American history. We will speak to the new the newagazines yorker magazines jane mayer about her new article why trump cant afford to lose. That would to florida. Thats the sound of supporters cheering on Desmond Meade as he came out of a polling place after voting for president for the first time in 30 years. Two years ago, meade led an effort to restore Voting Rights for floridians who were disenfranchised due to their criminal records. At the heart of amendment 4 is the fact we abolished 150yearold jim crow law. Prior to amendment 4 has income anyone convicted of a felony offense faced lifetime barred from voting. So effectively removed that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States is once again shuttering its own world record for daily coronavirus infections, reporting a staggering 163,000 cases thursday. Nearly 1200 people died of covid19 in the last 24 hours. Public Health Officials a
American history. We will speak to the new the newagazines yorker magazines jane mayer about her new article why trump cant afford to lose. That would to florida. Thats the sound of supporters cheering on Desmond Meade as he came out of a polling place after voting for president for the first time in 30 years. Two years ago, meade led an effort to restore Voting Rights for floridians who were disenfranchised due to their criminal records. At the heart of amendment 4 is the fact we abolished 150yearold jim crow law. Prior to amendment 4 has income anyone convicted of a felony offense faced lifetime barred from voting. So effectively removed that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States is once again shuttering its own world record for daily coronavirus infections, reporting a staggering 163,000 cases thursday. Nearly 1200 people died of covid19 in the last 24 hours. Public Health Officials a
Times were hard. There was no food, no electricity, no water. No medicine. Help was not getting their. We were dying. And President Trump was killing us. With his bureaucracy and his inefficiency. You know, he said he could not get help because we are an island surrounded by water, lots and lots of water, ocean water. From the quote president of the United States. [boos] in the midst of all that darkness, when men came down to visit me and i could tell you i was not a bernie supporter in 2016. I was not. Started feeling the burn when he came down to the city of san juan, or to rico. Cameras, noshow, just a man with a big heart with a lot of passion and a lot of compassion, and he won me over. Expert. Climate change i am a Climate Change survivor. [applause] warm the oceanw is going to get or how hot how high the tides are going to go. Say it louder. Say it louder. Say it louder i do know this one thing. Climate change is real. Climate change kills. 3000 Puerto Ricans did not open their
Amy in the Largest Campaign rally of the 2020 president ial race, senator Bernie Sanders addresses an estimated 26,000 asple in queens, new york, he picks up the endorsement of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez, san juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and michael moore. Then seven catholic peace activists go on trial today for breaking into the Kings Bay Nuclear Submarine base in georgia. We will speak to longtime peace activist Liz Mcalister. If convicted, she could spend the rest of her life in prison. That is the end of life on earth. That is the end of life on earth. Say no to that. We dont have that right to destroy gods creation. Amy plus we go to chile where protests have rocked the country. As many as eight people have died in widespread unrest, which began after subway fare hike two weeks ago. The chilean president has declared a state of emergency and the military has been deployed to the streets for the First Time Since the pinochet dictatorship. All of that in more, coming up
Content standards, the social media giant Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by lawmakers over his policy allowing politicians to lighten political ads. We will play highlights from more than five hours hearings were he e was blasted by members of the House Financial Service committee. Among those, Rashida Tlaib and alexandria ocasiocortez. Then as rising inequality and staggering housing insecurity leave a Record Number of americans out on the street, we go to ground zero of the homelessness crisis oakland, california. This is a disaster. Anit was a fire or it was earthquake, the response would be so quick. But this is an economic disaster. This is a cultural disaster. This is a housing disaster, but they are not treating it like all of the other natural disasters. Amy we will bring you a special democracy now report from a sprawling encampment of 100 people in east oakland that the city just cracked down on this week. Unhoused people there say the city has failed them. Like theyy, it see