Join Phyllis Bennis on the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Charter. Bennis is author of  Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's United Nations.  She will talk about how the construction of the UN was always one of competing interests, between power and cooperation.

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Also speaking is Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume biography, Eleanor Roosevelt.  She will describe how Eleanor Roosevelt, and others, focused on the democratic side, stressing human rights and justice. 

 

Their presentations will be followed by a discussion of the role of the UN today, and the courageous stand of the current Secretary-General who has called for a worldwide cessation of hostilities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.