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
people about really where we are and what is confronting us as a country. two things. one, people were talking a lot about the different policies and different policy differences between themselves and other candidates. that is, 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. so 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. and secondly, i know after 10 years of working on it that we are in a climate crisis. so i appreciate the gr
it s the different versions of the green new deal. educationalnt policies. it s policies about gun violence. what people weren t saying to the american people which to me is the overwhelming truth is 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 of, by andernment for the people because until we do that we re not going to pass peoplethe things that are talking about, all of which are important to the american people. and secondly, i know after 10 years of working on it that climate crisis. so i appreciate the green new a broad reaction to an important problem, to a crisis, but we have to facing the fact that this is a time-bound crisis. an emergency. people were talking about proposals and plans that might sometime in the years to come. no one was saying it s priority on it on day one, i ll make it happen and i felt like somebody
conventions. you get the big crowd and on the other side, the early mornings, the 4:00 a.m. wake-up call so you can catch a plane. in the early states are not easy to get to. from ohio you have to go to chicago and iowa, charlotte into south carolina or atlanta. the travel, packing and unpacking the bags, that is the hard part. being away from the family. the one thing that has been interesting is there is almost a consensus in the country not just how screwed up washington , but the challenges of the country. you can be in a manufacturing center in youngstown the , hospital has closed, they lost jobs, challenges with opiates, some kind of drug addiction, issues around the environment, algae blooms, water, whatever , and you can go into rural iowa and it is the same thing. they are losing a maternity ward in the hospital. they are dealing with a methamphetamine issue. they are losing manufacturing, downtown needs rehabilitated and old theater needs renovated. the commonality
you can catch a plane. in the early states are not easy to get to. from ohio you have to go to chicago and iowa, charlotte into south carolina or atlanta. the travel, packing and unpacking the bags, that is the hard part. being away from the family. the one thing that has been interesting is there is almost a consensus in the country not just how screwed up washington , but the challenges of the country. you can be in a manufacturing center in youngstown the , hospital has closed, they lost jobs, challenges with opiates, some kind of drug addiction, issues around the environment, algae blooms, water, whatever , and you can go into rural iowa and it is the same thing. they are losing a maternity ward in the hospital. they are dealing with a methamphetamine issue. they are losing manufacturing, downtown needs rehabilitated and old theater needs renovated. the commonality to me has been really striking. i thought people were all same thing, but the level of detail as to what s h