We speak with naomi klein, author of this changes everything capitalism vs. The climate. She recently spoke at a vatican Climate Conference organized by pope francis. Naomi you cannot call yourself a climate leader while opening up coal mining. We have to lead it from the ground. Amy then to mexico, where human Rights Groups are calling for a probe into the murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four others in mexico city. In his final interview, espinosa talked about why he had recently fleeing veracruz for his safety. Leave for common sense. There was an attack on students. We could not in the situation do less with any threat or intimidation. We do not know what will happen. In veracruz, there is no rule of law. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has unveiled his longawaited Climate Change plan to slash Carbon Emissions from u. S. Power plants. Speaking at the white house, obama unveiled a plan which includes a 32 percent reduction of carbondioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. President obama i am convinced that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate. That is what brings us here today. Amy president obamas announcement comes as scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the hottest year on record. Well have more on his climate plan with naomi klein after headlines. In news from yemen, soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have become the first foreign has arrived in the southern port. The rate becomes the first foreign Ground Troops to enter the ongoing conflict. The uae troops are fighting with the u. S. Backed, saudiled coalition, which has been battling the Houthi Rebels in rebels. A report by the independent Monitoring Group airwars estimates that u. S. Led airstrikes targeting isil in iraq and syria have killed at least 459 civilians since the bombings began approximately one year ago. The u. S. Led coalition has launched nearly 6,000 airstrikes in the two countries. Thus far, the u. S. Has acknowledged its airstrikes have killed only two civilians. Fourteen republican president ial candidates participated in a town hall monday ahead of the first debate this thursday. Republican frontrunner donald trump refused to attend after the events cosponsor, the New Hampshire union leader, published a column critical of him. Trump continues to lead in polls, despite recent reports he once erupted at a female attorney who requested a break in a deposition to pump breast milk. Trump reportedly told her quote, youre disgusting, before storming out of the room. Meanwhile polling organizations are protesting fox newss decision to use an average of recent polls to select the top ten candidates for this thursdays debate. The Marist Institute for Public Opinion temporarily suspended its polling, saying foxs debate criteria ignores the margin of error. Another top pollster, monmouth university, said quote based on current polling, theres no good rationale for arbitrarily selecting a top ten. A republican bid to end federal funding for planned parenthood has failed in the senate. The vote was 53 to 46, seven votes short of the 60 needed to advance the defunding bill. The bid came after an antichoice Group Released secret, edited videos of planned parenthood employees discussing how they share fetal tissue with researchers, a practice planned parenthood says is performed legally and never for profit. Hawaii senator mazie hirono was among those to defend planned parenthood. Hirono indiana band planned parenthood, and that clinic performs most std examinations. They are in a health crisis. They had to put up a popup clinic to deal with that crisis and provide services that had previously been performed by the planned parenthood entity. Amy louisiana governor bobby jindal has ended the states medicaid contract with planned parenthood, citing the undercover videos. This comes despite the fact the only two planned parenthood clinics in louisiana do not actually provide abortions. A third clinic under construction in new orleans will provide abortions, but planned parenthood says it will not participate in tissue donation. Over the weekend, an unidentified vandal poured gasoline on the newly laid foundation at the new orleans planned parenthood site, and set fire to a security guards car. A federal judge has overturned a ban on undercover filming at idaho factory farms, ruling the socalled ag gag law violates the right to free speech. The Agricultural Industry had successfully lobbied for the law in 2012 after Animal Rights activists had filmed animal cruelty inside idahos dairy farms, including workers kicking cows and dragging them with chains attached to their necks. Activists say they hope the ruling will lead to similar laws being overturned in states like iowa, utah and north carolina. A jury has ruled that james holmes, the gunman in the colorado movie massacre, could face the Death Penalty. The jurors decided monday that the shooting, which killed 12 people, was carried out in a particularly cruel, depraved or heinous manner. To the jury, this counted more than mitigating factors like holmes mental illness, which could have kept the Death Penalty off the table. In news from ohio, the coroner for Hamilton County has determined that the bottle in the car of sam dubose, who was fatally shot by university of cincinnati officer ray tensing, contained air freshener, not gin. Tensing, who is white, stopped dubose, who is african american, on july 19 for not having a front license plate. Police body cam video showed tensing asked to see the unopened bottle during the traffic stop, which was labeled gin but which dubose said contained air freshener. Minutes later, tensing fatally shot dubose in the head after dubose objected to removing his seat belt. Tensing has been charged with murder and is currently free on a 1 million bail. In kentucky, a Deputy Sheriff handcuffed two Elementary School children with disabilities, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties union. The 8 and 9yearold children were so small the Deputy Sheriff, who was working as the schools resource officer, cuffed their biceps because the handcuffs did not fit their wrists. One of the children is black and the other is latino. In news from london, a former ubs and citigroup trader has been sentenced to 14 years in jail after becoming the first person to be convicted by a jury of rigging libor, the Interest Rate which underpins trillions in global transactions. As he delivered the sentence, british judge jeremy cooke said quote, a message needs to be sent to the world of banking. And a new report by Amnesty International finds military police in the upcoming olympic host city of rio de janeiro, brazil have killed more than 1,500 people in the past five years. Amnesty said nearly one in six homicides in rio were carried out by onduty police as part of a quote strategy of fear in favela communities. More than 75 percent of victims between 2010 and 2013 were young, black men. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen and i am nermeen shaikh. As scientists warn 2015 is on hottest year on record, pace to become the earths hottest year on record, president obama has unveiled his longawaited plan to slash Carbon Emissions from u. S. Power plants. During a speech at the white house, obama said no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than a changing climate. President obama Climate Change is no longer about the future for our children or grandchildren, but the reality that we are living with every day. We cannot say any single weather event is entirely caused by Climate Change, we have seen stronger storms, deeper droughts, longer wildfire seasons. Floodston and miami now at high tide. Shrinking icecaps force National Geographic to make its biggest change in its atlas since the soviet union broke apart. Decades,past three nationwide asthma rates have more than doubled and Climate Change puts those americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital. As one of americas governors has said, we are the first generation to feel the impact of Climate Change and the last generation that can do something about it. Committed the United States to leading the world on this challenge because i believe there is such a thing as being too late. Under regulations, u. S. Power plants will be required to cut emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. In addition, new power plants will be required to be far cleaner, which could effectively prevent any new coal plants from opening. President obama defended the regulations which are expected to be challenged in court. President obama right now power plants are the source of about pollution,f american more than our homes and cars generate combined. It continues to Climate Change, which degrades the air that our kids breathe, but there have never been federal limits on the amount of carbon power plants can dump into the air. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, arsenic in our air and water, and we are better off for it, but existing power plants can still unlimited amounts of harmful pollution into the air. For the sake of our kids and the health and safety of all americans, that has to change. For the sake of the planet, that has to change. Nermeen as president obama spoke the impacts of extreme weather could be seen across the globe. In california more than 9,000 firefighters are battling more than 21 active wildfires. In japan temperatures topped 95 degrees on monday for a record fourth day in a row. Heat records are also being broken across the middle east. In one iranian city the heat index reached 164 degrees last week. Temperatures have been regularly topping 120 degrees in baghdad and other iraqi cities. Meanwhile a group of scientists including, former nasa scientist james hansen, have warned that sea levels could rise as much as 10 feet before the end of the century unless Greenhouse Gas emissions are drastically reduced. The rise would make cities such as london, new york and shanghai uninhabitable. Amy to talk more about Climate Change and president obamas plan to cut emissions we are joined by naomi klein, author of the bestselling book this changes everything capitalism vs. The climate which is out in paperback today. She joins us from washington d. C. ,welcome. Your assessment first of president obamas plan that he unveiled at the white house. Naomi good morning. It is great to be with you. Fromnk what we are seeing obama is a good example of what a climate leader sounds like. Saying is he is absolutely true about the level of threat, the fact that it is not a threat for future generations, but a threat unfolding right now around the world, including in the United States. It is a threat about peoples daily health with asthma levels and about the safety of entire cities huge coastal cities. He is doing a very good job of showing us what a climate leader sounds like, but i am afraid we have a long way to go before we see what a climate leader acts like because there is a huge gap between what obama is saying about this threat, about it being the greatest threat of our time, and indeed this being our last window in which we can take action to prevent truly catastrophic Climate Change, but the measures that have been unveiled are simply inadequate. If we look at the kind of Emission Reductions this is going to deliver when you talk about emission reduction, we do not just look at one sector electricity generation. You have to look at the economy as a whole. What client that climate entists are telling us what climate scientists are telling us if we are going to stay within our budget and give us a chance of warming below 2 isrees celsius, which dangerous, but what thenegotiated under obama in copenhagen in 2009 in fact, we are still on track for more like four degrees warming. If we were to stay below two degrees, we would need to be 10 ag emissions by 8 to year. This plan would lower emissions by around 6 overall, and im not just talking about the power sector, but overall emissions by 2030. Compare what we should be doing, to 10 acent 8 by 2030. 6 your view, why did president obama choose to focus on much on the power sector and not other equally important sectors . It is an important sector, as he says, but we have to do it all and this should be groups a victory for the fighting coal in their backyard, the campaign that the sierra club has led over years now to coaldown hundreds of plants. This should be praised as a grassroots victory. Plan is less of a gift to the natural gas sector and has more supports for renewables. Forlso has more supports low income communities. It is inadequate, but better than the last draft. There are parts of the plan that are worse than the last draft because of pressure from industry and states reliant on coal, but the problem is not that this plan itself is bad. If this was announced in obamas first year in office, i would be the first to celebrate this and say lets bring on a carbon tax, prevent leasing of new oil, gas, and coal on public lands. Lets do the rest of the packets. Lets have huge investments in Public Transit and we will really be on our way. Of his two terms in office, this does not buy a climate legacy it is not enough. It is not in line with science and it is not with technology. The team at stanford under Mark Jacobson is telling us we can renewables, powering our entire economy with renewables in two decades. If the scientists are telling us we need to do it and the engineers are telling us we can do it, all that is missing is a politicians willing to interviews bold policies that can make it happen. Amy during his speech monday, president obama also talked about his visits to the arctic at the end of the month. President obama ill be the first president to visit the arctic where they have seen the rising oceans, the impact on marine life we will talk about what the world needs to do together to prevent the worst impact of Climate Change before it is too late. Amy that is president obama. Can you talk about what is happening in the arctic, and the activists activism going on from portland, oregon, to the arctic, to prevent what president obama has allowed drilling in the arctic . Naomi it is extraordinary that he would announce this now because what the world needs to starters, is to declare a moratorium on Arctic Drilling. The u. S. Could be meeting that effort, bringing together all arctic nations to agree that this is untouchable a nogo zone. Because that leadership is not there and indeed because obama is opening up the arctic to drilling for the first time we know that shell has drilling rigs there right now. They began the parliamentary stages on thursday. Because his administration has failed to provide leadership on such a basic issue. It is the definition of insanity, it would seem to me, to be drilling in the arctic for oil that is only available because arctic ice is melting and it is now passing and ships are able to go there and do this. , a few dayshell ago, talked about how they are expecting to find oil underneath is an even ice that bigger deposit then there is off of the gulf of mexico. He described it as a huge play, but long more significantly, a longterm play it is unfortunate that they described the scene language of games because it is not a game, but they call it a play and they expected not to be to production by 2030, and by 2030 we should be winding down our reliance on existing infrastructure, not opening up new fossil fuel frontiers. This is what i mean by president obama does not deserve to be called a climate leader simply because he has introduced what is a pretty good plan for cutting emissions. Im not saying that is not important. It is a step in the right direction, but simultaneously he is taking significant steps in the wrong direction with Arctic Drilling. He has overseen an explosion of fracking for gas. He is still waffling on the keystone xl pipeline. He has opened up new offshore gas leases. When you take one step in the wrong direction and five steps one step in the right direction and five steps in the wrong direction, youre going in the wrong direction. Amy this issue of the activists that have been trying to stop the drilling that the Obama Administration has provided license for what was it 40 were hanging from the bridge you had all these s outside. Can you talk about holidays he can announce as they are all being taken away, as activists are charged for doing the who ts actor lulu activism they do, he is announcing going to the arctic. If you want to look at climate leaders, climate leaders are those that repelled off of the bridge, those taking to their kayaks, 21yearolds trying to stop Arctic Drilling with their bodies. They feel so passionate about this. People stayed on the bridge to block the shell icebreaker for 40 hours and did so despite the fact that shell had gotten an injunction and they were threatened with huge fines. That is real leadership, moral action, standing up in the face of huge amounts of money, power, and might makes right logic. It is one of the ironies of the extreme energy era that we have been living in the past decade or so where north america has been in the midst of this extreme Energy Frenzy with fracking, Tar Sands Oil in order to get this stuff out, it is required that the oil, gas, and Coal Companies build all kinds of new infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest, which is the part of the United States that is probably most environmentally aware even militant. You think about portland and the history of antilogging activism there are a lot of people with deep histories in this kind , justivism and shell logistically, in order to get to the arctic, they needed to use various portions of the Pacific Northwest as a parking lot for their machinery and also to get repairs done. The Pacific Northwest has given them a very, very hostile welcome and made it clear that they do not want to be a gateway to this , frankly, suicidal action. Jailing in the arctic. Clear,st to be explaining what the activists were doing, spending 40 hours suspended from a bridge in order to block an icebreaking ship commissioned by shell from leaving for the arctic. Hundreds of activists gathered on the bridge and in kayaks in efforts to stop shells plans to drill in the remote chukchi sea. They did temporarily stop the ship, but ultimately the ship made its way and it is now making its way to the arctic. The ship fortopped 40 hours and it can be seen as a stunt or token action, but it really is not. I was speaking with annie leonard, the executive director of greenpeace yesterday, and the significant part of this is there is a small window when it is possible to do this drilling for shell, because the period where the arctic is sufficiently icefree is just a few months. Until the end of september, so every day they are delayed, it is one day they. O not have to search these really are heroes. Amy and Hillary Clinton and president obamas position on keystone xl . Naomi hillary was questioned about drilling in the arctic and she said she was skeptical about it, which some people claimed was hillary coming out against Arctic Drilling. I think it is hillary understanding this is a unpopular position, but just saying you are skeptical or have doubts, another phrase she used, is not anything she can be held accountable to. It is language that is slippery enough to get a glacier through, amy it is not a straight up now. She has also refused to comment on the keystone xl pipeline. Let me say that Hillary Clintons Green Energy Plan that she unveiled a few days ago we will get more details soon is surprisingly bold. There are parts of this the plan gets right in the speed in which she announces to roll out renewable energy. She is getting that part of the equation pretty close to write in the sense that we need support for renewable energy, but it is not enough. If you look at a country like germany, they have introduced a the globalo support we noble energy and germany now has what Hillary Clinton is promising she will do in the u. S. , 30 of electricity coming from the nobles, but emissions are not going down fast enough and in some cases they are going up. That is because yes to return a to Renewable Energies has not been a no to coal. They have continued mining of the dirtiest coal on the market, and the export it if they do not have a market for it in the u. S. This is the problem with hillary. She is going to say yes to green technology, green jobs, but she is showing no signs of being willing to say no to the oil and gas lobby, which we know is funding her campaign significantly. So, as secretary of state, we know there was quite a revolving door between the oil and gas lobby and her people at state and honor Previous Campaign and i think there is real reason for concern about whether or not she would be willing to stand up to the oil and gas lobby on keystone, Arctic Drilling, and these other issues. Amy we will break. When we come back, we want to ask you about what happened at the vatican. You were there. One of the keynoters of this conference led by pope francis. This is democracy now. Were speaking with naomi klein. Her book is out in paperback today. Back in a moment. [music break] mother earth, dave alvin. Amy mother earth, dave alvin. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Our guest is naomi klein. Her most recent book is out on paper book paperback. A documentary will be released in the fall. You have recently returned from the vatican. Can you describe that experience what were you doing there . Naomi so, i was there at a conference convened by cardinal peter, who has been doing a lot of the speaking on the encyclicals. I was not convened by francis, just to set that record straight. It was convened by the Cardinals Office and the Organization Developing representing Catholic Development agencies. It was part of the rollout for the Climate Change encyclicals. The organizers describe what they are doing is building a megaphone for the encyclical because they understand it is words on a page unless there are amplifying that message in various ways, so there were people from around the world people from brazil, for instance, talking about how movements there that have been fighting large dams, oil areling, more just transit going to be putting huge resources behind popularizing the Climate Change encyclicals, buying radio ads, producing videos, creating teaching material for every chapter of the encyclical, and using it as an organizing tool. That is one of the things i was struck by one i was there. How ready the movements in latin america are to operationalize the encyclical, if you will, and they also talked about it not wanting to be domesticated, which is what i heard a lot. There is a way in which you can take this document, almost 200 pages, and just the safest parts of it we are against Climate Change and we need to hold hands, but if you read the document it is very clear in calling for a different economic model and it is a challenge to what pope francis called our throwaway culture. They want to make sure that the parts of the encyclical they really do represent the deepest challenge to our current Economic System and represent the most hope for the people that are excluded from the benefits of an Economic System are really highlighted. Nermeen last month, pope francis went on a tour of south america in his first foreign trip after unveiling a historic encyclical urging climate action. In ecuador, he reiterated his call for social justice and environmental preservation. Pope francis the goods of the earth are meant for everyone and however much someone might parade his property, it has a social mortgage. In this way we move beyond purely economic justice, based on commerce, toward social justice, which upholds the fundamental human right to a dignified life. The testing of resources abundant in ecuador must not be concerned with shortterm benefits. Nermeen that was pope francis speaking in ecuador. Naomi klein, you have mentioned in the past the significance of the popes origins in argentina and the form that catholicism took in latin america. Can you talk about the significance of that and the kind of turn you witnessed in the vatican and the focus of the new pope and the church under his leadership . Sure. It was definitely striking that a lot of the people who are real players in the vatican right now come from the global south. As you mentioned, pope francis is from argentina and he is the first pope from the global south. Cardinal turks and is originally from ghana and has been talked about potentially being the first african pope. You see the influence their. There are a lot of people who have a history with liberation theology around this pope. He does not come from that tradition, but there is clearly an influence because before he became pope he worked with the Latin American Council of bishops which the form of catholicism in latin america is one that is more influenced by indigenous cosmology than, perhaps, in north america, and definitely in europe, precisely because the genocide of Indigenous People in latin america was far less complete. The first phrase of the encyclical, the first paragraph of the encyclical quotes st. Francis of assisi referring to the earth as sister and mother, and goes on to talk about francis of assisi and it is choseicant that francis the name francis, the first pope in history to choose that as his minister tow we plants and animals and saw them as brothers and sisters. There you have indigenous cosmology that sees all of our creation. While i was at the vatican, i did before and afterwards talk to different theologians about whether there is any precedent for a pope using this language of mother earth so prominently and no one could think of a single example of this. I think what is significant about it it is very much a rebuke to the worldview that humans have been put on earth to dominate and subjugate nature. That is clear in the encyclical and a major theme in the encyclical is the theme of interdependence. You also played the clip where francis talked about Natural Resources as being something everybody has a right to and this is a challenge to a basic principle of private property under capitalism if you buy it, it is yours to do with whatever you want and that is common in the encyclicals, that the atmosphere is common, water is a right, and i do think you can see the influence of pope many years in argentina administered in the outskirts of buenos aires and that is somewhere where i spent time doing reporting and filmmaking and the outskirts of one of sarahs they have and one of sadness they have had one of the most catastrophic expenses where a french Water Company came in, put in the pipes, but refused to put in the sewers, so every time that it rains there are huge floods and cases of bodies being washed up in the streets and basements. It is simply to say that he knows of what he speaks and he has seen a brutal form of the regulated capitalism and the regulated capitalism and he a formands that this is of capitalism that was imposed with tremendous violations. Amy the pope is coming to the United States in september, but before that, he will go to cuba. Can you talk about the significance of the cuba trip and then within the president ial race here, the pope landing in the United States . Timing willnk the be very awkward for several republican candidates who are catholic and understand that this is a very popular pope. He is particularly popular among latinos and that is a coveted voting block, so picking a fight with this pope is not a smart political move if youre running. Or office right now i met somebody i cannot use his name because it was not an interview situation, but i met a fairly prominent catholic at the vatican from the United States, a major u. S. Organization, who said the holy father is not doing us any favors by going to cuba first. There are a lot of people talking about how the pope is a closet socialist and by going to cuba first, he was reinforcing the narrative. I think for conservative, republican catholics, the fact that the pope is going to cuba first and because he has said such critical things about the andlated capitalism everything he has said about putting theme, is into uncharted territories. They do not know how to navigate the waters. It is amy it is president obamas birthday. Do you have any wishes for him . I had no idea. I wish him a very happy birthday. Amy naomi klein has and what is. She has a documentary film coming out. Vi lewis,ected by ab this changes everything. When we come back, another journalist has been killed in mexico along with four women in mexico city. We will go to mexico city. Stay with us. [music break] [a birthright a birthright. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen in mexico city, thousands of protesters are continuing to denounce the murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa. Episonosa was killed by gunmen alongside human rights activist nadia vera and three other women in an apartment in mexico city friday. Both espinosa and vera had been working in the Southern State of veracruz, which has seen increasingly deadly violence against journalists and activists. According to human Rights Groups, espinosas murder signals a new level of violence against mexican journalists, as he may be the first to be killed while in exile in mexico city. In his final interview, he told the outlet rompeviento about his exile. Toen i had to leave do intimidation, not because of a direct threat, per se, but out of common sense. There had been an attack on students that were brutally beaten with machetes, so we could not do less with any kind of threat of intimidation because we do not know what will happen. Rule ofruz, there is no law. Amy Ruben Espinosa is at least the 12th journalist who has worked in veracruz to be killed since 2011. For more, we go now to mexico city where were joined by two guests. Sebastian aguirre is with the human right Organization Article 19 and helps run its program for the protection and security of journalists. Were also joined by laura carlsen, director of the mexico citybased Americas Program of the center for international policy. Here in new york, were joined by andalusia knoll, freelance journalist who has been reporting on social movements and human rights violation in mexico for five years. She was a colleague of ruben she spoke to Ruben Espinosa. He wasst week for killed. Carlsen, can you tell us hat you understand happened you have to understand it in the violence context. There has been 14 journalists murdered and impunity in those cases. He had a certain legitimate threat against him and he had to move out of veracruz. We have 10 when he established in mexico city, we helped him when he tried when he established in mexico city and we hope to encourage him enter come enter the protection but there is mistrust from the public toward institutions. In mexico there is a lot of mistrust and the capacity and the way the way that journalists are going to be protected a lot of journalists are not trusting of the institutions that could actually protect them and that was the case of ruben. Amy laura carlson, it was not only ruben that was killed. Can you talk about the four when that were killed with him . Laura it is important to keep that in mind because the attack on freedom of expression is very vera was abut nadia human rights defender, and she had also experienced threats and attacks on her. Just eight months before her assassination she videotaped a message that said i hold responsible the governor of the for anythingcruz that could happen to me and my family. She had reason to believe she was under threat and now she has been assassinated as well. We now know the name of one other woman, and there are three others whose names are not known or have not been released as important to take into account. The front for freedom of expression has called for the possibility to look at crimes because there is some indication that the assassination were accompanied by rape and sexual torture of the women and were looking at attacks not only on journalists, but human rights defenders. Nermeen turn to a clip of human vera. Activist nadia nadia how many have been assassinated without anything happening how many have been assassinated or disappeared . We have a high level of disappearances but it also has to do with the type of characters we have governing. Vera. N that was nadia can you give us some context why is veracruz such a dangerous place for human rights activists and what you think is likely to happen given the murders of the four women and the journalists . It is recognized as one of the most violent places in the country and this has happened because there has been a series of crimes and the attitude of the government governor that heaven public declarations warning journalists. There is an attitude that i will not tolerate any kind of criticism or protest. Covered movement and his government coming in to repress many of those movements in a violent way. This affected his image and personal ego as well. The main context you have is impunity, the absolute dysfunction in the system of justice. Once you send out a message that you can kill a governor or a government that seems to be involved, to send out a message that this can be done with impunity and you have created a situation in which everyone, and human rights defender, a journalist, everyone who protests against the government is under threat. There have been reports of surveillance. Ruben reported that he was under surveillance and what is really scary for many of us in mexico city is that mexico city was considered a haven. It was considered a refuge for people under threat and the fact that he apparently, or at least possibly was hunted down here in mexico city and murdered in what is considered a peaceful neighborhood within the nations capital, it shatters that, perhaps, myth of security that many of us had here. We do not know what will happen next. There is a demand for a full investigation that takes into account all of the possibilities here. There is a lot of fear that the government will try to slip this under the rug. Theres already talk that this is a robbery and it is a socalled coincidence. He wasas talk that since unemployed, it was related to his work as a journalist and there would be a constant pressure to make sure these political factors are given primary importance in the investigation and the investigation goes as high up as it needs to. You challenged with chatted with Ruben Espinosa on facebook before he was murdered. What did you talk about . I met journalists just like myself, young journalists covering social movements, some covering drug trafficking, and their lives were at risk. I started reporting on the situation. This year i started working on a documentary for al jazeera plus and travel to veracruz to work on this documentary and right as this documentary was about to come out i saw that Ruben Espinosa was in exile and he is a friend of many of my friends. It is so dangerous to be a journalist that we have held networks built networks. I reached out to him, we talked about the documentary, i said thanks for sharing it, and i said i do not think we have ever met, and he said this is where we need more solidarity. We had made plans to hang out and a day later he was assassinated with four other women. It leaves all of us in shock. I know feelsmexico vulnerable that any dissenting voice can lead to you being killed. Amy lets turn to your documentary made for aj plus. It starts with the son of a journalist font decapitated. Hear from felix marcus. It starts with jorge sanchez. I am jorge sanchez, son of moses sanchez, the journalist assassinated on january 2, 2015. Adjustedung age he was in social activism is a way to inform people. He used all of the tools within his reach. Ne of those was the newspaper felix news from the town. La union was created to share stories that were not being shared. Flag tothe paper like a spread the stories. I do not think any of us studied journalism to cover the deaths of our colleagues. To do a series, take the belongings of the journalist that have been assassinated and revise the essence of each of them. The search for the items that represent them, in this case, moises sanchez. Speaker. Have a loud jorge that is what my father used to do, exposed the corrupt acts of the police. Show that the authorities were not doing their jobs well. There were various political personalities that did not like that. Felix he had been warned. He was kidnapped at night in front of his family and assassinated. Jorge according to his lawyer, the mayor has left the state. And there are many irregularities in the investigation. Se are the same analogous anomalies that exists in all investigations. Authorities to not investigate. They do not do their job. After this happened, the government brought these security agents, but it feels weird because they are the ones at that did not do anything when they took my father and now the police are the ones taking care of them. Jorge i think the other ones should be locked up, not us come but this is how things work here. The criminals run free and were the ones that have to be locked up. Most people work to live. Here in veracruz, it seems like the journalists are working to die. if they already told you jorge if they already told you youre going to die, why do keep on publishing and he said you cannot live in fear. Felix his family has been active in demanding justice and punishment for those responsible. Jorge in veracruz, it is dangerous to tell the truth. Know that they are going to kill me. , but the otherr option is to stay silent and the situation will just repeat itself. Jorge the struggle we must wage is behind the cameras, behind s, to inform the public with the truth. That was jorge sanchez, the oises sanchez. It was produced by our guest knoll. Cia sebastian aguirre, human right Organization Article 19. It guarantees free press, freedom of expression what are you demanding now in mexico . What are you demanding of the president and do you feel he bears any responsibility here . There is definitely a response our demands are clear a girl who visit a thorough investigation of the deaths of journalists all over the country. We have documented seven murders just this year and this was an election year, so just imagine when we are supposed to practice democracy, we see high violence against the press. Our demands are quite clear a full investigation into all aggressions against journalists. We have special prosecution for crimes against freedom of expression, which they have presented no result ever. They have not presented any results for the murders of sanchez and a colleague in the magazine. Demands are clear we want a full investigation. I think there is a responsibility from all parts of the government, the federal, state, the municipal government, but the systematic impunity of crimes against human rights defenders and journalists we can talk about systematic impunity because an article 19 we documented 88 cases. Amy we will have to leave it there, but we will sebastian continue to cover that. Aguirre, human right Organization Article 19. Laura carlsen, director of the the center for international policy. Democracy now is looking for feedback from people who 8e; man im really, really honored to introduce some people. Im a do it real quick so that they can talk as long as they can. At the far side is chief caleen sisk. Shes the spiritual leader and tribal chief of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, who practice their traditional culture and ceremonies in their territory along the Mccloud River watershed in Northern California near mount shasta. In the middle is jeanette armstrong. She is a selxsyilx, uh, okanagan, a fluent speaker of okanagan, and a traditional knowledge keeper of the okanagan nation. She currently holds the Canada Research chair in okanagan indigenous knowledge and philosophy at ubc okanagan. And just on a personal note, she is probably the singos