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Transcripts For LINKTV Democracy Now 20150828

He also discussed Climate Change , despite a request by louisiana governor bobby jindal not to do so. Making our communities more resilient is going to be increasingly important because we are going to see more extreme weather events as the result of Climate Change. Deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms. Amy we will spend the hour with new orleans native actor Wendell Pierce, best known for his roles in the wire and treme. Monique harden and journalist. Ary rivlin. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds more people fleeing violence in syria, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, Subsaharan Africa and other regions have reportedly died en route to europe as the world grapples with whats being described the worst migration crisis since world war ii. As many as 200 people may have drowned when a boat headed to Southern Europe sank off the libyan coast thursday. Another boat with 50 people on board also reportedly capsized thursday. Swedish Officials Say they also found the bodies of more than 50 people who died from breathing toxic fumes in the hold of another ship. The Mediterranean Sea has become one of the worlds deadliest borders, as more than 300,000 people displaced by war and violence have attempted to reach europe this year. On thursday, german chancellor Angela Merkel attended a summit with leaders from the western balkans about the migration crisis. Meanwhile, less than 30 miles away, residents held a vigil to commemorate the deaths of more than 70 people who apparently suffocated in a truck earlier this week while attempting to reach Northern European countries. One of the vigilgoers called for people to receive safe passage throughout europe. Building up our borders refining inc. Does even more were fighting even more cannot be the solution. These people have nothing to lose. The choices between taking a chance in coming to europe, or dying at home. On thursday, president obama amy on thursday, president obama spoke in new orleans on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated the gulf coast and new orleans, killing more than 1800 people, forcing more than a Million People to evacuate. The storm laid bare a deeper tragedy that had been brewing for decades because we came to understand that new orleans, like so many cities and communities across the country, had for too long been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or Affordable Health care or decent housing. Amy we will have more on Hurricane Katrina after the headlines. Among our guests will be the actor Wendell Pierce, a new orleans native who wrote the wind in the reeds in news from guatemala, tens of thousands of people marched through the streets thursday to demand the resignation of president otto perez molina. It is the latest in months of massive demonstrations over a Corruption Scandal that has led to the resignation of the majority of the president s cabinet and the arrest of top officials. Earlier this week, the Guatemalan Supreme Court lifted the president s the immunity from prosecution clearing the , way for his impeachment, and passing the impeachment recommendation along to the guatemalan congress. For our full coverage of the ongoing uprising in guatemala, go to democracynow. Org. In news from mexico, the parents of the 43 students who disappeared after being attacked and detained by local police last year, are preparing to send a delegation to philadelphia in efforts to meet with pope francis in september. The disappearance of the 43 young men, who were training at the Rural Teachers College of ayotzinapa in the Southern State of guerrero, has sparked International Outcry and prompted calls for president Enrique Pena Nietos resignation. On wednesday, family members and residents marked the 11 month anniversary of their disappearance. Felipe de la cruz sandoval, spokesperson for the families of the disappeared students denounced the alleged , destruction of Surveillance Footage that may have captured the students kidnapping. They madeff, the fact a Surveillance Video disappear from the tribunal for justice inequality. This evidence is the most important. It is the moment when they stopped the bus to take away some of the m people. By disappearing them, was he the protection and complicity that they want to get to the criminals of that night. We are ready new we could not confide in the Mexican Government and now with these results, we can confide even less. Amy american Officials Say a u. S. Drone strike has killed a 21yearold british citizen who was a member of the selfproclaimed islamic states hacking team. Officials say junaid hussain, from birmingham, england, was killed in raqqa, syria on tuesday. Meanwhile, yemeni Officials Say u. S. Drone strikes have killed five people in the southeastern sea port of mukalla. The dead are being described as suspected members of alqaeda. In the United States, north dakota has legalized the polices use of drones armed with pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and tasers. The legislation, signed by the governor in april, also permits the police to use drones to collect Real Time Intelligence video after obtaining a search warrant. The father of 24yearold journalist Alison Parker who was killed along with 27yearold cameraman adam ward during wednesdays Fatal Shooting in roanoke, virginia, has cemented action on gun control. They died after suspected gunman Vester Flanagan opened fire in the morning broadcast of local wdbj. Tation flanagan had spoken out about racial grievances he had at the station and other stations where he had worked. The lycee flanagan shot himself later wednesday and died in the hospital. Outon parkers father spoke for gun control during an interview on fox news. Mark my words, my mission in life, and i talked to the gunboat governor today, i told him, i said, im going to do something, no matter what it takes, to get Gun Legislation to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something andt closing loopholes background checks and making sure crazy people dont get guns. The National Labor Relations Board has issued a ruling that could clear the way for fastfood workers and other employees to collectively bargain with large corporations, such as mcdonalds rather than , with the individual franchises or subcontracting companies. The decision held that a California Company called Browningferris Industries was a joint employer of the subcontracted workers who had been hired to staff its recycling center. The ruling means that a Union Representing those subcontracted workers now have the right to collectively bargain with the top company. Labor lawyers are saying it could be one of the most significant rulings in the last 35 years. Nasa says that satellite imaging has already shown a dramatic rise in sea levels due to Climate Change, with more in store in the coming years. The Panel Announced that the worldwide sea level has risen an average of nearly three inches since 1992. The scientists also predicted that the sea level could rise as high as six feet by 2100. Most scientists believe about three feet by 2100 is probably the most likely Sea Level Rise we will have, but there estimates as low as one foot and as high as six feet by 2100. Which would be really devastating. Amy in chicago, relatives and Community Members held Church Services to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of 14yearold emmett till, who was abducted, beaten, and shot after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk named Carolyn Bryant while till was visiting relatives in mississippi. His mother had taught him to whistle anytime he felt a stutter coming on. He was kidnapped from his uncles farm on august 28, 1955. His corpse was found three days later in the tallahatchie river, with a bullet hole in his head, barbed wire wrapped around his neck, and a cottongin fan weighing down his body. Tills mother, mamie till mobley, held an opencasket funeral for her son in chicago, wanted to show the ravages of racism, the brutality of the katrina. The published images of his brutalized body galvanized the civil rights movement. Store clerk Carolyn Bryants husband, roy bryant, and his halfbrother, j. W. Milam, were tried and acquitted for tills murder by an allwhite allmale jury that fall. The two later confessed to the murder, but have since died. Meanwhile, saturday is the First Anniversary of the death of 17yearold lennon lacy, who was found hanging from a swing set in a majoritywhite trailer park in the tiny town of bladenboro, North Carolina one year ago. Local authorities quickly ruled his death a suicide, a claim his family disputed. Lacy had been in a relationship with an older white woman, who has said that they often faced harassment for their interracial relationship. His death is being investigated by the fbi as a possible lynching. And the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york has announced it is joining the investigation into the death of samuel harrell, a 30yearold African American man who died at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in beacon, new york, in april after as many as 20 Corrections Officers kicked, punched, and dragged him down a flight of stairs while he was handcuffed. Harrell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The group of the officers who assaulted harrell are known as the beat up squad. In poughkeepsie, new york, residents staged a protest thursday to demand criminal charges be brought against the officers. Margaret kwateng of the Hudson Valley black lives Matter Coalition spoke out. We are here today to get justice for samuel harrells family, here to demand that the da William Grady press charges on all of the officers involved in his fatal beating. The officers continue to work in the facility and continue to harass and dehumanize the prisoners that are there. This is to make sure that samuel harrells life matters and the make sure he is brought into the black lives Matter Movement as a prisoners life often doesnt seem to be touted in the same way. Amy seminal harrell died in the hospital after the guard beating. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and i am one gonzalez. We spend the hour today marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated the gulf coast and new orleans, killing more than 1800 people, forcing more than a Million People to evacuate. 10 years later after Hurricane Katrina, new orleans has become a different city. The population is about 385,000, about 80 of its prekatrina population. The number of africanamericans has plunged by nearly 100,000 since the storm. According to the urban league, the income gap between black and white residents has increased 37 since 2005. Thousands of homes, many in africanamerican neighborhoods, remain abandoned. Thursday, president obama spoke in new orleans remembering what happened 10 years ago. Here in new orleans, city that embodies a celebration of life, suddenly seemed devoid of life. A place once defined by color fish dish, the cross crawfish boils, the music always in the air, suddenly was dark and silent. And the world watched in horror. We saw the rising waters drown the iconic streets of new orleans. Families stranded on rooftops, bodies in the streets, children crying, crowded in the superdome. An American City dark and underwater. And this was something that was supposed to never happen here. Maybe someplace else, but not here, not in america. And we came to realize that was started out as a Natural Disaster became a manmade disaster, a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. And the storm laid bare a deeper tragedy that had been brewing for decades because we came to understand that new orleans, like so many cities and communities across the country, have for too long been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or Affordable Health care or decent housing. Amy president obama went on to herald the progress new orleans has made rebuilding since hurricane katrine devastated the city 10 years ago. As hard as rebuilding levees is, as hard as rebuilding housing is, real change, real lasting structural change, that is even harder. And it takes courage to experiment with new ideas and change the old ways of doing things. That is hard. Getting it right and making sure that everybody is included and everybody is a fair shot at success, that takes time. That is not unique to new orleans. We have those challenges all across the country. But i am here to say, i am here to hold up a mirror and say, because of you, the people of new orleans working together, this city is moving in the right direction. And i have never been more confident that together we will get together where get to where we need to go. In may go today we look at Hurricane Katrina and the state of new orleans a decade after the storm. Joining us from new orleans is monique harden, codirector and attorney with the new orleansbased advocates for environmental human rights. Gary rivlin is a former New York Times reporter, an investigative fellow at the nation institute. His latest book is, katrina after the storm. And joining us from los angeles, Wendell Pierce, new orleans native, acclaimed actor, Tony Awardwinning producer, and community activist. He may be best known for his oles in the wire and treme about new orleans and the musicians and the storm. His new book is the wind in the reeds a storm, a play, and the city that would not be broken. The story and part tells the story of his greatgrandfather who came to new orleans as a slave in the 1850s. We welcome you all to democracy now we would like to start by asking each of you your thoughts on this 10 Year Anniversary of new orleans. Wendell pierce, why donnt we begin with you . New orleans native. Where is new orleans today . Where does it need to be . I will start in the words that dickens gave us centuries ago, it is the best of times, it was the worst of times, it is a tale of two cities. New orleans 10 years after katrina is definitely coming back. It is definitely thriving. It is definitely bringing in new generation of entrepreneurial spirit, new businesses, new restaurants, reformation of the schools, reformation of the levees and the Water Protection system. So there is a lot to celebrate, but never start a discussion about katrina without remembering the 1800 plus souls who lost their lives 10 years flood of thatat great city. We should always remember them. It was the worst of times because we still are in a city been institutionalized system and point of view where there are those that dont have our best interest at heart, if you live in certain parts of the city. It doesnt give the same attention and resources that it does to other parts of the city. New orleans is too small, and that is the real kind of worrying part to me. It is really too small to be so vulcanized when it comes to giving resources, when it comes to best practices will stop i remember i had a personal conversation with a chief of staff of the council president. This was some years ago who literally told me, i just dont think the lower ninth ward, which was a poor workingclass africanamerican neighborhood that was at the center of the storm i dont think it is bible. I dont think we should be giving our resources to it. This is a woman who of the pursestrings of the resources of the city. I asked her why. She said, i just dont think so. I said, well, there is no place you been to in the lower ninth ward that you think is viable . She had to admit, in my 40 plus years on this earth, ive never been to the lower ninth ward, a place that is only a few miles away from city hall where she works every day. It is the best of

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