tonight, a conversation with eve ensler, the best-selling author. she has written a new book, a call to action, entitled "in the body of the world," which talks about her own battle with cancer and ending violence to women and girls, particularly in the democratic republic of congo. we are glad you could join us for our conversation with eve ensler, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: for decades, eve ensler has championed for women and girls in war-torn regions, such as the democratic republic of congo, where rape is routinely used as a weapon of war. she has documented these experiences, a series of powerful p

you cannot talk to eve ensler without that coming up. >> you can come with me. amazing to talk to you, and i mean that, seriously. the passion about this work that you've been doing for so many years now. a five-in, cannot have minute conversation without that coming out of you. >> i feel like i got a second wind, and i kind of feel like i've died already. when somebody says you have staged the cancer, you are, "i am dead? " we can be dangerous now. i know we did this where we put out a call to 1 billion women and men go on the planet to rise and dance on february 14. >> we had on that show tandy newton. she spent the whole show talking about it. think we got close to 1 billion people to rise, and if you look at the videos of people dancing around the world, it is so exciting. you have got women in bhutan, and women in somalia, on the first time on the streets of mogadishu. i danced with members of the european parliament in the parliament. we had a flash mob in the european parliament. at this point, i am just so grateful to be alive. it is ridiculous. i know t

tonight, a conversation with eve ensler, the best-selling author. she has written a new book, a call to action, entitled "in the body of the world," which talks about her own battle with cancer and ending violence to women and girls, particularly in the democratic republic of congo. we are glad you could join us for our conversation with eve ensler, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis:

tonight, a conversation with eve ensler, the best-selling author. a new book, a call to action, entitled "in the body of the world," which talks about her own battle with cancer and ending violence to women and girls, particularly in the democratic republic of congo. we are glad you could join us for our conversation with eve ensler, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: for decades,

join me next time for a conversation with playwright and activist eve ensler about her new book, "in body of the world." that is next time, and we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. >> announcer: the following kqed production was produced in high definition. ♪ >>> calories, calories, calories! >> wow, it rocked my world! >> it just kind of reminded me of boot camp. >> i don't know what you had but this is great! >> it almost felt like country club food to me. zbl don't touch it.

having the state do things for them and suddenly you're they were come organizing nine days of eve ensler 11 million took to the streets and traveled through different parts of the country and it went off of the hitch. >> host: of religion on a crash course of practical politics was in opposition politics. can you make a lien to do you think there is a linkage between the kind of religious opposition to communist authorities the pope offered and then the religious opposition to the hah that the ayatollah offers? is this the same phenomena or are they different? >> guest: they are different. he suffered under the stalinist period in poland. he was really quite obsessed. he had built up an entire philosophical direction based on the individual iain a human rights. ayatollah khomeini didn't have a view like that. he had the view that is mom was everything and the individual rights very often had the -- had superseded that. by that respect they were very fundamentally different. but there are some striking parallels. and one of the interesting parallels is that both of them more mistake. in s