Why not well because in the United States we have a system of asylum that unfortunately requires people to navigate it by themselves or lawyers and this is a high stakes legal battle where the very basic question that people are asked to present to a government official is what s your trauma always necessarily a difficult task for anyone to carry especially when they re doing it by themselves in a new land and when you add a prison to them you throw somebody behind barbed wire and say you know here this is where you explain to a total stranger why it is you ve been traumatized now go early. For most of America s history we didn t lock people up for just migrating here but in the 1980 s. Federal and state governments began popping into their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws what was going on in the eighty s to test us immigration policy especially on our southern border in the 1980 s. Were a period of a widespread up here in Central America in addition
Ok thank you very much for all of your help and all of your support and all of your years and see you again after Christmas here s Amy Goodman. From New York that is Democracy Now there are millions of people all around the world who are already is suffering from the impacts of climate change. Denying this. Could be interpreted by some to be a crime against humanity Thank You The United Nations Climate Summit in Madrid Spain ends in monumental failure as negotiators failed to agree on a deal to limit global warming but grassroots organizing on the climate crisis unprecedented level. Has been sucked out of this call our ally children and future generations are in your hands and you are bailing out we ll get responses from outside Raymond with Warren wanted in London and from Cape Town South Africa. Executive director of the Climate Action Network International and then back at the House Judiciary Committee is poised to vote to impeach President Trump the next step a Senate trial. Coord
Thanks for joining us so 1st I want to ask you about the person that you dedicate your book to Clark Stinson a person that you write about that makes this also I understand for you a deeply personal issue he was your best friend tell me a little bit about Clark what happened to him Clark was my best friend through junior high school and high school. And after we got out of school we we went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan together. With a couple of 12 foot tepees that we had bought through the Whole Earth Catalog and spent the whole summer in the middle of the Cherokee and it was a 3 day walk back there and all the. Trapper let us back in the middle of this very very dense forest in the upper peninsula and we put up our teepees and we spent 3 or 4 months there doing spiritual practice you know we d be silent for days and we can you know we brought a bunch of books and you know 100 pounds of dried fruit and grains and that s what we hate and. You know Clark Clark. He and I just d
The league player get. Plenty of player. a budget for that musical interlude We now want to return folks to the in progress push of a radio archives broadcast that will go to 9 o clock please stay tuned and donate if you can. In 1960 Pacifica was there on the March from Selma to Montgomery Alabama it took a month to strategize and actually get across the bridge and get to Montgomery but the result of that summer was the Voter Rights Act well that I know well you were there you see that s the thing Pacifica was there the entire time not just when the fun stuff was happening for the National t.v. Cameras but I understand how this whole you know on the ground work together that stuff you can t get anywhere and it s moving it s powerful but it s what let me get let me ask you amazing So let me ask you what the voter shenanigans going on today did the Scalia decision majority decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act that allowed. Local municipalities to to obstruct the the possibility
I would say the exact same thing and in fact I wouldn t I would even go so far as I should say I endorse him right now because I have no idea what the race is and I need to look at it but I would generally speaking in principle I would endorse John for anything he s known for nearly $7.00 and not a full disclosure of interest them in the letter case then I ll endorse him to there so here air we go we re we re in agreement on this Joe in Santa Barbara California you re on the air with Congressman Conyers. I go to Richmond thanks for taking the time out to talk to the people. I think you. Might. Come up. For any kind of review. You know it does and I don t know when the next really of course was opposed to the Patriot Act by the way one of my heroes in politics Russ Feingold it was literally no votes originally against the Patriot Act because he 1st saw how intrusive it would be and it set the stage for some of the mess or valence and data collection that we re dealing with it now now n