Amy in philadelphia, a black mother who was attacked with her family in october by a horde of Police Officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia young was driving an suv with her twoyearold son and teenage nephew when officers descended on the vehicle, broke all its windows, assaulted and arrested young, pulled her 16yearold nephew frothe car, and grabbed her child. We will he rickia her own wordand speato her aorney. Then we look at how the ridehailing Companies Uber and lyft scored a major victory against Worker Rights with the passage of proposition 22 in california. Theyre now pushing similar measures in other states. With this passage, this will basicivers like me from protections afforded to most in the state. These companies are promising to roll out this model tionwide. It foretells a grim future for gig workers across the country. Amy we will look at other Ballot Initiatives around the country. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democr
Prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters. First tonights program has americans finally which interpretation and live captioning. Just click your closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I want to thank everyone for taking questions towards the end. You can type them into the q and a box at the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading, we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanity for your important role, support for the National Endowment to humanity and i want to encourage virtual conversations to the historical society. On wednesday a hosting jesse wegman, discussing his argument on abolishing the electoral college, next week i am excited to Host National guests talking about autocracy. Author of the new book about the reporting on hiroshima, who will be talking to th
Fundamentals to keep us a safe rather than investing in prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters, first tonights program to enable the live captioning click your caption closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I also want to invite all of you to share your questions to route the program we will take them towards the end and you can do that by typing them into the q a box which is also the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading prison by any other name we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue in brooklyn and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanities new york which has played an Important Role in funding tonights program with support from the National Endowment for humanities and finally i want to encourage you to come to future will virtual conversations. This week on wednesday we are hosting jesse New Yor
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Are under attack here in the us and again media silence how is this possible natashas sweet reports and the president of the Catholic League bill donohue will be here to discuss and if you think you know al sharpton think again who is this m s n b c host the media turns to for his input on civil rights issues a new president ial candidates run to for a seal of approval you may be surprised im Steve Malzberg the press. He wishes. By. Well you probably dont know this because the media wont tell it to you but this week america and the world in fact received more indisputable evidence that while the. New york times and the Washington Post were plastering page one with stories of trump campaigns russian collusion the f. B. I. Knew all along that it was total nonsense the New York Post editorial from last monday points to a february 2017 times piece to cleric phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Trumps Campaign and other Trump Associates had repeated contacts with senior