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VIDEO: Palling around with Bill Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park

And Andrew Cockburn too!

An excerpt from the premiere episode of THIS IS NOW

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows… but it doesn’t hurt. 

On an uncharacteristically mild August day in Chicago, we met up with activist & author Bill Ayers to talk about everything from the humbling power of a total eclipse to the missed opportunity of the DNC protests; from anti-intellectualism to decided hopefulness; and from the White Sox to white supremacy. We were joined mid-stream by Harper’s Washington Editor

, who helped us get to the bottom of that long-running rumor about Bill ghost-writing Barack Obama’s memoir. 

Watch the full episode!

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Bill’s new book, When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer is out now. 

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