john d. bassett iii to st. john's. [applause] >> looking forward to hearing from you tonight. i would not like to put together well to many folks here from henry county, bassett, thank you all, you share the spotlight in this as well. i could tell you about all the amazing awards beth macy has won for her writing, hello lehman fellow. but the real mark of her life as a journalist shines in a simple question. how many of you remember a specific beth macy story? how many of you remember young selena who made it to harvard with her whole community of gainsborough library patriots cheering her on. [applause] >> award winning stories about the somalis than to refugees that were coming to live in our community where children were going to bus stops where 12 languages were spoken? or her series about teen mothers or how families where navigating caregiving for their elderly loved ones or may be what comes to mind is one of her front burner suit columns that you printed out now covered in grease stai

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the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. maya angelou's death late this spring at 86 sent me back in time. we had first met in new york city 45 years ago, soon after she had published her phenomenal, best-selling memoir, "i know why the caged bird sings." she was already a presence -- civil rights activist, singer, dancer, songwriter. but that first night, we discovered that we had both grown up in small, segregated towns just so, we talked about my childhood in marshall, texas, and hers in stamps, arkansas. born marguerite johnson in st. louis, she was sent to stamps to live with her grandmother and hadn't returne

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. once again, we are remembering the author and poet maya angelou, who died three months ago at the age of 86. at the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that "a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent." well, not exactly. because we'll be hearing maya angelou's voice for a long time to come. she left seven autobiographies, three books of essays, volumes of poetry and many recorded appearances on stage, television, and at public readings of her work. here she is in 1993, reading her po

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. here's something to make you really, really mad. our country's infrastructure is crumbling. potholes are becoming sinkholes, axle-killers, tire-busters. our cities struggle to pay for services. the powers-that-be in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. schools and libraries are closing. public parks decay. and the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions -- bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a full-time job still can't get one, yet corporations are sitting on more than $

the john d. and catherine t.macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. there are roughly 80 million evangelical christians in america, and for years a majority of their ranks have refused to take global warming seriously. many were swayed by the likes of rush limbaugh, who said, "if you believe in god, then yi6 ñ intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming. you must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can't create." then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to thi

the john d. and catherine t.acarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. even if you're in denial, and i hope you're not -- you know about climate change. everyone can see the wildfires and drought in california. the fatal flash floods in arizona. the punch of a hurricane pounding mexico's baja coast, the strongest in nearly 50 years, battering locals and trapping tourists in their hotels. these disasters are made more powerful by global warming, and it's only going to get worse for us and for future generations. unless we act now. that's why more than 120 world leaders are coming to new york city next tuesday for the u.n.'s global summit on climat

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. here we go again. >> as i -- as i report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. president bill clinton on december 16, 1998 -- -- good evening. earlier today, i ordered america's armed forces to strike military and security targets in iraq. -- my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. -- to stop the advance on erbil, i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys shou

exxonmobil, direct descendent of john d rockefeller, then pulling out of fossil fuels? is huge. it is the definition of irony. to have standard oil, exxon, the heirs saying, we have to move on. and they can. if they would transition to clean energy sources. as i say, they're becoming competitive in pricing, so i don't know why -- bps to say they were beyond petroleum. they haven't acted on that. i think the point of this movement is to issue a challenge to the companies and as archbishop talks about, we should have some accountability from is copies for the harm they're doing. >> and tom stier is going to divest? i believe who is marching yesterday. brother.our koch he is the leader of the billionaire movement to try to push back against what the koch brothers are doing. flowpeople talk about the of money, oil money into elections in corporate money. he is right and bobby kennedy is right with but major hedge fund. >> i think he is completely gotten out of the hedge fund, ,ut he now runs this movement this movement that invests in politicians that are going to make a pl

major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> narrator: jiro ishimaru is a journalist trying to expose what kim jong un's regime wants to hide: the secret world of the north korean people. he has an undercover network which covertly films life inside the country. >> (translated): obviously, it's an extremely dangerous thing to do. in north korea, even filming everyday life is considered a form of political treason. if they are caught filming, they'd be locked up and may

major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> narrator: in sierra leone, west africa, a catastrophe is unfolding: the world's deadliest outbreak of ebola. sebastian stein is part of the team at an emergency field hospital that's been built by the relief group doctors without borders. >> you see patients in the most horrible states, and you can have patients who come in one day, and the next day i'm packing them in a body bag. people are dying left and right here. >> narrator: another patient has just died. sebastian, who's in charge of the morgue, must enter the

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still shareholders but not the major shareholders they were when standard oil was broken up under john d rockefeller. >> the move had already started to happen. it should not come as a total shock that the rockefeller foundation would do this as they had already made similar moves in that direction. >> they had not been talking about it much prefer or several generations that have been tremendous environmentalists. they have been great aides to the environmental cause. but this is a way which are meant the symbolism of saying we are also getting out of the business that made our fortune. >> that symbolism, how much will that have knock on effects to other foundations and organizations watching this divest campaign? >> the groups that have been trying to get institutions like nonprofits, small government groups to divest, had about 17 organizations when they announced in january, and today 180.announced they have so things are rolling, but it's still not the majority of the world out there. it's just a very significant rise since this divestment movement began. >> we saw yesterday in new

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> garrison keillor: seamus heaney grew up the eldest of nine children on a 50 acre farm in northern ireland, his father a cattle dealer, his mother's family worked in the linen mills. when he was 12, he won a scholarship to a catholic school, learned latin and gaelic. over the years, his poetry has become enormously popular, especially since he won the nobel prize in literature in 1995. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate th

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. steves: pause at any street corner to enjoy a vivid slice of neapolitan life. and don't forget to look up. with no yards, families make full use of their tiny balconies. this is basso living. basso living. what does that mean? it can mean "low." so, literally, low? this is like a small apartment -- two, three bedrooms for five, six, seven, eight, nine people to a family. the traditional, sort of romantic life in the streets. life in the streets, yeah. many people might have money to go away from here, but they still stay here. steves: no taste of naples is complete without a pizza. anti

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. garrison keillor: kwame dawes was born in ghana and grew up in jamaica. he has published 13 books of poetry, many books of fiction, nonfiction and drama, and he's the author of the first in-depth study of the lyrics of bob marley. he teaches at the university of south carolina. he says of his poetry, "often i am not writing to describe what i have seen, but trying to voice what the work is stirring in me." "tornado child." tornado child, tornado child. i, i'm a tornado child. i come like a swirl of black and darken up your day; i whip it all up into my womb, lift you and your things, ca

just recently the rockefeller brothers fund an enormous group controlled by the dissen tents of john d rockefeller pledged to pull it's portfolio out of investments in fossil fuels. they are turning their backs on oil, in another divestment move, still with us, jana nicklas the executive director of divest invest, which advices foundations on how to divest. a professor oversows oologist, and eva welch a professor of the management school. and professor, just before the break, you heard jenna talk about how -- and professor meyer talk about how this put pressure at the top echelons of these institutions. it was closer to peace a matter of private piety, but putting pressure where it is most effective. >> if i had the ear of the harvard and stanford president, which is what they want to accomplish, i would not try to have a long conversation with them about divestment, and endowments which by the way, have always sorts of intermediate layers, i would have the conversation with them why don't you endow a few more chairs or an energy institute. now stanford does fantastic work in this alre

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. this is jotunheim, "home of the giants." it's a high plateau that feels like it's the top of the world. these are northern europe's highest peaks, and they're steeped in norse legends and folklore. this is the land of thor and odin, whose spirits still inhabit the misty peaks. for centuries, villagers trekked across this pass to reach the coast. it was an arduous journey, but today, crossing it is a pleasure. at 4,600 feet, the sognefjell road is norway's highest pass. at this latitude, even these modest altitudes take us high above the tree line, with snow through the summer. norway's

the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. steves: the best look at ancient constantinople is at church-turned-mosque that's been considered among the greatest houses of worship in both the christian and muslim worlds -- hagia sophia, the great church of constantinople. built by the byzantine emperor justinian in the early 6th century on the grandest scale possible, it was later converted into a mosque by the conquering ottomans. today it's a museum. hagia sophia, which marks the high point of byzantine architecture, is the pinnacle of that society's 6th-century glory days. this church was completed in 537, just about when europ

created by the grandchildren of the oil magnate john d.ller sr.. >> fun to the standard oil company in 1870. they're convinced if he is alive today he would be divesting from fossil fuels and investing in a clean energy sources. >> the bears will be missing some starters when they visit the jets on monday night football. they try to get their running game going. >> receivers branded marshall and el son jeffrey they're expected to play. the bears were already missing trulls tillman on defense. >> the bears passing game is making progress. the running game has struggled so far. the bears are near the bottom of the league. the jets happen to have the best run defense. the jets can run the ball thanks to the scrambling quarterback. stopping the run as were the bears' defense his troubles. the bears' victory will have first place with the winners of the packers and lions. off to a fast third. fumbles the ball and returned it for a touchdown. the lions put it away. 26 year run for a touchdown. the packers' offense did not have it. when talks wra