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all of the folks in haymarket press. anna specifically thanked doctor west who has been so important in my life and has made me possible. so this is making my heart smile just to be with you in this moment. it's exciting. [inaudible]. often, why now pretty well in some ways we saw barbara emerge in the context of 2014 is amazing before. as black lives matter was beginning to give voice to his own desire. they were reaching for a voice. reaching for this clear black man is spoke in kind in truth, who carried with him the kind of wage and love. like he cleared the effort omit politics who offered a different kind of understanding of what it meant to preach for a different way of being in the world. but i wanted to turn to baldwin because i was trying to grapple with my own despair and delusions meant in this moment. talk to the extraordinary moment of 2008 in the election of barack obama. then we saw for eight years with that meant. and then we witness police, murdering our brothers and sisters and we saw these young folks

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and want to thank haymarket books for organizing this. thank you both so much for joining me and everyone to the call. ruha: thank you everybody. dorothy: thank you. >> looked to be continues now on "c-span2". television for serious readers. >> welcome to gun line series with jewish heritage. i am manager of the public programs. and will be explaining the story, the p

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i cannot remember how many people died there, but in haymarket and other riots, in the homestead strike, several people would be killed. the unions or striking workers would be blamed for protesting. that is a reason why the knights of labor went by the wayside because they were blamed for the haymarket riot that caused the deaths of several people. the ludlow massacre similarly was an incident to where striking workers were killed and where people -- the strikers themselves were blamed unfortunately for that. i think to get to the caller's original point, what eugene debs actually wanted was a return to the benevolent employer. she had been friends with people in terre haute that owned the railroad that came through there who he supported when they had the best interest of terre haute in mind. it was when they brought in what they called heavy capitalists, and when they started trying to make relationships with people out east that eugene debs started to break his ties with smaller business terre haute owners in terre haute and started criticizing them for their need for profit. it was

and want to thank haymarket books for organizing this. thank you both so much for joining me and everyone to the call. ruha: thank you everybody. dorothy: thank you. >> looked to be continues now on "c-span2". television for serious readers. >> welcome to gun line series with jewish heritage. i am manager of the public programs. and will be explaining the story, the polish leader, "the volunteer" the true story. when joined today by author jack fairweather. and the author of the good work. as the daily telegraph, and as a video journalist for the washington post in afghanistan. in interviewing jack today is doctor robert. one of the main authorities on history. from 1997 - 98, robert young developed a master plan and participated as an expert witness in the case against the british historians and author. robert young has published on camp and served as historical advisor and the evidence room which would be visited at the center. so before we get started i wanted to do some quick housekeeping things. we will have time about 15 minutes or

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. >> during an author program host9 by haymarket books, city university of new york professor ruth wilson gilmore offered her thoughts on ending mass incarceration in the u.s. here's a portion of her talk. >> in los angeles county decades ago, the aclu brought a conditions of confinement case against the county for the horrendous conditions in the jails. over the years the aclu was in in charge of keeping an eye on what the county did to remedy the horrific conditions. about 18 years ago, the aclu invited a few abolitionists to come and talk to them about something they had never imagined which was perhaps the way to remedy the problem with the l.a. county jails was not to have a jail at all rather than to build a better jail. showily but surely -- slowly but surely, this way of understanding became central to the struggle in the los angeles county over those jails. sixteen years later, abolitionists who joined forces with the forces of reform managed to persuade the los angeles county board of supervisors -- one of the biggest governments by number of people in the united states -- not t

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thank you both so much for coming to speak with us, with haymarket reading and hope we will see you at the next one. >> thank you. >> thank you. lord have mercy. what a lovely warrior you are at the deepest level. we made a covenant. i will go down for him. to continue on. >> thank you both. >> weeknights this month we are featuring booktv programs as a preview of what is available on c-span2. tonight starting at 8:00 pm eastern we begin with historian a j bain on the presidential election discussing his book do we defeats truman. enjoy booktv on c-span2. >> the presidents available in