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A mother an activist a sexual sole survivor a mutual aid volunteer a former Bernie Sanders delegate and shes running for congress in california so many important issues to discuss with her also on this episode i talk about the drug Company Holding the country hostage and correspondent anders we will get into some mind blowing cold news about the greek revolution but 1st heres we cam with angelica take a look and jellicoe thanks for being here thank you so much for having me so youve got a lot going on right now youre the mother of 5 children your husband has been laid off due to the pandemic i think for Many Americans youre living the common American Experience right now loss of income and security watching trillions of dollars go to wall street and big banks while most people dont see a dime of it can you just start off by talking about what the experience has been like for you and your family recently. Well i would say that honestly its been a rough i have like you mentioned 5 kids 4 of them are students and so we are doing the you know home school thing and its been a quite an experience d 2 of them are in junior high and 2 of them are in Elementary School and its been quite a handful on top of that the insecurity most this time of not having any d income finally my husband got his unemployment after 7 weeks of being off work so were hoping that battle stay steady has it was it you know all of the 7 weeks im not sure how thats going to work were still trying to figure it out thankfully also you know the stimulus package came through which still is its a slap in the face compared to what these billionaires and. Billionaires and medical peroration about a return. But ill be honest like it kept us from you know literally being out in the street but thats not thats thats really a minimum standard that our country can do better i think that we are lucky to because weve got the stimulus package a lot sooner than other people theres people still today they havent received it yet and i can only imagine how how their situation is so i feel myself that im fortunate because under the circumstances we were able to make our our bills this time around but thats not going to be it i mean were told 100. 00 how far can that go d so its been quite gymnastics you know i mean weve been trying to figure out how were going to make this work. Really breadcrumbs compared to what its going to be massive corporations really is like you said it was in the face you told me before over email that you had to do something you never thought you would which is be in the bread lines to get food for your family and i think a lot of americans are in that position right now you know they worked hard their whole lives theyve been an important part of their communities and now when a crisis hits everything is so tenuous it all breaks down and theres very little safety net why do you think that is why why do you think so Many Americans are in the same position you are. Yeah absolutely this is definitely something that we didnt see ourselves that you know to be in line to wait for box to get help from from the community busy busy and from you busy know the government and that regard. I think it really just shows how how insecure we all really are this is something that we have been hearing for years that everybody has a check or 2 away from being d a food insecure for being. Out on the street and i think that were seeing that right now not just in. In the housing situation but also Small Businesses and how much of our government has not created the safety net is necessary for our for us to be safe in that regard i think that its very clear that we need programs like medicare for all of where our health care is not a tie to our jobs that we need at the ability to have access to food and be able to have Food Security especially in times of need were seeing is that the system is not set up to provide people with food were seeing that theres food banks that are are triple quadruple 5 times more capacity than theyre able to handle people are in need and we dont have the ability to serve them in fact like were seeing that here in the San Fernando Valley where im from that we have a very much a lack of food banks and services for people in need. You dont feel you lack of food but youve helped coordinate some of the mutual aid efforts in your area where i was our experience been. Yes so right now we are working with ground game will sound foolish to create a match of services throughout the stefano valley los angeles is very very big and the staffing of the valley is you know pretty much half of the staff in that are the Los Angeles Area and so we are hoping to be able to leave the house on the valley ranch for a ground a los angeless outreach for mutual aid we are making connections with markets and a local church to be able to try and maximize our efforts to service our community because what were seeing here example inside about it we have a church that does a Food Distribution and theyre seeing about double what theyre normally used to so people are in need and you know what i am seeing too is the Community Coming together and and stepping up and really. Bringing their their resources in and being able to facilitate so thats what were trying to do out here in the sacramento valley. And like i mentioned it was mentioned before im running for congress d and were utilizing our our network to be able to facilitate so we have access to folks via text email and phone calls so were trying to utilize those those tools to be able to access people who might need help and to see if we can facilitate coordinate and provide the assistance that they might need. One positive thats coming from this horrible situation is that people are realizing that there is a Community Around them and hopefully people are standing up and helping out with those who have the least in these in these tough times speaking of activism because we enjoy it is a form of activism in the past youve been arrested in acts of civil disobedience fighting against are you stand against our you know repulsive immigration policies why is that important issue to you and also why you choose arrest as a tactic why do you feel that works. Well you know my parents were both undocumented when they came to this country when i was born they were in dock documented status and got amnesty in d the mid eightys but we live with that fear so i know exactly what it feels like to be scared that a parasite gonna come home even when they got. You know theyre there because that is fixed or what have you we still have that fear because it gives it in feel safe for a long time so i know the feeling the fear of being without a parent and just having bad thoughts of me being out without my children is just absolutely heartbreaking and terrifying and so we all know our most of us know that the separations have been going on for a long time this are not new to the trip or. Destruction were already happening during the Obama Administration but we didnt we were not aware of it so now with that we know were seeing it very clearly i felt that i couldnt just down by and i do appreciate you mentioning that. So many deportations and separations were going on under obama of course had been ramped up under from but like you said the Mainstream Media was not making a big deal out of it a lot of people didnt know that it was happening until more recently. Speaking of president s the 2 president ial candidates for the 2 biggest parties are both accused now of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment one of them has publicly bragged about it of course and saying is that the reality were in you recently put out a statement saying you yourself are a survivor of Sexual Assault and you titled the post stop asking me to vote for accused of sexual predators can you talk about that post. Yes absolutely d i think that we can all agree that donald trump is a sexual predator we have it on paper we have it on video and the republicans chose to have him be the nominee at this point we have joe biden who has also been accused of being a sexual predator and rape. And i do believe that these allegations are credible we are seeing that we have corroborating accts evidence coming forth really matching up with the story and i believe that. With the Democratic Party right now you know they they actually created it within their bylaws the ability if a candidate during the primary did not clinch the nomination did not get enough votes to get that nomination right then the Democratic Partys superdelegates have the apparatus built into it to replace him girls are running to congress in the middle of all this what do you feel are some of your solutions as you were just listening and listening there for all the problems weve gone through in this segment. Yeah absolutely i mean so like i mentioned we are running for congress here in californias 29th Congressional District d and the issues that matter across the country are the issues that matter for for us here were fighting for health care for all of medicare for all because we believe health care is a human right and it should not be tied to your job right now were seeing that we have millions of people who have lost their health care we have millions of people who have lost their jobs and they have nowhere to go cover us way too expensive even the exchange is way too expensive if its if its inhumane to not be able in the richest country in the world to be able to cover the basics d of health care we believe in a Green New Deal of well rounded a Green New Deal which will build up our crumbling infrastructure and move us from you know fossil fuels to green energy at the same time provide jobs and provide education. And the and health care to its a well rounded brain new deal and if you have some time take a look at our web site and celexa for congress dot com and you can see what our plans are there and. Jewish and free how you Higher Education both in job training then the trades and college and university and of course forgiveness of a Federal School loans i think its just absolutely cruel to have students start off their careers with such a burden such a huge debt you know when i graduated university i had a big ole you know loans to pay off and i right now i actually owe more than i did than of all the interest so its just you know the basics really and i think that that. Something that that we still need to keep in mind and to remember that the fight continues and its not it was never just about bernie it was about us and changes you know happens from the bottom up and thats what we need to focus we need to focus now on the local d races and support your your leaders that you trust and that you can believe in. Angelica doing myasthenic you so much and anjelica for congress with the number 4 is where people can find you dot com where people can find you and learn a lot more thank you so much and keep putting out there. Thank you thank you so much we have to go to a short break but if youre stuck at home looking for something to do you can check out my podcast bill university and also check out the free r. C. America ask at horrible t. V. Flush out load well be right back. You cannot be both with the yeah you like. During the vietnam war u. S. Forces also bombs neighboring laos there was a secret war. And for years the American People did not know. How much it is especially heavily bombed country per capita in all of Human History millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this Small Agricultural country Jordyn Wieber going to continue to happen there even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos wont help to the people need in that little land on. Welcome back im name we care about me and im still going to cry over 1000 drugs being available for every one rather deaths of the drug that show signs it could help the most severe cases of coke at 19 is made by a company with a shady history. Usually it is the company known for lifesaving drugs that treat deadly illnesses like hiv and hepatitis c. And there are also known for charging 1000. 00 for a pill. For 1000. 00 the pill better be saving my life and killing my worst enemy it should come with a complimentary gun and a hitman larry you buy a years supply you get through larrys this time last year the made grrr of gucci pills gilliard was facing a congressional hearing investigating the exorbitant price of their hiv drug truvada or perhaps treats and preventing hiv making it a manageable illness and stead of a death sentence but it was also so expensive only one in 10 patients in need could get it so the list press is almost 2000. 00 the United States why is it 8. 00 in australia. Is still has patent protection in the United States and in the rest of the world it is generic i cant comment on the price you know strength of the Generic Medicines but it is generically available in other parts of the world why are we in the us paying Retail Prices what we invented cost go this is america its 1. 00 nation under rebate but i guess not when it comes to drugs we are paying 350 times the price of australia for of life saving medication this is because of patent protections and what are we protecting these corporations from generics in other words competition this is who are pretty while fair we are shielding this corporation from the free market only how will swear the invisible hand touched you and the bigger scandal is that we helped finance the research and development of hiv drug dr lord thank you for your advocacy here today is it true that the public invested 50000000 to develop prep. That is correct so taxpayers help fund a drug that many taxpayers cant afford activists say that the number is higher than 50000000 and say we have a monopoly dominating the market and raking in money for what are actually government inventions and were having massive access issues because of it look companies should be rewarded for their inventions but if the medicine is our inventions made in our laboratories and tested on our we were monkeys and it took a lot of monkeys we locked them in there and 1st stages wrote a bunch of sonnets we can use this taxpayer money has gone to waste anyways taxpayers are paying twice now for the hiv drug that isnt even going to everyone who needs it so the public is paying we paid to develop prep we paid to finance the publicly funded trials to develop the strug we also pay and foot the bill with patient assistance programs also that as you noted the existence of these existence of these programs happened because of the public and also we pay when the hiv epidemic gets spread as well very quickly mr day youre the c. E. O. Of. Is it true that he had made 3000000000 in profits from the sales of truvada into an 18. 1000000000 in revenue she didnt mention the monkeys but its ok to rein in the high price in a rare move the trumpet ministration sued the company saying the country patents this is crazy and. Agree on hating something the drug company must be just as evil as nancy pelosi. However the trumpet ministration made a deal with killian and the company agreed to donate a large supply of the drug but that still wont be enough to horn. Does it trouble you that the administrations plan relies so heavily on. The donation of free drugs when we took a look at what happened where we had our major innovator manufacturers who were donating drug to low Income Countries that only got a so far what was really required there was a reduction in price it really that was spurred by robust competition to ensure that provoked access and affordability to our programs and so let me be clear i think the donation. Will help but it is not the panacea that we require just one mr oday to know that everybody. A fortune the donations and charity but i think wed actually prefer to go back to Old Fashioned capitalism and reduce the price Old Fashioned capitalism is what we need not this new kind of socialism for big pharma theyre trying to give us back the thing we helped create so we forget we gave it to them as we speak the company is in court defending against 2 antitrust lawsuits for keeping its hiv meds at dolce and gabbana prices while driving out competitors at the same time everyone is asking the question will gilly and prices coronavirus drugs for public good or Company Profit lets translate this will get it let people down i as it has done in the past reward their investors or will be take pity on us and give us the medication or seeing a repeat of the hiv drug history with the rollout of a crown of virus drug jianli aware of negative publicity the company agreed to dont. 1. 5000000 doses of ram test the fear in the u. S. Which can be used for about 200000 patients and just like the highway robbery of hiv pill Public Citizen estimated that u. S. Taxpayers contributed 70 point 5000000. 00 to rem desa Fear Research and Development Overall we cant depend on the generosity of a company to get out of a pandemic as weve seen gilliam failed in the past with hiv pandemic we see no noticeable difference on the numbers of people infected with hiv in the country even though we have a medicine to prevent it in most other countries governments negotiate the price is a medication but in the us we dont well theres an easy solution here if you live in the us and you get sick go to canada buy your meds come back for the freedom and thats all i have for you right now lets go to correspondent enders li with some mind blowing old news. All the celebration of the 75th ve day marking the anniversary of the allied forces victory in europe is making me wish we had a v d. Day to celebrate that time america launched a cold war to achieve victory over democracy in its birthplace of greece so that wasnt exactly the way it was pitched just a couple of years after world war 2 president harry truman put forth his vision of the postwar world in his speech to congress in the speech he claimed that the world faced a choice nations could adopt a way of life based upon the will of the majority and governments that provided guarantees of individual liberty or they could face a way of life based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority this latter regime he indicated relied upon terror and oppression now it sounds like hes suggesting that we pick the will of the majority option and not the terror and oppression would but his actions would suggest otherwise in that speech he also asked congress for 400000000. 00 in military aid to the greek government and the 400000000. 00 doesnt sound like a lot of money for 1. 00 government to give to another even in 1900 terms but this is greece were talking about theyd be lucky if they had negative 400000000. 00. The trouble in greece according to trumans ally Winston Churchill started in 1941 when the National Liberation front known as the e. A. M. Was born the e. A. M. And their military arm the las hard against nazi occupation one would think this would make them natural allies with none other than the allied forces were also trying to defeat hitler but the e. A. M. Didnt just want to liberate themselves from the nazis they also wanted to be free from the greek monarchy which was then an exile they wanted the chance to practice that will the majority stuff harry truman was so fond of but instead of lending a helping allied. And churchill commanded british officers to damage the las by all means available they tried to poach its partisans by bribing them with gold they financed small competitor organizations including those who call themselves nationalist but were in fact accomplices of the germans although these operations were a serious assist to the nazis the e. A. M. An ass persisted they beat back the occupiers in many parts of greece and even formed a counter state institution known as the government of the mountains and i had sounds like a libertarian techno utopian village in colorado but the e. A. M. Was an explicitly communist organization that one of the people of greece to control the wealth they created by september of 1904 they had forced the germans out of greece it would think such a feat would have won them independence but churchill insisted that his pick george pop and draco take over as president of greece instead while the e. A. M. Were allowed symbolic posts in the government at 1st they were prevented from running in elections when it became clear that they would win them and when i say prevented i dont mean they had to collect too many signatures to get on the ballot i mean the e. A. M. Partisans were arrested convicted in subjected to unprecedented terror in the countryside teller thats the very thing truman asked for 400000000. 00 to protect the greeks against after churchill was voted out of office in the u. K. It fell on president truman to keep greek democracy safe from itself maybe there was Popular Support for that yam but his concern was that they were under the thumb of the notorious big bad and undemocratic. Oh ok says Joseph Stalin for a 2nd i thought id be the mom for my big fat greek wedding anyway that must have been a difficult argument to make considering the insurgency in greece was supported not by the soviet union but by yugoslavias tito who broke with the soviet communists within the year by 949. 00 thanks to american support the greek opposition was crushed economic turmoil and political repression would rain for decades the truman doctrine speech set the stage for the cold war a 44 year old long battle between the forces of democracy and the much more powerful forces pretending to care about democracy for mind blowing old news i mean anders lee with redacted tonight and that is this show thank you for joining us watch out for a brand new episode of redacted tonight tomorrow night and check us out on you tube dot com slash redacted tonight or the portable t. V. App also you can check out my podcast 1000000000 of earthy upon cast were comedians talk about academic subjects. Best they can thanks for joining and good night and keep fighting. You are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi ls past im aware of it. Leverage it all you like. And you can never forget america now auschwitz was really like to be inhaled close you would never believe it to want to go to as a copy of a course for 30 years im open to the curb it at all seems so a lot offered by the side to make it right when i get out on the farm saw you oh well you take my song to our next deal so he can listen and hopefully bless my heart hurts. It appears a new cold war is in play this time which begins china one of the terms of engagement what does it mean to win this conflict and is all out war possible how did the us and its alliance oh i just find themselves in this situation. Happened and in another one of the eyes to my fellow swathes of the food. Bank itself with its. Claws in this way got it all so hard not to think of the mother disappeared the same moment the look like they are one and i dont miss so much then i think. This is the only. I think that we do is music because everybody fights to use. The floor to move all the fees in this bill frist would have called the ability to put a lid on the. What i see is this is the fund that is a look something. You. Hello there im going to let you and youre watching in question broadcasting from our Team Americas National News headquarters in washington d. C. We want to welcome our viewers from like ross the nation and all around the world here are todays top stories 1st the race is on to find a job at 19 vaccine the u. S. Already granting some 1200000000. 00 to a drug maker chinas 1st Clinical Trials showing promising results plus speaking of china chinese legislators today moving forward with a new security law in hong kong and beefing up their military budget the u. S. 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