Paying a high deductible to co-payments when we don't medicate for or instead of having the company putting money into health care that you get decent wage increases. The candidates spend about 20 minutes debating health care in 10 minutes each debating immigration in the climate emergency Greenpeace said afterwards pushing climate change policy to the back burner for the 2nd debate in a row would be an insult to those dealing with extreme heat wave storms and droughts climate justice activists in Detroit continue their push for democratic presidential candidates to visit frontline communities in the area impacted by resource extraction so far according to the frontline Detroit coalition only one candidate has done so Washington Governor Jay Inslee took a toxic store in Detroit today at of the debates he later told c.n.n. Climate change must be the number one national priority ahead of tonight's debates when your house is on fire the 1st priority is the house that's on fire and our planet is on fire a nation is on fire or towns are burning down our fields are flooded when I was in Miami relented Miami the Everglades one fire when you're swamp is on fire you've got a problem so we've got a lot of things that I'd like to do is President we've got the 1st public option health option in my state of long term care plan the best teacher pay increase the best gender pay equity the best family medical leave but we understand if we don't deal with this it touches every response to pressure from climate activists the Democratic National Committee is considering a pair of resolutions whether to host a debate or forum devoted to climate change a final decision may come at the d.n.c. Meeting late. Next month the drug industry lobby says the Trump administration's plan to let Americans import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada is far too dangerous Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America says there's no way to guarantee the safety of drugs coming from outside the u.s. It also says law enforcement has repeatedly warned importation schemes could worsen the u.s. Opioid crisis President Donald Trump's administration said today it will create a pathway allowing Americans to import the lower priced drugs legally and safely The announcement comes as Vermont senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced he was taking constituents with diabetes to Canada to buy cheaper insulin something he's done as a politician since 1999 Senate Democrats have introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision open the floodgates to unlimited election spending by corporations and fueled the rise of super PACs the Democrats amendment would let Congress and states reimpose limits on election spending the group People for the American way welcome the amendment saying corporations in the extremely wealthy are paralyzing our political system by flooding it with cash I'm Christina on a stead Hardonk radio's next. Up Everybody David do you get I would use this afternoon. You know throughout the summer fun drive you've been looking back at the Year 969. Looking at all the. Landmark events that took place and. Evaluating what they mean the impact that they had how they transformed the political climate you know the social climate. What we still remember what new information has come out all of that. One of the. Troubling and disturbing incidents that took place in 1969 happened on December 4th that's when Chicago police raided the home of Black Panther leader the chairman of the largest chapter of the Black Panthers Fred Hampton 21 years old lying next to his wife who was pregnant with Fred Hampton Jr frequent guest on our show and he was basically assassinated him and now Mark Clark who is I think the deputy chief. In the Panthers it was a horrific situation especially when you look at what Fred Hampton was trying to do and what he had done at 21 years old a leader that folks had not seen the likes of in a long long time. This documentary. Looks at what took place on that fateful day in Chicago looks at the circumstances around it looks at the things leading up to it in the aftermath of. The murder of Fred Hampton I want you all to pull up a chair turn up your radio we want you to pay close attention. We're going to let you know how you can add this documentary. To your collection and help us out with the summer fun drugs sort out any without further ado let's listen to a clip from the documentary the murder of Fred Hampton it will come right back on camera has been a lot like that. One where. Did I. Repeat. Didn't you them fish that. You want. Him If you do satellite He says if you see some bad luck to well someone away maybe . They would say we do it in the South I am God I know all the polling with the widow to see. Me. And I'll be a little while you say that I know. What. 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Not a card and what about all the $400.00 faster than the value of about about we've got to be about bothered about it and it's all about the last you going to stand back now to find a relationship with the dreadful lot of you don't want to vanish What do you do with. The insanity. By the bull in the mud on the same type of safety our beloved stimulated revolution of the sun and we've made if you want to anybody the important thing about it is that the just on that now we're not a result of it it's all going to stay bad refusing to give any excuse. For challenged you know the reason I'm against this is a bad child just. The day of the season and I was pretty bad. The No In the years I would have gone the dual job the the little the you with the special message the it was the growth hormone and the subjects are down to some of the ground. The past. Judging by the just the for me the job the old. And. Him in the. Past to. Embody if you like. Powerful words from Fred Hampton Chairman Fred Hampton and of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party looking back at his life with this incredible d.v.d. Called the murder of Fred Hampton. You hear him talking about revolution and more importantly you hear him talking about socialism and it's interesting you know how now people are a lot more comfortable talking about it today almost as if it's fashionable for some. But when he said it it was something that put him in the crosshairs of the United States government and best believe they played a major role you know in the assassination that took place December 4th 1969. I don't want to talk too long I want to give you our phone number and let you know how you can support us this afternoon. The number is 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey k.p.s. a Or donate online a k p s a dad or g. What we're asking for this afternoon is for as many of you as possible to call and make a $10.00 a month commitment to the station. Or to donate or pledge $100.00 that will get you a copy of the d.v.d. The murder of Fred Hampton directors my gray and Howard all. The most important thing here is that you're supporting this station so many outlets won't talk about Friday and. They won't talk about Black Panther than death they're not going to play the speeches and if they do it's always a quality qualify type of conversation it's always with a cloud over the head 1st is really looking in depth about the sickle cell programs they set up the free breakfast program which you just heard that they set up the forming of the original rainbow coalition all sorts of things it's important that we have this information expression when history is being rewritten redefined. Distorted and in many places just outright omitted but not only there waves. So again our number is $1843957321800.00 Hey p.f.a. $10.00 a month pledge I think there's a lot of you that can do that I want to invite you to do that get the d.v.d. $100.00 pledge or $10.00 a month. But that being said let's go back and listen to another clip from the documentary the murder of Fred Hampton. In basically knowing my baby you know you're enjoying your love even. For the love for me to do everything I know and even in polling day conventions and believe me to go. Beyond of one believer the pain. As a whole point all in as a mother and father. Then when should the you. Come and socialize you know you said get out of the game but everything all of these are paid. For by just a great game if you. Have any my brother is of value if you have to kind of thing that is a very good yes yes a bad. Call by the people to run for the people and the. Whole money even out of people a lot of people would say that you want to you know whatever you know even to me like you using the roof furniture maybe. You need a car maybe I'll be a dad the man you really mean you do that I need to know some more value as well just about it changed. The color you did you follow the same struggles within the stuff here that is to be an indication that anybody in our lives is only well the whole number you need to you can bomb is no excuse oh yeah and out the way we talk about you know right we got the moment right you know it's out of a weekend right now you're on the run it's not going to be unhappy you will be you'll have a foundation the revolution the knowledge age and indeed to be investing your models of the love you know. And you could see. He didn't even though I was above that little news allusion I'm a priest another example top down he'd found out he needed a white man you can put the bike in front of an outfit see how he moved on the white people are evil India Brazil India call you you Cajun and the people are going to be Indian We don't need whites and we depress the women even white blame out until we get enough to change the program and fan out put it on the internet black people want human genetic polymath metal revolution able to advance revolution and full power without the broader sense of the USA and under the mountains of benefited by the Taliban so what you say and you can be sure Mr Chester Now you can do it no management just forget we're going to man that you know me when someone that names you know me China and people applauded and even a Dispy they are now talking letting go all the time in a chase that to me doesn't buy the old illusion and so we can understand here the educational program has yet to be able to figure out what they will go into right now as whether people will end up in a fish waiting but it can be able to really control and fear down down there with no indication that people take a look founded about the money because it won't be really a good diet for people day anyway you know they're even with no indication you have a meal and only learned of the little man you got to Africa now like you got in. 80 So what we saw tonight is they had to be educated in the program as being an important matter failure but looked at the time had to go to fix we are absolutely just before we need to cynicism never the pilot able to even run an ideology but by fiat because the deal had been chasing him in no way. In the way of you know why they do what you do you do you mind if you're part of the know most of this movement then you may be if you don't want to be called Newport and they won't stop and the energy that is to be more and before you know it the energy challenges before you know and you had a negro in tears if you see the reason we don't do not talk of the present you say it falls on your bullshit. You can do a lot of album called I don't. Mean. To do that if you get. It In. The idea that it's going to get in the way that. The. The the they. Say that. You have just a mortality rate you have. Ever measured service we thought we saw the basic need for medical services and we worked hard and worked over a long period of time in order to make it a reality not up to this day in the black community and you have the. Pirates rather than public health hounds of the hand medicine and. We will take the profit out of the medical profession. And many of the billions of the rich results. Of the basic. Black community for free radicals. A necessary national training. Center. That has been put in the fast teachers. Sociologists. Social work. Involved. So we say we always say it is like that the body is the thing to do if they want to we might not be bad idea I might be anywhere but what do you remember of it whether that was don't tell you I am. Already there if you look at it you love it you have the vision I am the area I am the people that the big you got to make a decision and the people of the day to be the people have to stand up against the big That's what the family doing and about the little bit of what we have brought to trial here Fred. You are here. To play the game. Tom I am. Now really. I read a very clear private shows with tom cruise fare for North Carolina but I have no great desire to see Fred Allen in this trial. Fred Hampton achieve victory in this community as a great reason for not wanting to before. And . You know why. I am. Why they're. You know. Very powerful excerpt from the documentary the murder of Fred Hampton he was talking about what happens if you don't have political education who's talking about you know you may have the words you may have the uniform but if you don't have the education you may be a direct replacement for the oppressive system to be getting rid of he talked about what happens if you don't have education and you are you have an oppressive ideology in mind he talked about what was going on in Haiti but papa Doc's talked about you know how we needed to judge other places other leaders how we had to look at that he was talking about this 50 years ago. It was only 21 very powerful and of thing to people that's been calling in a want to make sure that we make our financial goal the saf to noon. We have Valerie calling in from Oregon listening online. We have Christian out of Berkeley we have an anonymous caller at a Walnut Creek Creek town in the building. They put out $900.00 collectively. $900.00. We have 29 minutes left in the show. $900.00 you know what that would do for hard not great deal do you know what would do for this radio station $900.00 on the line. If I get 7 people to call 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey k.p.s. I just 7 now 66 more people to call 180-439-5732 extension 1800 headache a p.f.a. . And say you know this documentary is very relevant is 50 years ago that they're talking about but what he's talking about applies right here in 2019 I want to make a $10.00 a month commitment I want to get this d.v.d. Or you know what I have $100.00 this pledge $100.00 Here's my card let's do this. Let's get a copy of this d.v.d. But more importantly let's support his radio station. Not a lot of stations like it around the country ladies and gentlemen is not a whole lot we've been around for a while but we're here because there are folks like you who listen who are generous with your time and have been generous with your pledges. We want to get as many people as possible. And it's not just you giving money but it's making that commitment becoming a stakeholder. In this radio station. That's important folks becoming a stakeholder 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey if they can you pledge you become because you become a part of the family that my friends is important. I want to listen to another clip from Chairman Fred Hampton from this documentary the murder of Fred Hampton So let me give out the number one more time and remember I need 6 more people to pledge 10 dollars a month 6 more people and we get to keep the $900.00 that has been put up as a challenge match so 180-439-5732 . 1800 k. K. P.s.a. Let's listen to some more Fred Hampton another thing to show the bullet riddled door crossed from the beginning. The officers testified that the Panthers fired into debt or from inside their bedroom in fact the door in the photo was the bedroom door and the holes in the door were read by police gunfire at the answers there's a good thing. I'll chat that. Why are you sat there was sitting there what is a picture of. Get inside of the door to the bathroom yes that door are we were discovered corresponded trying to move or during the journey but there were always in the door and the door was open big those course. Were in the wall adjoining between the bedroom and when we. Got to stay through the whole you know matched up . By having me and I say again I make no evaluation of the critics other than to say they are really portrayed in videos and they exist in that I typed them at the time those pictures were taken from little dot us post it works ha ha strange shall be glad. To have never visited happened while you were standing in a. City out into the hallway I urge I urge your inventory of each of these vicious weapons this attack this attack by the Black Panthers and up police postie rec weapons which are recovered at the game ball where they were storing them clearly demonstrates the true character of the Black Panther Party no but I've never denied that there were no weapons there as a matter of fact you were beautiful if you didn't have a weapon there you know without the 1st the fish how you just jump out of the cars and shoot you down how do you not going to go and goats next to your. This is who I was sad because I would kill to both of them in one week yes and as a matter of fact folks this concern should have stopped at an old temple so. There's a mystery how we had Can you tell me why your officers did not try to use tear gas isn't this the usual procedure to flush someone out of the building I'm sure they use the means necessary to effect the search and to prevent prevent themselves from being killed or after they were killed after they were fired on isn't it true that you usually you know those men usually use tear gas in situations such as this and why didn't they use it this no doubt is not true it is not true thinking what. You want to take somebody video that you shoot kids. As well share a lot out. There that. Someone came to develop. Him same way God gave man. They asked me. To stop bullets coming. From the. Kitchen. And this 10. Talked to him. Like I would be very sick when it. Matters is just when you could pull onto. The. When you. Didn't think you were and you didn't. You know. You never never get above the. First you know. You get high enough status your status sure. Mormon or. Tan mom. To lead. Your family now. The Priest. Told. Very very bury your barely make. Actually talking about you. Guys you know. I was worried. That she would be. A good idea now. You know how much here we. Are. Very sobering. When children take that in the wife of Chairman Fred. The baby in the background is his son talking about what took place December 4th 1969. You know we talk about. Building a wall in banning people from coming into this country all in the name of stopping terror but to terrorise that so many people so many communities indoor is home grown it's right here. It's the white supremacist that showed up in Gilroy this weekend it's far too often the police. Who shoot unarmed folks choke them beat them kill them and get off with nobody being charged. You heard the police give their rationale and there they are. Assessment of what took place December 4th 1989 and you close your eyes and you're wondering if they're talking about today comes from the same playbook playbook and then later down the road as they show in the documentary The Panthers did their own and it vest a geisha had they made it open to the public and you know and a lot of the things that were said were easily refuted this is a powerful documentary I want to make sure that we have it I'm asking you to call 180-439-5732 extension 1800. K.p.h. . To d.v.d. The murder of Fred Hampton I'm asking $400.00 pledge or me asking you to make the commitment to pledge $10.00 a month. I also have a special 1969 collection. From the Pacifica Radio Archives it is chock full of material it has everybody that you can possibly think of that had any sort of impact in the year 1989 we're talking about people's park John Trudell Bobby Seale and David Hilliard Eldridge Cleaver we have the battle over people's park anti-war demonstrations the list goes on and on. I'm asking for a $20.00 a month commitment $200.00 pledge to get. Hundreds of hours of material on a flash drive it's a great way to support the station and also have at your fingertips lots and lots of material I'm going to play an excerpt from the archives this is actually Fred Hampton speaking at a rally. And let me give out the number one more time 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey Kate p.f.a. Or pledge online a kid p.s.a. Dot orgy Let's listen to a little bit of this now. I would think. That we're. On the. Wrong way but it was not killed by police Fred Hampton spoke about the life of a revolutionary at a hotel room in the Morial rally. I don't feel the same way that you feel. You know what it is. Fear be it my mother my father my family the opinion of the members of the bank never mind. You like Home Children should be big you can't be having money but for the simple reason that the moment. They met a part of it we talked about the info revolution a pull within it that gave it then we get the enemy and to me the way that you get the revolution in full within that period when you get. In Because people in the back never parted on a certain point that many of them it makes the news here that feel good ya know where. The fans are and the young people that really got me a little 20. And then we're going to go Mark because of that. We went immediately and told me what you think about the. News. This is what I mean it depressed me what do you feel when you meet a man I think my problem with it is the for me and you know the people to look big don't know that. But I will there you come back remember you are the people are going to do my ancestors. From the back and. He's been with them that feels good to me that it might that beautiful show you where both of the people here for many will be charged no matter if you don't have no place to me and prove the improvement the poor people who you have been telling you that if you were for many rich people young people is not really paying like you would want to set up a situation that people would be comfy bed. A lot of people are going to make it and it's not a high commitment to make is if you know what you mean there's a limited amount of the time. And I know how committed to me is if you go to Richard Nixon a video yesterday. If the middle to be able to break them apart. Ok we can do it best. Coach me and I'll be right. Back you know being in. The. Room to be in the policy was the final piece being t.d.d. can feel the revolution if I want. Him Back to do understand what you're talking about is not a hockey game. That is a powerful powerful speech being given by Fred Hampton It was at a rally in Chicago Holcim in rally. In talking about the death of a Black Panther at the hands of police. The political analysis the political clarity that Fred Hampton has is remarkable remember he's only 21 years old 21 some of the things that he's talking about we talk about today 50 years later I want to make sure this afternoon and people have. An opportunity to have these speeches in your collection that particular speech comes courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives the 1969 collection. We have 2 people on the line but I would like more to call when asking for $200.00 pledge which works out to $20.00 a month you can spread out your payments 180-439-5732 extension 1800 Hey k. P.f.a. If you like to get the d.v.d. The murder of Fred Hampton. And you want to get the 969 collection right I mean I read off some of the things that we have here it would actually take me the rest of the show to read this but just on the Black Panther stuff we're talking about Bobby Seale David Hill year Kathleen Cleaver. Eldridge Cleaver Elaine Brown right. Let's see we have the things that took place on Alcatraz Diandra Prima. We have the Pentagon Papers interview with Melvin Van people's Nixon's televised speeches and you know Nixon and Ronald Reagan had some conversations in the White House with people I don't know and who talk about white supremacy talk about hatred of the citizens that you are supposed to be governing those tapes a very interesting. And said. In his package we have documentaries and speeches that commemorate stonewall celebrating the 50th anniversary of that uprising. We have it's Nation time with a myriad Brock we have the late Ron Dellums. 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From the studios of kid p.s.a. In Berkeley California this is Flashpoints on Dennis Bernstein today on the show what is democracy a new hard hitting documentary by award winning filmmaker Astra Taylor it's coming at you straight ahead stay tuned. And you're listening to Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio My name is Dennis Bernstein just wanna let you know that we're going to be continuing our drum be reporting as it read guards Puerto Rico in the next days and next week very important things happening we took a couple reports off the air in terms of what's going on there is a grave concern that the governor will not. Resign saying that is really nobody to resign to where we're watching it very closely want to just let you know that but we thought it would be good in the context of watching this revolution in Puerto Rico we wanted to play a few some of the sound from this really wonderful new documentary what is document what is the Marcus see so check this out. Let's begin with democracy because I personally even wrestle a bit with making the theme of the film. But I couldn't I kept returning to democracy this great right so great great so you're here almost a metaphor for the problem. On the one hand democracy is this totally fluid and stretchable notion today can be appropriated by anybody for anything it has been appropriated for terrible purposes for imperialism for colonial conquest for. Smashing Union and for doing affirmative action all kinds of things happen in the name of democracy that you might object to that I might object to and it has many possible forms but then we think Ok just let's get away from it let's have something else let's let's go to a different form for understanding justice or for centering our own projects of freedom equality emancipation just living inclusion and so forth sustainability and we keep coming back to it and I think we keep coming back to it for a simple reason it captures the idea of people governing themselves rather than being governed by something else and that etymology of the term d most Cratty simply gives to that in a nutshell it's the people rule and the alternative is we are ruled by a part we are ruled by an aristocracy.