We speak to the indigenous scholar and activist nick estes. Then to the acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy on the crisis in kashmir and growing authoritarianism in india and around the globe. There is no voice thats coming o out of kashmir. Thats why i said the silence is the loudest sound. Everyone, whether its the major politicians, whether its boys who throw stones on the e stree, whether it is businessmen, lawyers everyone is in jail, even now. You u know, thenen they cut t off phones. They cut off the internet. I mean, can you imagine . When has it been done before, 7 million peopople, communication lockdown . Amy all that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. In this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. He is s a coffounder of the indigenous Resistance Group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. I talked to him earlier this year about his book our h
Conservativism for decades. Hes edited it since 1997, rich is also a syndicated columnist and author i very much recommend to you the previous book study of Abraham Lincoln social and economic thought lincoln unbound. This new one speaks to a very live and significant controversy in our politics a subject that has been an area thats been a subject of enormous amount of thought and argument in the last two years the question of nationalism of the nation and its place in our politics. Its connection to some of the forces and threads that have been driving the politics of the west in recent years. The forum will be very simple, will hear from rich a little bit about the book. Then he and i will discuss it for a few minutes and then open to questions from you. Please lets welcome rich lowry. [applause] thank you thank you everyone, its a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for making the time. I will share with you what has been my favorite moment from my book tour so far, came very ear
Screen through. But it is free for employers. When you take the information from your new hire that you have to collect for Social Security and irs. You have to have their information for your payroll. This enables you to check whether the person you hired is actually telling you the truth about who they are. You enter their name, Social Security number, date of birth. Is match. Es its the number real . Is the person claiming to be in eightyearold . That kind of thing. The purpose is to screen out illegal workers and people with fake ids. It can be fooled, but it is harder to fool then the mickey mouse paperbased system that is mandatory, and about half of other employers loose use. Who runs the system . Homeland security. It pings information against the Social Security administration as well. Checking your name and date of birth. How accurate . It was mandated as a Pilot Program in the 1996 Immigration Law. In the george w. Bush administration it got its current branding as everify.
Today. We are shifting the direction of our course today. We are moving away from catholics and in particular the jesuits. We spent a lot of time talking about the jesuits in this course. We are going to be moving toward the protestants. We will be looking at some of the missionary efforts in the work they did. In particular today, we are looking at their work in early new england. One thing i want you to think about for seminar is this really critical question. You have basically done a whole crash course in jesuit missionary work for the last four weeks. So think about this. I think about some of the texts we have read and the work weve gone through. We did a week on Spanish Missions in south america, we did some work with jesuit relations and watched black robe. Then we did the novel, silence, and the adaptation of the novel into a film. We have been in south america, new france, japan, weve been doing this for about four weeks. The question we, we may be able to start off with is t
Benefits for legal immigrants. That, immigration policy and how the everify everify system is being used in the u. S. Host good morning. It is thursday, august 15, 2019. We begin the washington journal focusing on the issues facing Rural Americans after spending Yesterdays Program talking to City Residents, it is Rural Americas turn. Give us a call and let us know what your top issue is and how it is being handled by state and local leaders where you are. Eastern and central time zones call in at 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, call in at 2027488001. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. Rural residents only, you can start calling in now to give you a sense of the universe of callers, it is about 60 Million People, that is how Many Americans live in Rural Communities. Here is the latest information about them. 64 of that population lives east of the mississippi river. 10 of the total population in the west liv