Of indonesia from the military repression in west papua to discriminatory laws restricting the rights of religious minorities and women. We will speak to john sifton of Human Rights Watch and journalist allan nairn who will also talk about sundays election in guatemala. Been to nobel prizeWinning Economist joe stiglitz on rewriting the rules of the American Economy. Would in some of the problems we face, inequality, global warming, pollution, environment problems, and we need to create jobs. And what i show is we can have a tax reform that does all of those and raise money. Amy the university of mississippi has removed the state flag with the confederate emblem on the schools grounds, and a victory for student activists. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. By the end of this century, areas of the persian gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humid they are intolerable to human. From the burning of the fo
Miranda and relations with mexico and cuba were among the topics. This was just over one hour. [inaudible conversations] , live. Morning, everyone, and welcome. I would like you to join us, carl meacham and i are the directors of the program and i want to welcome you to what i think is probably one of the most interesting events that we are going to be having this fall. As you know today we will be talking about latin america in the context of the u. S. And Midterm Elections. I imagine that some of your not entirely sure why this region is relevant. But i get that most of you assumed the majority of the event will be about Immigration Reform and sure, some of it will be about Immigration Reform. We will be talking about it today pressure in the discussion. But what we are hoping to impart is a different message, not that immigration is the only issue that makes it relevant to u. S. Elections, but its one of many. There are a series of issues that are instrumental in nature and that mea
Me about it, i always dismissed it. But this was an opportunity through an appointment, not election. So you get appointed, then you do your job, then you can seek election. So in 1969, i ran for the City Council Post that i had by appointment. But on the brochure, i couldnt say reelect norm because i hadnt been elected in the first place, so we used the phrase retain norm on the council. How supportive was the Japanese American Community to your campaign . Very. I had great support from within the community. At that point it was probably maybe 2 of the population, 3 . Very, very small. But i had great support from the Japanese American Community. And so that was also true by 1970, i had become vice mayor, and then in 1971, for the reelection for the mayors post, the mayor decided not to seek reelection. So then that mayor and many people said, hey, youve got to run for mayor. Well, i was trying to split my duties between being on the city council and running the business, and it was r