Still resisting calls to resign. U. S. Vice president my pads continues campaigning off reports suggest at least 5 senior Staff Members have tested positive for the coronavirus. We begin the program in chile where voters have just a few hours left to cost that ballot in a historic referendum on whether to change the countrys constitution a vote as a result of fierce antigovernment protests which of consume the country since last year at the heart of the unrest lingering inequality enshrined in the current constitution which was enacted decades ago during the pinochet dictatorship where more than 14000000. 00 people eligible to vote including the president Sebastian Pinera who caused his vote in the capital santiago the been long queues of people outside polling stations and sold. As a controlling and treat with strict sanitary measures because of the crown of our demick our latin america has only seen human has more now. Message impossible to miss displayed in full each of these presid
Resign. U. S. Vice president might bans continues campaigning off the reports suggest at least 5 senior Staff Members have tested positive for corona virus. And a ban on Nuclear Weapons will soon become a reality but is it worth the paper its written on. The program we begin this news hour in chile where voters i have just a few hours left to cost their ballot in a historic referendum on whether to change the countrys constitution a vote is a result of fierce antigovernment protests which of consume the country since last year at the heart of the unrest lingering inequality enshrined in the current constitution which was enacted decades ago during the pinochet dictatorship more than 14000000. 00 people are eligible to vote including president Sebastian Pinera who cost his votes in the capital santiago they have been long queues of people outside polling stations and soldiers a controlling entry with strict sanitary measures obviously because of the pandemic our latin america editor you
Shot and killed at least 12 Peaceful Protesters in lagos on tuesday. We will go to nigeria for the latest. Then as fighting continues in the south caucasus between armenia and azerbaijan we will look at the conflict which has already killed over 700 people. Cooks to put an end of the war controlledre by the major powers that is russia and also the u. S. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome toemocracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The confirmed u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 222,000 as a new report by Columbia University researchers blted the Trump Administration over its disastrous handling of the pandemic. The reports authors write we estimate that at least 130,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 210,000 could have been avoided with earlier policy interventions and more robust federal coordination and leadership. Even with the dramatic recent appearance of new covid19 waves globally, the abject failures of u. S. Government policies and cr
Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
China and russia as election. Displaced and devastated the human cost of the conflict over nicola cutbacks the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan fell to this. Election abortion obamacare and guns some of the topics featuring on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Kone Barrett republican and Democratic Senators each had 30 minutes to ask about subjects that when porton to Many Americans the full senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to appoint a just ahead of the u. S. Poll on november the 3rd. Well democratic Vice President ial candidate comes to harris was among the senators who questioned barrett she grilled a federal judge on a range of issues from abortion to the Affordable Care act my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so m