President Carter Launches Book Tour for 'A Call to Action'

So, at the ripe age of 89, Jimmy Carter is still running a very active schedule.

He has a book that is being published today, and is promoting it with numerous public appearances, including a book signing tour. It is not quite as extensive as some of those from the past, but that is understandable, given that he had health issues in the past.

Personally, I will try to get there myself later today in New York City. i have gone to three of these singing events before, and would love to catch Jimmy Carter once more.

The information on future book signings can be found with the links found down below.

Otherwise, Carter has been making some noise with the book, and specifically, with questions he has been asked about relevant issues of the present day.

According to an article ("Jimmy Carter believes U.S. is spying on him") by Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News, March 23, 2014, Carter has this to say about NSA Spying:

"You know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored," Carter told NBC's Andrea Mitchell in an interview broadcast Sunday. "And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it.

He goes on to elaborate a bit more about the spying controversy that has heated up in recent months:

"That has been extremely liberalized and, I think, abused by our own intelligence agencies," Carter said.


Carter was also asked whether President Obama ever calls on him for advice:

"Unfortunately, the answer is no," Carter said. "President Obama doesn't. But previous presidents have called on me and the Carter Center to take action."

"That's a hard question for me to answer, you know, with complete candor," he said. "I think the problem was that in dealing with the issue of peace between Israel and Egypt, the Carter Center [took] a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis. And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn't want to be involved."


In a much more revealing article by the staff at NPR ("Jimmy Carter Issues 'Call To Action' Against Subjugation Of Women:" - see link below), Carter elaborates considerably on a range of topics. Here is Carter discussing using the Bible, or religion more generally, to justify treating women as inferiors:

"So you can pick out individual verses throughout the Bible that shows that the verse favors your particular preference, and the fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I'll treat them as inferiors. If she's my wife, I can abuse her with impunity, or if I'm an employer, I can pay my female employees less salary."

In the same article, he discusses the issue of slavery, which I was surprised to find is far more common than perhaps most of us believed:

"We have a terrible affliction here of slavery. There's a greater number of slaves sold now across international borders, according to annual reports by the U.S. State Department, than there was in the 18th and 19th centuries. And the total slavery income in these days, we call it human trafficking, is more than $32 billion."

He also discusses whether religion has a solid future as a continuing influence and vehicle for positive change:

"That seems to be the easiest answer, but I don't think it is the answer, because it's very difficult to get, for instance, the Catholic Church to change its policies. I've written to the pope, by the way, and I got an encouraging letter back from him saying that he believes that the status of women and the activity of women within the church needs to be increased, but there are some specific and very difficult things to overcome if the Catholic Church made that an ordained and official commitment. But at least the new pope is aware of it and is much more amenable, I think, to some changes than maybe most of his predecessors

"In the Southern Baptist Convention, from which my wife and I have resigned — we go to a more moderate Baptist church — I don't think that they are likely to change their policy that a woman must be not only inferior to her husband, but also deprived of an opportunity to be a pastor, or a missionary, or a chaplain in the Army, or to be even a deacon in the church."



Here are the links tom the articles about President Jimmy Carter's new book, "A Call To Action", and the book signing tour that he is embarking upon:

President Carter Launches Book Tour for 'A Call to Action': Join President Carter as he signs copies of his new book, "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power," at the locations listed below.


http://www.cartercenter.org/news/publications/carter_books/a-call-to-action.html




A rare opportunity to get the autograph of Jimmy Carter, a former President of the United States. Jimmy Carter will be making a few appearances to sign copies of his new upcoming book called “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power”.

http://www.booksigningcentral.com/2014/02/04/jimmy-carter-book-signing-call-to-action-in-nyc/


A Rare Opportunity for the Collector of Presidential Autographs:

Presidential signatures are one of the most popular areas of autograph collecting – and it’s not very often you have a chance to get such an autograph in person

Coming this March, Jimmy Carter will be making two appearances, one in NY and one in California, to autograph copies of his upcoming new book “A Call To Action”.

Jimmy Carter is the former President of the United States and also the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

http://blog.veryfinebooks.com/2014/02/10/jimmy-carter-book-signing-call-to-action-presidential-autographs/



Time: 12:00 PM (noon) Date: 3/25/14 Location: Barnes & Noble 555 Fifth Ave New York, NY Phone: (212) 697-3048


Jimmy Carter Issues 'Call To Action' Against Subjugation Of Women:

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/22/292429202/jimmy-carter-issues-call-to-action-against-subjugation-of-women?ft=1&f=1004



Jimmy Carter believes U.S. is spying on him by Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News, March 23, 2014:

http://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carter-nsa-spying-164434808.html;_ylt=A0LEVxYYADBT1BoAsJZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZGViNms2BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM4NV8x