Of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of california. Still has a gas chamber which is ok its that quick prison the site of many demonstrations over the last few years precisely because of the fact that prisons and and courage. The spread of covert 19 to oakland where your speaking to me from known quite pretty as a progressive place around the world spends an enormous proportion of its budget on police and Police Activities what do you think baldwin may meant when he said he could gauge a Nations Health we can all by examining those people that elected to represent are protected what is the health of your nation right now i think the world is able to see that this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city
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
We have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in janua
Calls for unity as the death toll across europe continues to rise. China boz almost all foreigners and entering the country to slow the number of cases coming from a group. A dangerous combination the Health Workers in the news are treating coronavirus patients without protective. More cases of corona virus have not been confirmed in the us than anywhere else in the world President Donald Trump says hes committed to getting people back to work as soon as possible thats as a record 3300000 registered as unemployed last week rob reynolds begins our coverage. The number of confirmed cases of coded 19 in the us now tops 83000 more than have been recorded in china or italy more than 1100 people here have died from the corona virus with no vaccine and no proven drug treatment the countrys top medical experts say social restrictions are the only way to curb the rate of infection whenever you put the clamps down and shut things down you do it for 2 reasons you do it to prevent the further spre
Hello the un secretary general has told leaders of the worlds 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with a virus and we are not sweating and trying to get terrorists called for a Global Response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summit to plot a way out of the crisis where leaders vow to do whatever it takes to combat coronavirus he said the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and they remain high in italy where its fear of deaths are now rising in the poorer south of the country as economists predict a deep global recession the u. S. Saw more than 3000000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest jump ever made barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. This is how spain is hoping to win the war on the Coronavirus Police are among the 1st to be tested but its haz