Reporters were arrested during the minneapolis protests everyone lost their minds like this is so unamerican and when i went to the protest here in washington d. C. Roughly a week ago i remember connecting with a fellow journalist friend of mine and we both kind of chuckled at that like really thats unamerican because im pretty sure thats very american you know this is something that weve had to deal with both as activists but also journalists who try to report on these things from the front lines places that often times reporters from Corporate Media dont even go you know im thinking about like pipeline fights and things like that where journalists just like the activists that they were courting on are routinely brutalized by the police and other Law Enforcement agencies so the idea that this is somehow a new is really absurd its just because of the scale of these protests and because Corporate Media was actually paying attention and then got into the line of fire with other journalis
Moving ahead with prosecuting 2 canadians on spying charges details in a full reporter straight ahead all right its time to extend these i knew. We start this hour with breaking news one of the 3 little bill Police Officers involved in the shooting death of Briana Taylor will soon be fired the mayor announced that the metro police is initiating the terminations of officer Brett Hankinson hes accused of blindly firing 10 rounds into taylors apartment which resulted in her death 26 year old taylor and e. M. T. Worker was shot by officers inside her residence on march 13th as they entered to serve a no knock warrant this comes as the nation continues to protest for Police Reform and to push forward. Black lives matter movement. And today is juneteenth day marking the historic day in 865. 00 when all slaves were set free americans are celebrating with rallies taking place across the whole country but this year is especially significant as protests against Police Brutality and Racial Injust
Country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a norm its fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not as good. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growth basically it only matters what the rich do what they buy what they invest in you and i dont matter we matter as much
Institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country super wealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a normal fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not good to. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growt
A mother an activist a sexual sole survivor a mutual aid volunteer a former Bernie Sanders delegate and shes running for congress in california so many important issues to discuss with her also on this episode i talk about the drug Company Holding the country hostage and correspondent anders we will get into some mind blowing cold news about the greek revolution but 1st heres we cam with angelica take a look and jellicoe thanks for being here thank you so much for having me so youve got a lot going on right now youre the mother of 5 children your husband has been laid off due to the pandemic i think for Many Americans youre living the common American Experience right now loss of income and security watching trillions of dollars go to wall street and big banks while most people dont see a dime of it can you just start off by talking about what the experience has been like for you and your family recently. Well i would say that honestly its been a rough i have like you mentioned 5 kids 4