get health care and the system ends up having to pay i mean you had teachers on mass marching you had steelworkers and talking for example to a group of students holding a large banner from union theological seminary and one young man said this is where jesus would be. the eloquence of the people there you have the rappers talking about well the theme has become we are the ninety nine percent and that touches a chord with so many people around the country so it has become a place where people can come and talk to joe stiglitz the nobel prize winning economist they are doing a teachin. peter of peter paul and mary you had michael moore came down naomi klein addressed people yeste

university and an m s of journalism from columbia. in his extensive career with the l.a. times he has been a financial correspondent in new york city and bureau chief and financial staff writer, editor and columnist. he has had every job. topics he has written about include business, technology and public policy. , his many writing awards are the prize for the expos on corruption in the music industry, gerald loeb award for distinguished business and financial journalism, and silver gavel from the american bar association. michael hiltzik's three critically acclaimed books are the plot against social security, dealers of life, and a death in kenya. praise for this book has been enormous including the following:a sweeping, lively survey of the roosevelt administration's efforts to restart the american economy nearly 81 years ago. a timely, well executed overview of the program that laid the foundation for the modern progressive state. please help me welcome author michael hiltzik. [applause] >> thank you so much for that very kind introduction and for having the collective work out here. for everybody. thanks to all of you for comin