Do you think that those means can be yoked to what would be the more natural in the system, the Democratic Party or do you think thats not sufficient the existing structure is insufficient to address what you see as sort of the deep structural racist inequalities . I think the twoparty system isnt working for us, and it hasnt worked for us for generations. Lets be very, very honest about th that. I think what were seeing is a crisis of our democracy and the reality is that these types of actions that were seeing, the disruptions, the really courageous acts of nonviolent civil disobedience just taking this country by storm really is an effort to call attention to the very real crisis thats happening in our communities. Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that theyre having from Law Enforcement to our Education System and so on. And so these actions are actually in order to make very visible whats taking
The Academy Award winning filmmaker oliver stone joins us in the studio with his partner Peter Kuznick to talk about their new book and tv series looking at the classified america we were never meant to see. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel is continuing to pound the gaza strip with airstrikes amidst fears that israel could launch a Ground Invasion. At least 21 palestinians have died in the most recent round of violence while three israelis died on thursday. Israel said it launched 150 airstrikes overnight while palestinians fired a dozen rockets into israel. Among the casualties was the 11 monthold son of a bbc arabic journalist. An Associated Press photo showed jihad misharawi clutching the wrapped body of his baby, who was killed by an israeli round that struck his home on wednesday. White House Press Secretary jay carney told reporters thursday speaking later thursday, mark toner said the onu
When you throw in racism and we never get anywhere in this country. If we run around chasing our tail and not solving problems on my blog the Supreme Courts decision. They were basically tossing it back to the states and saying ecisions. For nearly 30 years, myself and my father, who is chairman of the congress of racial equality before me, we have to end and we have to realize that those advocates of affirmative action have to realize that racebased affirmative action, genderbased affirmative action is going to end and we need to move towards a character quotient or an income disparity quotient. Here is a the thing. Ultimately at the end of the day, they will end in the idea that somehow we have gotten comfortable, maybe some people have gotten comfortable but you can make up the difference de son the past transgressions. He said that keyword, which is the past. History has passed. Civil rights 50 years ago, weve advanced as a society. Even the Supreme Court has spoken out. Over time
When you throw in racism and we never get anywhere in this country. If we run around chasing our tail and not solving problems on my blog the Supreme Courts decision. They were basically tossing it back to the states and saying they could make those decisions. For nearly 30 years, myself and my father, who is chairman of the congress of racial equality before me, we have to end and we have to realize that those advocates of affirmative action have to realize that racebased affirmative action, genderbased affirmative action is going to end and we need to move towards a character quotient or an income disparity quotient. Here is a the thing. Ultimately at the end of the day, they will end in the idea that somehow we have gotten comfortable, maybe some people have gotten comfortable but you can make up the difference de son the past transgressions. He said that keyword, which is the past. History has passed. Civil rights 50 years ago, weve advanced as a society. Even the Supreme Court has
The laypeople. It is a fascinating notion because every day across the americas citizens continue to engage in the political process. Imaginings they are fighting the old fight coming to win it in ways they have historically done it. Occasionally they will a prevail. But beyond the zone in which they operate there is another reality altogether a and that separate reality altogether is now such a definition that politics is discarded a handmade tile the relevant to at least to the eyes of the media. Let me give you an example. 60 american states have called on the congress of the venice states to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 s and Citizens United ruling to allow corporations to spend as they choose in politics. 500 American Communities come a major cities lossy angeles, a tucson have petitioned the their government for the redress of grievances. 35 new venture towns petitioned their congress to overturn the ruling. But yet that story is discussed almost nowhere i