Ruled against a truck driver who got fired after he abandoned his broken down trailer in order to avoid freezing to death in subzero temperatures. We will hear from the trucker and senator al franken. Companysurd to say this is in its rights to fire him because he made the choice of possibly dying from freezing to death or causing other people to die possibly by driving an unsafe vehicle. That is absurd. Amy we will also look at Neil Gorsuchs views on Citizens United and the 10 million spent in dark money to push his confirmation. Then we speak to two victims of racial profiling in the nations airports. When is a former nororth carolia police chief, the other is a lawyer suing the trump administratition over its targeting of sanctuary cities. Both men were recently detained and questioned. We will find out what happened. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch is heading to
Ruled against a truck driver who got fired after he abandoned his broken down trailer in order to avoid freezing to death in subzero temperatures. We will hear from the trucker and senator al franken. Companysurd to say this is in its rights to fire him because he made the choice of possibly dying from freezing to death or causing other people to die possibly by driving an unsafe vehicle. That is absurd. Amy we will also look at Neil Gorsuchs views on Citizens United and the 10 million spent in dark money to push his confirmation. Then we speak to two victims of racial profiling in the nations airports. When is a former nororth carolia police chief, the other is a lawyer suing the trump administratition over its targeting of sanctuary cities. Both men were recently detained and questioned. We will find out what happened. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch is heading to
Joining us on our callin set is Msnbc Chris Hayes who has written his second book called a colony in a nation. Where did the name of the book come from . It is a line from a Richard Nixon quote in 1968. It is an inauguration speech and thought of as a law and order speech. You have riots, protests, assassinations and he is calling for a return to order saying it is time for frank talk about the problem of order in the country. There is a line where he is talking about africanamericans and race struggles and saying they want the same as White Americans and dont want to just be a colony in a nation. That term, when i encountered it while reading the speech, really stuck with me and captured something deep about a lot of the reporting i was doing. Where does the book spring from . An incident this book sprang from . We covered criminal justice on the show and did that before Michael Browns death and before sort of the explosion of black lives matter activism and what happens in baltimore
Do i buy . Just know that the United States has some of the most sustainable features in the world regardless of the social justice issues we discussed here. Buy domestic. Secondly, if you want to go a little further and under whether or not the fisherman catching fish for you are fairly treated know your fisherman and try to under where this particular fish came from. And if you are members of ngo look deeply at how these organizations are spending your many. They are as capable of running consultantled campaigns and media blitz to force a particular direction as are the businesses steve discussed today. Understand where your dollar is going and use them well. Steve, you ready . You got it . Yes. There are things people can do as individuals, an consumers, for example that will have an impact. One richmond example i site in the book involves something called Community Choice aggregation. We can unplug from fossil fuel sources of energy and sign up for something called marine clean ene
To scope miles of the sewer system but finally, this devastating development. Nothing like that has ever happened before. Nashua public work crew secures cover over the sewer Police Believe 16 year old jacob good lay fell into during the heavy rain storm friday night. Work comes hours after body believed to the nashua teens turned up mercury mac river. If jacob has been lost, this is tragedy for our communit cover was off whether by wind or watter is mystery. We are going to be looking at the situation of whether this was secured or not. And looking at the other entrees to sewer system. Nashua police say they responded to call of person who may have fallen into an an open storm drain around the time he was captured on Surveillance Video walking home in the same area of 75 main street. They were literally thinking sending people into that hole without being positive is it was is sun unair. Francis lee sanders tells fox 25 she saw aftermath. Finding belongings police later do he describe