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Examining Our Makeup
The US was once a nation of farmers. Now, food growers make up only 2% of the population. We’ll look at how this trend away from small farms is changing the food we eat. Then, Jonathan Kozol tells us that apartheid in our public schools means that millions of black and Hispanic children attend schools where they represent 95 to 99 percent of the students. Finally, veteran broadcast news reporter Andrea Mitchell looks back at her impressive career in her memoir, Talking Back.
Betting the Family Farm
According to the NYC nonprofit Just Food, corporate pressure to “get big or get out” has led to the loss of 67% of US farms since 1920. In her documentary “The Future of Food,” Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, takes a closer look at the US's ever increasing economic, political, and genetic concentration of food production. She’s joined by Ruth Reichl, Editor-in-Chief of Gourment magazine and Dan Barber, the chef/founder of Blue Hill restaurant in New York City and the Creative Director at Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture in Tarrytown, New York.
» More on “The Future of Food”
» More on Just Food
» More on Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
Music:
The Canadian Brass, Album: “Swingtime”
#2 – “Blue Rondo a la Turk”
Dave Brubeck “I Found Love”
The Shame of the Nation
In The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Jonathan Kozol argues that deteriorating conditions in thousands of public schools has effectively segregated black and Hispanic children to a degree that hasn’t been seen since the late 1960s.
Events:
Jonathan Kozol reading and book signing
Tuesday, September 13 at 7PM
Astor Place Barnes & Noble
Music:
Rachel Portman “Music from The Cider House Rules”
#4 – “Homer Asks Willy for a Ride”
#3 – “Young Girl’s Burial”
#2 – “Homer’s Lessons”
#5 – “Homer Leaves Orphanage”
Talking Back
Andrea Mitchell has spent over 30 years as a political reporter for NBC. In addition to being one of the first women in broadcast news, she’s also married to one of the most influential men in Washington: Alan Greenspan. She describes her unique life in a new memoir: Talking Back…to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.
Events:
Andrea Mitchell reading and book signing
Tuesday, September 13 at 7PM
Barnes & Noble at Union Square
Music:
Artist: Thomas Newman
Album: “Music from Erin Brockovich”
#1 – “Useless”
#2 – “Xerox”
#6 – “On the Plume”
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Bill Richardson on Diplomacy
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Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System
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Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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