But a flicker resigned in April following weeks of protests demonstrations have continued to this day on Friday tens of thousands marched demanding remaining members of the ruling elite also step down before any new elections elections planned for July were cancelled after protesters said they would be controlled by the army and the ruling elite of British judge has ruled Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange has to remain in prison even after his current term ends because of his quote history of Scott undoing he was due to be released next week Britain's home secretary signed a request for sanctions extradition to the U.S. In June a full extradition hearing will take place in February next year prosecutors in the U.S. Have indicted a sunshine 18 counts including 17 violations of the Espionage Act back in the United States a federal appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing Trump of Amalia violations Friday the case was originally dismissed in late 2017 as one of the 3 major emoluments lawsuits filed against Trump plaintiffs in the case include a hotel operator and restaurant owners who say Trump is using his office to give his New York and D.C. Businesses a competitive advantage by allowing government patrons to seek favor with the president in exchange for spending money at his properties Trump is expected to appeal the decision which could end up at the Supreme Court Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 2 weeks in prison for paying $15000.00 to get her daughter into college by having someone correct her answers on the S.A.T.'s Hausmann also received a $30000.00 fine and 250 hours of community service over 50 people have been charged as part of the college admissions bribery scandal known as far city blues Houseman's the 1st parent to be sentenced during the trial prosecutors argued for prison time by raising cases of less privileged defendants in other cases including Kelley Williams bowler a black woman who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for using her father's address to get her child into a better school district. 76 protesters with the close the camps campaign were arrested in New York City on Saturday during a sit in a Microsoft store the immigrant rights activists are demanding Microsoft stop allowing ice to use their technology and organizer from Move Nan said in a statement quote in an era of big tech where our movement and community have seen terror trauma and separation these companies saw a business opportunity after Palin tear Microsoft is the 2nd largest cloud service provider for the U.S. Federal government they said Meanwhile a previously confidential Department of Homeland Security report revealed the ice run Adelanto immigration challenge California places an alarming number of migrants with serious mental illness and solitary confinement for quote shockingly long periods of time that 2018 report was obtained by the organization Project on Government Oversight known as Pogo through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit independent center 2020 candidate Bernie Sanders previewed it's affordable housing plan over the weekend the plan which will be released in full in the coming weeks would expand and improve federal housing programs and set a national rent control standard He's also calling for a 50000000000 dollars in grants for local authorities to establish community line trusts and when invest in outreach and other services to address the homelessness crisis the plan calls for a federal investment of 2 and a half trillion dollars over a decade which would be paid for through a tax on the wealthiest Americans the top 110th of one percent Senator Sanders addressed in Nevada chapter of a plumbers and pipe fitters Union Saturday in IMMERGUT tonight OVO 500 dollars than. Americans are either sleeping out on the streets or in homeless shelters and that includes $7500.00 people right here in the dark. Because there is no housing development through them and because they lack the money to pay for the housing they need. In the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Last week reports emerged President Trump is planning a major crackdown on California's homeless population which may include raising tent camps and creating government run facilities tromping Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson will be in San Francisco in Los Angeles this week to promote so-called support homeless opportunity zones the 26th Green Peace activists who were arrested last Thursday after they repelled off a bridge above the Houston Ship Channel have been released all face either state or felony or state or federal charges for their nonviolent act of civil disobedience the action brought shipping traffic to a halt in the largest oil export channel in the United States is the environmental activists cold on presidential candidates to support the Green New Deal ahead of last week's debate and for just transition away from fossil fuels Greenpeace USA said the activists face abuse while in custody. And 16 year old Swedish climate actress credit to marry led a school strike for climate in the nation's capital Friday alongside students and environmental activists from the D.C. Area it was her $56.00 week of action since starting the movement in her native Sweden which has since gone global she addressed the crowd gathered front of the White House. Is going. Great for every single 2 month or so. But it is a lot of people I think that that they want that expect and I'll get back to why they didn't leave. This business very overwhelming 8. If you get to. That point where we will get you at. That point that I haven't tried yet. To to marry We'll be back here in New York City for this Friday's global climate strike you can see our recent hour long interview with her at Democracy Now dot org This week Democracy Now and over 250 newsrooms around the world are taking part in the covering climate now initiative ahead of next week's UN Climate Summit on Monday the 23rd We'll have more on this initiative later in the broadcast with the nation's environment correspondent Mark Hertsgaard and those are some of the headlines This is Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I'm Amy Goodman President Trump is threatening to take military action after 2 major Saudi Arabian oil facilities were attacks Saturday by drones and cruise missiles President Trump tweeted Sunday quote Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked there's reason to believe that we know the culprit are locked and loaded depending on verification but are waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack and under what terms we would proceed exclamation point Secretary of. State might prompt A.O. Directly blamed Iran for carrying out what he calls an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply Iran has denied responsibility Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif tweeted quote Having failed at max pressure secretary Pompei is turning to Max deceit he said who with the rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility saying it was done in retaliation for the devastating Saudi blockade in Yemen but numerous reports indicate the attack may have come from the direction of Iraq or Iran rather than Yemen one of the Saudi plan struck as the world's biggest petroleum processing facility crude oil prices soared more than 15 percent after the plant suffered heavy damage according to one estimate the attacks decreased Saudi's daily output by nearly 6000000 barrels cut in half while the United States has been quick to blame Iran other world powers have not yet assign blame German foreign minister Hay said Germany is still determining who carried out the attack to who disarms it or who views have taken responsibility for these attacks at the moment we're analyzing along with our partners who is responsible for this is attack and how it could happen we need to do so with the necessary call but the situation is extraordinarily worrying because this really is the last thing we need in this conflict right now. The attack came just ahead of the United States General Assembly the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week Secretary of State Mike POMPEI O said President Trump is open to meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with no preconditions but on Sunday Trump blame what he called the fake news for essentially reporting what Pompei 0 publicly said to talk more about the escalating crisis in the Middle East we're joined by 2 guests here in New York Peter Salisbury is with us and the International Crisis Group peace senior analyst for Yemen and joining us in Washington Medea Benjamin co-founder of Code Pink she was in Iran earlier this year author of several books including kingdom of the end just. Behind the U.S. Saudi connection Her latest book is titled inside Iran the real history and politics at the Islamic Republic of Iran we welcome you both to Democracy Now Peter Salsbury let's start with you right you understand took place this weekend Well the fact that we have right now is that one of the world's largest petroleum processing facilities was hit the keys of claim that the U.S. Has said publicly that they believe Iran was behind attack and we're now seeing U.S. Officials briefing that the attack came from Iraq or Iran we really don't know more facts than than these explain what is known at this point what is known again is that the facility was hit what was hit by isn't even known yet so nationally what we were told was there were drone strikes now we're told that there were missile strikes and what is possible there was some sort of combination of both and even potentially from from both directions were a real trigger point here what we've seen is the U.S. Saying that they want the Saudis to come out and say what they think happened and if the Saudis come out and say this was Iran then the expectation is that they will take some sort of retaliates reaction will President Trump said locked and loaded loaded basically awaiting Saudi Arabia's direction the United States awaiting what Saudi Arabia is telling us to do absolutely and this is reminiscent of attacks earlier this year on all tankers off the coast of Gera in the United Arab Emirates where the U.S. Came out pretty strongly and said this was Iran and the U.A.E. In the end said that they could not us attain who was behind the attacks because of the potential cost of retaliation against Iran that would lead in turn to retaliate against the U.A.E. So the decision point really sits with the Saudis right now in terms of what happens next maybe. Benjamin of Code Pink in Washington D.C. Your response to what's taken place this weekend and President Trump saying the U.S. Is locked and loaded and Secretary of State pump AOE Now mind you the Iraq very serious Iran hawk not that pump a 0 isn't Chon Bolton was ousted last week by President Trump and now you see this escalation of pressure on Iran if you can respond to the locked and loaded response and what took place in Saudi Arabia. Well let's remember that Saudi Arabia of the Emirates with the help of the United States and other Western powers that have been selling billions of dollars of weapons have been destroying the infrastructure of Yemen for almost 5 years now of course the who tees have been trying to fight back taking this this conflict into Saudi Arabia this is just the most devastating of the attacks maybe it was done just by these $15000.00 drones as the Hooty say maybe it was done with help from other countries but this is to be expected but let's go back to the origin of this problem which is the Saudis in the Emirates getting involved in the internal affairs of Yemen in the US giving them the green light and all the logistical support in the weapons to do that what we have to do now is put up the pressure more on the U.S. To stop this support we have had historic votes in Congress including a War Powers resolution that said the U.S. Should not be supporting this Saudi led war in Yemen and it's been vetoed by Donald Trump now is the time to demand that an amendment that is put into the military funding Act known as the N.D.A. The National Defense Authorization Act stay in there and we need to put pressure on the speaker Nancy Pelosi so that this becomes a top priority we have to stop our support for the war in Yemen the other thing we have to recognize is that the conflict with Iran is totally manufactured by Donald Trump and that Congress must reiterate what's in the Constitution he does not have the right to take military action against Iran that is the right of the Congress and certainly Mohammed bin summon of Saudi Arabia is not the commander of chief of the U.S. Forces. Peter sounds for you've suggested the real danger in the situation is that the U.S. Sees Yemen and who sees as a kind of easy. Means to attack Iran and explain what that means for the people of Yemen or that's why it's so early this year we published a fairly lengthy report on the dangers of Yemen becoming increasingly embroiled in tensions between the United States Saudi Arabia on one hand and Iran on the other the Yemen conflict is resolved a pool for political means an imperfect solution imperfect deal of some kind of what we said was if the war is allowed to continue if there is no diplomatic process to end the war which involves Saudi Arabia and the US speaking to who sees that the rebel group that the whole of the capital the big danger is that in fact we see Yemen becoming a trigger point for a wider regional war and being further embroiled in some form of confrontation and the US perhaps deciding as has been suggested to us is a possibility that it should support the Saudis more in the military campaign in Yemen to hurt the he's more to hurt Iran by extension and we see that as a really dangerous path to be going to explain the devastating impact of the US armed Saudi and. Says they're pulling out attacks on Yemen what's happening on the ground the number of deaths the. Cholera and everything else I mean that the really simple answer is that you can 18000000 people in a country of 26 to 30000000 people who don't get enough to eat on a day to day basis 11000000 people really on the brink of starvation around half a 1000000 people literally starving as a consequence of the war as a whole you've got sort of people using the economy weapon of war you're seeing all parties to the conflict bombing civilian areas infrastructure being devastated we're seeing a country which if you stop the war tomorrow it's going to be hungry it's going to be poor and it's going to be devastated for some time. To come but the other point to understand here is all parties have used the economy have attacked civilians to further their aims and none have been successful thus far so when we talk about pursuing a deep military puff perhaps deeper U.S. Involvement in the conflict what we're talking about is doubling down a strategy that simply has not worked up until now and again sort of this crisis group as an organization that promotes peace what we've been saying for some time is it's time for everyone to talk it's time for people to sort of rip off the bandaid stop hiding behind U.N. Resolutions and the US the Saudis to talk to the HE'S and see what can be done to and the conflicts and absent that kind of step I think we're just going to see things come what may happen should you ate the United Arab Emirates. The U.A.E. Isn't out of the conflict and the drawdown or the withdrawal and the slightly different things which reduced its presence particularly on the Red Sea coast of Yemen where we saw sort of the potential for a big battle for a really important port last year driven by the U.A.E. They've drawn down their presence but they remain in operational control on the Red Sea coast and their main sort of budget with certain allies on the ground that's complicating in and of itself because in August we saw you a you've got forces fighting against loyalists of the HOW DO YOU government which is supported by Saudi Arabia so not only do we have this big sort of conflict between the he's on one side and the government of Yemen backed by the Saudis on the other we know how this sort of sub conflict the civil war within the civil war in Yemen which further complicates matters and makes peace even harder to achieve Medea Benjamin just a few weeks ago U.N. Investigators said the U.S. Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes for arming the Saudis in the war in Yemen can you lay out what these war crimes are and what you see here as the solution right now and what you fear most at this point with President Trump talking about locked and loaded even as it was suggested he would meet unconditionally with the Iranian leadership and then he says it's fake news. Well yes the U.S. Has been involved with other western powers of providing the means that the Saudis have used to destroy infrastructure in Yemen as well as hit marketplaces weddings funerals civilian targets and these are war crimes as well as supporting these outside countries that have been involved in the use of torture and in all kinds of activities that have been documented in a very devastating report by the United Nations I think it is clear that these are war crimes that have been committed with complicity of the outside countries but as Peter laid out how it has to move into negotiations in the case of Yemen the same thing has to happen in the case of Iran and there are possibile solutions on the table put forth most recently by a manual micro in France the saying that Europe would extend a $15000000000.00 credit line of credit to Iran and is calling on the United States to give waivers to other countries to buy Iranian oil no it's crazy that the United States has the ability to say to the rest of the world you can't buy Iranian oil and there are 2 countries China and Syria they continue to buy that oil but the United States much lift those waivers and it is been speculated that Trump was contemplating that and John Bolton was totally against that which is one of the reasons that he was fired but I think lifting those waivers is essential for easing the conflict right now. And finally if you could comment Medea Benjamin on the latest Israeli attacks on Iranian interests in Iraq Syria Lebanon now of course Israel's. Having it snap elections tomorrow not clear what will happen out of that but leading up to it the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say it's going to annex a 3rd of the West Bank but all of that together with what's happening right now. Well that's right the Israelis have been trying to goad the United States into a military attack on Iran's nuclear research facilities let's remember that it is Israel that has nuclear weapons and Iran does not have nuclear weapons but this pressure coming from Israel given how close the Trump administration is to the Israelis and the Israelis actual bombing of Iranian forces in these different areas has really escalated this conflict I think we should think of this as a kin to 914 before the 1st World War where any incident whether it's provoked by the Israelis by the Saudis can drag the United States into a war that will be absolutely catastrophic for the entire region and we must stop that from happening Well I want to thank you both for being with us of course we'll continue to follow the story Medea Benjamin co-founder of Code Pink in Iran earlier this year author of a number of books including kingdom of the UN just behind the US Saudi connection her latest inside Iran the real history and politics of the Islamist Republic of Iran and Peter Salsbury International Crisis Group senior analyst for Yemen This is Democracy Now when we come back covering climate now $250.00 news organizations around the country are focusing on climate this week leading up to the UN Climate Summit on September 23rd at the United Nations and this week's global climate strike on September 20th Stay with us. 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Sick best known for starting the band the cars he died on Sunday here in New York this is Democracy Now I'm Amy Goodman covering climate now that's the name of a new global initiative by the nation in Columbia Journalism Review to improve global coverage of the climate crisis more than $250.00 media outlets around the world including democracy now have signed on to the effort to focus on climate stories ahead of next week's UN Climate Action summit for years the corporate media has been criticised for failing to connect the dots between climate change and extreme weather around the globe a recent study by Public Citizen found the country's leading print publications devoted 363. Articles to hurricane Dorian only 9 mention climate change another study by Media Matters in the 1st week after durian hit from August 28th to September 5th found of the 216 segments aired on main television networks on durian only one mention climate change we're joined now by Mark Hertsgaard one of the co-founders of covering climate now his new article out today in the nation is headlined a new beginning for climate reporting these Nations Environment Correspondent best again to better He's also author of 7 books including Hot Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth Hertsgaard Welcome back to Democracy Now explain the scope of this project and what is coming out now a round the world in the news media and how you put it together. Great to be with you Amy and everybody Democracy Now we're so happy to have you as one of our partners in this project covering climate now which has really taken off way beyond what we expected but as you mentioned we have 250 news outlets from all around the world across the U.S. And overseas who have committed in the following 7 to 8 days to do serious climate coverage leading up to the September 23rd United Nations Climate Action summit there in New York at United Nations headquarters and we calculated that if you put all these $250.00 plus news outlets together our combined audience is over $1000000000.00 people with a B. And so when we started this 6 months ago we had no idea it would take off like this but we're very very pleased that it has and I think it shows actually that. Something that we suspected at the beginning of this which is that we thought that a lot of our colleagues including in the mainstream media. Wanted to do more climate coverage knew that this is the big story of our time and just needed a little push and that if if there was a way for us to to highlight this critical mass of journalists and news outlets that wanted to do more climate coverage by highlighting that we could grow that critical mass of coverage and that's exactly what's happened we thought that we'd have you know a couple of dozen smaller outlets here in the U.S. Joining this and it's just grown and grown and grown as more and more journalists across the country and around the world have found out about this initiative and now we're up to $250.00 news outlets and frankly we're hoping to make a little noise this week I mean it's very interesting when you look at these numbers on the coverage of Hurricane Dorian you had massive 24 hour a day it almost seems certainly on the cable networks coverage of the hurricane as we should have seen it you know the sly. Running of the Bahamas and the devastation there but almost no mention of climate crisis of the climate changes the intensity of these hurricanes the frequency of these hurricanes caused by human what. Kind it it's human actions human activities human fueled climate change Sure yeah the science on this is pretty clear and unfortunately the U.S. Media in particular has a long ways to go and it's climate coverage. You know we are trying 1st of all to break the climate silence that you're talking about here Amy that has been the main problem with media coverage of this issue going back for more than 20 years now and I've been reporting on climate change since the 1990 S. And I spent a lot of that decade traveling around the world and it's been clear ever since then that the U.S. Media is about 10 years behind the media in Europe in Asia in reporting the climate crisis 1st of all we don't mention it as you just talked about and when we do do the climate story we often get it wrong for many years we had this false balance where we felt that if we had on a real NASA scientist talking about climate science that somehow To be fair to the audience we also had to have on somebody who said the climate science was bunk and that person was usually just a paid propagandist for the fossil fuel industry so there is not care to mention or not of the world is round mark because we're going to have to bring on the Flat Earth Society to counter what you say just to get you know a fair and balanced approach to it. Yeah that's that has been just a disastrous point of view and luckily that is now fading I think this falls balance but still we have to break the silence and I think this week is going to help do that we really this this consortium of covering climate now is striking in many respects in that we've got such a diverse. City there's very big outlets like Bloomberg like C.B.S. News like the Times of India which alone has over 1000000000 monthly unique visitors to its website Asahi Shimbun the biggest newspaper in Japan the poor Rekha the biggest newspaper in Italy and then here in the U.S. We've got the San Francisco Chronicle The Seattle Times the Minneapolis Star Tribune the Philadelphia Inquirer most of the major public radio stations in the country so there's a lot of participation but also from some very small nonprofit outfits I'm very proud to say that we've got participation from Togo from Turkey from Cambodia from South Africa from all over the world from Portugal Argentina Chile though there are many of our colleagues in the media know that the climate story is something that we have been frankly missing not too long and we're going to fix that one of the 1st big stories out this week the C.B.S. News poll tell us what it found sure we were close there was C.B.S. On this and they found that essentially most Americans understand that the climate crisis is serious and they want action right now and to me the most interesting finding Well there were $21.00 is that about 70 percent 69 percent of the American people. Expect that the next president takes serious climate action there's 56 percent of the public wants action right now and another 13 percent want action in the next few years meaning in the in the term of the incoming president that is a very striking number that I think of politicians in both parties need to be paying attention to but the 2nd finding that is striking out of that C.B.S. Poll is that even though most Americans think climate crisis is serious and needs action there is deep confusion about whether the scientists really believe this only about half of the country 48 percent understand the truth which is that science is finished is the decided on this 97 percent of their working climate scientists say that this is a serious problem manmade we have to do something about it 48 percent think that the scientists are not clear on this that number that 48 and 48 percent the fact that people are confused about a basic fact about climate science shows that we in the media have not been doing our job and that for 20 years we have been taken in really by the propaganda of the fossil fuel industry which has been saying as you well know I mean you've reported here on Democracy Now numerous times the fossil fuel industry has been saying for almost 30 years now all the science is unclear they've been trying to muddy the waters with this false equivalence and so unfortunately we're still seeing that the residue of that here in the public opinion now people can look out the window and see the climate of climate science is real. Imagine though if we'd had the proper coverage of climate science for these past 1020 years what the poll data would be saying now and what the political candidates would be saying because there would be a political awareness and that's why we're really doing this covering climate now on a ship because you know last October the I.P.C.C. Scientists of the United Nations said we have 12 years in which to slash the emissions on this planet in half in order to basically retain a livable world and they said the scientists added that in order to do that we need fundamental transformation in the economic sector the energy sector the transportation sector construction agriculture but they left out one critical sector which is the media sector as you well know Amy the media yes the key to political consciousness and if you don't have media coverage of the climate crisis you will never have the public awareness and the public pressure that frankly is needed to get governments and corporations to do what is required to face up to this climate crisis let's talk about the language that is used to describe the crisis. The Guardian recently wrote instead of climate change the preferred terms or climate emergency crisis or breakdown in global heating as favor of a global warming of the original terms are not banned but the significance of how this is described Mark. Sure we're very happy to have the Guardian as our lead media partner in covering climate now they've been with us from the beginning and we chose them because they are the gold ready ready standard in climate coverage if you are looking for the good coverage that's the place to go they have it on their front page every day it's solid reporting it's good analysis and you know they've been criticized at the Guardian by some of our colleagues in the media for using these terms Amy of of emergency and crisis as if this is somehow an activist language. Follow the science if you follow the science those terms are not activism if you think that having 12 years to turn around the entire world economy to get it off of fossil fuels and to put it onto a. Climate smart basis of solar wind and efficiency if that isn't an emergency I don't know what is the scientist said in that report that the kinds of changes we need over the next 12 years are without precedent in human history I mean we've never made this big of a change this fast if that isn't a crisis if that is an emergency I don't know what is that's why the United Nations secretary ready general Mr Gutierrez has consistently said that we face a climate emergency so we feel as a journalist our job is to be honest and straightforward about the facts and the scientific facts here are very clear this is a crisis situation talk about some of the leading stories that are coming out the 1st expositors during this on covering climate now week and why you feel you just put out a piece today a new beginning for climate reporting this U.N. Climate summit that's taking place before Santiago where democracy now and hopefully all these news organizations will be and chalet and December why this September 23rd Climate Action sun at the U.N. You feel is so important. Sure. You know the secretary general gotos called this summit precisely because governments around the world are not living up to the pledges that they made in Paris in December 2015 the very famous Paris Agreement which is the high point of climate to mock climate diplomacy and we have an agreement among virtually every government on earth that they would keep the temperature rise to quote unquote well below 2 degrees Celsius and to try to get to 1.5 degrees. And that would require as the scientists have said dramatic shifts between now and 2030 and the secretary general has called this summit next Monday September 23 because the governments around the world are not living up to what they promised to do we are still on track to way over 2 degrees probably somewhere between $3.00 and $5.00 degrees of temperature rise which would be an absolute catastrophe so Secretary General terrace is summoning the world leaders to New York a day before the General Assembly meeting of the United Nations to say look you've got to increase your ambition you've got to raise your game we need to go faster and farther the science is more serious than we thought and I think frankly that the he is trying to the secretary general is hoping that this summit because of media coverage and because of pressure from the youth activists will force governments to to do a better job of of living up to their pledges and he's famously told the heads of state don't bring a speech to the summit bring a plan in other words no blah blah blah that we usually have at U.N. Meetings show us what you're doing show us the concrete examples of cutting emissions that can be replicable around the world and that's the good side of this is that there are so many solutions out there now that make economic sense California where I'm talking to you from right now 5th biggest economy in the world California is on track to meet these targets it can. But it's going to take a push and it really requires public pressure you're speaking to us from San Francisco Marc as we wrap up President Trump is expected to be out in California in these next days doing his fundraisers a proud climate change denier your message for him as he comes to San Francisco in Los Angeles. I wish the President Trump would remember that I have a daughter he has daughters he has presumably grandchildren as well I think and we owe it to them to do better than this and I would just remind everyone that Donald Trump said that he pulled us out of the Paris agreement he has not he cannot yet that decision is for the next president by the agreement itself the U.S. Cannot leave until one day after the 2020 presidential election so whoever Americans Elect on November 3rd 2020 that president will make the decision about whether the U.S. Stays in the purser agreement or not Mark Hertsgaard want to thank you for being with us and for this tremendous global effort to focus on the climate crisis Mark is the nation's environment correspondent investigative editor author of 7 bucks including Hot Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth as we continue our climate coverage through the wake tomorrow we'll spend the hour with Naomi Klein it's publication day for her she has a new book out it's called on fire the burning case for a Green New Deal This is Democracy Now when we come back we head north to Alaska to President Trump's efforts to drill and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and what this name means to the people and the environment of the area stay with us. 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I need to wake up and Melissa Etheridge This is Democracy Now I mean the goodman the trumpet ministrations finalizing plans to open one of the world's last pristine wilderness Regency Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Ohio and frack gas drilling the Arctic Refuge is rich in biodiversity home to Caribou polar bears musk oxen and other species millions of migratory birds gather there from across the world and whales reside just off shore it's also been home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years on Thursday the House of Representatives voted to block the trumpet ministration from opening up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or Anwar the bill or had the support of Native Alaskans who depend on migrating caribou herd for their subsistence members of the rich and steering committee travel to Washington D.C. Last week to lobby for the drilling ban they said in a statement which in and caribou have had a spiritual and cultural connection since time immemorial the future of caribou in the future of the Gwich'in are the same harm to the caribou as harm to the rich and way of life unquote a companion bill to ban drilling in ANWAR is not expected to pass the Republican controlled Senate meanwhile the trumpet ministrations announced its final plan to offer oil and gas LEIGH SALES across more than a 1000000 and a half acres of the Arctic Refuge coastal plains the plan calls for the creation of landing strips drill pads pipeline supports a sea water. One Plan 175 miles of roads and other infrastructure in pristine wilderness along the last because North Coast Well for more we go to Charlotte North Carolina where we're joined by ship banker. A professor of Oregon ecology at university in New Mexico he's the author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seasons of land life and land and also editor of Arctic voices resistance at the tipping point he's also the CO curator of species and para long the Rio Grande so bunkered banner G. Thank you so much for being with us again can you talk about what the Trump plans are for the Arctic and what this means you've just returned from India. Thank you Amy good to be with you I just prefer this these by saying you you did an excellent segment with Mark on how the media has failed to cover the climate crises what we are talking about in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is even as I see it is a bigger crisis than the climate crises that is unfolding before us the media has miserably failed to inform the public which is the crisis of extinction What is the scientists call it biological and I lay shunned earlier this year the United Nations I P B is released what is considered for some of us the greenest warning of human history that 1000000 species on Earth which is about more than 50 percent of the documented species on the planet face extinction many within decades last year living planet report issued by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London highlighted that since 970. Globally monitored populations of what we Brits which includes birds fish mammals and P.B.S. And reptiles have declined on average in population 60 percent in Central and Latin America the decline is eating 9 percent in India and the in the Pacific is the 2nd worst 64 percent So if you take all of that. The biological and a Haitian is the most expansive crises before us if you consider the number of casualties taking right before us happening right before us and he's also the most challenging one to meet a good Because every aspect of modern life and its institutions are in tangled with biological and a hellish and that seed probably the most it tickle obligation before us is to protect treaty called nurseries and bartering grounds for animals part and nurse their young and Ripley Nish their populations the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that I have experience personally in all seasons is one such not certainly the most significant one in the entire circle or not and one of the most important globally the Trump administration since taking office as aggressively pursued to open up the coastal plain to oil and gas drilling and what they have Don is is rushed process that has been on demarc critique and on lawful Jay meet up with Clark president of the defenders a wildlife seed following the vote in the you mentioned last Thursday and Trump's administration issuing the final environmental impact statement that the process they have followed is quote unquote categorically on law food so last Thursday was a historic vote in the house because to your signal I spoke with you on Democracy Now following. The passage of the 2017 Republican tax cuts and Jobs Act in which Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski hijacked the budget reconciliation process and snark in the drilling provision into the tax cuts tax cuts and jobs are. Following that that mischievous part sued this process they have on bar mind public participation even though 70 percent of the American public according to a poll conducted by that you know force it in 2017 or posed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge did did not adequately consult the indigenous communities there which in communities you mention also that out you know pit community members with whom I work very closely there are concerns about food security human rights and cultural practices. And they have basically released a in one mental impact statement that is deeply flawed and for following up last month Politico published a very important investigate the piece in which the highlight how the administration has already started stop priest many polluted and deleted Acis means by their old scientists and there are 3 that are very significant that 3 scientists of the old organization we all plan management to go formally have now complained one on the polar bear assessment one on the anthropologist on the cultural impacts to the indigenous communities and one on fish so they're suppressing science they're suppressing indigenous concerns and they're basically about to destroy a one of the world's most important biological nurseries this will not be allowed we are fighting very hard and we will defeat I don't I want to turn to a long time in which activists. Former chair of the anyone circum Koehler conference and past winner of the Right Livelihood Award she also wrote the book the right to be called one woman's fight to protect the Arctic and save the planet from climate change I asked her about the trumpet ministrations plans to open up a part of Alaska's Arctic refuge. To oil drilling our atmosphere is reacting from this trauma that we have been. Putting on to our planet why would we continue to do this anywhere else in the world much less in the Arctic that is being the most negatively impacted what kind of logic or what kind of wisdom is that and so of course it should not be the Arctic that once again is is is targeted for an end to continue and to maintain a sustainable way in which we have been going it makes absolutely no sense no economic sense and no environmental sense no health sense it just doesn't make sense on any level for any leaders in this world to move in the direction that is going to damage further the lands and the way of life of indigenous peoples who have relied upon that for. The ongoing of. Teaching us I say that you know because our lands and our While that's our universities that's that's what we are all about in terms of that connection so again going in that direction of an unsustainable way to damage further what is pristine what is precious to us because we protect what we love and we love our ways of life we love our land and the air that we breathe and so the world has to start to make those connections for themselves as well and fall back in love with nature and with how our wonderful the wonders of our world is on our planet it just again it is not we're wise to go in that direction and it wouldn't activist and author share low watt Klute. Professor Bernard at this point with the trumpet ministration saying they're pushing for more drilling and fracking in the Arctic Refuge what all are and yet you have a Congress with its historic vote what do you see as the next step. The next step is that the administration will issue the record of decision within the next 30 days and we're likely off our lease ills but one thing that the public should know that this fight is only heating up for the project for in defense of protection and what will happen is that that even though they may have offered lease sales all of the major big oil players have departed so shale for today alaska arctic operation in 2017 ofter is $7000000000.00 They sunk in the project a last month B.P. 4 sold their entire Alaska operations to a small company in Houston actually not so small hill corps that has a horrible record and Conoco Phillips the last remaining major player in Alaska's Arctic slope has already announced that they will not be on lease cells that may be offered on ducted National Wildlife Refuge So we are talking about we have 500 company. Companies but also legal suits so what's coming because that minister has followed any legal process legal challenges are coming and we are we are we just have to be vigilant and defeat them soon and I'm very excited so you want to thank you for being with us Professor of our going to college University of New Mexico author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seasons of life and land very happy birthday to Sam Alcott I'm Amy Goodman thanks so much for joining us. Well good afternoon this is H.D. One of the SPRO and that it will want to. Work in the H.D. Ones in order when anyone points. Have an F.M. And be X. And a barber at $89.00 F.M. . In Adelaide Beach we're at $90.00 F.M. We serve got Yukos and Northern more of a at $91.00 F.M. . For the semi Nez Valley and key areas San Simeon area we're at $90.00 F.M. . And in the longboat member Village area we're 95 but what I found. This is Central Coast Public Radio OK C.B.X. I'm telling Pratt. It's time for issues and ideas a show that features a wide variety of local voices sharing their thoughts and perspectives today we'll be talking about air quality on the POMO Mesa in a local journalist who is bringing attention to the issue that dust can cause irritation in deep tissue in your lungs and even cause problems in your cardiovascular system especially if you're older Also this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival we recently shared memories from some in the Central Coast community who attended the seminal event but one local resident was serving in the Vietnam War at the time and we missed a lot of things I don't know somebody walked on the moon for a week or so probably And that happened his story and more coming up on issues and ideas. Good Afternoon It's Monday September 16th 2019 I'm telling. Is a staff reporter at the San Luis Obispo Tribune a recent fellowship project had her focused on health and air quality on their pomo Mesa she's been talking with the local community to learn about impacts of dust blowing off nearby dunes and what residents can do to protect themselves from what is. Sometimes some of the worst air quality in the nation this summer Vaughn and Tribune inter Ashley Laden sit down with greater Mart to discuss their reporting for years the Tribune has been reporting about bad air quality on a pomo May sat and the relationship between air pollution control district and state parks and trying to regulate that I was awarded a fellowship with a U.S.C. Annenberg Center for Health journalism to investigate bad air quality on a pomo May sat from the health perspective and this project is a 6 month intensive investigative research project where I'm exploring the data that's been collected the research that has been die and also working closely with the community to learn about what the actual health experiences are of the residents there I see and are you doing other reporting at the same time or this is this fellowship enabling you to totally dedicate yourself to this oh no I am you know full time reporter on all of my other beats including you know Cal Poly and the county and soon election coverage but this is an enabling us to really dive deep into something that we've been reporting on for years but maybe not to this level the air quality on the mesa is bad it's been bad for a long time and we've known about it and we've written about it public health is not about it the Air Pollution Control District has known about it and we wanted to know like how bad is it what does that actually mean so for people who are driving on the $101.00 for example and look over towards new pomo they might see a big haze of brown cloud over than a pomo sometimes there's fog but sometimes you'll see that it's this brown 10 G. Thing so what that is is something a pollution called particulate matter and so particulate matter is just like tiny tiny pieces of particles that are smaller than the human hair you can't see them with your eyes wild fire smoke. is particulate matter smoke from you know your wood burning stove produces particulate matter it can also be dust from agriculture or from dirt roads there's all different kinds of particulate matter this particulate matter that we see over than a poem oh me sat is just bought of as dust so generally comes from the beach line and when the wind blows from a west northwest direction this plume