So Opal in San Francisco the Bay Area is on fire you know we have the International Film Festival we talked to Dave Roach and then the other day we're talking to you guys who made a lot of fanfare with the last black man in San Francisco Let's talk about how that came about in are you surprised at. The type of traction that movie has gained I would say I'm shocked by it because initially when it came together I know myself as a cast member I didn't have any expectations I thought a movie about San Francisco would be dull I thought a movie sharing things. In the Bay Area would be iconic for us but I didn't know internationally and nationally people will receive it the way they've been receiving or lose a lot of films that a set in San Francisco but Dana a whole lot of films that focus on black people in San Francisco talk a little bit about that I mean for me what what I think about is James Baldwin who people of kind of rediscovered over the last few years and it going back and looking at the documentary that he did when he was in Hunters Point you know in it you know that was like a landmark type of thing and people are you know watching that as if it's brand new but we haven't seen a whole lot of films come out you know maybe 48 hours might have been the closest thing with Eddie Murphy I don't know if we could say that's a black film but it was a black man that starred But you know but you know I don't think you know you tell me going to if films have really captured the essence of what you all feel as black folks in a city known when you look at it this is a movie also based on Jimmy fails that are his life so it's a sin my bio pic I believe that's the right terminology and then you look at. The writer they came together and they were able to not only. Not only display the black life. On on a big screen but they were able to break down the multi dimensions of us I've never seen a movie is San Francisco or for that matter in the Bay Area created around Black mean masculinity different. Different. Facades sort of speak and so when I watch this I get to see the grandfather I get to see the father the uncle the mean the camaraderie but we're not being stereotyped we're not being over sexualized we're not participating in acts of violence nothing wrong with that because oftentimes in an inner city that's what's going on but this movie within itself is a piece of art to show in humanize Black mean black life in San Francisco and global let me ask you this going to you know. That complexity of showing the different dimensions of black people. In a film like last black man in San Francisco. Some people be like well you know that's not really the hood or you know war is that really true people may question at the way that I've seen them question when Spike Lee did a movie and there were no drug dealers in. Or even Bill Cosby when he was still in favor with everybody there was like that really be true did you get any of that and I only asked this because so many people have now invested in stereotypes you know in even people outside the community sadly who that when you show this complexity of blackness you know and black man in particular that I question my you how realistic is this is last black man in San Francisco real you know did you get any of that or hear any of that received a lot of it in I remember doing a q. And a in a city of San Francisco and I had to let a person know. Imagine viewing all white people to the Linzess of the trailer park that would be a fair. Visitation and then when you look at the stereotypes that have been perpetuated in the media when it comes to black mean it's. People for good Dr King was a black man people forget Malcolm x. Is a black man people forget that President Obama is a black man meaning all of us are not one way we are multi dimensional and when you look at the street when you look at the architect when you look at. When you look at science we are doctors we are lawyers we are fire mean we are postal workers we are all of these things we are not one sided in society wants to push in to a very very small category and minimize our greatness so when when I received the backlash an idea in person of it not being real I said not being real to who the financial demographic are you coming from what class are you coming from do you think that all of us are in poverty do you think that all of us are living in war torn environments throughout the United States that's not the truth let me ask you this. Is it that's the outside Yes you're talking with gonna from the movie last black man in San Francisco if you're just tuning in. Let me ask you this then. Some might make the argument. Because. Black people and black men are under attack. Because stereotypes is a profitable business that's connected with other industries president complex all that other stuff when you get in front of the camera when you get on the mike right when you get to these places you have a responsibility to fight to fight the battle you know fight the fight for his freedom how do you respond to that because that may be a pressure and for example you know in the friendship between Tony and. The guy's name oh no is Jimmy Jimmy and Joe in the movie it's Jimmy and mine Jimmy a much right so there's some people like me and we can't afford to have that version of blackmail miss you know be shown you know it needs to be definitive it means to be a needs to hold up a certain type of politic a certain type of line we can't have it you know be fluid like that that was one critique that you get people to add others may say well man if you're San Francisco your laughter come with you know a very clear critique of the mayor and the police and all that so I guess what I'm getting at is did you was there pressure put on from the larger black community that's hungry for representation and feels under siege I would say from this movie being that it's a biopic and it's it's the 1st movie to be shot in about blackness that I know nobody even initially nobody even really knew what was going on when we were filming it was a huge film crew production post release there are people who want more stories told and one thing about the movie is it is here to motivate inspire new movies it is here to tell a person hey it can be done but to go back on a question I believe that you as. It was a question that you were speaking on about what was going on internally and representation. I challenge any and everybody to go out there and express themselves which you want to be seen to be so that's what we have to do this is not in all this is not the last movie that's ever going to be shot no it's just here is for them but so many people feel like it is Ok and it feels like every time we do something as black folks people act like it's the be all end all you know I know he should get a shoulder like a leg you know what. I mean but that's a very real thing but it also speaks to the urgency of the moment you know like you know like if I go on t.v. And I wear a hoodie and gold Funch right some people may say man I'm glad you represented us because that's who we are and others be like how did you go on to win a hoodie and go frontal on t.v. Because negative going to set us back so you have 2 competing type of or of of concerns that people want to have to touch up on which is desperation and desperation is a slave mentality the slave mentality believes that everything is in limitation Everything is if you do what i can we have to think in abundance and we have to understand that we are created in the image of the most high in everything is actually the opposite of limitation is in abundance when you see other people create movies when you go to a concert when you go to the country of India when you go to the beautiful continent of Africa and you see all the movies being created and if you look at cinema over the last 100 years in United States of America you don't see white directors white actresses and right actors saying this is the last movie because it's not I feel like us as a people we have to understand that we can make more movies we can have more representation we can have more dialogue because it all goes back to the dial it all goes back to the complexity of who we are tell your story in order to get money in order to keep it real so this is another thing to go back to question before you see it when I get up there how do I feel about representing and being truthful transparency is a strong point for me I want to thank Joe and I want to thank Jimmy because all of these q. And A's that we've done there's been no it's. Wrong it's speaking our truth and because of them the truth that they spoke we've been allowed the platform to speak our truth and our truth is again my truth is being really honest about the conditions we're in the complexities that we're in and this is also why we're fighting to get to London next month for the British film. Let me just take a detour for a 2nd we're talking with gunner from the movie last black man in San Francisco and a man who no we haven't a great conversation so we could just Bill and this is just the tip of it because inside. You know we were talking with Dave Roach. Oakland International Film Festival but we walked in and then you all were there and there's a whole bunch of filmmakers in and places in the cafe and is just amazing to see all these folks who don't know each other you know all in one spot or work it you know like we're going on a script rather what do you do and you know so it just goes to show that I think you know what's good good thing is that people are now. Taking that Bay Area. Do for self to the next level like I will write a script I will do my movie I will I will put on a festival to show the movie you know so Michael Oren here you know you know what his festival so everybody is kind of doing and that's a good thing and your lawyer obviously a part of that with the last black man in San Francisco part of the reason why we have you on is to fall because you all are trying to do this to the next level so let's talk a little bit about that before we get into the conversation you all are trying to get the film to London now have you all been around the world or what's happening with this how how how how would things working on the film to fix specially if you're independent So what's going on in the movie was actually shown at the film festival in Switzerland we had none of his donor he was able to fund actually our flights to get there last month it was extremely successful it was an Eye Opener right now the British Film Institute Film Festival is in London October 2nd. So myself and about 7 other cast members are doing our best due diligence to get there along with the director and the store just so that we can represent that transparency in the same way we were. To do at the Sundance Film Festival the same way that we were able to do in Switzerland at the film festival internationally premiered. Its backslash last Black mean u.k. And of course we appreciate all the donations so far we're about 35 percent but we want to continue to push this narrative because what a unique movie like this we have to be proactive as artists as citizens and as participants of what's going on to make sure that this is not the last one to make sure that the story is not only told but shown to display that blackness in Europe to display that blackness all over. Give the information where people if they want to help to make sure that you all get out to the u.k. Give it give us you can go to w.w.w. . Go Fund Me dot com backslash last. Black. Mean. You didn't go funny link right there. Going to what part did you play in the movie and let's talk about some of the folks we saw or. You know have very real compelling stories that could easily be movies of their own Jamaal true love or you know one in and it seems like everybody who they show no one else you know if you ever see the movie. Scenes these day come back to. You on the corner. Of San Francisco and you know a lot of people like I saw them go that's San Francisco and you know so let's talk a little bit about that so you have the Greek chorus will refer to myself. Who was wrongfully convicted and I believe since the 50 years to life in prison he was released after I believe 5 years or maybe even 7. The city he won he's doing a lot of he's also an artist but he's doing a lot of social work. He's being active in a community in combat mass incarceration and people want. People who are wrongfully convicted you've got another man he's a d.j. His name is Jay Vaughn right now he's doing he's staying. All over the city all over the Bay Area doing prestigious events doing hip hop events he's a great deejay you got this young man by the name of stunt a man he's an artist to his music going crazy a lot of traction and a lot of momentum that he's gaining you got one we call them we refer to him as milk he's an artist he's doing his thing you've got the preacher Willie who is an icon in the city of San Francisco as far as hip hop he's an icon in the Bay Area so us collectively together we make up the Greek chorus myself a play me I actually play gun I get the moral code so you can say you're going to no no no and they didn't change the name and nothing you didn't come up to say nah you know what. Call me Aegis you know you didn't you didn't put a you know just call me just last name elbow you don't want that and it's like you know what it was with me I make music so I go buy a gun and there's somebody who actually became extremely successful he's out there in Atlanta so I added the goal is global so on social media I go by going to go global but in a movie they referred to me as done the reason I would want a reason I was chosen is because one of the me and had a say so he said he had a reference he said Well if you're going to make a movie about Sam Cisco we need to have gun in it so he reached out to me I've been ousted him I've been in plays as a child because my mother and father they met a city college they're actually actors and actresses you know I'm saying Ok so when you reached out somebody so you had your chops already almost you can set a so my mother you know she was the static about to say when my father but me playing myself in the movie and me even getting a role as an artist all of us and recourse do music are a part of music and that's why I was so authentic on the corner because we actually all come from the point. No sonny deal like we come from poverty not a real poverty like we all have backgrounds in our neighborhoods so that's why the language was so authentic is because we were able to say hey this is how we talk and so we don't talk you don't oh my. Did you learn anything about acting because you did have some veterans on the set you had Danny Glover obviously you have Michael absent right you know did they did they pull you to decide or do you peeps something to say Ok let me add this to to the repertoire in your presentation I would say it was an observation when I seen Danny Glover we were doing a scene in the attic and to be honest when you get around somebody legendary like that my mother played well played the movie called The part I don't know how many times so with Danny was more observational anything to seen or know just watching her humility and trying to figure out to seniors in their scene or know her humility was I mean it was 2nd and Mike Epps his He's down in this and it was my brother who's one of the most successful actors right now on Netflix far as like series and stuff like days is doing a phenomenal job. Brother was sitting next to me Lex who plays Jimmy's father. Here anyway he's a phenomenal do and I'm going to get it before I apologize and follow monogram in what I learned on set from these people is respect reiterate double down no respect double down no humility because never once did they told their act allayed stare names or their success around they came to treat is like family and it's one of the most humbling experiences of my life outside of like meat mag prior to him being it's part of his untimely death but you know at the same time some of them might be some kind of game from you all like oh this is how cats and appoint and cats from The Who would really act you know the slaying the the swag style of dress the whole manner of them you know all those types of. Things right do you feel that because sometimes I mean that's what actors do they they look and be like Ok I will do this role and I will be kind of from the point you know and then next thing you know they went and I ask you know and you seen yourself oh so with that let me see the interaction all of our scenes were pretty isolated we shot him we shot him separate but I can say. If you see any influence for myself or any of the Greek course let me know man I just want to be here be a ball the next movie you know I'm saying or series or show for sure you know those in the name of the do you remember now he's like he had you recall moment Radmore your man Big shout out to you that was one of the most humbling experiences the man next to me told me about his life gave me life. I would say advice on life and we just chopped it up the whole day that we were an addict I'm very proud of him I'm very proud of his chance parents in his ability to speak up on social issues he just stays that are you correct just watching him grow as a person I wish no but it best for him but you know that was the person that I had the most interaction with that was already solidified as an actor. Do you know let me ask you this going to. Last black man in San Francisco is celebrating. Why isn't the city in the county of San Francisco not stepping in and saying you know what great job just make sure you go out there and you all are in London and I'm asking this just seeing like you've got folks coming from all over the world who are setting up shop getting nice deals tax breaks all sorts of things you know to relocate here and it just seems like you know the story that you're talking about is very similar to the story that we're seeing and when we have the folks from you know tent city who we've interviewed right to do one of things shining a light on the city. And we can get all this homegrown talent and everybody will brag about them when it's you know like oh yeah you know we're the home of hieroglyphics but did you help them out on their high road day oh yeah we know these filmmakers but did you help them out to make sure I got to the next level what is it about this disconnect or at least perceived disconnect to maybe it's not for you all but I see that a lot in the base so much homegrown talent not fully appreciated while it's you know. Idolized all around the world I want to start with my city and county of San Francisco in. Star right in the beginning from the neighborhoods to I would say to legislators. To the citizens and of course the mayor in America office. We can change we can do better we can support before I would say the nation gets a whole tulis I would challenge everybody from the city and county of San Francisco to not only watch the movie but give a critique of it and share the same way that people in l.a. Love l.a. It's support in Parade l.a. The same way people do it in Atlanta the same way they do it in Philadelphia the same way they do it in New York the same way they do it in Houston so now let me talk bigger in the Bay area the Bay Area is the home of independents so oftentimes I feel that we feel that by one person success it's going to derail us or it's going to hold us back that is not the truth I stand on what I'm about to say we're the most talented region on the planet r. T a r t. H. At some point in time in the immediate future we have got to understand that it is strength in numbers it is strength in shedding light on each other issue and in doing phenomenal business together it is strength in communicating with each other as far as the people getting tax breaks. I'm going to call them out Facebook Twitter Twitter Instagram and all these other tech companies My problem is not with you my problem is with the lack of communication and the lack of reaching out but let's take these tech companies because I remember when Twitter with. House right there south of Market and I remember you know we did some of those for stories when they came in they promise like they were like oh it's going to be good for as a community they're going to have thousands of workers and they're going to you know their money is going to help stimulate the neighborhoods around the cause there's a lot of restaurants. Places right what do they do they. You know had their food catered or whatever inside so you didn't have that traffic then it was like all people going to get free why 5 and you know and I remember people were protesting because the never came in here thing like what the tax breaks and all that at the very least you know they have $1000000.00 events out here they would be the ones to be like you know what we are part of this community you know let me let me make sure that we uplift it you know what I'm saying I mean but are you a part of the community or are you just house here and see yourself as international that's just me talking you know about what I've observed with some of these places you know that. They should be the 1st on board they saved a lot of money. To have to do a Go Fund Me for $10000.00 to get to where we go in I believe one of the top 5 cities on earth is a is a shame would do in any way to detect companies it's about reaching now in creating a meaningful relationships it's not about given a handout it's about creating opportunity and undeserved underprivileged and overlooked communities it's about knowing the difference between it being genuine in a duel to show what they don't know or what these tech companies don't know is once you put Bay Area culture with culture. Together it evolves it becomes it takes on a whole new. Takes on a whole new level of power. I don't really understand why they don't have people grass roots in the communities this goes for Richmond Barkley Hayward San Francisco e.p.a. Delay whoa reach me I think I said. These tech companies need to really do Gini one outreach you can contact me we can get involved we can make a change because we have a lot of people here who are talented we have a lot of people here who can you know help these businesses we can change but right now in this stance Oh I've got the money or I don't need them or whatever it may be you did this aggressive gentrification in his arrogance is going to be their downfall expressed even in Beirut their arrogance you need to involve the community and continue an Indian and join the community so that you know what needs to be done. Going to let me ask you this as we kind of wrap up how much. Of. Your showing a spotlight on gentrification that exist in San Francisco. And you know raising this conversation and having a black face to that as well as you know as we saw in the movie you know the gentrification which had never bought it you know there was the black folks gentrified but also the White House and all that right you know how much of that was like you know we rather not have that story be told on our watch how much of that was kind of. Making us look bad with this. We wanted people to see and even when you watched a movie from one to maybe 4 or 5 it was really going on the displacement in San Francisco is horrific you go over to visualization Valley which is sunny day 0 in Geneva towers you go to the mission and you see a lot of Latinos being pushed out you come to feel moment which is. Upon a Time in Harlem on the West I would say let's just say 100 percent of film on. 10 percent is maybe black and that's on a good day I'm talking about right now as we speak as far as people who actually reside there maybe 5 percent when you go to behave You 100 point those people have been on toxic land in experience in environmental racism for decades but now they want to clean it up when you go to trial here I'm not sure about the displacement when you go to the village gardens I read about a woman who has 4 or 5 children in China. Because the father of her children is coming over here and being a father so when you go to all these neighborhoods when you look at Lakeview when all the homes are sold so when you come to San Francisco and you talk about gentrification when you think about this movie none of the was held back in fact again that's the p.g. Version of what's really going on in San Francisco San Francisco is on track to be the 1st major metropolitan to legally eradicate blackness out of the city and I'm going to speak on it because that's what's going on they don't want to stay here and if they say they do it's a lie you cannot build a 1000 new places oh $50.00 of them are for low income no you need to be low income housing you need to create you need to create opportunity we need to have these public schools being better funded it's no reason his children should be testing this low is too much money in the city of San Francisco for us to be felonies children to homelessness this is no way to should be going on if it was genuine you want to get rid of homelessness you don't invest 10 or 20 or $3040000000.00 for this god do a study on it you come to me you come to a few of the people we can eradicate homelessness and Cisco in a year if people are genuine stop using black people brown people other people poor people homeless people in San Francisco to parade in create a famous we don't need back to the beautiful movie even though it's touches on gentrification is based on a biopic and I love how he does deal with the I love how the movie. It's letting people know not just here but all around how we're being displaced nationally this whole black brown eradication because that's what idiots you want to get us up out of l.a. You want to get us about a debate you want to get us about in New York the same places that other people didn't want to be now everybody wants to come in or center where everybody doesn't make a $1000000.00 a year. Just to voice a gun. From the movie last black man in San Francisco. Just to reiterate they are trying to make sure that they get to London for the big film festival they have there they have a Go Fund Me Again giving give the information again last black man u. K. So you go to Go Fund Me dot com backslash last Black mean not men but men in me in plural u.k. And a pop up. Only playing will also have me oh Instagram is going to go global the go any plans to do a movie on you know oh yeah I'm going to explore acting right now there's a few options on the table. Music of course is my passion but music did open up the That was the point. I mean I got out I had got the job that were out. And. I mean after a while they say well I guess you know that you are weak you know I think talk about the South the South is not half as bad as. You want to tell you about. After you about that was just the white man he's not he's not taking advantage of you out in public like they do on down to Birmingham but he's going to do with that. When you go to look for a job can you get a job can you get a job when this is done was going there and does not exist. I think I'm making it up national educational television presents. Take this hammer. So McCourt on a visit to the city of San Francisco. And playwright James Baldwin. And guys on this tour of the city is the executive director of you for service. Very dearly on. You down on. The drive from the airport into any American city looks pretty much the same you could be anywhere but for James Baldwin the similarity goes deeper. Than the drive into San Francisco began talking about the increasing bitterness demoralization and despair of negro use in northern cities and it was decided that we would explore the existence of such attitudes and conditions in the city of San Francisco with its widely advertised liberal cosmopolitan. Baldwin also talked about his concept of. Living up to one's responsibility and commented that many northerners. Because they do not live in Mississippi somehow. I think the truth is that. Everyone on the one hand is fundamentally capable of paying dues. But no one paid his dues willingly. And the white man like a black man like any other man on earth. Realizes that's what he's got to do. As long as you think there's some way to get to live without paying a do. You want to be bankrupt. The bill has come in. And then coming in. And the regulation now is precisely what we've got in the bank. That everything we think we had everything. And Birmingham is an instant. Become a shrine. What is really crucial is whether the hot the country. The people in the country the citizenry. That agonizing there is no moral distance. No more of this which is a notice. Between the facts of life and sentiment is going the facts of life and running at. One of the call was got to tell it like it is. That. And. I want to point you in San Francisco has a home this moment and I think most of it what that's being watched at the day is something black and young people go to school together they graduate out the same states and then when it comes to job the Blind faith is not quite a fact but they graduate then find out I have to go clean up the same house that she got with the state and I say the most things are being watched over by. Well we talk a lot but we ask what was the real situation evolves in the city as opposed to the image that a school would like to present its. Alleged tell you with about it I know a lot about New York I'm a stranger here as you say I'm sure the. Principals I'm curious about the details Well one thing about it is particular about 80 percent of the people in this area are Negroes. Relaunch housing projects there's a as far as legacy is concerned we'll rank about. The job situation is bad because this is a real black belt system and I think that. The ladled into the dealer is Nicholas is the representative of one of the indigenous leaders of the necessary changes and a. Set of a stupid question. There's a question I've asked myself all the time what's the best you say to live up. To. Invest a little. More out. With the country. You generally shan't have. Lost most of it when did a little kid and trying to insist that he know he can do anything he wants to do. How do you make him believe that's a difficult question and. One of the main things that we have to. Make him holy Toledo they say everybody to be the president of the United States and Madeleine and then there is no this point. Many times that. Tally gets 40 to 50 years old again to find out. That this is not true and. To make. A move to face facts coming to him we need to make you sound a little better than in this country and there will be any repent of this kind why do you say that you know just how we got to be a president got me. But. I want you to think about this. And they will believe the president of this country they will not be the kind of the beast sitting in now but if you say to yourself then I will be a nigger president those countries what you're doing is agreeing with by people who say you are inferior is not important really. Well obviously the president I mean it that way when you go visit you should realize that you can become if you can become the president. There's nothing anybody anybody can do that you can't do. Today is because I'm trying to get. A living for graduation to still. Only get the remote that we need most need our. You gotta be in the sidelines as good as anybody else around I had a good job but this is a day that I think. They cannot find. Any. Any reason to think that. They have anything else. Is how they end up for example. Because maybe I was actually a population of optimistic and I was actually happy as a kite which. Could destroy this culture. But I think that the police. I think they have a purpose but then again the way some of these people do you sometimes when they pick you up. Like a couple times to be downtown walking around they they look edge if you look suspicious they would just stop you. That are going to show one night. In a way and we just have to go around Market Street and within the police car go back . To turn a corner in a corner they meet us and they stop. Them but it's back. To 9 o'clock. And they didn't have an excuse to stop or that they stop a search car and call in this next. President we won't do anything wrong nobody can . I mean if you want say what the police do when a good man is doing a good man and a lot of their citizens and we get mad we can do things to hurt people rob and steal what they do when they get mad or they take the team out I think you know the answer that question. Because the police is never bothered me in that way but I read newspapers and have been living around me all my life not the thing is going to. Lead he's got a gun he's got a club you. Yeah. It's one thing to do this in. It is that. I was going to look. There was a. Put him in the window. And I'm. Looking at it. Alabama right now and. We. Can't go down we can we can March on. The black maybe. We can do that here because it has been stated that. You know about all routes that we can get and we can help our brothers and our. People in Alabama. But anywhere in the south anywhere a black man is involved there and I'm the mother of. A. Little. Alabama. Else on the. Saddle. First of all the rest. I was I knew. Without a with God I had gotten the white girl. Yes . And yes. Even. We don't even have a country I know that we have a good. Play. They were not going to do it they were going to. Have a revolution. But I'm trying to. Get them again with. The truth you know. To believe in one thing. But stick together. So you think. Again have an armed uprising. To the people in Birmingham. And. Also the Golden Gate Bridge. Or. a. 913 k. B.C.'s music and ideas listener supported radio from Bellevue college Metro's bus number 48 runs through the central district of Seattle it's a historically black community that Carla Salter and Gabriel teardrops know very well it's a neighborhood also that is changing quickly as our region's economy has boomed in the past decade during a ride on the bus 48 the 2 bus companions discuss the changes that they've seen in their city in the past few years. constant change is expected changes even good but what bothers me about the changes that are happening now is that who does a place belong to right now this place only belongs to people who can afford to be here it's not over time sort of organically different groups of people have come It. That was Central District resident Carla Salter riding the bus with local hip hop artist Gabriel teardrops and that piece produced by $9013.00 small Yeah and you Koch Adama is part of on mute the commute our series on stories from our region's commuters the project's time from a k b c s partnership with local lore finding America a national production of air. Association in the kitchen radio. You're tuned in to music and ideas 913 came e.c.s. Bellevue a listener supported public service of Bellevue college broadcasting in h.d. And online at A.B.C.'s dot. That is Democracy Now there are millions of people all around the London and down South Africa. Executive director of the climate Network International and then back at the House Judiciary Committee is poised to vote to impeach President Trump this way next step a Senate trial. Hopeful there were those different approaches says it. 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I'm Amy Goodman in Madrid Spain the cop 25 United Nations climate summit ended in failure Sunday afternoon go shooters' failed to agree to a deal that would limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels a key goal of the Paris Agreement scores of civil society groups condemned governments and the European Union Australia Canada and the us for blocking progress at the talks all denier strategy chief at the Union of Concerned Scientists said quote Never have I seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at Comp $25.00 in Madrid between what the science requires and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action and from the climate negotiator for the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu whose existence is threatened by rising sea levels cold out the United States for watering down the final document even though President Trump is withdrawing the u.s. From the Paris agreement.