Bolivia has been the scene of weeks of protests since a disputed election last month. We will get the latest. Then we spend the rest of the hour with senator Elizabeth Warren. On friday, i comoderated the first president ial forum on Environmental Justice at South Carolina State University. Warren talked d about the climae crisis, shutting down pipelines, capitalism, and more. Racial injustice, do you think the order ofof the primary state should change . E . You have iowa and New Hampshire, two of the whitest states in the country and then we moved to South Carolina with a very significant population of people of color. And it means candidates spend so much of their time catering to those first two states stop overall, do you think that should change . Sen. Warren im just a player in the game on this one. And i am delighted to be in South Carolina. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Bolivia is i in
Step down. We will get the latest. Then as the Home Ownership rate for africanamericans falls to its lowest level since 1950, we speak with professor keeangayamahtta taylor, author of the new book race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black Home Ownership. An examination of federal policies e enacted after the federaral government taught pracactices of redliningng to te previous seveveral decades in te way that created new ways s for exploioitation and predatory practices involving real estate in africanamerican communities. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in sochi, russia, today as the fiveday ceasefire between turkeys military and Syrian Kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. Restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of Syrian Kurdish forces if they dont withdraw from t
A heat wave with mondays higher about 10 degrees above what is normal for october polands governing nationalist party has won a 2nd power 2nd term in power early results show the law and Justice Party won more than 45 percent of the vote with the turnout was the highest in 30 years but as Andrew Simmons explains from warsaw its a party that divides opinion. Polina lipinski is one of the voters behind the surge in popularity of polands ruling party shes a devout catholic who fell on bad times 10 years ago when her husbands business went bust here with one of her 3 children for whom she gets a government allowance of 125. 00 a month each they safe are far from me because the far we dont have money to pay for. On this for 4. Cowards but now i. Feel like and their mark people and. Ringback whatever the political belief an increasing number of poles many like polina have been attracted to the law and Justice Party policies but its a divisive situation this couple believe voting for national
Of a Fort Worth Police officer. Amy in fort worth, texas, a white Police Officer has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot and killed an africanamerican woman inside her own home. The officer was responding to a nonemergency call aftfter a neighbor saw Atatiana Jeffersons front door was open. We will speak to civil rights attorney lee merritt, who is representing the jefferson family. Then to homewreckers how a gang of wall street kingpins, hedge fund magnates, crooked banks, and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American Dream. 8 million americans lost their homes in the great recession, and all of those homes wenent somewhere. And wewe have not been tracking it. Whatat i learned writing my book is thahat a small group of vulte capitalists running donald trump, they are the ones who welloff with the killing the rest of us suffered. Amy we will speak to awardwinning reporter aaron glantz on his new book, homewreckers. All that and
Teenager. Shooting happened when she was just 16 years old but she was tried as an adult. The after years of protest, she was granted clemency by former tennessee governor bill haslam. She was released just two months ago at the age of 31 and has now published her memoir free cyntoia my search for redemption in the american prison system. To any young women and girls who find themselves in the situation i was in, i would say that there are people that hear you. There are people who understand what youre going through. I understand. I have been through it myself. And there were times i did not think i was going to make it, but the lord brought me through it and he can bring you through it as well. Just keep faith and keep fighting. Amy we will speak with cyntoia brownlong in one of her first interviews after prison. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Shelling is continuing in Northern Syria one day after