Poverty, immigration, and Climate Change. Today he heads to capitol hill, but the popes visit to washington has not been without controversy. Seven people were arrested wednesday after staging a diein calling for the ordination of women. We will speak with one of the women priests who were arrested, as well as the granddaughter of dorothy day, founder of the catholic worker movement. Then when exxon knew about Climate Change. Newly uncovered documents show the companys own scientists confirmed Global Warming was occurring over three decades ago due to rising carbon emissions. Then the Company Covered it up, spending millions campaigning to stop the world from taking any action. We found a trail of documents that go back to 1977. Exxon new Carbon Dioxide was ,ncreasing in the atmosphere that the combustion of also feels was driving at, and this post a threat to exxon. Amy we will speak to a former exxon scientist and a reporter from inside climate news. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis continues his first ever trip to the United States by heading to capitol hill today to become the first pope ever to address congress. He spoke at the white House Wednesday about immigration, poverty and Climate Change. Alsot seems clear to me is a problemchange we can no longer be left to future generations. [applause] when it comes to our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history. Amy on wednesday, pope francis also canonized the 18th century spanish missionary Junipero Serra. The move has drawn strong protest from many indigenous groups. Serra founded nine of the 21 missions in california. Hundreds of thousands of people died after the missionaries arrived. Seven activists have been arrested in a civil disobedience and washington, d. C. To call for , the pope to recognize the rights of women to be ordained. We will be joined later in the broadcast by one of the female priests who was arrested wednesday during the protest. Meanwhile, a video of a little girl delivering a letter to pope francis during his papal procession down constitution avenue in washington, d. C. Has , gone viral. Fiveyearold sophie cruz, a u. S. Born citizen whose parents are undocumented immigrants from mexico, slipped past the barricades and delivered a wednesday written plea to the pope asking him to help keep her , family together. She later read the letter to the guardian. Citizen. N american i live in california. I parents are immigrants from mexico. I want to tell you my heart is sad and i would like to ask you to speak with the president and the congress and legalizing my parents because everyday i am scared of one day they will take them away from me. Amy well have more on pope francis historic sixday visit after headlines with the granddaughter of catholic worker dorothy day and maryknoll publisher Robert Ellsberg. The chief executive of volkswagen, martin winterkorn, has resigned amid the growing emissions cheating scandal. His resignation comes as germanys transport minister says volkswagen has admitted using the same fake emissions test in europe as it used to falsify results in the United States. The Justice Department is reportedly conducting a criminal investigation into the reports volkswagen illegally installed devices in certain diesel cars in a deliberate bid to avoid epa emissions rules. Congress says it will also conduct hearings into the matter. Chinese president xi jinping is arriving in washington today ahead of fridays meeting with president obama. His arrival comes as the us u. S. Office of Personnel Management has announced that hackers stole the fingerprints of 5. 6 million federal employees, far more than previously thought. U. S. Intelligence officials have blamed the attack on chinese hackers. Earlier this week, president xi jinping met with Technology Executives in seattle, including amazon founder jeff bezos and apple ceo tim cook. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton is facing a new round of scrutiny over her use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state. Fbi investigators say they have recovered a slew of emails that had been deleted from her account. Anonymous officials told Bloomberg News the recovered emails are both personal and workrelated. Hillary clinton has apologized for using the private server. In saudi arabia, Officials Say at least 400 people have died in a stampede near mecca on the first day of eid aladha, as millions of people were making their pilgrimage to the holy city for the holiday. The stampede occurred during the ritual known as the stoning the devil in a tent city about two miles outside mecca. The u. S. State Department Says it welcomes the announcement that saudi arabia will head a u. N. Human Rights Council panel. The news comes amid a growing International Outcry over the scheduled beheading and crucifixion of ali mohammed alnimr, who was arrested at the age of 17 and convicted of encouraging prodemocracy protests in 2012 during the arab spring. Alnimr is the nephew of a prominent cleric, sheikh nimr baqr alnimr, who has also received a death sentence following prodemocracy protests. U. S. State Department Spokesperson mark toner was questioned about alnimr by Associated PressReporter Matt Lee tuesday. Council and rights today i think they announced that they are about to be had a 21yearold shia activist. Are you aware of that . Trial t aware of the the verdict he was 17 years old and moved on and now hes been scheduled to be executed. I mean, we have, you know, talked about our concerns some of the Capital Punishment cases in saudi arabia in our human rights support, but i dont have anything more to add to it. Amy spokesperson mark toner went on to say the u. S. Would welcome saudi arabias position on the panel because were close allies. Saudi arabia has executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading. In mexico, parents of the 43 missing students have set up a protest camp in the center of mexico city and are slated to launch a 43hour Hunger Strike saturday, marking the First Anniversary of the disappearance of their children. The students went missing in the state of guerrero after coming under attack by local police the night of september 26. An International Group of experts have rejected the mexican governments accounts of events, saying the investigation was deeply flawed, and pointing to the role the federal police and military played in the students disappearance. Activists in chicago have announced they will also hold a 43hour Hunger Strike over the weekend. In yemen, local Officials Say a u. S. Drone strike has killed two people in marib province, east of the capital sanaa, on tuesday night. The officials are describing the victims as suspected members of alqaeda. Meanwhile, yemeni Officials Say at least 25 people have died in sanaa after a suicide bomber attacked a houthicontrolled mosque during prayers for the eid aladha holiday thursday. The attack comes a year into the fighting between the houthis and the u. S. Backed Saudiled Coalition forces, which has killed more than 4000 people. In burkina faso, president Michel Kafando has resumed control of the country following an attempted coup last week. Kafano was briefly detained by the president ial guard, which is loyal to Burkina Fasos former longtime president , blaise compaore. In news from europe, eu leaders have wrapped up a summit meeting addressing the influx of refugees fleeing violence in syria, iraq, afghanistan, somalia, nigeria and other countries. Leaders agreed on a plan to resettle 120,000 refugees across the member states. This comes as tens of thousands of people are attempting to make their way across the continent amid continued border crackdowns. Croatia and serbia have banned cargo trav between the two countries, as Hungarian Prime Minister has mobilized soldiers and prisoners to work on the fence running along the border with croatia. Hungary has also placed ads in jordanian Media Outlets warning refugees not to come to hungary, and that crossing is punishable by imprisonment. In the west bank, hundreds of people have gathered for the funeral of palestinian student hadeel alhashlamun, who was killed by israeli soliders at a checkpoint in city of hebron tuesday. The Israeli Military claims the 19yearold student had attempted to stab a soldier. But eyewitnesses say the soldiers had demanded to see the students bag, but she had not understood hebrew, and had been unable to heed their directions. The number of soldiers became six, aiming their weapons at her and screaming at her. I told him, give me a minute tuesday to her, but they refused and one of the soldiers shot her left leg. So she fell on the ground and then he shot her right leg. Then seconds later, he fired four bullets at her. Amy back in the United States in the city of charleston, south carolina, it has renamed part of the street in front of the historic Emanuel Ame Church where nine African Americans were killed when the accused shooter what supremacist dylann roof opened fire during bible study in june. On wednesday, residents gathered for the ceremony to rename part of calhoun street, named after Vice President john calhoun one , of the most prominent proslavery figures in history. The new name of this twoblock stretch is mother emanuel way memorial district. Roof faces the Death Penalty on multiple counts of murder, as well as federal hate crime charges. And longtime civil rights attorney Elizabeth Fink has died at the age of 70. Liz fink served as the lead attorney for the former attica prisoners after the 1971 prison uprising. The rebellion lasted from september 9 to september 13, 1971, and ended after new York State Troopers opened fire on the striking prisoners. 43 men died. More recently, liz fink represented the cyber activist jeremy hammond. This is Elizabeth Fink speaking about the crackdown by state troopers in the film the ghosts of attica. State troopers just took their clubs and beat them down the stairs. Brooke peoples legs, hit them on the tibia. On their back, on their head, in her genitals, on their front. You know, wherever they could hit them, that is where they beat them. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. Nermeen welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Pope francis heads to capitol hill today to become the first pope ever to address congress. On he spoke at the white house, wednesday, then addressed hundreds of u. S. Bishops at the st. Matthews cathedral. He later canonized the controversial 18thcentury missionary father Junipero Serra. Abu protested by many indigenous groups. The pope also made a previously unannounced stop to see nuns at the Little Sisters of the poor which sued the federal , government over the Birth Control mandate in the Affordable Care act. At the white house pope francis spoke about immigration, climate Climate Change, and poverty. Im deeply grateful for your welcome in the name of all americans. As the sun of an immigrant happy to the a guest in this country, which was built by such families. Ies. And youre proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. [applause] assessing accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me change is aimate leftem we can no longer be to a future generation. [applause] when it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history. We still have time to make the changes needed to bring about a and integral development, for we know that things can change. [applause] such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of People Living under a system which has overlooked them. Our common home has been part of excluded whichhe cries out to heaven and which today powerfully strikes our homes, our cities, and our societies. Of thea telling phrase reverend Martin Luther king, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it. [applause] we know by faith that the creator does not abandon us. Heev sakes his lovg of havingpents created us. Humanity has the ability to Work Together in building our common home. Inspired by this certainty, we wish to commit ourselves to the conscious and responsible care of our common home. Nermeen later in the day thousands lined constitution , avenue to see the papal parade. At one point, a fiveyearold girl whose parents are undocumented immigrants from mexico, slipped through the police barriers. When pope francis saw her in the street he signaled to the secret , service to bring her to the popemobile. After he blessed her, she gave him a letter and tshirt calling for an end to the deportation of parents of u. S. Citizens. Fiveyearold sophie cruz had traveled to washington with the immigrant Advocacy GroupHermandad Mexicana transnacional. Afterward cruz said, i believe i have the right to live with my parents. I have the right to be happy. Seven people were arrested wednesday outside st. Matthews cathedral, where pope francis met with u. S. Bishops. They were protesting the churchs refusal to ordain women as priests. Amy to talk more about the popes visit to the United States we are joined by three , guests. Janice sevreduszynska is an ordained priest with the association of Roman Catholic women priests. She was one of the seven protesters arrested on arrested on wednesday. Robert ellsberg is also with us. He is the editor and publisher of orbis books, the american imprint of the maryknoll order. He also edited and published the selected writings by dorothy day, founder of the catholic worker movement. He is the son of dan ellsberg. In the United States bishops 2012, conference endorsed the canonization of dorothy day to be a saint. Also with us here in new york is Martha Hennessy. She works at the maryhouse catholic worker in new york. Shes been fasting and praying and holding a vigil at the United Nations since tuesday evening. She is the granddaughter of dorothy day. We welcome you all to democracy now lets begin with Martha Hennessy , your response to the popes firstever visit to the United States . There were a lot of first. The first time the pope will address a joint session of congress, happening today, then he comes to new york later today. He will be speaking at the 9 11 memorial. He will be addressing the world body, the United Nations, as central part then he goes on to philadelphia. Central park, then he goes on to philadelphia. He is the pope we have been waiting for. He is very much like dorothy and how he is eating about world issues. I think he is the most competent leader we have seen on the horizon now. I think he understands the problems and issues of structural sin. He talks about capitalism being the dome of the devil. And so i am very pleased that he is able to address the issues. He is not just simply talking about poverty and Climate Change and immigration as problems in and of themselves, but relating it to the structural problems that we have. And i think that war war is probably the most important thing to understand in terms of structural sins. We have an economy that has been warmakingo survive on. And i think that i love the way he talks where we have amy the cyclical on the environment. Yes, the joy of the gospel and climate. He speaks to the life we have been given. And do we want our planet to look like to huge garbage heap or do we want to take care of it and take care of ourselves and take care of each other . And he speaks honestly about with the difficulties are and he speaks clearly about what the solutions can be, and that is why i would consider him one of our competent leaders in this time. , could Robert Ellsberg you comment on this first visit a pope francis to the United States . I think pope francis really is speaking a different kind of political la