Hello and welcome to Background Briefing available 247 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin on this Thanksgiving with the history of this uniquely American holiday

and explore whether the generosity of the Native Americans towards the first white settlers

was later repaid with genocide. Joining us is Stefanoi, who is a professor of American Studies at Williams College,

where he teaches courses on Native American and Indigenous Studies. He's the author of the new book,

Indian Wars Everywhere, Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire. Then, as many

selfless volunteers feed the poor and homeless on this day,

we'll look into what it will take to feed all Americans every day

and speak with the Reverend Dr. Liz Theaharis,

co-chair with Reverend William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign,

a National Call for Moral Rev revival, and the co-director

of the Keros Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice. Having spent the past two

decades organizing among the poor in the United States, she is the author of Always With

Us, what Jesus really said about the poor, and we cry for justice reading the Bible with

the poor people's campaign, co-authored with the Reverend William Barber.

We'll discuss her article of Tom Dispatch, a cycle of escalating violence.

Then finally we'll explore future trends to find out what we might be thankful for and speak with Stephen Schwartz,

a scientist, futurist, and award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, a distinguished

associate scholar at the California Institute for Human Science and a columnist for the journal

Explore. He's the editor of the daily web publication, Schwartzreport.net, and the weekly Schwartz Report podcast,

in which he covers trends that are affecting the future.

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