Africanamerican film director ava duvernay and her powerful new documentntary 13th. Off13th is the jumping point of a wideranging conversation, and tour through history of racism, especially in subjugation in this country. Is the first time a documentary opened at the new york f film f festival in its me than 50 year history. We will speak to director ava duvernay and see clips from her new film, which shows our Justice System h has been driven by racism from slavery to mass incarceration today. Y. The 13th mm and t to the constitution exit unconstitutional to be held as a slave. There are excxceptions includudg criminals. Courts the loophole was immediately exploited. What you got after that was a rapid transition to a mythology of black criminality. The we will speak with director as well as the love the film malkia cyril of the center for media justice, professor kevin gannon of grand View University, and lisa graves about alec in the private system from the cca to the american veil
Point of a wideranging conversation, and tour through history of racism, especially in subjugation in this country. Is the first time a documentary opened at the new york Film Festival in its more than 50 year history. We will speak to director ava duvernay and see clips from her new film, which shows our Justice System has been driven by racism from slavery to mass incarceration today. The 13th mm and to the constitution exit unconstitutional to be held as a slave. There are exceptions including criminals. Courts the loophole was immediately exploited. What you got after that was a rapid transition to a mythology of black criminality. The we will speak with director as well as the love the film malkia cyril of the center for media justice, professor kevin gannon of grand View University, and lisa graves about alec in the private system from the cca to the american veil coalition. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
Cant get through on the phone lines, someone will make a comment, try social media. Facebook. Com cspan. Finally you can send an email. Well begin taking those calls a few minutes. From the hill newspaper this morning congressional leaders deal to being unveiled on monday. Congressional leaders. Legislative text of the year end omnibus spending bill to be released monday. They say it will likely be linked to a major deal on taxes. The current projection is for the house. And the omnibus on monday voted on it by wednesday. John corbinding to the republican. Senate negotiators say that likely to meet several tax break and place a two obamacare taxes. Both seem to be linked, i cant tell you whether its one vote or two votes. Therly theyre part of overall negotiation. Orin hatch who is involved, sooner or later we come against of having to act. I think when that happens, happens, ween that can get this done. Days. K its a matter of the text of the omnibus will be unveiled monday. Wednesday
Idea. Either keeping fema out of it or keeping fema in dhs but more robust would be a better idea. Secret service could have been used opportunity to split secret service into two different agencies. Right now they have a dual mission. That dual mission is very confusing for people in secret Service Monetary investigations and protecting the president and other officials. Those are two you know, unrelated missions. So i think other things could have been done maybe not quite as extreme as what we got. Im sorry. Were out of time. We had a good discussion. There is no doubt that this issue of Homeland Security is an important issue for our country. The organization of government changed. The way that we looked at government changed as a result of it and you heard a challenge here today. If you dont like what you see, get involved with it. Thank you all. Thanks to the panelists for being here. We appreciate everything. Thank you. [applause] Hillary Clinton makes first trip to South Caroli
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