for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by none other than dick gregory there gregory is a comedian social activist writer and entrepreneur whose work has redefined how many americans including me perceive political comedy and african-american comedians he got his first big break when he was hired by hugh hefner reform stand up at the chicago playboy club in one nine hundred sixty one and he hasn't stopped since he began political activism by running against richard j. daley for the mayor's office in chicago and sixty seven followed that with a write in campaign for the oval office and sixty eight as the candidate of the freedom and peace party he's devoted himself to many causes throughout. career as an activist including civil rights women's rights anti work him pains in the international anti-apartheid movement and environmental protection issues i ran a community for abused kids in new england in the late seventy's early eighty's he was on our advisory board fundraisers for our program and we travelled together to your banda during the the end of the war with india

for conversations with great minds and i'm joined by the brilliant comedian author and activist dick gregory will be sharing his thoughts on where life has taken him to rush our nation is also with more and more people living in deep poverty than ever before in recent memory why don't republicans just filibuster legislation to put americans back to work i asked my panel of experts that question in tonight's big picture wrong and what does g.o.p. t.v. also known as fox news have to do with domestic terrorism the answer later tonight still e.j. . for tonight's conversations of great minds i'm joined by none other than dick gregory to her is a comedian social activist writer and entrepreneur whose work has redefined how many americans including me perceive political comedy and african-american comedians he got his first big break when he was hired by hugh hefner reform stand up at the chicago playboy club in one nine hundred sixty one and he hasn't stopped since he began political activism by running against richard j. daley for the mayor's office in chicago and sixty seven followed that with a

we had teach-ins, teachers from ralph nader and dick gregory. lots of good people come out. what we are doing today is something we think is important because there's a debate going on in congress that we think is off track because we're dealing with a corrupt political system, really corrupt to the core, and it can't deal with the real problems that this country faces, and so this so-called super committee up on capitol hill, i would say is an occupied super committee up there because they are occupied by corporate power. they are occupied by corporate power. now, we're calling this is occupying super committee, but i think we're liberating. what we are is a liberated center in an occupied city, occupied by mass wealth and corporate power to limits government. welcome to freedom plaza. that's what we are here, and we had here with not by ourselves, but there's another occupation in mcpheerson plaza. i thank both for staying out for doing incredible citizen work to change the debate. occupations are happening across the country, and people are finally stepping up and taking

we had teach-ins, teachers from ralph nader and dick gregory. lots of good people come out. what we are doing today is something we think is important because there's a debate going on in congress that we think is off track because we're dealing with a corrupt political system, really corrupt to the core, and it can't deal with the real problems that this country faces, and so this so-called super committee up on capitol hill, i would say is an occupied super committee up there because they are occupied by corporate power. they are occupied by corporate power. now, we're calling this is occupying super committee, but i think we're liberating. what we are is a liberated center in an occupied city, occupied by mass wealth and corporate power to limits government. welcome to freedom plaza. that's what we are here, and we had here with not by ourselves, but there's another occupation in mcpheerson plaza. i thank both for staying out for doing incredible citizen work to change the debate. occupations are happening across the country, and people are finally stepping up and taking

we had teach-ins, teachers from ralph nader and dick gregory. lots of good people come out. what we are doing today is something we think is important because there's a debate going on in congress that we think is off track because we're dealing with a corrupt political system, really corrupt to the core, and it can't deal with the real problems that this country faces, and so this so-called super committee up on capitol hill, i would say is an occupied super committee up there because they are occupied by corporate power. they are occupied by corporate power. now, we're calling this is occupying super committee, but i think we're liberating. what we are is a liberated center in an occupied city, occupied by mass wealth and corporate power to limits government. welcome to freedom plaza. that's what we are here, and we had here with not by ourselves, but there's another occupation in mcpheerson plaza. i thank both for staying out for doing incredible citizen work to change the debate. occupations are happening across the country, and people are finally stepping up and taking