his mother was rosie smith. they and the attica rising inspired a generation of revolutionaries like me and people all over the world. first off, thank you for this book. today we face -- we are under a regime even more brutal and vicious than john d rockefeller's new york state. what would you say to today's resisters here and all around the world? for example, there is a strike going on right now at folsom prison and i urge everybody to support that. thank you.u. >> thank you for that.nd 70' yeah, i think that. of the 60s and 70 shows is that ordinary human beings when they stand together can in fact change policies and culture and ideas but it has to have extraordinary faith and imagination to that change can happen. i think young people have no faith anymore that change can happen so it probably starts with having that faith. this is not permanent andes nothing is permanent anyway. everything changes so let's make sure it changes in a more humane and progressive direction. what atticus shows us and tell our

his name was shango and his mother rosie smith and they and the attica uprising empowered people likeme around the world. first off, thank you for this book. [applause] >> and today we face, we are under a regime even more brutal and vicious than john d. rockefeller, new york state. so what would you say to today's resistors here and all around the world, for example, there's a strike going on right now at prison and i urge everybody to support that, but thank you. >> thank you for that. yeah, i think that what that period of the 60's and 70's shows that ordinary human beings when they stand together can change policies, culture and ideas but it has to have extraordinary face and imagination that change can happen. i think sometimes young people have no faith anymore that change can happen so it probably starts with having that faith that, you know, this is not permanent, we don't have to -- nothing the permanent anyway. everything changes so let's make sure it changes in a very more humane and progressive direction, but what attica shows us, though, and tell our own history, get the