windsor who charles is part of organizing 2.0. .e also have glenn ford know, stanley is not here, oh he is? he is here in spirit. who willwe have seen be the people that we get to hear from and listen to. i want to break down how that will happen. we have dynamic political theorist, activists, and people who have been building movement. three going to break into pairs or ability -- there will be a moderator. as you have read in their bios, we do not have to do so much work. thank you for being amazing and putting out amazing political theory and ideas that will make this go fast and easy. the idea and the focus of this panel is to talk about what have been some of our hopes and dreams, challenges that we faced while trying to build the left. and particularly, how to build a left. could you all welcome me in joining our first panelist, it tech, reverend, and adams. [applause] immortal technique: order to the stage, it's just hip-hop. reverend and m adams, i appreciate you being with us here. i appreciate the audience through this incredible, difficult, nasty weather. i wanted to asked

ford. most of the states that are failing are being made to fail by the efforts of the u.s. the most want to fail states that are working for the people. they would like venezuela to fail. they have been trying to make cuba fail for more than 50 years. they are willing to cause chaos in whole regions in order to make regimes fail. onnect people from one another. the greatest source of chaos and destruction and i am talking about of the social variety is u.s. imperialism. largely, theg that largest impetus is because their hold on the world economy is slipping. they are not the centers of production, the production of real things in the world. to have the banks in london and in new york and europe and elsewhere somehow control the production that goes on in china, india, and brazil from afar with the help of the u.s. military does not work if you are the place that produces things. there is going to be political power that also accrues. that weighs against the dominance of the u.s.. they bec

ford mansion, and it is one of the last remaining guilded age mansions. they have this, you could come out, 1920's music, food, cocktails, i mean, everybody dressed up in their best 1920's gear. so there i am. all dressed up. >> adorable. >> oh, thank you. the party was the bee's knee's, all the benefit to help pre is her of this mansion and it history. so it was really great. and they'll do it again, this is the first one. >> right on the delaware river? >> it is. >> cute. >> this is peyton, i met him there at the party, and he was just too adorable. his mother, as well. so we took this picture, and i decided it was the cutest thing. isn't ' door be? hi, peyton, hope you are doing well, it was so nice meeting you. you can see we connected. >> you're so cute. >> , no he is cute. >> he is cute, too. all right he is cuter than you. then the weekends didn't stop there. my parents have been coming for the weekends, came up for patty jackson from wdas party in the frank. >> is that franky beverly with your mom? >> that's my mom and dad. they were so excited. t