More than 300 protesters overwhelmingly women are arrested on Capitol Hill urging senators to vote against the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will speak to playwright and v. Day founder events are just wrote an open letter in Time magazine to white women who support Brett Kavanaugh then the Nobel Peace Prize goes to his cd Kurdish Human rights activist not your odd and Congolese doctor. For fighting sexual violence. Still critical of the distribution of the just to give to suppose his Ok. I spoke to my son. Was this. A good. Course controls or what school it was even so we'll talk about their campaign against sexual violence then to Rio to Glenn Greenwald the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on Sunday's election in Brazil the current presidential front runner is a far right for me army officer who's openly praised Brazil's military dictatorship all that and more coming out. Welcome to Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org The War and Peace Report I mean a Goodman the Senate will vote this morning on whether to end debate on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the u.s. Supreme Court setting up a confirmation vote as early as Saturday key Republican senators including Susan Collins of Maine Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have yet to announce their position on the vote on Friday both senators Flake and Collins said the recent f.b.i. Background report into Kavanagh was thorough and did not corroborate or. Station's against the nominee Democratic leaders said the report which was withheld from the public and was made available in a single copy to senators on Thursday was incomplete This is ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein the most notable part of this report is what's in it as we noted by the White House the f.b.i. Did not interview Brett Kavanaugh nor did the f.b.i. Interview Dr Blasi for what we've heard from numerous people over the last few days seeking to provide information to the f.b.i. We have seen even more press reports of witnesses who wanted to speak with the f.b.i. But were not interviewed Devore Mira's his lawyer said he was unaware of any corroborating witnesses who were interviewed Meanwhile the National Council of Churches has called for Cavanagh's nomination to be withdrawn saying he showed extreme partisan bias during last week's Senate hearing and to sexual assault allegations by Christine Blas a forward against him The group represents some 45000000 churchgoers 100000 u.s. Churches and an unprecedented op ed piece in The Wall Street Journal judge Kavanagh argues he has the judicial temperament to join the high court writing I was very emotional last Thursday more so than I've ever been and I might have been too emotional at times I know that my tone was sharp and I said a few things I shouldn't have said on Thursday retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told an audience of retirees and Florida that though he originally supported Kavanagh he now opposes his confirmation changes for reasons really no relationship to is. The liberal bill of the order is record is a federal judge who's of the rules and he should have been confirmed when he was in the loop but I think his performance during the hearings caused me to change but that showdown over Judge Kavanagh his confirmation came as thousands of protesters converged on Washington d.c. Thursday where nearly 300 people were arrested and allowed peaceful sit in in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building among those arrested was comedian and actress Amy Schumer also protesting there's a group of women who confronted you Republican Senator Orrin Hatch as he sped into an elevator challenge him over support for Kavanaugh Senator Hatch told the women to grow up and waving them off as he boarded an elevator in the Hart Building. Thank you thank you great to talk to and Exchange with that still you wave your hand things my way firing asking you. Whether you. Thursday thousands marched from Capitol Hill to a protest outside the Supreme Court after headlines we'll have more on Judge Cavanagh's nomination with award winning playwright and author Eve Ensler in Yemen tens of thousands of people rallied in the streets of Yemen's 2nd largest city Thursday protesting the collapse of Yemen's economy and the u.s. Backed Saudi led bombing campaign 3 quarters of Yemenis some 22000000 people are dependent on international aid with an estimated 8400000 people on the brink of starvation this is protester Shahab Muhammad I don't know if we're starving in our children are dying the cities are under siege and there's unemployment we're going to tell the regime in the Saudi led coalition that when hunger is the engine for these people discussions negotiations and treaties collapse and the only solution is immediately supplying a loaf of bread Thursday's protest came as the head of a team of u.n. Investigators accuse Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of interfering with his investigation Kamil Gen do base says all sides and Yemen's conflict have committed human rights abuses with the us backed Saudi led coalition responsible for war crimes including widespread arbitrary detention rape torture and the conscription of children as young as 8 years old in August Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama blocked an amendment by Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy that would have cut off u.s. Taxpayer support for the Saudi led war in Yemen. Bloomberg is reporting China inserted micro chips into servers used by major tech companies such as Apple and Amazon that give backdoor access to data the minuscule grain of rice chip would allow hackers to bypass security and remotely access the networks of these companies both Apple and Amazon are denying the claims in the report Meanwhile Vice President Mike Pence accused China of interfering in the u.s. Midterm elections in order to undermine President Trump and his agenda the American people deserve to know in response to the strong stand the President Trump has stated Beijing is pursuing a comprehensive and coordinated campaign to undermine support for the president our agenda and our nation's most cherished ideals Pence's warning to Beijing comes amidst a growing u.s. Trying to trade war and as the Pentagon's reportedly planning a massive show of force in November with warships and planes set to carry out exercises near China's territorial waters in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait Meanwhile the Justice Department has indicted 7 Russian agents for conspiring to hack the computers of anti-doping officials who uncovered a massive ring of state sponsored cheating by athletes ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro u.s. Attorney Scott Brady said Thursday the 7 agents have ties to g.r.u. Russia's military intelligence body he said they went on to attempt tax against other targets they targeted Westinghouse a nuclear power company based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania that supplied nuclear fuel to the Ukraine. They targeted the organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons which was investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the poisoning of the former g.d.r. Us or and his daughter in the u.k. . And they targeted a lab in Switzerland that analyzed the nerve agent used in that. The Dutch defense ministry says counterintelligence officials broke up a hacking attempt by the Russians as they attempted to break into a Marriott Hotel why 5 from a parking lot in the Hague the Dutch said the Russians had a receipt which showed they took a taxi ride from the headquarters of the g.r.u. Russia's military intelligence service to Moscow's main airport Russia has rejected the indictments calling them part of a dissent from ation campaign the trumpet ministrations warning India it could face sanctions over its decision to purchase a 5000000000 dollar missile defense system from Russia talk of u.s. Sanctions came as Indian prime minister Narendra Modi welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi Thursday u.s. Weapons makers Lockheed Martin and Boeing are seeking contracts worth billions of dollars to replace India's aging fleet of Russian built warplanes Brazilian voters head to the polls Sunday in a hotly contested presidential election that could have major repr questions throughout the country in the region the front runner is far right leader your boss and Otto who has praised Brazil's military dictatorship and made numerous racist homophobic and sexist remarks his primary opponent former president and head of the Workers' Party the eastern Austria Lula da Silva had to drop out of the race from prison where he's been since April what many consider to be trumped up corruption charges his handpicked successor from the had is currently placing 2nd in most polls will have more on Brazil with journalist Glenn Greenwald later in the broadcast in Oslo Norway officials of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee have named this year's recipients in the reeds no. Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Dennis McRib and. For their efforts to end the use of this as a win in the war and conflict Dr Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999 the clinic received thousands of women each year many of them requiring surgery as a result of sexual violence. As a 25 year old via cd Kurdish Human rights activist from Iraq she was kidnapped by the Islam mixtape repeatedly raped she was held as a sex slave for almost 3 years after headlines we'll speak with the event's lawyer who's worked extensively with Dr McCuaig in the Congo Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Letterman died Wednesday in an Idaho nursing home at the age of 96 and 1988 Letterman won the Nobel Physics Prize for his pioneering work on subatomic particles in recent years he began suffering from dementia in 2015 Dr Letterman sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765000.00 in order to pay for his mounting medical and nursing home costs and the 2018 MacArthur fellows were announced Thursday recognizing leadership and dedication in a range of fields including the arts sciences and human rights this year's recipients include pastor and activist Reverend William Barber who helped spearhead the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina which protests issues related to voting rights poverty discrimination and environmental rights Reverend Barber was being arrested as the fellowship was announced as he joined us Chicago protests demanding McDonald's increase their minimum wage other fellows include journalist Ken Ward to document the impact of coal and natural gas industries in West Virginia and back a Heller human rights lawyer working on behalf of a. A few cheese and those are some of the headlines This is Democracy Now democracy now or of the war and peace report I mean a good many more than 300 protesters mostly women were arrested on Thursday during a massive sit and Capitol Hill against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who's been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by multiple women the Senate's planning to hold a key procedural vote on his confirmation this morning at 10 30 am Eastern this comes just one day after Senators were given their 1st chance to see the F.B.I.'s new investigation into Cavanagh Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon blasted the f.b.i. Probe as a horrific cover up Thursday a final vote on Cavanagh's confirmation as expected on Saturday the decision rests on 4 senators who have not yet announced how they will vote Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska as well as Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Thursday Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and now she will vote against Kavanaugh opposition to Cavanagh's growing cross the country former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens a lifelong Republican said Cavanagh does not belong on the high court following his partisan remarks during last week's hearing the editorial boards of The Washington Post and The New York Times also came out against Kavanaugh This marks the 1st time The Washington Post as opposed to Supreme Court nominee in over 30 years the last was Robert Bork in 1987 Meanwhile Judge Kavanagh himself has published an unprecedented op ed piece in The Wall Street Journal defending himself in the column he vowed to be an independent impartial judge but admitted he said a few things last week he should not have said we're joined now by events award winning playwright and author of The Vagina Monologue. And she's also the founder of the day a movement to end violence against women and girls she just published a letter to white women who support Brett Kavanaugh in Time magazine. So before we go. Just after we talk about this we're going to talk about today's announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize but Eve You have dedicated your life to fighting sexual violence thousands of women mainly women went to protest on Capitol Hill not just yesterday there have been hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of arrests over the last few weeks since the beginning hearings at the beginning of September of Judge Kavanaugh your thoughts Well I think I think we're in the middle of a gender war I think Trump is essentially the core who declared a war and I think the fact that all of this I was just listening to the speed at which this is all being done in the language that they're talking about plowing it through ramming it through getting it through it all feels like this culture of rape that we're doing things so quickly that no one has time to think or breathe or see or feel and I think what's happened and I am hearing for many many activists and survivors throughout the country women are outraged women are in trauma women feel like what has happened to them their experiences their bodies their histories their stories are not being taken seriously that this is a decimating experience but it's also an experience that is bringing women to rage and to react and I feel like if the Senate moves forward with Brett Kavanaugh and is not listening in the same way that Orrin Hatch yesterday dismissed that group of women and told them to grow up to grow up to a group of survivors who were asking him to look at let's let's go to that clip This was Thursday and once again as happened with Jeff Flake women saw a senator going to an elevator this one was you. Senator. Orrin Hatch and they came up to him at the elevator thank you thank you very much and Exchange with that don't you wave your hand at being my way financing. What. He says grow up and then waves and then as the elevator door closes as they say How dare you the level of patronization the level of of absolute dismissal and indifference I mean we're seeing the way that the Republicans in the true crying rapist rope have reversed this and made themselves the victim is is is is really quite astonishing as an aiding lay North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp she and Joe Manchin were considered the Democrats that might vote for Judge Kavanaugh and she was interviewed on local television in North Dakota and this is what she said at the most important thing you can tell a victim if you in fact do is that you believe them the process has been bad but at the end of the day you have to make a decision and I've made that decision and that this is and will be what Senator I will be voting no one judge Kavanaugh and she actually came close to tears as she said this may not be politically expedient she's in a very tough race with a Republican but she said she could not given her own background vote for church Catherine will thank God a woman listen to her deepest For days I mean we know that one out of 3 women in the world will be beaten or raped we know that thousands millions of survivors of crossed this country are feeling that they are not being believed that they are not being listened to that their concerns are not being taken seriously this after years and years and years of work if he'll. Like something that is just totally unacceptable you have written so many books the most recent in the body of the world. You wrote a letter in Time magazine can you share it with us today I'd be happy and talk about why you particularly addressed white women here well one of the main reasons of addressing white women is the statistics the statistics say that most white men support Kavanagh 45 percent of white women support him 30 percent of Hispanic women and 11 percent of African-American women I mean the number in African-American something like 80 more than 80 percent of Americans are opposed to church yet that's right and 11 only 11 percent believe are supporting him so I get and was astonished by this and I just when into my soul and I felt like I wanted to reach out to those women to talk to them so I wrote them this letter Dear white women who support Brett Kavanaugh last night when I saw Donald Trump mock doctor Dr Christine bloody Ford I couldn't help focusing on the women behind him who cheered a laughed I felt 7 like I was falling into a familiar nightmare it compelled me to reach out to you when I was a child my father sexually abused and beat me my mother did not protect me she sided with my father just like these women sided with Donald Trump and I understand why she sided with him because he was the breadwinner she sided with him because of her need to survive she sided with him because the reality of what was happening in front of her was so terrible it was easier not to see she sided with him because she was brought up never to question a man she was taught to serve men to make them happy she was trained not to believe women it was only much later after my father died that she was able to acknowledge the truth of my childhood and to ask for my forgiveness it was only then too late that she was able to see how she had sacrificed her daughter for security and comfort she used those words I was 1st. Acra Feist some people when they look at this video of women laughing at Dr Ford we'll see callousness I see distancing I see denial I've worked on ending violence against women for 20 years I have traveled this country many times I have sat with women of all ages and political persuasions I remember the 1st performance of my play The Vagina Monologues at Oklahoma City when the women half the women in the audience came up after to tell me they had been raped or abused most of them whispered it to me and often I was the 1st and only person they had told intel that moment they had found a way to normalize it expect it accept it deny it I don't believe you want to choose your sons and your husbands over your daughters I don't believe you want the pain that was inflicted on us inflicted on future generations I know the risk many of you take coming out to say you believe a woman over a man it means you might then have to recognize and believe your own experience if one out of 3 women in the world have been raped or beaten it must mean some of you have had this experience to believe in other women means having to touch into the pain and fear and sorrow and rage of your own experience and that feels some parable sometimes I know because it took me years to come out of my own denial and to break with my perpetrator my father to speak the truth that risk up ending the comfort of my very carefully constructed life but I can tell you that living a lie is living half a life it was only after telling my story that I knew happiness and freedom I know the risk others of you face to witness those you love suffer the traumatic aftereffects of violence and those who worry for both your sons and daughters that they may someday face this violence I write to you because we need you the way I once needed my mother we need you to stand with women who are breaking the silence in spite of their terror and shame I believe inside the bodies of some of those women who laughed at the rally were other impulses and feelings they weren't expressing here's why I believe you should take the stand. With me violence against women destroys our souls it in the wild it's our sense of self it numbs us it's separates us from our bodies it is the tool used to keep us 2nd class citizens and if we don't address it it can lead to depression alcoholism drug addiction overeating and suicide it makes us believe we are not worthy of a life of happiness it took my mother 40 years to see what her denial had done and to apologize to me I don't think you want to apologize to your daughters 40 years from now stop the ascension of a man who is angry aggressive vengeful and could very well be a sexual assault or time a short call your senators stop laughing and start fighting with all my love he. Even award winning playwright and author of The Vagina Monologues and so much more founder of the day eve before we go to break and then talk to you about this remarkable day of the Nobel Peace Prize and what it means for everyone I wanted to ask you about the significance just as you said you started to perform The Vagina Monologues and so many women came out saying they'd been abused or raped this week and these last week so many women have spoken out about their sexual assaults against them for the 1st time. It's as if the whole country is suffering from p.t.s.d. And I want to say to all the survivors your pain matters your experience matters what you've been through matters that the trauma that you have faced matters and that there are many of us many of us supporting you loving you holding you as you try to heal from this experience that that that mass of conglomerate patriarchal massage miss white men do not reflect so many people in this country the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Republicans on it are all quite men and there has never been one Republican woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee in all of us history and I think the fact that 55 percent of the g.o.p. Has sad that a person being a sexual assault or shouldn't prevent them from being on the Supreme Court is an indication of how entrenched how deeply entrenched sexual violence a massage really is in the Republican Party when we come back the Nobel Peace Prize goes to 2 people one men and one woman who leave Ensler has worked with on fighting sexual violence Stay with us. 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For their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and conflict Dr Dennis McCuaig founded the Panzi Hospital on the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999 the clinic receives thousands of women each year many of them require surgery as a result of sexual violence Niger maraud is a 25 year old u.c.d. Kurdish Human rights activist from Iraq she was kidnapped and held by the state for almost 3 years during her captivity she was repeatedly raped held as a sex slave she said in 2009 dentist McQuaid he appeared on Democracy Now along with our guest today events are I asked him to talk about how he got involved in fighting against sexual violence since it was sure to be the it's a particularly difficult situation d. P. D. Zone for the past 10 years and so he told a group that hunts for a we have women and some moves to money that are not only your brain that is going to talk to you that I have been tortured is one of these and gentle. Has been literally between destroyed he says. And. The quote there at the beginning of their. Bones include their right in such a condition that you lose you the player and you're innocent and you take calls. Are coming out and it's very hard to take the little ones who soon will take care of. Me But as of we are here because we have room on the t.v. And we have hope in. The world can listen to you you know it is unacceptable it is our number to decide whether they are treated this way who is committing these crimes. Since one between crimes are committed by groups the people for the past many. Hide by 7 armies. And each army. Each armed group. Clearing the forces. And concluding the Congolese armed forces and who support. Its own atrocities. Because of the peace and I think it is a very big deal because women have. Even those who are supposed to protect her. And torture her and talk more about the City of Joy Dr McQueen they're. Trying to take care of women at the hospital on the From. Where these women police . Are wounded. Physically but are also traumatized profoundly. And it's not possible just like that to cure them so part of it will take time. Sometimes a lot of time. But we. Cannot kick them out of the hospital. So we needed a place. Where women can say it is I'm sure to be taken care of it. And try to be trained. To re-insert socially. And to give them. The ability to take care of them stop him and he said. To be able to fight a life because they do you have the capability also I have seen amazing transformations Bolton she'll go too far to say there is an enormous potential in the world that I did not imagine more deeply they arrive completely destroyed it comes to life and besides I'm all I decide between life and a little Hitler for that afterwards they have an incredible strain as deliverability of the city of Troy. Possibility releasing a. Chill to say what happened. To tell that if they have the people have tried to destroy them but we can tell them that they are strong and can fight that's Dr Denis Mukwege gay almost a decade ago on Democracy Now today he won the Nobel Peace Prize now the 25 year old u.c.d. Kurdish Human rights activist also one this is not speaking at the un in 2016. Before ISIS came to my village there was nothing more important to me than my dignity than my mother my dear mother and although she is now gone my dear mother is with me here to the saw in spirit she along with my brothers and so many others left this world. And my life. As a simple yes he deformed or is gone forever. The dreams and hopes of my whole community are gone. As you have heard the night of August 3rd 2015 everything changed. Diets came to kidnap to murder to rape. This was genocide it is that simple in a matter of days if not hours. Thousands of years these were killed and thousands of women and children were taken just because they were yes he said. I was taken to Mosul with other things. I was used in the way they wanted to use me I was not alone. And perhaps. I was the lucky one as time passed I found a way to escape where 1000 others could not. They are still captive. Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murat through a translator at the u.n. And Dr Denis Mukwege we're continuing with the events and the award winning playwright and author founder of the day you just got off the phone with Dr. Speaking to him at the hospital in the Congo to talk about you and you've worked with both as well talk about Dr McQuade his work in the work you've both done together in Congo I just want to say you know call young one said that surviving this century will be holding 2 opposite thoughts at the same time and I'm thinking here we have the the governor of hearings and Dr away when is so I would I want to say is is the doctor and audience I mean it's so fantastic that they've chosen both a doctor who has been fighting to end rape as a as a weapon of war and a survivor of that and they've honored them together because it's a model of how men and women should be working together on these issues across the world I've been working with I met talked about weighing in in 2006 when I was asked to interview him for the new for the u.n. And when I met him I was overwhelmed by the fact that his eyes were so bloodshot witnessing all the atrocities and Horace he had seen he invited me to come to the Democratic Republic of Congo to so V.-Day could support his work and I remember the 1st day I arrived at Panzi Hospital and there were hundreds and hundreds of women all it'll have been tortured and raped all many of who had been operated on all of them were in the hospital under his care under his love under his his magnificent radiant energy and I stood there and I thought I had arrived at the end of the world but there was this man this towering man of grace and dignity and commitment and devotion literally stirring up women switch on this as fast as the militias were tearing them apart and desperately trying to. Get the word out to the world that this war this economic war that was being fought for the resources particularly coal tame which goes into our cell phones and and computers we are militias are desecrating villages were having husbands raped daughters and sons rape mothers so they destroy the families the families leave the militias take over the mines and they are proxies for multinationals who then take the Coltrane back to us to go into our cell phones and computers I saw this man who I had never seen about like that I had never seen a man who was literally giving his life to stop rape to End Sexual Violence to call attention to what rape as a systematic tool of war was doing to the women of Congo and would be doing if it were not true tailed to many more women throughout the world in many more countries and I have watched him I mean I have had the privilege of traveling with him across this country across Europe across the world Africa where I have watched him tell his story over and over at the u.n. And at the European Parliament at the White House telling and telling and telling it risking astrogation risking criticism risking his life there was a fascination attempt on him I think 4 years ago where they almost murdered him and murdered his the driver who worked with them kidnapped his daughter for 20 minutes and now he is living literally under security at the hospital no longer living in his home he is a man of devotion and I think at this moment he is modeling a way of being as a man who is standing with survivors with us and he said to me this morning he said this war it is not just my award it's an award for every survivor in this world every woman who has been working for years to end this and he said we don't just need recognition we need reparations we need to end impunity because impunity is. Allowing this to continue and continue and as we're seeing at the Supreme Court if there is no justice if there is no accountability this is how rape spreads and we've seen that over 14 years in a calm you know it could only think you know there was all sorts of discussions of the shortlist and Dr McWade he has been on that list for a number of years he was even. The Nobel Prize officials were even asked about why this year and you have to think about that because among the other people whose names are being bandied about for this word today was President Trump because of the North Korea issue and resolving that war and you could only think of imagine perhaps someone who said But look at it I mean 16 women have accused him of sexual assault on the Nobel committee is dealing with its own controversy surrounds and rape and so they went in the other direction and they honored Dr Dennis McCuaig and now you Murat who has also support not is one of the most extraordinary brave. Grace filled woman and we had the pleasure of working with her and supporting as it is women and I got to meet her and I did a piece about her but she so young she has been through some of the worst atrocities but she has turned her life to loading it to not only saving the women and speaking out against the genocide against the people but also becoming the incredible spokesperson and model for ending the scorch sexual violence used as a weapon of war and armed conflict and I think this award hopefully will signal to the world and particularly to men that there is a different way of being and you know that we have to honor survivors we have to honor women like not even Raji stand up and we have to say to men there is no way you can act you can devote your life to any violence against women you candlelight devote your life to working with and standing beside it and you don't become less of a man you become more of a man and more of a human I mean you only have to meet Dr McGee to see the light to see the radians. To see the love to see the beauty the poorest through that man who has given his life to the women of his country you know today Eve also marks the 1st anniversary of the explosive exposé in the New York Times around Harvey Weinstein and really the beginning of the me too movement test that's being talked about today though it was formulated well before that how far have we come as you point out the irony of this day the Nobel Peace Prize goes to those who fight sexual violence and to sexual violence survivors and today the vote of the Senate the 1st vote the 2nd supposedly as early as tomorrow not clear on whether Brett Kavanaugh who's been accused of sexual assault by several women will be confirmed to the Supreme Court it's a good question because it seems like the white men in power that Republican Judiciary Committee and the Republicans are not getting it are not waking up are not feeling it are not in tune but the genie is out of the bottle women are out of the bottle now they are never going back in and I think whatever happens with the Kavanaugh hearing it will never sit right with women of this country it will never sit right where there are elections actually not only elections but I believe a fury is being a least in women a fury and a determination that we will never turn back from at this point and I just want to say to all survivors and women out there this is the this is this is our crucible moment and we need to after what ever happens here we need to rise and make sure the window that has been opened never closes again it can't events where I want to thank you so much for being with us award winning playwright author of The Vagina Monologues and so many other books her latest in the body of the world founder of the day this is Democracy Now we'll link to her letter to white women. Against Brett Kavanaugh her position Xpress thing her opposition to Brett Kavanaugh but her letter to white women who are supporting Brett Kavanaugh at Democracy Now dot org When we come back we head south to Brazil where major elections are taking place this weekend we'll speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald Stay with us. Now on Good Friday morning today's October 5th in the time is 742. Can things get worse it sure can if you don't tune in for the next edition of alternative radio and hear Chris Hedges. And resists. That's alternative radio Wednesday evenings at 6 right here on community radio k g n u bold in Denver and Fort Collins. 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I'm back on thing walk with by the Brazilian musician Joe back to you This is Democracy Now I mean the goodman voters in Brazil head to the polls Sunday an election that could reshape the political landscape of South America polls show the current front runner is the far right Jay or Boston Otto a former Army officer who's openly praised Brazil's military dictatorship which lasted from 1964 to 1905 busted out has a long history of making racist massage mystic homophobic comments he's encouraged police to kill suspected drug dealers most polls show balsa not a winning on Sunday but failing to win enough votes to avoid a runoff election October 28th he's risen to the polls since September 8th when he was stabbed walk campaigning Boston are also directly benefited from the jailing of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in April who had been leading all presidential polls. Remains in jail in what many consider trumped up corruption charges to prevent him from becoming President Lula the head of the Workers' Party was then forced to drop out of the race Louis hand-picked successor Fernando had died yet is currently placing 2nd in most polls on Saturday tens of thousands took part in women led rallies in Rio de Janeiro style Paolo and other cities to protest Boston are the theme of the protests not him. My music and I'm here to be a person out of things or a spirit was answer a church or couldn't sleep. Because it was until the last of the euro the people to target such as the black people it's in the people and the others are but their community and we even have conquered still far. Represents a threat to democracy in our country and the markers of that we are still building joining us in Rio de Janeiro's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald who co-founded the enter step Glenn welcome back to Democracy Now can you talk about the significance of what is happening right now in Brazil and particularly on Sunday the election. To begin with the significance is that Brazil is a country of 210000000 people so it's the 5th most populous country in the world right behind the United States the 2nd largest in the hemisphere and the most influential in all one America it's also the 7th largest economy in the world with major oil reserves and what the Western media has often been doing in talking about Paulson r.-o. Is calling him Brazil's Trump which drastically and radically understates the case he's much closer to say do tear teen Philippines or even general Cissie in Egypt both in terms of what he intends to do and wants to do and what he's able to do given the fragility of Brazil which is an extremely young democracy that exited a military dictatorship only 33 years ago and therefore doesn't have the same kind of institutions to limit what someone would want to do the way say the United States or the u.k. Would so it's an extremely dangerous moment for this country polls do show that he's unlikely to win in the 1st round on Sunday but there is a possibility that he might that he could actually just get 50 percent of the vote and avoid a runoff entirely but even if he does make the runoff the signs are really showing that he is likely to win against Lewis handpicked successor because of how much animist has been built up by the media and the business class toward p.t. In this country and can you talk more about just exactly what Bill Sonata represents as homophobic comments his anti women comment on his support of the Brazilian military dictatorship. And you knew you can go through the whole list of shocking comments he once said in an interview that he would rather hear that his son died in a car accident than hear that his son is gay he told a colleague in the lower house of Congress where he served for 30 years when she accused him of defending torture and rape which he did during the dictatorship that she need not worry because in his words she didn't deserve to be raped by him meaning that she was too ugly to deserve in marriage his his rape there's a whole slew of comments like that about black people about indigent the indigenous but the much more worrying aspect are not these kind of comments but the policy that he has explicitly endorsing his model for how he wants to deal with crime are the world's worst dictators people like Pinochet he's he's advocated that we do things like in the Philippines where we just send the military and the police to just indiscriminately slaughter whatever whoever they think is a drug dealer or a criminal without trials he believes in military rule he doesn't regard the military coup of 1964 and the 21 year resulting military dictatorship as a coup or as a dictatorship he regards it as something noble and wants to replicate it and he has the entire top level of the Brazilian military supporting him and behind him so you really don't have institutions the way you do in the u.s. Like a strong Supreme Court or the kind of deep state of the CIA and the f.b.i. Or political parties that would constrain him in what he wants to do and especially given how much popular support there are now is behind him there's a substantial part of the country that is genuinely terrified about what he intends to do and to do rather quickly and probably can do namely bringing back the worst. The uses of the kinds of dictatorships that summarily executed just dissidents that shut down media outlets that close Congress is that we thought was a thing of the past year in Latin America but is now on the verge of returning to its most important and largest country last month a world renowned dissident languished Noam Chomsky met with Brazil's imprisoned former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva his visit coming shortly after little officially pulled out of the presidential race speaking outside the prison after a visit Noam Chomsky condemned the right wing media and personal. Just to a couple questions about that how is the media allowed to cover Noam Chomsky visiting Lula and Preston and also the significance of what's happened to Lula and then who had bad. Person the hand-picked successor to Lula is. So I met with with Noam Chomsky after that meeting in San Paulo and we talked a lot about the dynamics that brought us to this point and one of the things we focused most on during our discussion was the fact that the dynamic is so similar to what's happening in the u.s. The u.k. And in Western Europe where you see the spread of extremism in this rise of right wing fanaticism and the media outlets and the establishment factions that have laid the groundwork for its rise refused to take any responsibility and that's definitely the case here in Brazil where a very oligarchy media is in the hands of a small number of very rich families that has sown the seeds and has kind of created a climate in which poles and are as victory as possible even to this very minute even though these journalists are themselves afraid of also Darwin and are not supporting him they nonetheless continue to endorse this narrative that is the biggest asset for balsa Naro which is the idea that p.t. The Workers' Party and VALSIN are are just opposite sides of the same coin you have left wing dictatorship or right wing dictators sham and both are equally bad Petey ran this country for 14 years and whatever else you might want to say about it whatever mistakes they made you certainly had a very free and open press that constantly attacked it they impeached one of their presidents and put the other one in prison so the idea that it's a dictatorship on par with what was in our ones to do is grow task but it's the sort of thing that's normalizing balls tomorrow and the thing that he has done both in our oh that's probably the smartest is he is chosen as his kind of economic gird the person he said he was going to put in charge of the economy a kind of classic right wing University of Chicago neo liberal economist that the international market and that the oligarchy last absolutely adores and so it's kind of neutralize what otherwise would have been the opposition to them and what they've done to Lula not just. Putting him in prison when he was leading the polls but since then what they've done is they've banned all media outlets from even being able to interview we've tried others have tried there's a prior restraint order on the part of the Supreme Court to prevent from being able to speak out at this crucial moment it's not enough just to put them in President to stop them from running when people wanted them to be president they've silenced him through censorship orders that apply not just to him but to all of us in the media and so Brazilians to fusions the Brazilian establishment bears all a lot of blame just like us institutions do for the rise of Trump British institutions do for Braggs that and just the general globalization policies of Europe does for the rise of right wing extremism in that part of the world as well . I want to turn to a former Brazilian president to wear the former pretty Brazilian president Luis Sonali and the lead to sell to himself front runner and till he was jailed I spoke to him right before he went to jail and he was talking about the presidential candidates say your posts are not oh no that doesn't fit with me. Member of the federal Congress it. Was an Army captain and there's a you know any. Information to have is that he was expelled from the facility I mean. And he is this behavior is. Seen fascist is very much prejudiced against women and against and blacks against indigenous persons against human rights. That everything can be resolved with violence. To go but it's you know I don't think he has a future in Brazilian politics he has the right to. Speak to Chief but I get out. There and. And then she said it was to please a part of the society. The extreme right but I don't believe that the Brazilian people have an interest. In electing someone with his sort of behavior to serve as president of the republic you think he was happy with my staff. But if you leave that will be I think so because he is preaching violence every day he preaches violence to be feared would be to who believes that those who. Will be. Doing a disservice to democracy step if that will be that it will be things that those who defend women's rights are doing a disservice to that democracy live places who defend the rights of your black community and he isn't against everything. That is discussed when one is talking about human rights now is Luis a national a little speaking in March on Democracy Now for the hour you can check out our Democracy Now door again at the end she when he was talking about the assassination of city councilwoman Mary Law Franco your comments on what he said as we begin to wrap up. So I mean just the last part about the assassination of a front go which I have spoken on your show about before just to give you a sense of what the climate is like here just this week 2 candidates from both an hour as party including one of whom who is running for Congress and ran as the vice me oral candidate of Boston our son who ran for mayor of Rio 4 years ago took a street sign in commemoration of a front girl and broke it in half and wearing shirts that had pistols on them pointed directly at the camera displayed it proudly for the camera and then the last line of the post on social media that they wrote to accompany the photo was for you scumbag leftists when we take over your days are numbered. Exactly as Lewis said the climate is one of violence both in our as signature gestures for his campaign is to put his pit fingers in the position of a pistol they want to use violence to solve political problems here they're very explicit and open about that but unfortunately everybody who's been in charge of Brazilian society including p.t. Including the establishment needs to also ask itself what it has done to make this country lose so much hope and faith that it's willing to abandon democracy and turn to a demagogue an extremist like Paulson are that's the key question that I think needs to be asked if he does end up winning Glenn we're going to part 2 of this discussion post online of Democracy Now dot org on a number of issues but in this last minute you are a constitutional lawyer your thoughts as you look north to the United States you are an American citizen on the nomination and contactable confirmation of Judge Cavanagh to the Supreme Court in just 30 seconds if you can. So I do think there are real due process questions when it comes to accusations about somebody that we ought to take very seriously at the same time there's a lot of credible evidence and I think even more important the behavior that he displayed and the very partisan messages that he's been delivering his whole life and at that hearing make it impossible to imagine him on the Supreme Court in a way that could be. Have that institution be a credible a political body and I think that's the real overarching issue well I want to thank you Glenn for being with us again we will do part 2 and talk about a number of issues including President Trump and vice president Spence's attacks on China saying they are the real threats to the midterm elections the indictment of Russian hackers as well as more and Cavanaugh and what's happening in the world today Glenn Greenwald Pulitzer Prize winning journalist one of the founding editors have the intercept Also you can go to Democracy Now dot org for our hour with Lula who is now. Imprisoned in Brazil that does it for a show Democracy Now produced by Mike Burke Renee Felton I mean shake Tammy Warren off Sam our cop John Hamilton Robbie Karen had a Mystery Train and it Dora I mean the Goodman thanks so much for joining. In you are listening to k.g. And you Boulder Denver with translators k 229 AC Nederland k 254 c.h. 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For their work against the use of rape as a weapon of war endured 3 months of sexual slavery after being kidnapped in Iraq by Islamic state militants 4 years ago the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee they would raise an issue and praise not bravery she refused to accept the social codes that require women to remain silent and the saying of the abuses to which they have been subjected she has shown uncommon courage in recounting her own suffering and speaking on behalf of the victims is Morales code orange dentist the spent 2 decades helping women recover from the violence and trauma of rape in the water on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from Johannesburg Andrew Harding has more details the green hills of eastern Congo have been plagued by conflict for more than.
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