Across the United States. We will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux and Navajo Nation and go to north dakota, which has the highest covid19 death rate of any state or country in the world. Then democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez looks at how the Corporate Media missed the real story about latinx voter turnout in the 2020 election. Juan the main story is that in an election which saw historic tnout, people of color, and especially latinos, had an unprecedented increase in voting. And they, not white voters, represented the bulk of that increase. Amy plus, we will speak to antiracist activist bree newsome bass and princeton professor eddie glaude about the election of joe biden and Kamala Harris. We have to get about the work of responding to the problems we face as a nation at scale and not returning back to some sense of normalcy, which in some ways laid the foundation for the disaster that was and is trumpism. Amy a that d more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democrac
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
Damage. More than 8,000 structures still threatened as we wake up this morning. Yeah, when you saw metal would go down just big recognizable places like big wineries and then peoples homes, this is the circle of where the fire is burning east of saint and Calistoga Napa county and east of santa rosa. In Sonoma County. They dont know the cause they just know that this fire spread rapidly with the heavy winds and were still under a warning for that so theres 0 containment were continuing to follow the latest 60,000 people have been evacuated, including the entire town of calistoga kron fours will tran has been live for us there in napa county. Bringing us up to speed on the latest firefighting efforts and will they were working to save a home this morning looks like they were successful for now. For now they are actually having their breakfast because theyve been working nonstop for pretty much 48 hours so those heroes are next and a fire truck in front of the house just finally getting
Scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to men kind to unite our strength to maintain and National Peace and security there all of the United Nations and standing for our shared values throughout the Peace Process is absolutely critical and we tank the United Nations for their support so far 2 of this are due us crosses we thank the u. N. For their call for a global ceasefire. That all of the way and our International Partners and allies will continue to be extremely important as our negotiating team sits across from the taliban in doing it those stocks that one people have a clear in urging a cease fire an urgent end of the violence will more than anything goes give us a chance to progress i would like to keep this up the need to call on every member of the General Assembly. And the permanent members of the Security Council to help us achieve that instate of a sovereign united in democratic of once that it peace with itself in the region capable of preserv
Violence and global violence. So i would like to actually begin with the title itself, the violence inside us and the early portion of the book you take the reader through something of a short primer on both the biology and a history of violence. So i want to ask you why begin there . Why did you choose to begin with the nature of violence itself . Guest thank you so much for doing this and im really glad to be joining you to talk about this book. I start with this question of what kind of violence do we experience because for me it was the first real subject that i came upon when i began what would become the mission of my political career. While the book is mostly history of american violence and how we can overcome that history it also involves my own political story the shooting in connecticut in 2012. I had britain prodigious as a lawmaker beforehand but i never really had an emotional connection like i do now. And it was those days after sandy hook when i realized this would be m