party files suit in ohio, arizona, nevada, and pennsylvania alleging donald trump's campaign and the republican party are conspiring to threaten and intimidate voters on election day in violation of the voting rights act and the 1871 ku klux klan act. we will speak to carol anderson, author "white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." plus, we look at morocco where thousands have taken to the streets after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. and we will go to iceland where the pirate party made big gains in sunday's national elections. >> change the system so they become more functional and more humane towards the people that need to live by them. and make a we will speak with birgitta jonsdottir, who cofounded the pirate party of iceland. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in election news, controversy continues to swirl over fbi director james comey's announcement to congressional leaders that the agency is investigating more emails as part of its probe into hillary clinton's use of a private email server. the emails were discovered as part of a probe into congress member anthony weiner, the estranged husband of top clinton aide huma abedin, who is under investigation after he sent illicit sext messages to an underaged girl. on monday, the fbi says it began to load the emails into a computer program for analysis, although it's still not clear whether the investigation will be finished by election day, exactly a week away. the clinton campaign is attacking fbi director james comey, accusing him of a double standard after claims surfaced monday that comey argued earlier this month against naming russia as meddling in the u.s. election and investigating a potential connection between russia and the truck campaign -- trump campaign because he thought it was too close to election day. also on monday, a spokesperson with the office of special counsel indicated comey himself may be under investigation for potentially violating the hatch act, which prohibits employees of the executive branch from engaging in political activity. comey was first appointed to be deputy u.s. attorney general of president george w. bush in 2003, then was appointed to be fbi by president obama. to see monday's interview with michael isikoff go to our , website, democracynow.org. a "new york times" investigation based on newly obtained documents has revealed donald trump avoided paying tens of millions of dollars in federal income taxes in the late 1990's by using a tax maneuver that was later outlawed by congress, and was even at the time so legally questionable that his own , lawyers cautioned him against using it. the maneuver included simply refusing to report hundreds of millions of dollars of canceled bt, which the irs consers to be taxable income. steven rosenthal of the tax policy center said -- "whatever loophole existed was not 'exploited' here, but stretched beyond any recognition." donald trump has continued to refuse to release his tax returns. democratic party strategist donna brazile has resigned from cnn after emails released by wikileaks showed brazile shared some questions for a cnn-hosted democratic primary debate in flint, michigan, with hillary clinton's campaign ahead of the debate between clinton and vermont senator bernie sanders in the march primaries. brazile was a paid commentator for cnn. one of the emails brazile wrote to clinton campaign chairman john podesta had the subject line -- "one of the questions directed to hrc tomorrow is from a woman with a rash," and read "her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will hillary do as president to help the people of flint." north carolina senator richard burr is under fire after audio surfaced of him joking about a picture of hillary clinton on the cover of a gun magazine and saying he was shocked it didn't have a bull's-eye on it. listen carefully. >> nothing would make me feel any better than i want in to the shop yesterday, there was a copy of -- on the counter. it is a picture of hillary clinton on the front of it. i was shocked it did not have a bull's-eye on it will stop [laughter] amy: that is north carolina senator richard burr, who supports donald trump. drop -- trump has been accused of inciting violence after he suggested the second amendment people could assassinate hillary clinton while speaking at a campaign rally in august in north carolina. the guardian is reporting a u.s. airstrike in iraq has killed eight civilians, including three children, after the family's home outside mosul was struck twice. the united states has confirmed it carried out airstrikes in that region on october 22, but it has not confirmed it killed civilians. this comes amid the u.s.-backed offensive aimed at retaking the city of mosul from isis. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, has spoken out against the u.s.-backed saudi-led coalition airstrikes in yemen during a u.n. security council meeting, saying there is "absolutely no military solution to this conflict." this comes after at least 60 people were killed and scores -- on when saudi-led coalition saturday warplanes bombed a security complex near the red sea. despite power's condemnation, the u.s. continues to supply saudi arabia with intelligence, airborne fuel tankers and advanced weaponry in the ongoing war in yemen. this is the u.n. special envoy of the secretary general for yemen. >> we all need to ask, how long will yemenis remain hostage? what are the parties waiting for , to sign a political agreement? have they not understood there are no winners in wars? amy: in turkey, police raided the istanbul office of the prominent cumhuriyet newspaper, detaining at least 12 journalists and administrators on terrorism charges. the newspaper also reports its editor and one of its columnists were detained after their homes were raided by turkish police. the cumhuriyet won the 2016 right livelihood award. that is widely considered the alternative nobel. the situation in turkey continues to get extremely serious. this comes amid an ongoing crackdown in turkey following the failed military coup in july. on saturday, the turkish government fired an additional 10,000 civil servants and ordered 15 news outlets to shut down. in china, at least 13 miners have died after an explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest china monday night. at least 20 more miners are currently missing. this is the deputy mayor of the chongqing municipality, where the explosion occurred. >> rescuers found some collapsed tunnels and poisonous and harmful gas in some areas, exceeding standards. after verification, we have found 13 trapped people that have no signs of life and are still searching for other trapped people. in alabama, at least one worker has died and five have been hospitalized after a section of the colonial pipeline exploded in shelby monday. this comes after the same pipeline leaked nearly 340,000 gallons of gasoline in central alabama in september, forcing the line to shut down for 12 days and leading six governors to declare states of emergency as gas prices rose throughout the region. the colonial pipeline carries 1.3 million barrels of gasoline a day down to refineries in texas and louisiana, accounting for a full 40% of the region's gasoline. in more pipeline-related news, this in north dakota, the department of emergency services has requested an additional $4 million from the state in order to continue the police crackdown against the resistance to the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline. the emergency services department has already received and spent $6 million to police the resistance movement, led by the standing rock sioux tribe and members of over 200 other nations and tribes from across the americas. this comes as a united nations advisory group is investigating possible human rights abuses by law enforcement against native american water protectors. australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull has sparked outrage over his proposal to impose a lifetime ban on all asylum seekers who attempt to reach australia by boat. he has vowed to introduce the legislation into parliament next week. in lebanon, parliament has elected a new president, former army commander michel aoun. lebanon has been without a president for 2.5 years. in his inaugural speech, michel aoun announced he'd send some of the 1.5 llion syan refugees living in lebanon back to war-torn syria. the free alabama movement is reporting that incarcerated organizer kinetik justice is being denied water by prison officials at the kilby correctional facility. justice was transferred to kilby from holman, where he helped launch a nationwide work strike. he has been on hunger strike since october 21 to protest his transfer. he now says prison officials have turned off the water in his cell. pastor kenneth glasgow, the outside spokesperson for the free alabama movement, said "they are trying to kill him." this is kinetik justice speaking about the prison strike on democracy now! in september. >> a work strike. --ally, around 12 clock 12:30 at night, they send for the kitchen workers, those who will prepare the breakfast meal. when those people do not report to work, they initiate a prison left down -- lockdown. leadership is really required because you have to try to keep a balance. [indiscernible] violence try to insert , saying we have a riot or sometime -- amy: and in sports news, tonight is game 6 of the world series in cleveland between the chicago cubs and the cleveland indians. native american groups are seeking to have cleveland's team drop its moniker, "indians" and its mascot "chief wahoo," which many consider a grotesque and racist caricature. this comes as in ohio, a high school cheerleading squad is under fire for unveiling a racist banner at a football game friday night. the message by the greenfield-mcclain cheerleaders targeted rival hillsboro high school, whose mascot is the indians. the banner read -- "hey indians, get ready for a trail of tears part 2." the trail of tears refers to the forced relocation of native americans beginning in the 1830's. thousands died as they were forced from their homes into oklahoma. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the democratic party has filed lawsuits in four battleground states -- ohio, arizona, nevada, and pennsylvania -- alleging donald trump's campaign and the republican party are "conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting." the lawsuits cite the voting rights act and the 1871 ku klux klan act. in its filing, the ohio democratic party right -- "trump has sought to advance his campaign's goal of 'voter suppression' by using the loudest microphone in the nation to implore his supporters to engage in unlawful intimidation." the suits also name trump adviser roger stone and his super pac stop the steal. trump has repeatedly urged his supporters to monitor polling booths on election day. mr. trump: you have to go out. you have got to go out and you have got to get your friends, and you have to get everybody you know, and you got to watch your polling booths. i hear too many stories about pennsylvania come a certain areas. i hear too many bad stories, and we cannot lose an election because of you know what i am talking about. so go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen. we don't want to lose for that reason. we don't want to lose, but we especially we do not want to lose for that reason. so go over and watch, and watch carefully. amy: in related news, the north carolina naacp filed a federal lawsuit monday seeking an immediate injunction to stop the state in various county boards of elections from a legally canceling the registrations of thousands of voters. the naacp says african-american voters are being targeted in a coordinated effort to support the black vote in north carolina. meanwhile, a prominent white nationalist is sponsoring robo calls in the state of utah to urge voters to back trump over the third-party candidate evan mcmullen. some polls show evan mcmullen, who is norman, could be trump and utah. they feature william johnson of the leader of the white nationalist american freedom party. >> my name is william johnson. i am a farmer and white nationalist. i make this call against evan mcmullen and in support of donald trump. open bordern is an supporter. ps two mommies. his mother is a lesbian. evan is ok with that. evan supports the supreme court ruling legalizing gay marriage. he is over 40 years old and is not married and does not even have a girlfriend. i believe he is a closet homosexual. do not vote for evan mcmullen. vote for donald trump. amy: with the election just seven days away, we are joined now by carol anderson, professor of african american studies at emory university. she is author of the new book, "white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." there is a lot to talk about in this election, professor anderson. let's begin with this suit being brought by the state democratic they's in key states saying truck organization, that the trump campaign is violating the klan act. explain. >> and it is very simple. as i laid out in "white rage" part of when they gain access to the citizenship rights, you see a wave of policies emanate out of congress, out of the white those gains,k back those advancements. we saw that after the civil war with reconstruction. now, move this forward. part of what we're seeing now is the backlash to obama's election. we saw a wave of voter suppression laws come up. when you look at these key battleground states and the things they are doing, they are vintage. they go back to the era of jim crow and after the civil war when the point was, how do we intimidate these newly freed people who now have their citizenship rights? how do we strip them of those rights? one, massive voter intimidation. being at the polls with rifles. it has been a series of laws coming on from literacy test and grandfather clauses and poll taxes -- all of those things for disenfranchisement. we moved to the voting rights act of 1965. then we get to shelby county v holder the supreme court gutted it. this is what we see is the result. amy: i want to go back to the civil war reenactment. you mention the war. slaves are freed, and what happens? >> what happens is they don't get free. immediately hit with a thing called the black coat. the black codes required the newly freed people design labor contracts with plantation owners and mine owners and lumber mill owners. if they refused to sign the labor contract, then they could be arrested. then have their labor sold. they would be put on the auction block. their labor then sold to the highest bidder. they would not be able to leave .ntil that fine was paid off it also said they could not carry weapons to be able to hunt or they could not fish, so they could not even feed themselves. they had to work. and they could not leave that plantation owner or mine owner for a year. if they left for better wages, better working conditions, they could be arrested, charged with vagrancy, and their labor auctioned off. amy: what about voting? -- they couldwas not vote. the is why you have to have 15th amendment coming in in about 1870, providing the right to vote because that thing of moving from property to citizen ,as so important -- abhorrent so repulsive to white southerners, that they did everything in their power to strip african americans of their citizenship rights. amy: your book is called, "white rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." talk about the white rage that you are witnessing today. >> that rage covers itself. i don't actually mean the klan and the cross burning, because that is simple. in this society, we know how to identify that. this is the much more's huddle, the much more destructive type of racial violence. it emanate out of congress, out of the supreme court, out of state legislatures, and it is designed to infect undercut black aspirations and advancement. so we see that, for instance, when trump at the presidential debate, and they said, how would you handle issues of racial healing and the racial divide? that sumi've got words and refuses to say, that is "law and order is good and that is "stop and frisk." that is a dog whistle. those are policies that in fact undermine civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 65 that led to mass disenfranchisement so that you have almost 8% of the black population unable to vote. amy: let's go to donald trump in north carolina instructing security guards to remove black man from the crowd, describing him as a thu >mr. trump: we have a protester -- by the way, were you paid $1500 to be a thug? where is the? was he paid? you can get him out. t him ou out. amy: while donald trump described the man as a protester, it turned out he was actually a trump supporter. 63-year-old cj kerry said he went to the rally to give trump a letter. professor anderson? >> and for all of trump's outreach to the black committed to, there was no outreach. the point was his racism was so palpable that it was turning off white educated voters, so he tried to smooth that adage. but in fact, the racism that is undermining -- undergirding his campaign is there so he rs is labeled a sub. this was a businessman who was a trump supporter. that gives you the policy perspective that trump will enact if he becomes president. amy: what were you must surprised by as you researched "white rage"? >> i was surprised at how white rageand supple was. how inconsistently used the language of democracy, the language of freedom, the language of protecting the integrity of the ballot box as a means to undermine and undercut. so we get not only the shelby county v holder which got of the voting rights act, but in the brown decision where the supreme court has said separate that evil cannot be the law of the land, and watching these people who say they are inherently about democracy, in fact, undermining that democracy by violating court orders, consistently over and over again. kind of like what we're seeing right w as the fourth circuit has told north carolina, your voter suppression laws can't and and they keep doing it. amy: i want to ask about other developments this week. jury selection began on monday and two high profile murder trials, white police officers who killed unarmed black man. in ohio, the former university of cincinnati police officer ray tenzing shot and killed 43-year-old sam dubose last year after stopping him for not having a front license plate. and then there is the case in north charleston, south carolina, officer michael slater facing a murder charge after a bystander filmed him shooting 50-year-old walters got in the back as he ran away. in that case, walter scott was stopped by the police officer as he was driving into the autozone shop right nearby for i think it was a broken tail light. he was stopped for the taillight up being shot by the police officer. the justice department inveigation into the choking death of an armed african-american eric garner by daniel pantaleo is in disarray. "the new york times" reported last week the new york-based fbi agents of federal prosecutors are no longer assigned to the investigation. they did not feel the officer should be charged. it leaves prosecutors with the justice department's civil rights division in charge, making a far more likely officers will face criminal charges. >> part of what we're seeing right here is the policy of stop and frisk, which came after the advances of the civil rights movement. stop and frisk is based on the broken windows area policing. it says, what we have to do if we stop these minor crimes, then we can stop the big ones form happening. -- from happening. in fact, you get the criminalization of blackness. in new york city, for instance, although blacks and latinos made up 50% of the population, they accounted for 84% of those stopped. although twice as many weapons were found on a handful of white that were stopped as opposed to blacks and latinos. is this was really about law enforcement, you would see greater policing of the white population. this is about something else. what we're seeing in the case of the broken tail light in terms of the expired tags, that is that hyper policing that is going on because of stop and frisk and it leads to the death of black people. amy: you have linked a problem with policing today to education. you say we would not face anything like this today if -- what? >> if brown had really been implemented. part of what we know is what a solid, quality education is in terms of employment and health, in terms of voting rights -- all of those things are linked to education. but brown, after brown, the state fought back so intensely, even to the point where they shut down public school system for five years. it is like you were in school and the fifth grade in your school doesn't open until you are in the 10th grade? the states fought back so hard that we're ending up with large numbers of african-americans who do not have the quality education, that they have a constitutional right to. so now we're asking the police force to then deal with those issues emanating out of poverty, emanating out of the lack of quality education. uss what -- how the president bill clinton's administration when it comes to issues of white rage, black disempowerment, black empowerment, and then hillary clinton? >> for bill clinton, part of what i see is he went the route of the southern strategy. the blackso play to as criminals. this is where you see -- and blacks as welfare chiefs. this is where you see his workforce legislation. this is where you see the kind of hyper policing with super predators and all of that. and this led -- again, it felt into the mass incarceration of the black population. what bill clinton would do is he tried to play culturally black. that was coming a, the saxophone on arsenio, but the way his policies worked were in fact very anti-black. with hillary, what i see is that she was there with him in the 1990's. amy: let's go to that moment in 1996 when she was first lady, when she described some african-american youth a super predators. mrs. clinton: they are often the kind of kids called super predats. no conscnce, november the. we can talk about why they ended up that way, the first we have to bring them to heel. amy: in flint, michigan, earlier this year, clinton was asked about her comments again. >> secretary clinton, in 1996 him you used the term super predators to describe some young kids. some feel it was racial code. was it, and were you yarn -- wrong to use that term? >> i was speaking about drug cartels and criminal activity that was very concerning to folks across the country. i think is a poor choice of words. i never used it before and have not used it since. i would not use it again. amy: so that was a hillary clinton during the primaries when she was debating bernie sanders. your comments, professor anderson? >> my comments are when i see was int is like hillary that moment in 1996 right along with bill, and now that she realizes the demographics and the democratic party have changed -- in the democratic party have changed, that coding does not work as well, does not play as well. you see her stepping back. i think part of what i'm also seeing, frankly, has been the pushing on that from the black lives matter activists who are helping her in the bernie folks who are helping her begin to see what structural racism actually does in the society. -- ict, when she mentions think was in one of the presidential debates -- that we have to deal with structural racism, that was a major move forward. and that requires consistent dealure be put on her to with what that really means policy-wise. so it can't just be a slogan that gets dropped during the presidential campaign. amy: carol anderson, thank you very much for being with us. carol anderson is professor of african american studies at emory university. her new book is called "white , rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." when we come back from break, we go to iceland to speak with a poet and activist birgitta jonsdottir, cofounder of the pirate party that made major gains in iceland. that is the anarchist party of iceland. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in iceland, the pirate party made big gains in sunday's national elections, raising the prospect it will form a coalition government with other left-wing parties. the pirates won 10 seats in iceland's 63-member parliament, up from three in the last election. pirate party leader birgitta jonsdottir hailed the result. >> talked about what to expect, you know, maybe get somewhere if we couldo 15 and get 15, we would have tripled our last election. so we are just thrilled. amy: the pirate party hopes to pass the world's first crowd-sourced constitution. its core platform calls for direct democracy, freedom of expression, civil rights, net neutrality, and transparency. the pirates saw their popularity surge in april after iceland's prime minister resigned following revelations he and his wife used an offshore company to conceal millions of dollars' worth of investments. women also won big in this weekend's elections, taking 30 seats in iceland's parliament -- more than any other party. with female candidates winning nearly half of the seats, iceland now reportedly has the most equal parliament in the world without a quota system. on sunday, iceland's current prime minister sigurdur ingi johannsson of the progressive party officially resigned -- a formality as the government did not get a majority. he announced his departure on national television after his center-right party lost more than half of its seats in parliament. well, for more, we go now to reykjavik, iceland, where we're joined by birgitta jonsdottir, member of the icelandic parliament and co-founder of the country's pirate party. poet activist, web developer, , former wikileaks activist chairperson of the international , modern media institution. birgitta jonsdottir, welcome to democracy now! >> thank you for having me on, amy. in iceland, we have some serious crisis. with the fifth-largest financial crisis in the history of humankind since 2008. it was a rude awakening for most icelanders. everything they have sort of put their trust in has failed them. ever since then, i have been part of trying to get different types of people to work together on a collective goal. one of the goals that the people were calling for in all of the big protests in the wake of the crisis is that we would get to make our own constitution collectively. we have currently a constitution that is a 72-year-old draft that was given to us by the danish king when we gained our independence in 1944. on this platform, the pirate party was built on a platform of ,ransparency, accountability right in cyberspace -- being sort of like robin hood when it comes to taking the power from the powerful and giving it to the people. in many ways, many people find it strange that we call ourselves the pirate party, but if you look at robin hood, he might have been a part as well. if you look at those definitions. amy: so explain what has happened now. .ome polls had you winning you would have been the next prime minister. explain what happened. you still made big aims -- gains. in 2012.formed we got 5.1% in 2013. we tripled our following in three years. parrotf the old-school knew we could never get much more than around 15%. it would've been great if we could have gotten 20%. but we feel extremely thankful that 15% of icelanders feel confident about being pirates, being agents of change in society. so what sort of happened in the election campaign was that we got the machine against us. we had very little money. we had to be creative. we ran our campaign just on our issues instead of attacking our opponents, like you see very much in the presidential campaign in your country. we did not want to go to that level. we just got the machine. the machine of the established party is very powerful and they have people everywhere. so the fact that we still managed to get so much support despite all of the attacks and underming, was great. we also decided to do a huge risk to weeks before elections. we held a press conference where we announced that we wanted to invite four parties to have discussions with us before elections so that the voters could have a clear choice. in iceland, you have always coalition parties running governors after the election. usually, the parties go into the elections without announcing who they're going to work with after the elections. so everybody that voted for us to the left greens, the social democrats, to be absolutely sure after these negotiations that they were not voting for the panama government. the conservative party and the progressives. but that was risky. it has never been done before. we also wanted to tell our voters if we had to compromise about anything. so there was this one thing the other parties did not agree on. we suggested to have a short-term in order to implement the constitution as quickly as possible. we just told our voters, there is no compromise. take us or leave us. despitegot nearly 15% taking chances for healthier democracy. amy: what exactly happens now? how do you form the government? >> these are interesting times because we have an opportunity to be sort of a kingmaker in these negotiations. -- like, better first parliamentary group meeting two days ago where we decided that in order to facilitate the possibility of a much broader scope of a governance because there are seven parties now that were elected. that has never happened before. and we really feel it is important we offer something else other than the corrupt parties were forced to have elections earlier and it is obvious we cannot tackle corruption, which was one of our main agendas before this election with these parties. thee offered to support .overnment with three parties also, another thing that i feel very happy about is that before the elections when it looked like i could be a prime minister, i could actually say -- if i were ever to be in that position of power, that i could take the idea of power and bring it into the parliament and seek to be the speaker of the house instead of the prime minister. this worldents in are so weak, they're governed and rolled by the executive branch. that is a big problem with how we run our societies. amy: lastly, thousands of female employees across iceland walked out of work places at exactly 2:38 p.m. to protest against earning less than men. one headline read, "women in iceland protest countries 14% pay gap by leaving work 14% early." >> yes, so this was -- icelanders have been doing quite innovative things in order to get women's equality in action. massive there was a women's strike in iceland that completely changed the way things progressed after that. women actually walked out of work and it was a massive strike -- exactly at the same time as they were not paid equally to the men. then there was an interesting experiment. party, women's only party, in many ways their inspired by what they did to facilitate change. so they created this party. they got elected and they gained ground in second elections. -- well, them, we have much more inequality in the parliament. much more women than before. anynow without any force or quotas, we have almost 50/50 men and women in the party. in my own party, we do not have quota on were, you know, the seats, list that run for but still we managed to have totally 50/50. because there is this awareness that, of course, you should select both men and women when you're choosing who to run for the party. amy: the pirate party has offered edward snowden political asylum in iceland or once iceland to offer that? >> i actually wrote a letter, an open letter when he sought asylum in iceland and urged him not to do it. i have urged him to apply for citizenship because you have much more -- you have much stronger protections against extradition if you are a citizen rather than asylum seeker. thepirate party -- this was first bill the pirates could in in 2013, to offer him citizenship. if he asks for citizenship, we will definitely put the bill hold because it is a pirate party policy. i just want to go over one thing one thing, stress we want president obama to do one thing right, and that is to pardon chelsea manning, the courageous whistleblower who has been serving in prison for many years and still has around 30 truthto go for bringing over war crimes conducted not only in the name in the united states, but with partner states that were participating through nato. very important for iceland to know what is being done in our name and should be important for everybody else in the world, specifically in the united states. amy: finally, your view, having just gone through your elections , of our elections in the united states, a donald trump and hillary clinton? >> oh, my god. we have a saying when it comes to the election. you have somehow managed to create a system that it is impossible for ordinary people to run. thankfully, for example, the pirate party in iceland, only has normal people that just was to be part of co-creating their society. i occasionally look at my ortter stream and #trump #clinton and i lose my faith in humanity because of the level of this campaign. it is terrible there is no possibility for a multitude of to, you know, be the most powerful person in the world. certainly, everybody that i know feels uncomfortable for either. the choices are really bad. so maybe, you know, the american people could do something historical and collect everybody not happy with trump or clinton to vote for a third choice. amy: i see the turnout in iceland was nearly 80%. 79.2% will step as we wrap up, what words of advice do you have to the u.s. population, where we barely get over half the population in this country voting? >> well, first of all, simplify the process. it is so complicated to run. and the right for prisoners to vote. we actually went to the big prison to talk to the prisoners to encourage them to vote. they have the right to vote in iceland. if you conduct some sort of criminal behavior, talking like smoking pot or something, then it is outrageous that the modern democracy strips away the fundamental right to vote. simplify the system. i think that is the demand the west people should have before the next election cycle. please, have the cycle shorter. this is like killing everybody, this long campaign. not only in the united states, but elsewhere. just to get endless news about some personality flaws for people instead of actually getting to know the policy these candidates are running with is so strange to us. it is like sort of a reality show. i just want to say, one last thing, we're not really an anarchist party because anarchism in many lies is about black blocks or whatever, we're more about citizens engagement. facilitate ways for the public to take responsibility in society and to help facilitate and draw from the masses what is needed to do in order to power ties how we run our society. amy: birgitta jonsdottir, thank you for being with us. on the issue of smoking pot, we will be looking at ballot initiatives this week, at this point something like 5% of americans can smoke pot without facing criminal charges. if ballots have their way in a number of states, it will go up to 25% of the u.s. population will be able to use pot without facing criminal charges. birgitta jonsdottir, thank you so much for being with us member , of the icelandic parliament and co-founder of the country's pirate party. also poet, activist, web developer, and a former wikileaks activist. birgitta jonsdottir is the chairperson of the international modern media institution. when we come back, thousands of moroccans took to the streets this weekend. we will find out why. stay with us. ♪ [music break] a this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to morocco, where thousands of people have been protesting across the country after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. video circulating online appears to show mouhcine fikri jumping into the back of the truck to rescue his swordfish before being crushed to death by its compactor. foray have been turned on instructions of authorities. activists have accused police officers of ordering garbage men to crush fikri. his death in the northern town of al-hoceima has elicited widespread anger on social media. the weekend's rallies were called by activists from the february 20 movement, which organized demonstrations during the arab spring of 2011. fikri's death drew parallels to that of tunisian fruit seller mohamed bouazizi in 2010, whose set himself on fire which sparked the arab spring uprisings. morocco's king mohamed has ordered officials to visit fikri's family. the ministries of interior and justice have pledged to conduct an investigation. prosecutors say 11 people have already been arrested. to talk more about what's happening in morocco, we're joined now by miriyam aouragh, a dutch moroccan anthropologist and democracy activist currently based in britain. she's a lecturer at the university of westminster in london and she is currently writing a book currently on the february 20 movement in morocco. welcome to democracy now! explain what you understand happened. >> i think what we see is partly a continuation of the explosion of anger and protest in 2011, but at the same time, sort of a manifestation of police repression on the one hand and a very complex reality of sort of privatization and harsh control of the fishery. this is a problem, particularly for coastal towns where a lot of people are dependent on fishing and have been selling fish independently for long time. it is part of the social fabric, basically, of these cities and towns. and being confronted now with a sort of harsh policy that prevents them to do that. with the sort of two or three different dynamics happening at the same time, call for democracy, police repression, at the same time what is often missed out in the analysis, very important political economy that has to deal with morocco's extreme neoliberal transformation ongoing at present. the in the north of country, the town has a history of unrest, of resistance. can you explain? >> a lot of people who study or note a bit about morocco no the reef him in the northern area is also the birthplace of one of the most important anticolonial fighters in the early 1920's. morocco was occupied, colonized by france and spain and france was the colonizer in the north. it was particularly harsh colonization in the north. there is this history of colonial violence. interestingly, during independence, which wasn't really an independence like algeria or other countries, but agreed transition where the colonizers -- with the colonizers. the north wanted to continue their struggle for real independent and that happened in 1958, 1959. and that was crushed by the then new kingdom. it is fresh in the memory. what is not often mentioned is the 1980's for a 1981, 1984, a major uprising. they were initiated and led by school students, young school students and spread throughout the north of the country. those memories are also fresh for certain generation of politically involved citizens. obviously, all of that culminated in 2011. there has been a very strict censorship of political history of morocco until the early 2000's. a lot of people did not know about these histories of anticolonial resistance. all of that came back into the present in 2011. i think we should see the current uprisings in the country since last week as a sort of experiences these come back and the lessons drawn from 2011 are being manifested. amy: what was very very 20? >> the february 20 movement was the sort of moroccan framing of the uprising in 2011. interestingly, al-hoceima has undergone at that time a very gruesome experience with demonstrators killed and burned februarying the 20 protest. those cases were never resolved were investigated. so there is a certain unfinished business -- feeling of unfinished business also in al-hoceima and the rest of the country with regards to be bent that happened around the 20 february movement in 2011 and 2012. amy: talk about what is happening next week. in -- democracy now! is headed to morocco to cover the 22nd cop . i am looking at posters that were held in the protests this week in and it says, "come to cop 22, we will crush you" referring to what happened to fikri. is anerestingly, there interesting international development with regard to morocco's attempt to become part of the international community. morocco has invested enormously in its pr. a few years ago, reports were state exposing moroccan employing or consulting pr divisors that are affiliated with a pet or other organizations experience that profiling acceptable political reality of political terms that are seen as democratic. the invitation a big organizations, ngos to morocco to organize the conference's is one of the ways the moroccan state is trying to improve stature internationally. inhink this conference morocco is a continuation of that policy. we have seen that with the human rights conference as well two years ago, which a lot of protesters were angry about because at the same time that these conferences were organized about human rights, human rights in morocco were crushed. levelk there is 11 -- the of cynicism. the hash tags and manners are not exposing that. .limate change, democracy at the same time, not offering any of those rights to its own citizens. what we're hoping is to make use of that momentum. is that momentum is going to mean there will be more press and, hopefully, people from democracy now! as well covering the events of the conference, it will help shed light on the democratic or lack of democracy in the country. amy: we just have 30 seconds. how is what happened in morocco different from egypt and tunisia? >> it is different innocence the experience of dust in a sense, it is behind us. exodus has now come to learn the ways the state is manipulating the protest and now infiltrators have already been sent into the different protest to christ -- across the country and we have learned from that and are trying to prevent them from doing the same as they did in 2011. amy: thank you very much miriyam , aouragh is an anthropologist and democracy activist currently andd in britain lecturer at the university of london currently , writing a book currently on the february 20 movement in morocco. (narrator) henry moore was the world's foremost sculptor for 40 years. his creative legacy in many ways exemplifies the cultural ambitions of his time. he was every bit as surprising and complex as his art, a miner's son who refused a knighthood, a sculptor who caught the public's interest with his drawings, and emry artt with a common touch. (henry moore) recently, there was a book published on my work by some jungian psychologist, a very good writer named nauman. i think the title was the archetypal world of henry moore and he sent me a copy, which he asked me to read. but after the first chapter i thought i better stop because it explained too much. and i thought it might stop me from ticking over if i went on and knew it all. (narrator) moore was english to the bone, he carved his reputation in english elm and boxwood, cumberland alabaster, and portland stone. when his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. for all its rain and taxes it was home, and he cleared a new path for english art. (anthony caro) you look at the history of english art, and it's pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. you know, he was in that same league. and so it made people realize you can be an artist - and you can be english. (narrator) sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussaud's. other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. (dorothy kosinski) i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artist's sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame? (narrator) henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. his career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to study at the royal college of art in london, a bastion of academic formalism. but he found his real inspiration on the other side of london at the british museum. he visited twice a week for years, drawing objects from the museum's vast ethnographic collection, and drawing inspiration from them that would have a lifelong impact on his work. (henry morre) primitive art makes a straightforward statement. its primary concern is with the elemental and its simplicity comes from a direct and strong feeling, which is very different from being simple for the sake of being simple, which only leads to emptiness. (narrator) moore's student work wasn't always well-received. one royal college professor declared: "this student is feeding on garbage." the student was unapologetic and went to paris in 1922 to experience modern painting and sculpture firsthand. he was thunderstruck by the monumentality of the figures in czanne's bathers. "the figures," he said, "appeared to be sliced out of mountain rock." two years later moore graduated and joined the royal college sculpture faculty, a post that gave him three days a week for his own work. and he looked hard at the work of contemporary artists like constantin brancusi, whose radical reduction of the human form would help to define the path of moore's sculpture. he found a kindred spirit in an older contemporary, the american expatriate sculptor jacob epstein, a passionate advocate of truth-to-material and the bold forms of tribal art. moore had his first one-man show in 1928. it won him favorable reviews and an important friend, the influential critic herbert read, who admired moore's direct carving and the organic evolution of his forms. later in 1928, another coup: the architect of the new london transport headquarters selected seven sculptors to decorate the building. one of them was jacob epstein, moore's mentor. epstein recommended moore, who completed west wind in january of 1929. later that year, moore created his first masterpiece, bringing together his disparate sources in a single powerful work. it signaled a preoccupation that would consume him throughout his working life: the reclining female figure. i think what we see most clearly in that figure from leeds is the impact of a single object that really captured his imagination from ancient mexican art: the chacmool figure, and that really provides him with fodder, with inspiration, throughout his career. he carves figures which have a very peculiar positioning of the upraised knees together, but also the position of the head - a very alert, peculiar, eccentric position of the head, sort of away from the body, seemingly to emphasize that sense of the block of the stone. the "stoniness" - that's the word he used - the stoniness, the blockiness, the sort of rough eloquence of ancient mexican statuary. (narrator) in 1930, moore wrote: "the sculpture that moves me most is full-blooded and self-supporting. its forms are completely realized and work as masses in opposition. it is strong and vital, giving off something of the energy of great mountains." (narrator) with success came increased self-assurance. in the summer of 1929, he married irina radetzky. moore stopped teaching and began to concentrate on his own work, and he sought out the leaders of surrealism. he met pablo picasso in paris. the ideas underpinning works like picasso's figure carrying a stone began to filter into moore's sensibility, emerging as the four-piece composition. alberto giacometti was also an influence. the swiss sculptor was exploring an abstract style - part biology, part geometry - in works like woman. moore responded with a carved, abstracted head. he continued to explore surrealism and its exploration of what lay beyond the boundaries of logic and reason. moore joined the loose association of british artists who were influenced by surrealism. he showed works in the international surrealist exhibition of 1936 in london. but he was not quite a card-carrying surrealist. henry moore took from the continental avant-garde of his day whatever he liked the look of, and he played with it visually and turned it around to his own ends. in the '20s and '30s, he is at the experimental learning phase of his career. he is a major artist all his life - so even when he's learning, he produces major work. but that is a crucial period of experiment, both of innovation and also of synthesizing available options. (narrator) he was intrigued by the work of the french artist jean arp and his exploration of the border between abstract and natural forms. the american, alexander calder, was also exploring those borders. his works struck a powerful chord in moore. the critic geoffrey grigson, noting the delicate balance in his work between surrealism and abstraction, called moore's work biomorphism. the term biomorphism suits moore absolutely perfectly because it signals that his preoccupation is poised somewhere between the surreal and the abstract. and it also describes beautifully the sense that we have in moore that the organism has laws of growth of its own. it's following some kind of universal law but it's not a species that we know. (narrator) throughout his long working life, moore collected natural forms and kept them near his workplace. he placed his own works side by side with objects that caught his eye: bones, shells, and flints. his own habits coincided with surrealism's interest in the found object and the creative possibilities of unexpected juxtapositions. the fusion of front and back, internal and external spaces, had been one of moore's goals since the early '30s. tunneling holes through heavy masses was a theme that preoccupied him for many years. in the late 1930s, he merged mathematical models he had seen at the science museum in london with early surrealist forms, leading to a series of stringed pieces. the works were a breakthrough for moore - literally. he punched through the masses and looked through strings in a new way that allowed him to see forms within forms. that interplay between the interior and exterior fascinated him. he explored it in several works and photographed them from several angles to gauge the impact of different perspectives. throughout the '30s moore sifted new influences and folded them into his preoccupations with the human figure, seeking out the abstract in shapes drawn from nature. one of the most crucial elements of his work and an aspect of his development that really reveals him as a tremendously radical, innovative sculptor are his tabletop sculptures. we look at these works and the titles tell us "reclining figure" but what he's really done is reduce the figure to an assemblage of independent elements. (narrator) the second world war introduced a dark strain into moore's work, but the war also created new and unexpected opportunities. the rationing of materials necessary for sculpture turned m tdrawing sights aeeling of wartiondon. sir kenneth clar newly appointed director of the war artists' advisory committee and a friend since the mid-thirties, commissioned moore as an official war artist. clark was attracted to moore's shelter drawings, huddled figures of civilians taking refuge in london's underground stations from the nighttime bombing. his duties as a war artist also took him back to castleford to the same pit his father had worked in, to document the miners' contribution to the war effort. carvers at work on quite a different kind of stone filled his sketchbooks. the drawings were subtle works of art, done in a mixture of pen and ink, crayon, pencil, and gouache. they were published in book form and caught the eye of a younger generation of artists, including bruce nauman. (bruce nauman) they were sorimitive in the materials as well as the images. i think they were very strong for me to look at because i was interested in drawing and then his use of crayon and gouache or watercolor was such a kindergarten use of media d so i was inre by th (nrato the rtimdrawgs, donte ed pece the british people, reached a new and wider audience. that rchasxtended a ge19 doctary re-enacting the process that created the shelter drawings. (narrator of documentary) on almost any night during a raid this figure might have been seen wandering about: henry moore the sculptor. here, perhaps, was the one artist most capable of immortalizing the stoic endurance and suffering of these people. (narrator) forty-seven years old at the end of the war, henry moore was talented and charismatic, perfectly poised to become britain's leading artist. a retrospective exhibition at the museum of modern art in new york in 1946 gave moore a foothold in the international arena. the exhibition moved on to chicago, san francisco, and australia. but moore's private life was far from glamorous. he'd found peace and a new home in the pastoral countryside of hertfordshire near the village of much hadham. it gave him space to work on lger pieces and to show them outdoors. his life was attuned to the optimism of a britain eager for peace and renewal after six years of war. the birth of a daughter in 1946 was followed by a series of works evoking family life. some critics began to detect a retreat from the groundbreaking pre-war work into sentimentality. in 1948, the london county council commissioned his first large work: the seven-foot-tall three standing figures of battersea park. despite moore's growing reputation, the more cutting-edge battersea figures unsettled a lot of people, including the painter alfred munnings, president of the royal academy, who voiced his criticisms on bbc radio. (sir arthur munnings) the sculptors today are sinking away into a fashion. you saw these things exhibited in battersea park, and god help us if all the race of women looked like that. (audience laughing) (narrator) munnings was the last major british institutional voice to criticize henry moore's vision. the british council, founded to promote the nation's art and artists internationally, selected moore to represent britain at the venice biennale in 1948. he won the first prize for foreign sculpture. there were other great artists who were either, seems to me, at the tail end of something or were too idiosyncratic to market internationally in the way that moore really seemed to fit with the modern movement across europe and the world. so an agency like the british council, looking to promote british culture and a new view of britain as a great power but coming to terms with the aftermath of the second world war, would listen to these voices telling them that moore is the great artist around at the moment. (narrator) that international stature permitted moore to work on a larger scale, a dream since the early '30s. he could now afford to hire assistants, including anthony caro, who would go on to a successful career of his own, with works like the national gallery ledge piece, installed in 1978. i thought he was the most interesting sculptor around. and really, i went to ask him if i could work with him, work for him, because i'd had too traditional a studentship. a studentship, really, where we were taught by people who thought that art was about nymphs and fawns and generals on horses and that. i used to drive him into london from much hadham and we'd talk about art. we'd have little conversations about, you know, "did you go to the national gallery today?" "what did you see?" "what did you like?" "why did you like it?" "did you like that better than that?" things like that. play games like that. (narrator) his public persona continued to grow, he was articulate and eager to make the case for his art to a wider audience on bbc television. tell me about this one over here on the left. oh, this is mexican, as well, but of a different culture from the other. and i think a very fine piece. the head, in particular, is what moves me very strongly. i think it has such a presence with it and a kind of almost hypnotic power. and perhaps, in the background, that may have had some connection with the head of the king in the king and queen group of mine, that i made five or six years ago. (narrator) by 1955, moore had been a major sculptor for 25 years. his stature made him the logical choice to create the central figure on the grounds of the unesco headquarters in paris, a massive reclining figure carved from travertine marble. sixteen-feet-long, it was the largest work he had ever done. moore's postwar work did occasionally venture into darker thematic territory. the warrior with shield, his head gashed, his arm severed, recoils in horror - a meditation in bronze on the human cost of war. in this variation on the mother and child theme, the brutal encounter is matched by the sculpture's rough surface. in the '60s, the number of public commissions grew steadily, and his role as the acceptable face of contemporary sculpture was assured. his works also grew. he began to work increasingly in bronze, medium he'd rst pled in the '30s. its grear strength allowed him to continue his exploration of voids alows beyond the endurance of stone and wood. his largbronzes began to appear in front of instituti the houses of parliament in london and the german state chancellery in bonn. moore became a friend of helmut schmidt, the west german chancellor. moore's works were selected for universities and palaces of culture, including lincoln center in new york. at the pinnacle of his career, moore had outlived the antagonists of the previous generation, charmed the media, and silenced the critical voices of his day. the next generation of artists was more skeptical. (anthony caro) i remember an article which came out soon after i'd left him, where i was interviewed by somebody, and it was headed, the greatest living englishman. a lot of young people were very irritated by it, by the feeling that henry was getting too much attention. (narrator) and the times were changing. the '60s pop artists andy warhol and roy lichtenstein shunned the previous generation's idealism to engage with popular culture, ti w and irony hier than idealism. minimalists like dan flavin developed a severe, abstract style that intrigued critics and artists. suddenly, henry moore seemed old hat. british artist bruce mclean, a student of anthony caro, created a series of photographic parodies, placing his own body in positions that mocked moore's reclining figures. there's this sense of moore the artist, moore's work, perhaps even being obscured by list upon list of commission and prize. certainly, he was very proud of that. he always claimed to be somewhat perplexed by all the attention, and he certainly did evolve into an artist celebrity. i mean it's very rare that a sculptor's face graces the cover of time magazine. (narrator) bruce nauman created several works referring to moore: seated storage capsule for henry moore, henry moore bound to fail, and light trap for henry moore. (bruce nauman) it somehow had to do with capturing some sort of essence or ghost of henry moore. when i had done a few commissions or been asked to do a few commissions and none of them worked out, and i'd put in quite a bit of effort, and then nothing ever happened. so i talked to claes oldenburg about how, i asked him how he set up his situation so he, did that happen to him or what happened? so he told me how he set up contracts to get paid at various stages of the work, and that anybody could get out from under the deal if they wanted to, but at least you weren't left with nothing. and the other thing he said is: "you have to remember that no matter what they tell you, they're looking for a medium-size henry moore on a base." (narrator) if young sculptors were frustrated by living in the long shadow he cast, architects like i. m. pei were dazzled by the man and the monumentality of his sculptures. henry. welcome. (narrator) pei incorporated moore's knife-edge mirror two piece into his designs for the national gallery in washington in 1976. his working relationship with i. m. pei continued. in dallas, moore's three forms vertebrae was set in front of the city hall. completed in 1978, it was his last major public work. then in his 80s, henry moore worked on as long as his health allowed him to. he died in 1986 and was buried in the much hadham parish churchyard. some critics still wonder if moore's remarkable success mighha kept him from taking his work in newer directions. others disagree. oh, i think moore's success was always good for him. it may be bad for his reputation, but it wasn't bad for him, his ego, and the ego that was needed to make his work. success was needed in order to fuel the possibilities of a work that appeals to every man. (narrator) henry moore's legacy is still being debated, but what he achieved is beyond controversy. the early works combine a poetic gift for carving and a respect for craftsmanship that drew inspiration from a world wider and older than europe. his fascination with the body and the play of internal and external forms inspired radical abstractions, part dreamscape, part landscape. his later works, more ambitious in size, are essays in the old tradition of making art for public spaces, written in the new language of modernism. they bridged a gulf between contemporary art and popular taste that gratified henry moore, who came to see art as a public service as well as a private calling. annenberg media ♪ narrador: bienvenidos al episodio 49 de destinos: an introduction to spanish. en este episodio, raquel sigue contándole a don fernando y su familia de su investigación. escuchen bien mientras raquel explica como conoció a arturo y como los dos emprendieron la búsqueda de angel. ¿qué querían? iangel! claro que lo recuerdo bien. era mi amigo. ¿sabe dónde se encuentra? captioning of this program is made possible by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. ...y luego, fui a la argentina donde conocí a arturo. raquel: al llegar al hotel hubo una confusión con mi reservación. felizmente, lo pude arreglar simplemente sin problemas y le pregunté al recepcionista si conocía la estancia santa susana. siento mucho la inconveniencia, señorita. está bien, gracias. ah, se me olvidaba. necesito un carro para mañana. tengo que salir fuera de la ciudad. ¿para qué hora lo necesita? voy a una hacienda que se llama santa susana. sí, la conozco. es la estancia santa susana. está a unos cien kilómetros de aquí. ¿ud. conoce la estancia? sí. conozco toda la zona. ahora estamos por escobar, cerca de los cardales. ud. no es de aquí, ¿no? no. soy de los angeles. este es mi primer viaje. ilos angeles! yo tengo un amigo en los angeles. se llama carlos lópez. claro, ud. no lo conocerá, ¿no? no hay ninguna señal. no se preocupe. falta poco. cuando llegué a la estancia, tenía muchas esperanzas, claro pero cuando toqué en la puerta un joven contestó y me dijo que rosario no vivía allí que posiblemente uno de los empleados la conociera y supiera algo de ella. busco a la señora rosario del valle... tal vez cirilo lo sepa. bueno, moza. a mí es un gusta conocerla. así que ¿ud. anda buscando a la señora rosario? sí. ¿ud. la conoce? claro que la conozco. muy buena la doña. lástima que se ha mudado para la capital. ¿y ud. sabe la dirección? bella moza, ella vivía con el hijo, el doctor... ¿el hijo es médico? iclaro! y muy buen hombre. vivía en la calle gorostiaga... al novecientos, eso. una casa blanca-- muy linda casa. en la calle gorostiaga... número novecientos. pues, muchas gracias, señor. por nada. que le vaya bien, moza. volví en seguida a buenos aires. aunque no tenía el número exacto de la casa sabía que podía encontrar a rosario si preguntaba por su hijo. voy a preguntar en esta casa a ver si conocen a angel castillo. buenas tardes. ¿está el doctor? sí, por supuesto, pase. tome asiento. gracias. ( golpes a la puerta ) siga adelante. tiene una paciente, doctor. bueno. buenas tardes. adelante, por favor. pase. bien. por allí. tome asiento. ¿quién la envía? perdone ud. mi nombre es raquel rodríguez. soy abogada y vengo de los angeles. estoy buscando a una persona. iah! disculpe. pensé que era una paciente. bien. ¿en qué la puedo servir? mire ud. mi cliente, un señor de méxico me ha enviado a buscar a su primera esposa: una señora llamada rosario del valle de iglesias. tengo entendido que su hijo angel castillo, es médico y vive, o vivía, en esta calle. ( suspira ) perdone que lo haya molestado pero pensé que, siendo colegas tal vez ud. podría conocerlo. señorita, ud. está hablando de mi madre y de mi hermano. ¿su hermano? sí. angel. bueno, quiero decir... es mi medio hermano. lleva el apellido de su padre pero el primer esposo de mi madre murió. debe haber un error. el murió en la guerra civil española. como arturo estaba desconfiado, le di la carta de teresa suárez y comencé a contarle de mi viaje a españa y de como la señora suárez me había dado la dirección de su madre en la estancia. suárez: rosario no murió. gracias a dios escapó de esa tragedia... pero ella creía que fernando había muerto. ( sin sonido ) raquel: necesito hablar con su madre. tengo también una carta para ella de parte de teresa suárez. ¿está en casa? señorita, mis padres... murieron hace años... lo siento mucho. ipobre don fernando! pero al menos podrá conocer a angel. ¿dónde vive? no lo sé. perdimos contacto hace muchos años... ¿perdieron contacto? iqué lástima! ¿y puedo saber lo qué pasó? arturo me llevó al cementerio, y allí vi la tumba familiar. era verdad. rosario había muerto en buenos aires unos años antes. arturo: aquí están enterrados mis padres. raquel: ¿puedo tomar una foto para mostrársela a don fernando? arturo: sí, por supuesto. ¿le molesta que hablemos de esto ahora? no. entonces, arturo comenzó a contarme lo que había pasado entre angel y su familia. arturo: mi padre era un hombre muy estricto. quería que angel estudiara ciencias económicas. pero angel tenía otras inclinaciones. mi madre sentía un afecto muy especial por mi hermano. angel fue su primer hijo. una vez, mis padres y yo vinimos a buenos aires a visitar a angel. en esa visita, mi padre descubrió que angel había abandonado sus estudios. una escena horrible, pues mi padre estaba furioso. ( sin sonido ) esa misma noche, mi padre sufrió de un ataque cardíaco. yo nunca perdoné a angel. dicen que angel se embarcó como marinero y que se fue de buenos aires. un día llegó una carta para mi madre. pero angel nunca volvió a buenos aires. raquel: ud. sabe que yo tengo que buscar a su hermano, ¿verdad? sí, claro. y por mi parte, creo que ya es hora que yo perdone a mi hermano... que resuelva este asunto. señorita rodríguez ¿podría ayudarla en su investigación? su ayuda será indispensable. bien. salgamos de aquí. y pensemos en nuestra estrategia. al día siguiente, emprendimos la búsqueda de angel. fuimos a la boca, una zona de buenos aires que frecuentaba angel. ese es la calle caminito. la última vez que vi a mi hermano, fue aquí. sus amigos vivían por aquí. el problema es encontrar a alguien que lo recuerde. y si preguntamos en las tiendas... empecemos por ahí. comenzamos a preguntarles a diferentes personas si conocían al hombre de la foto. nunca lo he visto. gracias. ¿qué tal? perdone, ¿eh? ¿alguna vez, vio ud. a este hombre? ¿me puede dar un dato de él? si no, ¿sabe de alguien que lo conoce? verdaderamente, no lo he visto nunca. no lo conozco. pero de todas maneras... sí. puede ud. preguntar aquí al lado. buenos días. buenos días. buenos días, señores. ¿desean algún pescado para el almuerzo? ¿o prefieren langostinos, mejillones? tengo de todo, y muy fresco. no, estamos buscando a una persona que frecuentaba esta zona. esta es su fotografía. no. no lo conozco. ¿por qué no pregunten en el negocio de al lado? la señora conoce a todo el mundo. muchas gracias. estoy buscando a mi hermano con el cual perdí contacto hace muchos años. si es tan buen mozo como ud., a lo mejor yo lo tengo escondido. se llama angel castillo. no. buenas tardes. estamos buscando a mi hermano y lo último que supimos es que se había embarcado como marinero. el tenía amigos por aquí. ¿a lo mejor ud. lo pueda reconocer? hmm... sí, creo que lo recuerdo... pero no estoy seguro. lo siento. por favor, trate de recordar. es muy importante. no, al principio me pareció pero... no, no lo conozco. bueno, gracias. nada. vamos. ah-- el que puede saber es josé. ¿josé? ¿josé? sí, josé. el fue marinero. vive acá al lado. vengan. vamos. idoña flora! idoña flora! ¿quién es? mario, doña flora. unos señores quieren ver a josé. ¿a josé? ¿para qué? son amigos, doña flora. ¿amigos? ¿y no lo buscaron en el bar? doña flora, a esta hora, está trabajando, ¿no? bueno, entonces vayan a buscarlo donde trabaja, ¿eh? en el barco. gracias, doña flora. debe estar por allá, pasando el puente. arturo: buenos días. ¿alguno de uds. es josé? ijosé! josé: ¿qué? ite buscan! ¿quién? tu mujer. hombre: ya sabe de tus escapadas, ¿eh? yo soy josé. sí, señor. disculpe la molestia. mario nos dijo que tal vez ud. puede conocer a angel castillo, mi hermano. ¿angel castillo? sí, es mi hermano. perdimos contacto hace muchos años. tenía amigos acá. pintaba. le gustaban los barcos. lo siento. no lo conozco. ¿ya hablaron con héctor? no. ¿quién es? sí, tienen que hablar con héctor. el ha vivido siempre en este barrio. conoce a todo el mundo. seguro que conoció a su hermano. ¿y dónde podemos encontrar a héctor? al día siguiente, por la noche regresamos a la boca para buscar a héctor en una fiesta. hombre: señoras y señores, tengo el honor de presentarles... perdón, ¿conoce ud. a héctor? ¿cómo? héctor. ihéctor! iah, héctor, sí! allí. hombre: inada más y nada menos que héctor condotti! vamos, héctor. ihéctor! ( héctor canta ) ( canción termina ) ( aplausos ) dicen que preguntan por mí. sí. quisiéramos hablar con ud. pero con este ruido... ¿podemos hablar afuera? sí, salgamos. ( música continúa ) acompáñanme a casa. ¿qué querían? iangel! claro que lo recuerdo bien. era mi amigo. ¿sabe dónde se encuentra? viajamos mucho juntos. no era un buen marinero, pero lo recomendé igual. era un buen chico. vamos. ( héctor canta ) angel consiguió trabajo en un barco de carga. creo que iba al caribe pero de eso hace muchos años. ¿al caribe? ¿está seguro? vecino: ia ver si dejan dormir! una vez recibí una carta de él... mujer: ihéctor! ioh! ihéctor, desgraciado, yo sé que estás ahí! ( héctor canta ) imentiroso! iyo sabía! ¿sabes la hora que es? isalí, atorrante! isiempre lo mismo! ique dejen dormir! i...pasando la tarde con tus amigotes! ¿y ahora que hacemos? no sé. por lo menos sabemos dónde vive. podemos venir mañana. tal vez sea lo mejor. ( se da un portazo ) oiga. oiga... ichis! este cuadro me lo dio angel. ¿ud. no sabe dónde podemos encontrar a angel? no. recibí una carta de él... hace años. angel se había quedado vivir en el extranjero... en otro país. ¿se quedó a vivir en el extranjero? sí. no recuerdo bien qué país era, ¿saben? creo que era puerto rico, pero... no estoy seguro. era un país en el caribe. no sé si puerto rico pero estoy seguro que era en el caribe. sí, posiblemente puerto rico. ¿y la carta? iclaro! ila carta! la tengo que buscar. es muy importante para mí. sí, comprendo. mire, ud. sabe dónde encontrarme. necesito un par de días para buscar la carta. bueno. se lo agradezco muchísimo. no hay de qué. angel era mi amigo. tome. no, no, no. es para ud. es de su hermano. bueno. gracias de nuevo. buenas noches. buenas noches. mujer: héor... va a venir acá inmediatamente. buenas noches. buenas noches. buenas noches... ichis! ( héctor canta ) es una buena pintura. tenía razón cuando decía que angel tenía talento. sí... angel tenía talento. bueno... es tarde. ¿querés tomar un café? después de unos días héctor llamó a la casa de arturo para decirle que había encontrado la carta. bien. allí estaremos. bueno, gracias. hasta luego. ¿qué hubo? tiene la carta, pero se va a pescar. ¿a pescar? sí, vamos a buscarlo al puerto. ¿está seguro de qué es aquí? me dijo que aquí. iarturo! está aquí abajo. está fechada en san juan de puerto rico. le da las gracias por su recomendación. dice que no es un verdadero marinero... y que sigue pintando. ha viajado... por muchos países: francia, inglaterra alemania... y también españa... su país de origen. piensa quedarse a vivir en puerto rico. no quiere volver nunca más a la argentina. aquí está su dirección. captioned by the caption center wgbh educational foundation annenberg media ♪ by: for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. funding for crossroa cafe was provided in part... funding for ossroads was provided in part... by the departments of education of the states of... california, florida, illinois... and new york. and by the united states department of education... and the united states immigration and naturalization service.