Canadian border, traffic was shut down on the way to the rally when activist locked themselves to ladders to brawl block the highway. Democracy now was there. Farmworkers led an International Day of action boycotting driscolls, the largest berry distributor in the world. The demand is that they sign a Union Contract with us and give us good conditions for housing and work, better salaries, medical plans, pensions. And that they remove our children from the fields. We dont want our children working in agriculture, picking fruit and vegetables for this country. Lst 16 yesare at old. Amy ove800 peop packed a new york Church Friday to remember the life of father Daniel Berrigan, the legendary antiwar priest. Dan often worked with dust was deeply influenced by dorothy day in this work of war resistance intending to the poor and making the connection that war makes people poor. Amy all of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. North carolina governor patrick rory faces a deadline today to renounce the states antitransgender law after the Justice Department warned it violates civil rights and gender discrimination statute. The governor has signaled he plans to defend the law despite risking billions in federal education funding. A new cnn or see poll finds americans probably oppose laws like north carolinas that are transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds to the gender identity. Presumptive republican president ial nominee donald trump refused to rule out a bid to remove House Speaker paul ryan from his post as chair of the upcoming republican convention. Ryan, the nations most powerful elected republican, has so far declined to endorse trump. Speaking to George Stephanopoulos on abcs this week, trump said the Republican Party does not necessarily have to unify for him to win. Does the party have to be unified . I am very different than anyone else, perhaps, that is ever run for office. I dont think so. I think it would be better if it were unified. I think there would be something good about it, but i dont think it asked a has to be [indiscernible] because i think im going to go out and get millions of people from the democrats. Im going to get bernie people to vote because they like noun trade. I am a conservative. But dont forget, this is called the Republican Party will stop it is not called the conservative party. Amy donald trump also shifted his stance on Economic Issues over the weekend saying the rich should pay more taxes. He also suggested the minimum wage is too low for said states should decide whether to increase wages. I think people should get more. I think theyre out there and working. It is a very low number. With what has happened to the economy, with what is happened i dont know how you live on 7. 25 an hour, but i would say let the states decide. Amy the pentagon has acknowledged it quietly deployed u. S. Troops to yemen. Where u. S. Backed Saudi Led Coalition is fighting houthi rebels. A pentagon spokesperson provided few details, saying a very small number of u. S. Troops were on the ground to support an to help fight al qaeda militants. Critics have blamed the u. S. Backed, saudiled campaign in yemen for helping fuel the militants spread. The Greek Parliament has approved a new round of austerity measures seen as among the harshest to date demanded by international creditors. The passage came amid mass protests and a threeday general strike. On sunday, thousands gathered in athens where threw stones and molotov cocktails while police fired tear gas. Teacher nikos dardalis took part in the protests. Date, the working class, send a message with this unemployment and parttime work, the low income workers, the selfemployed, the unemployed cannot live on salaries and pensions up 300 to 400 euros. Amy in brazil, a Senate Committee has recommended president Dilma Rousseff over allegations she tempered with public accounts to hide a budget deficit. Brazil is engulfed in a corruption scandal, but rousseff herself has not been accused of corruption. The full senate is expected to vote wednesday on whether rousseff should face trial. If a majority sides against her, she would be suspended. Her potential replacement, Vice President michel temer, was ordered last week to pay a fine for violating Campaign Finance limits. After Fridays Committee vote, president rousseff vowed to continue fighting. Fighting,stay here fighting because i am the proof of this injustice. Theyre condemning an innocent personnd theres nothing more serious than condemning an innocent person. In the philippines, the polls have just closed in the president ial election. The leading candidate is rodrigo duterte, whose controversial rhetoric has drawn comparisons to donald trump. Duterte is mayor of davao where he has been accused of running death squads. He has periodically admitted his role in the death squads, even bragging about how they killed 1700 people. He recently joked that as mayor, he should have been first in line to rape an australian missionary who was gangraped and then murdered in his city. In london, sadiq khan has become the first muslim mayor. He celebrated the Election Results after being sworn in on saturday. I think we should be really proud, really proud that record numbers came out and voted on thursday. Record numbers, in my view, hopes of a new decision and helping i believe bringing people together and making sure we grapple with the problems facing our city and a positive way. Amy climate activists have launched mass acts of civil disobedience in two cities across the world from each other newcastle, australia, and philadelphia, pennsylvania. In newcastle, more than 1000 protesters shut down operations at the nations largest coal port. A group of kayaktivists blocked the entrance to the harbor in what activists called the largest flotilla to date, while dozens blocked the coal transport train line into the port. More than 60 people were arrested. Australian Green Party LeaderRichard Di Natale spoke out. Here we are, talking about an issue youonhit eith of e partietalk about any day on this election campaign, and that is how n coal min, more coal expts are destroying the Great Barrier reef, howew coal mines ardestroying precious wilderness, and how theyre holding us back from making the transition to a new 21st century clean economy. Amy the ptests co as part of an International Campaign to break free from fossil fuels. In philadelphia, meanwhile, hundreds of people rallied outside an oil refinery to protest air pollution and plans by Philadelphia Energy solutions to expand operations. The social media platform twitter has reportedly barred u. S. Intelligence agencies from using a service that analyzes all of its user posts. The wall street journal reports twitter cut off access to dataminr, a company that mines twitter feeds for information because it was , concerned about the optics of appearing too close to u. S. Spy agencies. The west Point Military academy has launched an investigation into a group of africanamerican women cadets after a photo surfaced showing them posing with their fists in the air as they were set to graduate. The gesture was seen by some as a sign of solidarity with the black lives matter movement. Tommie smith and john carlos raised their hands in a similar gesture, the black power salute, at the 1968 olympics in mexico city. But a west point graduate who spoke with the cadets told the New York Times these ladies werent raising their fist to say black panthers. They were raising it to say beyonce. For them its not a sign of allegiance to a movement, its a sign that means unity and pride and sisterhood. That fist to them meant you and your sisters did what only a few people, male or female, have ever done in this country. The photo showed 16 cadets, all but one of the black women in the graduating class of 1000. In new york, more than 150 activists gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to protest a photography exhibition they say normalizes the Israeli Occupation of palestinian territories. The protesters say the exhibition entitled, this place, is backed by funders who also support the israeli military. The action also targeted the museums role in gentrification and displacement of people of color in brooklyn. Protesters draped banners that read, decolonize this place and displacement destroys culture, and affixed new labels to photographs with the indigenous arabic names of the locations. Amin husain spoke out inside the museum before being escorted away. Artdays in which are and artists christian moralizing instrumental i think [indiscernible] are over. Amy and in the latest act of ethnic or racial profiling on u. S. Airlines, an italian man was removed from an airplane and questioned after the woman next to him raised alarms about cryptic messages he was scrawling on a notepad. The scribbles turned out to be mathematical equations and the man turned out to be guido menzio, a prominent economist. He was ultimately allowed to reboard his Southwest AirlinesAmerican Airlines flight which departed more than two , hours late. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Were on the road in portland, oregon. On saturday, Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump made his First Campaign visit to Washington State where he addressed thousands of supporters in spokane and later in lynden. He decried the loss of manufacturing jobs and vowed to win Washington State in november. He also warned of the threat posed by syrian refugees. We should build safe zones for syrians, but we cant bring them to Washington State. And you dont even know where they are going. You saw what happened in paris, what happened at the world trade center, you saw what happened in california with a 14 people they worked with were shot and killed , many people in the hospital. Right now, many people in the hospital. These are people that nobody knows who they are, and theyre going to be in your community. You cant do it. Amy meanwhile, outside the rally, dozens of stop trump activists blockaded a highway in lynden as trump held a rally in the Rural Community near the canadian border. Three activists were arrested after they used chains and pvc heights and ladders to form a human chain across two lanes of traffic. They said their action was a protest against what they described as a campaign rooted in fear and hatred. The protest held up traffic for more than a half hour, delaying many trump supporters. Democracy now s Laura Gottesdiener and John Hamilton were there. And digest rights are under attack. What do we do . Sound off, five back. Were in the middle of a two lane highway and about a less than a mile that way, theres a big trump rally just about to start that right here in the street, pretty much the main thoroughfare headed to the trump rally, there are protesters road. Ng the entire so right now we have three people who have locked themselves to each other, two of them are also locked to ladders. Traffic is backed up and some of the cars are parked sideways. Why dont we see what they have to say. My name is thomas. Im here to support folks who have been fighting against fascism and donald trump. This is a Rural Community, the northwest corner of the United States. The community where white remacists is random this is been the center of ku klux klan rallies and organizing for at least 100 years and it is a hotbed for racism against farmworkers. Were not going allow donald trump to come to our community and spread hate and try to encourage the detention or the terrorisms for people of color and undocumented persons. In twove my arms and tubes. On my right, nia is chained to a ladder as is thomas. We are blocking about 80 of the street. We have a couple of vans that are blocking the road. We are getting pretty mixed reviews, i guess. Mostly negative. Not surprising for lynden, washington. We are from bonney lake, washington. My husband and my daughter and her friend. We have come to the trump rally. This is what we find. And now we cannot get across. It is going on as we speak. We are over here stuck. Some people have criticized where people are blocking the route youre trying to take. They then criticizing his solutions to the immigration issue that he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are your thoughts . His dont know what all plan is. I think he is kind of going as he is going along. Yes hes really super advisers and intelligent people like himself that are going to help them solve some of these problems. But the way it is going now is disastrous. It is just a matter of time before we have a paris situation here because our borders and the drugs and every thing else are a mass, and never coming over faster now than ever since they have heard donald trump i think quite a lot of people getting behind him, democrats included because of his plan to stop that because of what has happened all around the world and recently, the paris thing. So i think you know, i think i dont know why these people will i think their pay probably by the powers that be just to cause this so we cannot support donald trump. What is there substance . You can see there is about a dozen of not more Law Enforcement officers. We have state patrol, county patrol. We have people in slightly more heavily riot geartype equipment, and they have removed they are in the process of removing the chains from some of the protesters. It looks like theyre having trouble removing them from her neck because she keeps saying ow. We love you so much. One of the womens arms is being bent rack right now. Regardless of whether you vote for trump or not, doesnt matter. Where are you headed . To the trump rally. That is not the point. Gmi introducing yourself . No. In my opinion, ernie and hillary do not care about veterans. Trump cares about veterans. Trumps tax plan is a lot better than everyone else. I dont want to pay more taxes. Who dont for people have jobs. If you dont have a job, he should not get free handouts. You should not get anything. We dont need you. Ask their protesting right now saying they are against donald deporting 11for million undocumented immigrants and say the total ban on those loans entering this muslims in this country would not be help full. What is our response . Theater roosevelt said if you want to come under the country, fine, the have to come in to be an american. It is a melting pot. You cannot Community Mexican or the pakistan youre anything like that. I dont care where youre from. If you come into america, youre coming to be an american. Like everyone else, you need to contribute to society. If you come in and you want to say, fly the mexican flag, then go back to mexico. [indiscernible] it is pretty much security as when to be the republican nominee. What do you think that says about the country at large . I think the country is at a standpoint. We now see Republican Party has been this way for a really long time. Actually saying it. They are bold about it. They dont care anymore. A big fraction of the people in the United States that want to stand for that, and that is why this is not the first action against donald trump and wont be the last. Passing is now is one of the cars leaving the trump rally. It is a very big Confederate Flag displayed on top of it. [chanting] this will be a free land. Amy democracy nows Laura Gottesdiener in washington, just down the street from where donald trump was speaking. This was trumps First Campaign trip to Washington State. When we come back, another protest here in the northwest. We will be back in a minute. [music break] amy workers and employers. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from portland, oregon. As we turn to another protest that happened here in the northwest on saturday, this was farmworkers leading an International Day of action calling for a boycott at driscolls, the largest berry distributor in the world. About an hour north of seattle in burlington, washington, berry pickers have been organizing for three years at the farms. One of the farms where driscolls buys its berries. Since 2013, theyve launched a series of walk outs, picket lines and lawsuits over alleged , labor violations. In 2014, one of their lawsuits went all the way up to the washington supreme court, where won a unanimous decision that set a precedent ensuring paid rest breaks for farm workers statewide. That same year massive protests , broke out at driscolls farms down in san quintin valley in mexico. Since then, driscolls farm workers have been organizing together on both sides of the border. Democracy now s Laura Gottesdiener caught up with some of the farm workers at a costco not far from the sakumas fields. Boycott driscolls we are here in burlington,