President my parents were a highlight reel of modern us political discourse a great example of this was seen in how the 2 candidates battled over whose Political Party has created or lost more us jobs than the other in our 1st 3 years after we could. Give lation unleashed American Energy this administration saw 500008 basement jobs created joe biden is responsible for saving americas Auto Industry and you fight it against it but in the age of 19 its not just about the creation of jobs here in america its also about keeping workers safe at those jobs and according to a new complaint filed by the largest trade unions in the u. S. The United States government has been woefully and dangerously inadequate in Workplace Safety in this time of covert 19 the Washington Post reports that the Service EmployeesInternational Union in the a. F. L. Cio has filed a complaint with the United NationsInternational Labor organization in geneva charging that the u. S. Government is violating workers rights in terms not typically associated with well off countries at one point saying the bind they bind many essential workers have been placed in during the pandemic forced to risk infection or lose their jobs and potentially Unemployment Benefits amounts to a system of forced labor. The post goes on to note that the some of the complaints harshest accusations were over the trump administrations executive orders the clear again history such as meat packing essential compelling them to stay open even amid potential novelle coronavirus outbreaks while federal agencies including osha declined to issue and forcible safety regulations so with no help coming from our elected officials at home due to both the democrat republican partys fealty to corporate money power and influence u. S. Labor unions are now forced to look to the United Nations for help. Yes my friends it is come to that which means its time to start watching the hawks. On a city street. There so you can see that this is joyce state. Great city this least systemic deception is to late show which. So youll. Welcome everyone to watch it i robot and i will be surprised i mean its incredible that our workers here in the United States have now got to go to International Bodies you know International Organizations in order to try to hope to get some kind of rights back hope to get some kind of Workplace Safety thats that mind blowing and babble and so many ways for the past what 7 decades plus we have been seen as a nation that continually progressed when it came to workers rights and just brush rating now that were going to institutions for assistance that we usually argue on behalf of other place. To go to when they are you know major problems like this and now were finding ourselves in that exact same lurch if theres a lot about our leadership it also says a lot about how demoralizing were actually making everyday work for american citizens Richard Trumka the president of the f l c o told the Washington Post quote covert has laid bare what we already knew it has demonstrated that not only is the u. S. Violating workers rights but those violations are resulting in people died it became soil rageous that we wanted to file the complaint and when you look at the numbers it is kind of frightening when you see these you know you see them in this report when you lay it out that you see complaints to osha and then 1720 days later you see a spike in krona virus best know thats enough correlation to say people were complaining but then. You know now theyre getting hit because no one stepped up no one stepped up to say what will be Workplace Safety guidelines everything was kind of patchwork or what ever anybody could grab no it absolutely was in the other part is that if you work in a factory or if you work with machinery or if you did any of those types of industry level jobs you were one of the last people to get p. P. Equipping and you know they and their their families everyone is hearing about how 1000 is ravaging yet they fought to keep food on the table so theyre still going into work and the devastation is just being quite severe and these organizations have not paid any attention to the mandate that the state in many cases nor you know we have a lack of it at the federal level but they have not been attentive to any of the Science Behind 1000 either so theyre risking a lot of potential workers when you say leg of the federal its interesting because the 1st thing people think of when they with think about Workplace Safety is osha you know the occupation safety and Health Administration their job is to enforce Workplace Safety workers can silently and honestly say hey look some of my job sites dangerous can you come in and spec but thats one of the major problems theyre saying is the cause of this is that in the 1935 National Labor relations act commonly referred to as the wegner act that actives like so old it now excludes farmers contractors good workers and other types of more precarious employees from any kind of labor rights labor protection rights here in this country but getting the ocean. Researchers at harvard Boston BostonChildrens Hospital and the masters Purpose Department of public to help from that to date the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has not issued any emergency or permanent standards specific to cope with 19 exposure at the workplace they have not received any rulings as to how youre supposed to keep your workplace safe thats just the thing even worse as of august 13th 2020 osha has issued only 4 citations related to covert 19 moreover the total number of federal ocean spectrums of any kind during 2020 has been written. By 2 thirds compared to the same period in prior years theyre inspecting the last and theyve only found 4 instances in the entire country of a workplace not taken covert seriously in putting their workers in danger absolutely and their initial. Conversation about that was that they didnt want to expose their inspectors to. So youre not going in because you dont want to expose your own people meanwhile you are the organisation that is supposed to provide the check in the balance for these corporations or these entities that are doing things that they shouldnt for their employees and i hate to say it but that is directly because of corporate influence on our politicians on the federal level and both parties are guilty of this no one you dont see many people go out saying hey we need more inspectors at osha were going to fight for this osha has been gradually chipped away and chipped away and chipped away and now the trunk administration is come in and kind of put that chipping away on overdrive but journalist i want to point this out journalist david serota writes that ultimately what the g. O. P. Wants is an entire American Workforce that is legally barred from suing employers financially punished for refusing to return to unsafe work places and unable to call the workplace cops when lives are put in danger thats frightening because that is kind of the corporate idea were allowed up here to do whatever we want you work for us we pay you so you are then obliged to do whatever we say while the g. O. P. Is treating workers like cogs in a wheel they dont see them as human and they are a means of manufacturing so this isnt surprising but it is really frustrating because it also you know it breaks the backs of unions as well because the Top Administration in g. O. P. s consistently tried to strip them of their rights as well so thats typically the last stand for workers who really are are trying to get their voices heard i hope that as we turn this i hope that at some point when this country starts turning around we start actually doing things to protect lives its a member me and you said it this does back in the spring when they have the big push to get people back to work saying no what this is this is feeding. People to the nightmare that is co but i wish people would step up and try to change this in the future will keep our fingers crossed but as long as corporations have their chokehold in washington i dont think thats going to happen. With every passing day we get closer and closer to november 3rd yes that fateful day when the United States of america chooses a new commander in chief and in between now and then one message is being heard all across the country from maine to san diego from politicians to celebrity to social Media Influencer and that message is to get out and vote but in the age of coded gerrymandering and held on hold trump several states have already reported voting issues that are creating new concerns ahead of our great election day arties Rachel Blevins joins us now with all of the gritty details thank you for coming on rachel so. Lets look at florida floridas always where those big swing states we talk about every election water the voting issues that were seeing take place in florida well if you look back at 200 florida was the state that passed as a landmark legislation that would allow some convicted felons to vote now at the time they saw it as something that would help hundreds of thousands of residents who had served their time convicted of very dangerous crimes and were still contributing to society but even though the majority of the state was in favor of it their new republican governor was not and so he launched this mission to really go against it into got those provisions and to add new requirements to it so now in 2020 we have them saying well convicted felons can vote as long as they dont owe any fines or fees to the state well that creates a whole new host of problems obviously because you have an incentive to get those people to vote in some ways and where you can even influence their vote and then at the same time you have felons who may not know exactly what the state so they can actually get into even more trouble with the law if they do move forward with voting. And you know another topic that is on the minds of a lot of people across this country because of a lot of the conversation weve heard from President Trump and his acolytes is around mail in voting and absentee ballots so what is new on that front how do we prove the fact versus the fiction when weve jeff only seen a big push without especially at a time when theyre trying to limit in person gatherings or telling people hey voter early send in your bollards do all of that stuff as early as possible well weve heard from voters in states like ohio and new york saying that they requested absentee ballots but then received either the wrong ballots altogether or the wrong form the wrong address that kind of thing now those technicalities are extremely important because when were talking about those ballots were looking at places where in the 2020 primaries alone more than half a 1000000 ballots were rejected and they can be rejected because. Is your signature look a little off because youre out of the middle initial here on this forum but not on this forum it can be any number of things to especially when were looking at an election and wondering if its going to be close what its going to look like every vote counts so those concerns that were hearing now are especially important in that theyre getting taken care of getting them out of movie now as we approach election day. Only a few weeks away but how i think the biggest question is given what youve been saying and what weve all been hearing about you dont get a vote get out and vote vote early do. Those waters early you know how was early voting playing a role in this election you know what words are look like right now well so far they say that around 5600000 votes have been cast in early voting in the 2020 alexion that is far and above what we saw in 2016 and if we look back at 2016 we see an election where voter turnout was at a 20 year low so over the last 4 years youve really seen that message turned youve really seen you know from whether it be celebrities any time you get on facebook or instagram theyre telling you hey pressure to vote get out and vote and were also in a time where a lot of people already know exactly who theyre voting for and they know that ahead of the debates and all of that so theyre much more likely to try to make their voice heard and to hope that everything goes as planned and their ballot is accepted and do you think that there are going how do you think this is going to play out on Election Night weve heard that you might not get a date someone actually elected and sell weeks or a month later with what you know about whats going on with the ballots in early voting how do you think thats going to affect when america will know who the next president is was certainly is going to have an impact especially because you do have states saying that theyre either going to count those ballots the day after polls close or maybe that theyre even going to wait a few days so especially when it comes to those very important battleground states that are literally looking at every single ballot it is going to play a big role and its also going to play a big role to see how those 2 candidates handle it you know youve got the president saying that. Hes already wary of all of these ballots hes already concerned about this and so it will be interesting to see exactly how those days play out and how those candidates respond rachel thank you so much for that update on all things voting here in the United States thank you thank you all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand of the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on all platforms definitely go check it out coming up were joined by author and pastor daniel hill to discuss the history and future of christianity and racism United States of america definitely going to be a fascinating conversation so stay tuned to watch the whole. Idea. Because. You need my. Help with this too is human and we said. Just that hamas. Is not going to know but im also the most companies you know ive been there give us this if they please. When they meet with. 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Racism White Supremacy and a system of government that use race before personhood isnt anything new to america in fact its what this country was founded on from the early explorers who open land owned by native americans and brutalized them to a country for treatment of blacks and latinos america seems to function on racial bias and exclusion but for black america there is a particularly nasty and pervasive level of abuse domestic terrorism legal discrimination and a limp dick level hurtles institutional racism and White Supremacy supremacy present in the United States slavery reconstruction jim crow the Prison Industrial Complex a subpar Education System lax Health Care Housing equity you name it and somehow this country has created a nearly impenetrable system of racism is to keep blacks from progressing. And in a nation that speaks so heavily of its christian leanings its devotion to biblical principles and touts think often the actions of whites against their black counterparts dont exactly mirror jesuss teachings does the white church deny there is a race problem are these churches complicit why do they theyve leaders stand on the sidelines a new book titled white lies 9 ways to expose and resist the racial systems that divide us moves to answer those questions and more arthur and pastor daniel hill takes a deep dive into the cultural and historical trails of racism in america he not only defines White Supremacy and gives real world context but also speaks of the ideology that makes it so hard to root out and give steps specifically for the church on the work they have to do in teaching equity standing with black people and making america live up to its ideals hill is a Racial Equity advocate pastor of River City Church a multiethnic congregation to congo and is on a mission to lead Church Leaders beyond the racism deeply embedded in the White Evangelical Church daniel hill joins us now to discuss his book the takes all right supremacy were biblical winds welcome daniel. Hey i mean. So you and i go way back were both chicago people i know of your church quite a bit and youre someone who leaves this massive most high Cultural Church in what is one of the well it is americas most segregated city chicago youve seen promise that are the results of community vestment a bias criminal Justice System the re