And by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you, thank you. Ann ravel was appointed to the federal Election Commission by president barack obama with unanimous consent. She stepped down in march and sounded a loud and blunt alarm producing a final report outlining the gridlock that has frozen the fec. The title of the report makes clear her discontent. I love this. Dysfunction and deadlock, the crisis at the federal elections reveals the unlikely hood of draining the swamp. How is that for a title . Ann, good to have you on the program. Thank you, good to be here. I pulled this one paragraph from your reported that i think gives a pretty good sense of what is wrong with the fec and speaks, of course, to what is wrong with our elections at large. I might ask you to read your words to start the conversation . Happy to do so, thank you. Public should know about fecs failures. The commission made up of six commissioners is not performing its duty. A block of three commissioner
Date and here from the state attorney general suing exxon mobil as well as u. S. Senators pushing for a fossil free future. The Koch Brothers must be sent a message that their science, which donald trump has adopted, is just as bogus as a jury agreed from trump in diversity. Amy we will also hear from Indigenous Leaders fighting to protect the planet. Maybe we as original people of the United States and people in canada, alaska, maybe it is time to exercise our sovereignty and our selfdetermination and serve papers on this president to deport him from this country because the laws that he is representing are not the natural laws that we are taught as native people. Amy from the street of the peoples climate march and washington, d. C. , all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of thousands, if not more than a Million People poured into the streets around , the world on saturday for a global peoples cl
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Today more than 70 of americans think that spanking is acceptable. That number is higher among africanamericans. Stacey patton has a new book about americas relationship with Corporal Punishment, and she says its time to recognize that spanking is abuse that hurts kids. For those watching right now saying whooping already saved americas black children. What do you say. Look at mass incarceration. Violence in cities like chicago and baltimore, and youll find your answer to that assumption that beating kids, whooping, spanking, treating their bodies with violence saved us from any of these structural realities. What is the sign tiffist difference between what you just ran and whooping. We have science that says whooping, spanking, hitting and pain, science that shows hitting children causes structural damage to their brains. It sparks bio chemical responses that can put them at risk for a lower iq. Also problems l
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Today more than 70 of americans think that spanking is acceptable. That number is higher among africanamericans. Stacey patton has a new book about americas relationship with Corporal Punishment, and she says its time to recognize that spanking is abuse that hurts kids. For those watching right now saying whooping already saved americas black children. What do you say. Look at mass incarceration. Violence in cities like chicago and baltimore, and youll find your answer to that assumption that beating kids, whooping, spanking, treating their bodies with violence saved us from any of these structural realities. What is the sign tiffist difference between what you just ran and whooping. We have science that says whooping, spanking, hitting and pain, science that shows hitting children causes structural damage to their brains. It sparks bio chemical responses that can put them at risk for a lower iq. Also problems l
And by contributions to your pbs state from viewers like you. Thank you. It is hard to believe it has been 25 years since the los angeles that i know and love went up in flames because of the injustice of rodney king. Joining us is karen bass. Gil gar setty who was elected the new da and oversaw one of the most pivotal errors in the departments history. Michael wu made a racially charged race for mayor. He is now teaming with courses like redesigning l. A. He is dean of the college of environmental design, and john mack. Good to have you all here. Thank you. Does it seem like 25 years . No, it is incredible. The years have jumped by. We were talking about it earlier. It seemed like maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but 25, that is, but of course, it still burns in my mind, the memory and the process that we went through. Of course on the day of that verdict, a bunch of us were gathered at the church, and after that tape it was hard for us to believe that the jury would make the decision they d