As the house of representatives ended session for the year without cutting Immigration Reform, we speak to labor leader Eliseo Medina who long hungerd a month fast on the mall for Immigration Reform. He joined the Labor Movement for decades ago, working alongside cesar chavez. A south africa prepares for the funeral of Nelson Mandela, we look back at how African American workers at polaroid helped launch the Divestment Movement against apartheid in south africa in the early 1970s. We will speak with Caroline Hunter, cofounder of the Polaroid Workers Revolutionary Movement, who opposed polaroid making photos for the id pass books for blacks under apartheid. And by whatever means necessary, we have found corporations, Government Forces of imperialism have aligned. What were are calling for is the same tactics. By whatever means necessary, we as an African People align ourselves, understand the seriousness of the struggle. And we look at how the cia helped south africa capture Nelson Mand
Quest for peace. I just finished reading it and that recommend it wholeheartedly. This book of history and not of fiction i hope you dont mind if i give away the ending which isJeffrey Sachs concludes this powerful book by demonstrating the parallels between kennedys quest for peace and our generations quest for Sustainable Development and that is why it is fitting we are hosting him here today at the world bank. In his book Jeffrey Sachs shows president kennedys 1963 peace speech was a spring. In the cold war. Some critics dismissed it as lofty rhetoric but Jeffrey Sachs and kennedy show that rhetoric matters, can help us imagine a new possible, helped change counterproductive views that act as barriers to progress such as the view at the time of kennedys speech that the United States and the soviet union were on an inescapable pass. The book make a compelling case for the importance of translating rhetoric into action starting with clear, achievable goals. As kennedy says by defining
Reached safety in the south. So, the people who get out now have formed there are enough of them that they are educating us about truth of our trivia and theres been several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture of what the truth of the existence is. You cant even mail a letter so the exiles created a black market in information. They hire chinese couriers to cross the border and deliver messages, or sometimes they deliver chinese cell phones to a north korean relative, tell the relative to go to an area near the border at a certain day and hour, turn on the phone, and receive a phone call from the relative who escaped to a different country. In south korea, north korean exiles formed organizations whose purpose is to get information into north korea, to give just one example, there are four radio stations run by north korean exiles that broadcast daily to north creigh north korea. The man tray of the kim family regime that north korea is the
W. Tdd 18003452550 and a look now at the new york stock exchange. The best Friends Animal Society and a lot of pets are ringing the opening bell. The organization has spent three decades focused on ending the killing of dogs and cats in animal shelters. The dow coming off its best day of the year. Over 138 points up. And thats just, you know minutes after it opens. Developing now on the rundown, wall street and hollywood are both keeping a close eye on Sony Pictures after an unprecedented cyber attack. U. S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement officials have concluded that north korea was behind the hack. Which was an apparent retaliation for the comedy that involved the plot to kill the north korea leader. Eugene robinson. Good morning. Good morning, jose. You wrote about this calling it a killer headache for sony. This was before they decided to pull the plug. The impact is incredible. This whole story just gets more and more bizarre. It was hard to believe at first that the north korea
Said this is going to be an open response by them. Its going to be against our military establishment. Its going to be carried in the open as he pointed out and its going to go after our interests. It sounds like the first round at least of what he promised in retaliation. Thats exactly right, chris. You see rocket attacks against the airbase where the u. S. Has a presence there and a rocket attack against the irbil airbase. There are also reports about iranian fighter jets in the skies, potentially u. S. Fighter jets as well. This is potentially round one where iran is trying to exact revenge for the killing of soleimani against primarily military targets. Its not going to stop there, chris, because they have other tools as well. They could go after u. S. Officials, cyber attacks. Our own cultural figures. They could do anything. They could, but i think here you see the leadership of iran clearly retaliating against United States against military targets for the killing of general sol