Point of a wideranging conversation, and tour through history of racism, especially in subjugation in this country. Is the first time a documentary opened at the new york Film Festival in its more than 50 year history. We will speak to director ava duvernay and see clips from her new film, which shows our Justice System has been driven by racism from slavery to mass incarceration today. The 13th mm and to the constitution exit unconstitutional to be held as a slave. There are exceptions including criminals. Courts the loophole was immediately exploited. What you got after that was a rapid transition to a mythology of black criminality. The we will speak with director as well as the love the film malkia cyril of the center for media justice, professor kevin gannon of grand View University, and lisa graves about alec in the private system from the cca to the american veil coalition. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In colombia, voters have rejected a Peace Agreement between the government and the farc rebels in a shocking turn of events that threatens to prolong the nations 52yearold civil war. The few still lost by margin of 49. 8 to 50. 2 , a stunning upset for referendum expected to pass overwhelmingly. In havana, where peace talks have taken place over the past four years, farc leader Rodrigo Londono promised his movement would continue to work towards peace. Maintains its willingness for peace and reiterates its position use only words as weapons to work toward the future. To the colombian people who dream of these, you can count on us. Peace will win out. Amy colombian president santos sent his negotiating team back to havana for talks and said a ceasefire with the farc would remain in effect. Many of those voting no objected to the peace deals offer of amnesty, limited immunity from prosecution, and reduced sentences granted to farc rebels. Well have more on sundays historic no vote on colombias Peace Agreement after headlines. In news from the campaign trail, three of Donald Trumps newly revealed tax returns show trump claimed an income tax loss of nearly 917 million on his 1995 returns. The deduction means trump could have paid zero federal income taxes over an 18 year period. The Trump Campaign has not challenged the authenticity of the documents, which were leaked to the New York Times, but said in a statement mr. Trump is a highlyskilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to , pay no more tax than legally required. Trumps media surrogates defended the practice, including former new york city mayor rudolph giuliani, speaking with cnns jake tapper. You might remember a few years ago it was pointed out that ge paid no taxes. Is, this is part of our tax code. The man is a genius. He knows how to operate the tax code for the benefit of the people he is serving. Amy Donald Trumps tax records were sent to the New York Times by an anonymous source, with a return address listed as originating from trump tower. A lawyer for trump threatened the New York Times with prompt legal action. Trump has refused to make his tax returns public, breaking a precedent followed by every president ial nominee since 1976. Meanwhile, donald trump continued to lash out at critics, including former Miss Universe alicia machado, who says trumps criticism of her weight gains sparked an eating disorder. In a series of earlymorning messages on twitter, trump accused machado of appearing in a sex tape. Theres no evidence machado ever appeared in a sex tape. But theres new evidence that donald trump has. But there is new evidence that donald trump has. In a softcore pornographic video by buzzfeed, trump appears. He breaks a bottle of champagne over a playboybranded limousine. Amy elsewhere, reporter alleged on saturday that donald trump once called her the cword in the 1980s. Jennifer lin says trump used the slur to her boss after she wrote a story about trumps business dealings in Atlantic City in 1988. Lins former editor, craig stock, confirmed the story. In other campaign news, a leaked audio recording reveals Hillary Clinton told a group of donors shes the centerleft to centerright alternative to Bernie Sanders and donald trump. The candid remarks were recorded at a clinton fundraiser in virginia last and leaked late february last week by the conservative website Washington Free beacon. In the remarks, clinton says she is straddling the line between two extremes in american politics. On the republican side, she says is a populist, nationalist, xenophobic, discriminatory approach. Mrs. Clinton id desire to believe that we can have free college, free health care, that what we have done as an gone far enough and we just need to go as far as scandinavia, whatever that means. And half the people dont know what it means, but it is something that they feel. So as a friend of mine said the other day, i am occupying from the centerleft to the centerright. I dont have much company there. Amy in the caribbean, ae matthg down on jamaica, haiti and cuba. Haiti urged residents in coastal areas to evacuate, and there are fears for the thousands still living in tents following the massive earthquake in 2010. In cuba, the u. S. Military says its airlifting 700 employees, and some family pets, from the naval base at guantanamo bay, although there are no plans to , evacuate the 61 prisoners detains to teens there. In syria, Government Forces and their allies advanced on aleppo after a pair of barrel bombs hit the main hospital, knocking it out of commission and shutting off essential health care to most of east aleppos 275,000 residents. 250,000 residents. U. N. Secretarygeneral has called the attacks on medical facilities war crimes. The violence came as residents described aleppo as a living hell with water, fuel, medicine, and electricity all in short supply. Elsewhere in syria, an air strike in idlib on thursday flattened an apartment building, where a video posted online purports to show rescue workers with the White Helmets volunteers digging an infant out of the rubble. We have been working for two or three hours. Thank god we found her alive. She is lucky she is still alive. Onemonthold. The baby is just one month old. Two hours of work. That is 30 days old fulls amy meanwhile, russia warned the United States not to oppose its military campaign in support of Bashar Assads forces, warning that a u. S. Intervention could lead to frightening tectonic shifts in the middle east. In ethiopia, as many as 52 people died in a stampede after police shot guns into the air and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a large antigovernment demonstration sunday. The protest began as an estimated 2 Million People joined a religious festival in ethiopias Oromia Region home to the oromo people, who for the last two years have staged antigovernment protests. In august, ethiopian olympic runner Feyisa Lelisa raised his arms in an x as he won a silver medal in the marathon to protest ethiopias human rights abuses against his tribe, the oromo people. In the french port city of calais, police fired tear gas and Water Cannons at refugees and their supporters on saturday as the french government pressed ahead with plans to close the refugee camp known as the jungle. About 200 refugees and 50 of their supporters held the demonstration to protest desperate conditions in the camp, which is home to some 7000 people fleeing war and poverty. Some of the protesters hoisted british flags as they called on the British Government to accept more refugees. This is an asylum seeker. Open the uk border. Let them through. That is the political situation. In france, theres no political situation. We denounced that. Amy in hungary, a National Referendum on whether to exclude refugees from the country failed when less than half the electorate turned out, rendering sundays results null and void. Of those who voted, more than 95 sided with Prime Minister rejecting European Union quotas , on resettling Asylum Seekers. The government spent 16 Million Euros of taxpayer money on a campaign demonizing refugees and urging a rejection of quotas. Prime minister orban has previously called Asylum Seekers a poison and has praised Donald Trumps antirefugee platform. The state of texas formally friday withdrew from the federal Refugee Resettlement program. Republican Governor Greg Abbott cited security concerns, saying he wants a promise from the federal government that refugees are fully vetted and do not present a security threat. The move is unlikely to stop the resettlement of refugees in texas, but it will stop the state from disbursing federal dollars to local resettlement agencies. In december, texas sued the federal government in a bid to block a syrian family from resettlement in the state. A federal Court Dismissed that case, though texas is appealing. Police in the san diego, california, suburb of el cajon have released a pair of videos showing the death of unarmed go. Ndan refugee alfred olan the first video captured on a Security Camera at a nearby restaurant shows olango confronted by Richard Gonsalves approaches longer with his gun drawn. A longer was cornered there a parked pickup truck and a fence as officer gonsalves follows, raising his gun. A second video taken on a cell phone camera shows second officer arriving on the scene and aiming a taser as olangos sister pleads with officers not to shoot her brother. Dont shoot him. [indiscernible] [gun shots] [screaming] an police say he pulled out Electronic Cigarette and the Police Officer gonzales mistook it for a gun. No Psychiatric Emergency Response Team was deployed, even though police to the call was for a Mental Health emergency and it took the police 50 minutes to get there. Protests continue drop the weekend in el cajon and san diego were demonstrators are calling for federal probe into the killing. Meanwhile in charlotte, north carolina, police say they will publicly release all cam and the killing of keith lamont scott. The Police Department says it is allowing scotts family to review the footage before it makes the videos public this week. Police previously released portions of video of the killing, and even the police chief admits the videos do not show scott clearly holding a gun. North carolina is an opencarry state. Meanwhile, democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton visited the little rock Ame Zion Church in charlotte over the weekend, where she appeared along side 9yearold zianna oliphant, whose testimony at a Charlotte CityCouncil Meeting about Police Brutality went viral. You can go to our website at democracynow. Org to see the nineyearolds testimony. In new york city, the man who recorded eric garners death is set to turn himself in to police this morning to begin a four year prison sentence. Ramsey orta says he was arrested on trumpedup drugs and weapons charges as payback for filming the fatal Police Chokehold that killed eric garner on july 17, 2014. Ramsey orta is the only person at the scene of eric garners death who will serve jail time. The chief justice of the alabama supreme court, judge roy moore, has been suspended over his defiance of a u. S. Supreme court order on marriage equality. On friday, alabamas court of the judiciary found judge moore guilty on six charges after moore ordered probate judges to violate federal law and refuse to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples back in january. The move effectively ends Justice Moores career on the bench since a state law will prohibits him from running for a new term because of his age. And a new report from the bureau of Investigative Journalism says the pentagon gave a overoversial uk pr firm half 1 billion to run a top secret Propaganda Program in iraq. Former Bell Pottinger video editor martin wells says the company would produce phony al qaeda videos, and then u. S. Marines would plant the videos on compact discs during house raids. And anyone watching the videos later would have their i. P. Address logged and their location recorded. Wells says Bell Pottinger employees also produced fake tv news reports that were designed to look as though they were made by arab reporters, rather than that british pr firm. A bomb would go off, people would die. People would be filming it. It would come back. We would then edit it and then go out and various channels within the region. And we were to make it as best we could look as if it was made locally which it is shot locally and edited locally. It was more to make it look like it was arabic. Amy wells said his Bell Pottingers content was signed off on by david petraeus, then commander of the Coalition Forces in iraq, and occasionally by the white house. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In colombia, voters have rejected a Peace Agreement between the government and the nations Largest Rebel Group in a shocking turn of events that threatens to prolong the nations 52yearold civil war. By a razorthin vote of 50. 2 to 49. 8 , colombians rejected the peace deal hammered out with the farc Guerrilla Movement and signed just days ago by colombian president juan manuel santos. It was a stunning upset for a referendum that was expected to pass overwhelmingly. In havana, where peace talks have taken place over the past four years, farc leader Rodrigo Londono promised his movement would continue to work towards peace. The farc maintains its willingness for peace and reiterates its position use only words as weapons to work of the future. To the colombian people who dream of peace, you can count on us. Peace will win out. Amy president santos sent his negotiating team back to havana for talks today and said a ceasefire with the farc would remain in effect. Turnout in the referendum was low, less than 40 nationwide, just 25 in some areas along the caribbean coast hit with heavy rain from hurricane matthew. In bogota, many supporters of the peace deal wept as results came in. I am daniela. I am a law student and i voted yes because i thought colombia was going to say yes. No one thought this was really going to happen. We were hopeful we were going to live in a new country. We had hoped for so many things, but people simply decided to continue with the war, continue with pain of more than 50 years, and not think about us, the young people nor all of the future generations. I think this agreement was not perfect and it had no it have points that are not very good, but of her an agreement where some of the words are wrong that of war were the bullet firing at peoples heads. Amy many of those voting no objected to the peace deals offer of amnesty, limited immunity from prosecution, and reduced sentences granted to farc rebels. Alvaro uribe, the rightwing former president , led the no campaign, arguing rebels should not be allowed to Reenter Society without facing punishment. This gives impunity to run for office to the highest leaders of the farc, the largest cocaine Trafficking Cartel in the world. Amy colombias civil war began in 1964 and has claimed some 220,000 lives. More than 5 Million People are estimated to have been displaced. Joining us here in new york is mario murillo, a longtime colombian activist and a professor of communications at hofstra university. He is the author of, colombia and the United States war, unrest, and destabilization. Can you talk about the significance of this note vote . I think we put too much weight on the referendum to begin with, but it is significant. Theously, the supporters of no vote, those who ended up winning by slim margin, are calling it a victory in a demonstration of colombian democracy. In many ways, it is emblematic of colombian democracy when you talk about high levels of extension, which you pointed avenue introduction, when you talk about a major disparity between the rural areas most affected by the war, who voted overwhelmingly in favor of saying yes to the peace deal, despite its problem, they voted yes. And t