Of a twoweek campaign of direct action protests. More than 700 people have already been arrested. We will speak to one of the cofounders of Extinction Rebellion. Then some 40,000 workers at General Motors have entered their fourth week on strike. Itit is the longest National Strike at gm by the United Auto Workers in nearly hahalf a centntury. We will get the latest. And we will go to chicago to speak with the head of the Chicago Teachers Union which has voted to go onon strike next we. W we need staffing and errors like nursing, for social workers and special education services. Need enforceable caps on by sizes. Pay and benefits alalone are not enoughgh. We care deeply about the learning and working conditions in our schools. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Turkeys powerful military has massed troops and heavy weapons on its border with syria, as u. S. Troops heeded President Trumps order to ste
Im femi oke im a league of the law and here in the stream today brought face control the scenes we will discuss the history of this race practice and how it impacts people of color are there instances a black face in your part of the world chances are yes well what should we do about them tell us via twitter or in our live you tube chat. I just want to let you know this before we get started that todays program will feature of race images that you may find disturbing the latest controversy of a black face involves canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week he apologized for instances in his pasta where he ducked into a scheme to portray black and brown people the controversy has reignited conversations about racism and White Privilege this is something that i deeply deeply regret darkening your face. Regardless of the context of the circumstances is always unacceptable because of the racist history of black face i should have understood that then. And i never should have done it.
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Hello again youre watching out is there and these are main stories u. S. President donald trump has described the democrats move to open a formal impeachment inquiry into allegations that he sought political help from ukraine as garbage House Speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trump acknowledged that he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law. French president emanuel macron has again met the iranian president Hassan Rouhani on the sides of the u. N. General assembly urging him to meet donal
Searching for green gold. The top ten leading democratic contenders hoping to take on donald trump in the next us president ial election are going head to head in a much anticipated televised debate. All eyes are on how centrist and former Vice President joe biden, seen as the frontrunner, will perform against other contenders. That includes popular hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who are both calling for radical change. Lets head to houston, and laura trevelyan, who can give us an update on the debate. Well, thats right. Joe biden, the front runner in this debate, is flanked on stage right now by the two progressives, Elizabeth Warren, who has been breathing down his neck a bit in the polls, and also by Bernie Sanders. So how is it going . Joining me to talk about all of this is kevin, the chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news. Thank you for being here. So how is joe biden doing against Elizabeth Warren, who had the momentum going into this . Well, he welcome