Coates written to his teenage son. It is released after nine churchgoers are killed in South Carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28yearold africanamerican woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. In video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. He welcomed the nations marking the First Anniversary of the Police Killings of eric garner in Michael Brown and Michael Brown. After baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. Even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. Once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the very people we pay taxes to to protect us. Amy Tanehisi Coates for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. At least 22 iraqi soldiers and allied fighters have reportedly been killed in a double suicide car attack by the selfproclaimed Islamic State in east fallujah. Al jazeera reports todays attack was carried out with a confiscated Iraqi Army Humvee and an armored military vehicle. The attack comes just days after a wreck accepted iraq accepted the longdelayed delivery of four of the 36 f16s it ordered from the united states. The delivery had been stalled over concerns they could hand up in the hands of isil. The planes are made by military contractor Lockheed Martin which announced monday it was acquiring sikorsky aircraft, the company that makes black hawk helicopters, for 9 billion. The pentagon says a u. S. Airstrike in syria has killed a top figure in the khorasan group, an offshoot of alqaeda. Muhsin alfadhli was killed two weeks ago on july 8, but the pentagon did not announce his death until tuesday. Pentagon spokesperson captain jeff davis said alfadhli was among the few trusted alqaida leaders that knew of the 9 11 attacks in advance. In news from africa, officials have begun counting votes in this weeks contested election. Being, president Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third term which opposition parties say is a violation of the countrys constitution. More than 100 people have died in protest against the president s bid for a third term including one opposition official was found dead yesterday in the capital. John kirby dismissed the elections credibility. There is no international observers, routine intimidation of voters, there has been sustained effort to silence freedom of speech by media and opposition members. So this is in no way shape or form can this be considered a free, fair, or credible election. Amy in news from south america bolivian miners are continuing strikes and protests to demand that president evo morales fulfill his promise to build hospitals, roads and an International Airport in the southern mining region of potosi. President e evo morales, do not let us suffer. We are hungry. This is not the fault of the civic committees who ive reunited here you have reunited here. The only person to blame here is president evo morales. Why is he afraid to have a dialogue . He doesnt have the capacity to have a dialogue. Amy meanwhile, in chile contract workers for one of the Worlds LargestCopper MiningCompanies Went on strike tuesday. The strike spread to five mines owned by the stateowned company codelco as workers blockaded the roads and work sites. The contract workers demands include the right to collective bargaining. In other news from chile, a judge has ordered the arrest of two former Army Officers and five former noncommissioned officers over the 1986 killing of u. S. Student rodrigo rojas. Rojas was just 19 years old when he was doused with gasoline and set on fire during a protest in santiago under the u. S. Backed dictatorship of augusto pinochet. Another woman, Carmen Gloria quintana, was severely disfigured in the attack, but survived. In news from the West Bank Palestinian residents and International Supporters have launched an ongoing, 24hoursaday protest to protect the village of susiya from demolition by israeli bulldozers. On tuesday, european Foreign Ministers called on israel to halt the planned demolition. Last week, u. S. State Department Spokesperson john kirby also expressed concern, saying the demolition would be harmful and provocative. The standoff is the latest in a decadeslong fight by susiya residents, who have been facing forced displacement since the 1980s. In may, an Israeli Court rejected the villages injunction to stop demolition, clearing the way for the bulldozers. The bulldozers are expected to arrive any day. Residents have vowed to resist. We are steadfast. We will resist until death. It is impossible to make asleep even if they demolish it a thousand times, we will resist. It is impossible to make asleep. Even if they demolish it a thousand times, we will resist. How many times have they made us refugees . How many times . They throw us out the settlement now, and also they want to send us to where . Amy in haiti, hundreds of people protested in portauprince on tuesday, calling on the dominican government to halt the threatened deportations of hundreds of thousands of haitians living in the Dominican Republic. Some also called for a boycott of dominican goods. We urge the government of the Dominican Republic to respect the rights of haitians and indignity. Also, we ask that they start to support our local products. Amy in switzerland fifa , director sepp blatter was showered in fake money at the beginning of a press conference about reforms to address the Corruption Scandal that has thrown the world soccer governing body into turmoil. British comedian and prankster lee nelson approached the stage before the News Conference and attempted to hand blatter a stack of fake cash, telling blatter, sepp, this is for north korea in 2026. After security guards intervened, he threw the cash into the air, showering blatter with the bills. Meanwhile, fifa official jeffery webb, who was extradited to the u. S. From switzerland last week, has plead not guilty to 17 felony charges and has been released on 10 million bail. Here in new york, more than 1000 contract airport workers at jfk and la guardia airports are going on strike wednesday. The workers are protesting harassment and intimidation they say they have faced while organizing for a 15anhour wage hike. The strike will include baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants , and security officers. It will be the largest strike of contract airport workers since the 15anhour Campaign Began three years ago. The great novelist e. L. Doctorow has died at the age of 84. Known for his novels ragtime, billy bathgate, and the march, about general william shermans march into atlanta, doctorow was a leading voice in contemporary literature. He died tuesday in manhattan after a battle with lung cancer. The renowned actor, musician composer, and activist Theodore Bikel has died at the age of 91. Bikel was known for creating the role of baron von trapp in, the sound of music, on broadway and for the role of tevye in fiddler on the roof, which he played more than 2000 times. He was a folk singer who cofounded the newport folk festival with pete seeger, and also an outspoken critic of israeli policy, including plans to forcibly relocate 40,000 bedouin arabs from their ancestral lands. Which he denounced on democracy now one thing that is absolutel clear in my mind is that human beings cannot be treated like cattle. Human beings must be given the dignity and the respect that all human beings deserve, especially by a people who themselves choose jews, have experienced such deprivation in the past. When i say the very people who were told to get out in the fictional village of fiddler on the roof, the descendents of those very people are now telling others, strangers in their midst, that they must get out of their homes, seems fundamentally wrong. And a wrong cannot be allowed to stand. Amy he died tuesday and at the age of 91. In news from wyoming, the Northern Arapaho tribe is calling for federal hate crime charges after a city parks worker admitted he shot two tribal members at a detox center saturday. Police say roy clyde, killed Stallone Trosper and seriously wounded james sonny goggles, as they were lying in bed. He told the police was targeting homeless people. In ohio, a university of Cincinnati Police officer fatally shot an africanamerican man after pulling him over for a missing license plate. University police say officer ray tensing shot Samuel Dubose in the head sunday following a struggle, after dubose refused to produce a drivers license. Meanwhile, the family of a man who died after being hogtied by police in southaven, mississippi say they were threatened with arrest after asking to visit him in the hospital before he died. Police say troy goode was arrested saturday for acting strange after attending a concert with his wife and taking lsd. Attorneys say he told police he was having trouble breathing after they put him facedown on a stretcher with his arms and legs bound. He died about two hours later in the hospital. In texas, newly released dashcam footage shows the arrest of sandra bland, a 28yearold African American woman who was found dead in a jail cell in waller county, texas, last week after a traffic stop over a driving violation. County authorities have said her death was a suicide, a claim that her friends and family have disputed. In the arrest video, texas state trooper Brian Encinia approaches the drivers side of blands car and asks her why she appears to be irritated. You ok . Im waiting on you. This is your job. You seem very irritated. I really am. I was trying to get out of the way. You are speeding up so i move over, and you stop me. So i am a little irritated. At that doesnt stop you from giving me a ticket. Are you done . You asked me what is wrong and i told you. So now i am done yeah. Ok. Do you mind putting out your cigarette, please . Im in my car. Why do i have to put up my cigarette . You can step out now. I dont have to step out of my car. Amy in the video, officer encinia then appears to pull out a taser and threatens to light her up. I am going to drag you out of here. Your threatening to drag me out of my own car . Get out of your car i will light you up amy in a later section of the video, which previously came to light after it was filmed by a bystander, bland accuses the officer of slamming her head into the ground and says, i cant even hear. She also tells the trooper she has epilepsy and he replies, good. Some have claimed the footage released by authorities appears to have been edited. Three days after her arrest, sandra bland was found dead in her jail cell. The trooper has been placed on administrative duties for the do duration of the investigation into Sandra Blands death, which the District Attorneys Office is treating like a murder investigation. On tuesday, texas state senator royce west told reporters that the newly released dash cam footage shows that bland should never have been arrested in the first place. Meanwhile, at Sandra BlandsMemorial Service tuesday, her mother, geneva reedveal, spoke about the death of her daughter. That was my baby. She wasnt my convict. She wasnt a suspect. She was my baby. And it would behoove the all yall to think about what you would do in that place. So some of the stuff that is in the news is true. Some of the stuff that is in the news is not. But the real issue here is something occurred that is going to change the world. Amy centerlines mother Sandra Blands mother. The funeral is saturday in chicago. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman and juan gonzalez. Juan welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Amy you wrote your column today in the New York Daily News about uber. Juan the huge fastgrowing Ridesharing Service that is spreading around the world that wherever he goes around the world in city after city, is sparking huge protests and conflicts. In france, there were riots by cabdrivers, by veteran cabdrivers. Against uber. In the french governor government has to cleared it illegal. In california last month, the state of california declared uber ridesharing drivers are actually employees of the company, not independent contractors. The Company Continues to claim that. There is going to be a huge vote in new york this week over trying to put the brakes on the spread of uber in new york city. Uber is growing at a phenomenal rate. Amy why has the protest been so large . Juan basically, uber is essentially undermining the entire urban taxicab industry by creating a model a parttime drivers that is undermining the existing professional fulltime drivers and driving wages down so critics say all over the world. Here in new york city, it is now bigger than the entire you look at industry of new york and adding 500 drivers of week two its operation. So the city council is basically going to vote on whether it should slow down the growth of uber while they investigate the impact on traffic and congestion in new york city. The company is mounted a Huge Campaign hired david cluff former obama adviser hired key advisors to former mayor bloomberg. It is way to a multimillion Dollar Ad Campaign against the mayor and city council. So it is basically doing everything it can to get the council not to vote to slow down its growth. The taxi industrys everywhere are regulated and the government has some ability or right to try to figure out what is in the public interest. So we will see what happens because this is a fight being waged around the world. Amy we will continue to cover that story. Juan heres what i would like for you to know in america. It is traditional to destroy the black body. Its heritage. Those are the words of Tanehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about White Supremacy and being black in america. Titled, between the world and me, it is written as a letter to his 15yearold son, samori and has been compared to the talk parents have with their children to prepare them for facing Police Harassment and brutality. The book is a combination of memoir, history and analysis. Its release comes as the nation marks the oneyear anniversary of the deaths of eric garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in ferguson at the hands of police, and not long after baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. Amy today we spend the hour with Tanehisi Coates. He grew up in baltimore. In between the world and me come he writes to be black in baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape and disease. The nakedness is not an error, nor pathology. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear. Tanehisi coates is a National Correspondent at the atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He received the george polk award for his atlantic cover story, the case for reparations, which he joined us to discuss last may. His book between the world and me, is called required reading by Toni Morrison. Who writes ive been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Tanehisi Coates. Tanehisi coates, welcome to democracy now congratulations on your book, between the world and me. You write it as a letter to your son, samori. Tell us why. I hate to disappoint you guys, but mostly as a literary technique to i began it after i finished the draft of the case of reparations and i was somewhat frustrated with that piece because it is very, very empirical piece, very, very much based in the tools of journalism , very, very evidentbased. I thought at the same time, it made what it meant to live under system that made reparations be central in the first place, abstract distancing effect, talking about people as numbers. About talking about people across history. What i wanted to do with this book is to give the reader some sense of what it meant to live under a system of plunder as an individual to express that. To take it out of the realm of numbers and to take it directly into individual people and how does it feel every day in your life to live under such a system . How do you cope with that . How is it warping . What effects does it ultimately have on you . How do you as much as possible make your peace with it . Juan you write also that the impact of the ferguson decision the grand jury