no one was leveling with the american people about where we are and what confronts us as a country. people were talking a lot about the different policies and different policy differences between health care policy, medicare for all versus a public option. it is different versions of the green new deal, different educational policies, policies about gun violence. what people were not saying to the american people, which to me is the overwhelming truth, is we have a broken government in washington, d.c. until we take back that government from the corporations who have bought it, we are not going to get any of those policies. step one has got to be to restore government of, by, and for the people, because until we do, we are not going to pass any of the things people are talking about, all of which are important to the american people. secondly, i know after 10 years of working on it that we are in a climate crisis. so i appreciate the green new deal for being a broad reactio
overnight in asia. the nikkei higher by 1.1%. hang seasoning up 2.3% and shanghai up .8%. you ll also see green arrows in europe the dax up 1.9%. cac is up. gains for italian stocks too in the treasury market, at this point, 10-year yielding 1.67%. two-year at 1.551% 30-year up at 1.61%. iranian officials say two missiles trunk an iranian tanker in the red sea crude prices, as a result of this, they are jumping up close to 2% wti crude now 54.47. they are saying that damaged two store rooms aboard the tanker and caused an oil leak that attack happened about 60 miles north of the city jeda six months after the attack of the oil tanker in hermuz and the saudi attack never good to conjecture anything they have been the attacker and you wonder was there something else going on because they didn t point fingers, you wonder. was it a screw up but we have no idea. no idea they were attacked by someone. who knows. two missiles hit a tanker that much we know. let s t
of a two-week campaign of direct action protests. more than 700 people have already been arrested. we will speak to one of the co-founders of extinction rebellion. then some 40,000 workers at general motors have entered their fourth week on strike. itit is the longest national strike at gm by the united auto workers in nearly hahalf a centntury. we will get the latest. and we will go to chicago to speak with the head of the chicago teachers union which has voted to go onon strike next we. w we need staffing and errors like nursing, for social workers and special education services. need enforceable caps on by sizes. pay and benefits alalone are not enoughgh. we care deeply about the learning and working conditions in our schools. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. turkey s powerful military has massed troops and heavy weapons on its border with syria, as u.s. troops heeded president trum
so that is health care policy, medicare for all versus the public option. it s the different versions of the green new deal and different educational policies. it s policies about gun violence and what people are saying to the american people which is the overwhelming truth is this, we have a broken government in washington, d.c. until we take back that government from the corporations who have bought it, we are not going to get any of those policies. we are not going to get any of those policies. step one has got to step one has to restore government for and by the people because until we do that we aren t passing any of the things people are talking about, all of which are important and all important to the american people. and secondly, i know after 10 years of working on it that we re in a climate crisis. at wen a climate crisis. so i appreciate the green new deal for being a broad reaction to an important, critical crisis, but we have to face the fact that this is an eme
american people about where we are and what confronts us as a country. people were talking a lot about the different policies and different policy differences between health care policy, medicare for all versus a public option. it is different versions of the green new deal, different educational policies, policies about gun violence. what people were not saying to the american people, which to me is the overwhelming truth, is we have a broken government in washington, d.c. until we take back that government from the corporations who have bought it, we are not going to get any of those policies. step one has got to be to restore government of, by, and for the people, because until we do, we are not going to pass any of the things people are talking about, all of which are important to the american people. secondly, i know after 10 years of working on it that we are in a climate crisis. so i appreciate the green new deal for being a broad reaction to an important, critical c