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A dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of
Hope. I have seen. From thees nonot come governments or corporations. It comes from the people. Amy 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses World Leaders here in madrid just hours before being named times person of the year. Well hear her full u. N. Addrdress. Just hours after gretas speech, hundreds of climate activists are ushered out of the Conference Center by police. This is exactly what has been happening across the world. We have been shut out and we have not been heard. We, the people, havave been kept out by the very polluters who drive this crisis are kept in. Amy well hear voices from the speak with vanessa nakate, the first fridays for future climate striker in uganda. Then we look at ground zero of the Climate Crisis, the Marshall Islands. We e have been totold that ie wawant to stay in our islaland,e and to adapt t and e elevate with migration as the only plan b. We are having to deal with these issues that we in the first place amy we will also speak
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That his government would not allow catalonia to set up a virtual independent republic online the kind of to stick of demonstrations in catalonia and indeed elsewhere has been the ability to mobilize large numbers of people into street demonstrations at very short notice using Online Communications online the Catalan Independence movement may have reigned supreme however this may be about to change with the catalan in minister of digital politics and Public Administration your nettle claiming that the madrid government are intent on a shipping extrajudicial powers to clamp down on social media traffic which alex whos speaking with him in barcelona. Most of jordie people are welcome to the hour examine to thank you for inviting me. To your responsibilities in government and compass the digital column as well as the Catalan Civil Service tell me a bit about how your position in catalonia is a digital hub. In the europe and the world well catalonia has been over the past the. Fabric of of