WEBVTT 00:00:15.610 --> 00:00:18.400 From New York, this is Democracy Now! 00:00:18.970 --> 00:00:20.670 This is a climate damn emergency. 00:00:21.470 --> 00:00:24.350 This is real. And it’s happening. 00:00:24.350 --> 00:00:25.790 This is the perfect storm. 00:00:25.790 --> 00:00:29.860 It is happening unprecedented ways, year in, year out. 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:32.170 California, Oregon and Washington 00:00:32.170 --> 00:00:34.580 are facing a climate apocalypse 00:00:34.580 --> 00:00:38.050 as devastating fires burn across the West Coast. 00:00:38.050 --> 00:00:40.780 But President Trump refuses to link the fires 00:00:40.780 --> 00:00:43.660 to climate crisis, blaming forest management. 00:00:43.660 --> 00:00:47.080 We’ll look at why farmworkers are particularly vulnerable, 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:49.770 as California allows harvesting to continue 00:00:49.770 --> 00:00:51.890 in many evacuation zones. 00:00:56.480 --> 00:00:58.290 From the beginning of the pandemic, 00:00:58.290 --> 00:01:01.450 there was the recommendation to stay home and protect yourself. 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:05.540 But for our immigrant community, that was not a viable option. 00:01:06.230 --> 00:01:08.890 How are you going to survive — at the time, we thought, 00:01:08.890 --> 00:01:12.850 for the next two or three weeks, now it’s been half a year — 00:01:12.850 --> 00:01:16.330 without an income and without support from the government? 00:01:16.330 --> 00:01:18.030 This was almost impossible. 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:21.030 We’ll also speak to a former firefighter, 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:26.610 now a wildland fire ecologist in Oregon. 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.390 Then, with early voting beginning later this week 00:01:32.390 --> 00:01:33.880 for the November election, 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:36.430 we’ll speak to the Reverend William Barber 00:01:36.430 --> 00:01:38.250 about a new campaign to mobilize, 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:40.820 register and educate voters ahead of the election. 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:43.800 We have to make sure we overwhelm the system 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:46.640 by registration and participation. 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.670 We also have to make sure our people know 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:51.490 about mail-in ballots and early voting. 00:01:51.490 --> 00:01:53.850 We have to fight for all those things. 00:01:53.850 --> 00:01:55.600 All that and more, coming up. 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:03.650 Welcome to Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, 00:02:03.650 --> 00:02:06.500 The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. 00:02:06.500 --> 00:02:09.210 The death toll from unprecedented fires 00:02:09.210 --> 00:02:11.180 raging across California, 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:14.260 Oregon and Washington has risen to 35, 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:16.720 as smoke from the record-shattering blazes 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:19.300 brought some of the world’s most polluted air to Portland, 00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:22.580 Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities. 00:02:22.580 --> 00:02:25.510 Nearly 5 million acres have already burned, 00:02:25.510 --> 00:02:28.580 with entire towns consumed by flames. 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.790 President Trump is visiting California today 00:02:30.790 --> 00:02:34.190 but is refusing to link the fires to the climate crisis. 00:02:34.190 --> 00:02:35.820 California Governor Gavin Newsom 00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:38.440 says there is no question about what is fueling the fires. 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:39.770 Gov. Gavin Newsom: 00:02:39.770 --> 00:02:43.140 "California, folks, is America fast forward. 00:02:44.290 --> 00:02:48.680 What we’re experiencing right here is coming to a community 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:50.430 all across the United States of America 00:02:50.430 --> 00:02:53.580 unless we get our act together on climate change, 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:56.330 unless we disabuse ourselves of all the BS 00:02:56.330 --> 00:03:00.150 that’s being spewed by a very small group of people." 00:03:01.140 --> 00:03:03.440 On Friday, Governor Newsom signed a bill 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:05.610 allowing former prisoner firefighters 00:03:05.610 --> 00:03:07.460 to have their records expunged, 00:03:07.460 --> 00:03:11.950 paving the way for them to get jobs as municipal firefighters. 00:03:11.950 --> 00:03:16.080 As the U.S. COVID-19 death toll approaches 200,000, 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.150 with over 6.5 million confirmed cases, 00:03:19.150 --> 00:03:21.850 President Trump held a campaign rally in Henderson, 00:03:21.850 --> 00:03:23.070 Nevada, Sunday. 00:03:23.070 --> 00:03:25.110 It was Trump’s first indoor event 00:03:25.110 --> 00:03:27.010 since his June rally in Tulsa, 00:03:27.010 --> 00:03:30.530 which was linked to a surge in coronavirus infections. 00:03:30.530 --> 00:03:32.670 The rally was attended by thousands, 00:03:32.670 --> 00:03:35.720 violating Nevada’s restriction on gatherings 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:37.840 of 50 or more people. 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.830 Politico is reporting communications 00:03:39.830 --> 00:03:42.250 aides at the Department of Health and Human Services 00:03:42.250 --> 00:03:46.050 have been demanding to review and alter weekly reports 00:03:46.050 --> 00:03:47.730 from the Centers for Disease Control 00:03:47.730 --> 00:03:49.860 and Prevention about the coronavirus. 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:52.860 The aides reportedly complained negative news coverage 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:55.610 would undermine Trump’s optimistic 00:03:55.610 --> 00:03:57.540 messaging about the pandemic. 00:03:58.260 --> 00:04:00.910 In immigration news, The Washington Post reports 00:04:00.910 --> 00:04:03.180 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents 00:04:03.180 --> 00:04:06.870 flew imprisoned immigrants to Virginia 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:09.190 in order to also fly Department of Homeland 00:04:09.190 --> 00:04:12.210 Security tactical teams to the Washington area 00:04:12.210 --> 00:04:14.790 to suppress protests around the capital. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.210 ICE employees are barred 00:04:17.210 --> 00:04:19.240 from traveling on such charter flights 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.530 unless detainees are also on board. 00:04:22.530 --> 00:04:25.130 Dozens of immigrant prisoners tested positive 00:04:25.130 --> 00:04:27.530 for COVID-19 after the transfer, 00:04:27.530 --> 00:04:30.290 and over 300 prisoners became infected 00:04:30.290 --> 00:04:34.570 at the Farmville, Virginia, ICE jail. One person died. 00:04:35.610 --> 00:04:38.340 The World Health Organization has announced a record 00:04:38.340 --> 00:04:42.360 one-day rise in new coronavirus cases around the world. 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:47.520 Nearly 308,000 confirmed cases were reported over the past day, 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:51.300 with a total caseload now topping 29 million 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:54.760 and a death toll topping 924,000. 00:04:54.760 --> 00:04:57.330 Israel is imposing a three-week nationwide 00:04:57.330 --> 00:05:00.440 lockdown as cases there continue to surge. 00:05:00.440 --> 00:05:02.300 Israel is the first country 00:05:02.300 --> 00:05:05.180 to reimpose a second nationwide lockdown. 00:05:05.180 --> 00:05:07.340 Ninety U.N. peacekeepers in southern 00:05:07.340 --> 00:05:10.400 Lebanon have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:12.560 Meanwhile, the U.N. refugee agency 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.710 says it is stepping up measures in Syrian refugee camps 00:05:15.710 --> 00:05:19.560 in Jordan after the first five cases were confirmed last week. 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:24.210 In France, which confirmed a record 10,500 coronavirus cases 00:05:24.210 --> 00:05:25.450 on Saturday, 00:05:25.450 --> 00:05:28.670 police fired tear gas at protesters in Paris 00:05:28.670 --> 00:05:30.320 as the "yellow vest" demonstrations 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:31.850 returned to the capital. 00:05:31.850 --> 00:05:34.730 In medical news, Oxford and AstraZeneca 00:05:34.730 --> 00:05:37.790 are resuming their coronavirus vaccine trial, 00:05:37.790 --> 00:05:39.270 after it was halted last week 00:05:39.270 --> 00:05:43.010 when a participant developed severe neurological symptoms. 00:05:43.010 --> 00:05:44.820 The Brazilian state of Bahia 00:05:44.820 --> 00:05:47.590 says it will test Russia’s coronavirus vaccine 00:05:47.590 --> 00:05:51.080 and plans to buy 50 million doses. 00:05:51.870 --> 00:05:54.020 A federal appeals court Friday 00:05:54.020 --> 00:05:56.980 blocked hundreds of thousands of Floridians 00:05:56.980 --> 00:05:59.890 with fees and fines from past felony convictions 00:05:59.890 --> 00:06:01.480 from registering to vote. 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.250 The ruling comes less than two months 00:06:03.250 --> 00:06:06.190 before the November election in a major swing state 00:06:06.190 --> 00:06:08.990 where those votes could tip the outcome. 00:06:08.990 --> 00:06:12.260 Florida voters overwhelmingly supported Amendment 4, 00:06:12.260 --> 00:06:15.530 which reenfranchised people with felony convictions, 00:06:15.530 --> 00:06:17.960 in a 2018 ballot measure. 00:06:17.960 --> 00:06:20.480 Nicole D. Porter of The Sentencing Project said, 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.850 "The ruling undermines democracy. 00:06:22.850 --> 00:06:26.460 Efforts to disenfranchise citizens with felony conviction 00:06:26.460 --> 00:06:29.900 histories intentionally minimizes the Black electorate." 00:06:30.890 --> 00:06:33.480 In other election news, the Wisconsin Supreme Court 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.040 temporarily blocked absentee ballots 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.430 from being mailed last week, one week before the deadline, 00:06:39.430 --> 00:06:41.130 while the court decides whether to add 00:06:41.130 --> 00:06:43.540 the Green Party’s candidate to the ballot. 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:45.010 Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, 00:06:45.010 --> 00:06:47.750 election officials are not able to send out ballots 00:06:47.750 --> 00:06:51.260 due to a slew of lawsuits and other issues. 00:06:52.140 --> 00:06:54.520 President Trump is defending the fatal police 00:06:54.520 --> 00:06:57.340 shooting of Portland anti-fascist activist 00:06:57.340 --> 00:06:59.730 Michael Reinoehl as "retribution," 00:06:59.730 --> 00:07:03.080 after he was accused of killing a far-right Trump supporter. 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:05.870 Trump’s remarks to Fox News came after a witness 00:07:05.870 --> 00:07:08.290 said Reinoehl did not appear to have a gun 00:07:08.290 --> 00:07:09.980 and was not threatening officers, 00:07:09.980 --> 00:07:11.420 who never announced themselves 00:07:11.420 --> 00:07:13.870 or gave commands before killing him 00:07:13.870 --> 00:07:15.420 in a hail of gunfire on September 3. 00:07:15.420 --> 00:07:16.630 President Donald Trump: 00:07:16.630 --> 00:07:17.870 "This guy was a violent criminal." 00:07:17.870 --> 00:07:19.070 Jeanine Pirro: "A lot of them out there." 00:07:19.070 --> 00:07:20.290 President Donald Trump: 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:21.900 "And the U.S. Marshals killed him. 00:07:21.900 --> 00:07:24.850 And I will tell you something: That’s the way it has to be. 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:27.180 There has to be retribution." 00:07:28.510 --> 00:07:31.010 Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii 00:07:31.010 --> 00:07:33.730 called out his Republican colleagues for refusing 00:07:33.730 --> 00:07:35.610 to condemn Trump’s remarks. 00:07:35.610 --> 00:07:38.120 He tweeted, "Extrajudicial killings 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.540 are something many Republican U.S. Senators 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:43.600 oppose if they happen outside of the United States. 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:45.940 But they won’t say anything about this." 00:07:47.530 --> 00:07:49.580 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 00:07:49.580 --> 00:07:50.970 is in Washington, D.C., 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:53.340 today ahead of Tuesday’s White House ceremony, 00:07:53.340 --> 00:07:56.340 where he will sign the U.S.-brokered normalization 00:07:56.340 --> 00:07:57.900 deals between Israel 00:07:57.900 --> 00:08:00.510 and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. 00:08:00.510 --> 00:08:02.640 Palestinians protested over the weekend 00:08:02.640 --> 00:08:05.610 following the announcement of the deal with Bahrain Friday, 00:08:05.610 --> 00:08:08.420 just weeks after it was announced Israel and the UAE 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:10.650 would establish diplomatic relations. 00:08:10.650 --> 00:08:13.370 This is Saeb Erekat, the secretary general 00:08:13.370 --> 00:08:15.230 of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 00:08:15.230 --> 00:08:16.550 Saeb Erekat: 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:21.260 "The Bahrain-American-Israeli agreement to normalize relations 00:08:22.270 --> 00:08:24.680 is now part of a bigger package in the region. 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:26.020 It’s not about peace. 00:08:26.020 --> 00:08:28.590 It’s not about relations between countries. 00:08:28.590 --> 00:08:31.920 We are witnessing an alliance, a military alliance, 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.050 being created in the region. 00:08:34.050 --> 00:08:36.590 Maybe they want to call it an Arab-Israel-NATO." 00:08:37.530 --> 00:08:40.160 Analysts have pointed to a clause in the accords 00:08:40.160 --> 00:08:42.670 that leaves the door open to allowing Jewish prayer 00:08:42.670 --> 00:08:45.200 at the holy mosque of Al-Aqsa, which is now forbidden, 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.570 and could be seen as a major act of aggression. 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.310 The long-anticipated intra-Afghan 00:08:51.310 --> 00:08:53.860 talks officially launched in Doha Saturday. 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:55.320 Members of the Afghan government 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:57.990 and the Taliban will meet after months of delays 00:08:57.990 --> 00:09:00.800 and derailed peace talks as violent attacks 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:03.430 have continued to plague the war-torn nation. 00:09:03.430 --> 00:09:05.520 The two sides will have to reach an agreement 00:09:05.520 --> 00:09:07.670 on major issues including women’s rights, 00:09:07.670 --> 00:09:10.620 civil liberties, democracy and security. 00:09:11.210 --> 00:09:14.520 In Spain, a former Salvadoran Army colonel 00:09:14.520 --> 00:09:18.340 was convicted Friday for the 1989 murder of five 00:09:19.790 --> 00:09:25.820 Jesuit priests. Inocente Orlando Montano 00:09:25.820 --> 00:09:28.450 served as El Salvador’s security minister. 00:09:28.450 --> 00:09:30.700 He was sentenced to 133 years 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:32.710 for ordering the attack that was carried out 00:09:32.710 --> 00:09:35.940 by a U.S-trained counterinsurgency force. 00:09:35.940 --> 00:09:38.590 Montano lived in the United States for 16 years, 00:09:38.590 --> 00:09:42.210 was extradited to Madrid in 2017. 00:09:43.910 --> 00:09:47.310 The death squad killed six Jesuit priests, 00:09:47.310 --> 00:09:49.540 their housekeeper and her daughter, 00:09:49.540 --> 00:09:53.290 but five of the Jesuit priests were from Spain. 00:09:53.290 --> 00:09:56.950 It was their murder that he was convicted of. 00:09:57.460 --> 00:10:00.460 In Peru, lawmakers have opened impeachment proceedings 00:10:00.460 --> 00:10:02.380 against President Martín Vizcarra, 00:10:02.380 --> 00:10:05.070 who is accused of trying to obstruct an investigation 00:10:05.070 --> 00:10:07.190 into the allocation of government contracts 00:10:07.190 --> 00:10:09.270 to a relatively unknown singer. 00:10:09.270 --> 00:10:12.800 Lawmakers say President Vizcarra may have intervened to award 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:15.270 the singer the contracts for motivational talks. 00:10:15.270 --> 00:10:17.940 This comes as Peru is grappling with a major economic crisis 00:10:17.940 --> 00:10:20.250 and one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, 00:10:20.250 --> 00:10:22.240 ranking fifth in confirmed cases 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.230 despite a population of just 32 million. 00:10:30.050 --> 00:10:34.870 In Pakistan, outrage is mounting after two violent rapes 00:10:34.870 --> 00:10:36.510 that took place over recent days. 00:10:36.510 --> 00:10:39.620 One was of a 5-year-old girl who was kidnapped, 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:41.610 raped and set on fire in Karachi. 00:10:41.610 --> 00:10:43.710 The other involved a woman who was gang-raped 00:10:43.710 --> 00:10:46.470 in front of her children after her car broke down. 00:10:46.470 --> 00:10:48.540 The Lahore police chief blamed the woman 00:10:48.540 --> 00:10:51.060 for traveling at night without a male companion 00:10:51.060 --> 00:10:53.880 and not making sure she had enough gas in her car. 00:10:53.880 --> 00:10:56.020 This is human rights activist Tahira Abdullah 00:10:56.020 --> 00:10:58.550 speaking at a protest in Islamabad Saturday. 00:10:58.550 --> 00:10:59.820 Tahira Abdullah: 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:03.520 "A woman gets gang-raped in front of her children, 00:11:04.380 --> 00:11:06.970 in a big metropolitan city of Lahore, 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:13.100 and the chief police officer blames her instead 00:11:13.760 --> 00:11:16.920 and says she shouldn’t be out on the road at night, 00:11:16.920 --> 00:11:19.670 she shouldn’t be driving alone, she should have taken this road, 00:11:19.670 --> 00:11:23.710 not that road, etc., etc. I think it is a shame." 00:11:24.470 --> 00:11:26.310 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 00:11:26.310 --> 00:11:28.840 at least 50 people have died after heavy rains 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.830 caused a gold mine to collapse in South Kivu province. 00:11:31.830 --> 00:11:33.380 Deadly accidents are not uncommon 00:11:33.380 --> 00:11:35.390 in the mostly unregulated artisanal mines. 00:11:35.390 --> 00:11:36.600 In addition to gold, 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.570 Congo also produces 60% of the world’s cobalt, 00:11:39.570 --> 00:11:42.330 used in cellphones and other electronic devices. 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:47.860 A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia has been fired 00:11:47.860 --> 00:11:51.700 after being filmed beating a Black man, Roderick Walker, 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:53.860 during a traffic stop near Atlanta 00:11:53.860 --> 00:11:55.500 in front of his two children. 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:59.440 He was a passenger in a ride-share. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.430 Two deputies can be seen on top of Walker, 00:12:02.430 --> 00:12:05.320 with one punching him repeatedly. 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.760 In Compton, Los Angeles, two L.A. 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:11.120 sheriff’s deputies were shot by an unidentified gunman 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.070 who walked up to their parked car, 00:12:13.070 --> 00:12:15.100 opened fire and ran away. 00:12:15.100 --> 00:12:18.160 Both officers survived and are out of surgery. 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:25.340 In August, Compton Mayor Aja Brown said of the deputies, 00:12:26.060 --> 00:12:27.830 "They terrorize the community 00:12:27.830 --> 00:12:29.970 and then they cover their tracks. 00:12:29.970 --> 00:12:32.750 It is unacceptable, we will not take this." 00:12:32.750 --> 00:12:36.160 Mayor Brown, who is Black, was herself pulled over 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:38.420 by sheriff’s deputies last year and searched, 00:12:38.420 --> 00:12:40.680 despite doing nothing wrong. 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:44.150 Meanwhile, KPCC reporter Josie Huang, 00:12:44.150 --> 00:12:46.960 who was covering the shooting and protests in response, 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.280 was tackled and arrested by deputies, 00:12:49.280 --> 00:12:52.120 who pinned her face-down into the pavement. 00:12:53.670 --> 00:12:55.730 Congress is launching an investigation 00:12:55.730 --> 00:12:57.690 after a series of deaths at the Fort Hood 00:12:57.690 --> 00:12:59.530 military base in Texas. 00:12:59.530 --> 00:13:01.990 Nearly 30 soldiers have died so far this year, 00:13:01.990 --> 00:13:03.620 including Vanessa Guillén, 00:13:03.620 --> 00:13:06.620 who was sexually harassed before she was murdered. 00:13:06.620 --> 00:13:09.990 The main suspect in her case died by suicide. 00:13:09.990 --> 00:13:11.660 Two soldiers from Navajo Nation 00:13:11.660 --> 00:13:14.350 have also died at Fort Hood this year. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:17.070 In Texas, hundreds of Trump supporters 00:13:17.070 --> 00:13:19.130 drove through the city of Laredo on Saturday 00:13:19.130 --> 00:13:21.790 in support of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. 00:13:21.790 --> 00:13:25.750 The "Trump train" demonstration was partly organized 00:13:25.750 --> 00:13:27.450 by the National Border Patrol Council, 00:13:27.450 --> 00:13:30.930 which planned to drive over a giant street mural reading 00:13:30.930 --> 00:13:33.150 "Defund the Wall. Fund Our Futures." 00:13:33.150 --> 00:13:35.330 They canceled those plans after veterans of the U.S. 00:13:35.330 --> 00:13:38.320 military mobilized to repaint and defend the mural. 00:13:40.020 --> 00:13:43.070 In Charlottesville, Virginia, a crowd cheered Saturday morning 00:13:43.070 --> 00:13:45.720 as workers took down a statue of a Confederate soldier 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.050 near the site of the deadly, 00:13:47.050 --> 00:13:51.140 white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally in 2017. 00:13:51.140 --> 00:13:53.310 Virginia’s Supreme Court will decide the fate 00:13:53.310 --> 00:13:55.940 of two other Confederate statues in Charlottesville — 00:13:55.940 --> 00:13:58.490 of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" 00:13:58.490 --> 00:14:01.430 Jackson — after defenders of the Confederacy 00:14:01.430 --> 00:14:04.340 successfully blocked the city from removing them. 00:14:05.090 --> 00:14:07.420 Portland, Oregon, has become the first U.S. city 00:14:07.420 --> 00:14:10.670 to ban the corporate use of facial recognition surveillance. 00:14:10.670 --> 00:14:13.490 The ban will bar public agencies and private businesses 00:14:13.490 --> 00:14:16.060 from using the technology in public spaces. 00:14:16.060 --> 00:14:19.830 Facial recognition has been found to reflect racist biases 00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:21.640 and violate basic freedoms. 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:26.170 Oracle has won its bid to acquire U.S. operations 00:14:26.170 --> 00:14:28.700 for the popular video-sharing app TikTok, 00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:31.620 beating out Microsoft. Trump moved to ban TikTok, 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:33.810 which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, 00:14:33.810 --> 00:14:35.590 unless it was sold to a U.S. company 00:14:35.590 --> 00:14:37.870 by tomorrow, September 15. 00:14:37.870 --> 00:14:40.730 The deal must still undergo a White House review. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:46.950 In sports news, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka won the U.S. 00:14:46.950 --> 00:14:49.870 Open Saturday, her third Grand Slam title. 00:14:49.870 --> 00:14:52.570 During the tournament, Osaka — who has a Japanese mother 00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:54.320 and a Haitian American father — 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.850 donned seven masks, each bearing the name 00:14:57.850 --> 00:15:01.670 of a Black person who was killed: Breonna Taylor, 00:15:01.670 --> 00:15:05.180 Elijah McClain, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, 00:15:05.180 --> 00:15:09.570 George Floyd, Philando Castile and Tamir Rice. 00:15:09.570 --> 00:15:13.870 This is Naomi Osaka speaking to ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi. 00:15:13.870 --> 00:15:15.260 Tom Rinaldi: 00:15:15.260 --> 00:15:17.740 "What was the message you wanted to send, Naomi?" 00:15:17.740 --> 00:15:21.220 Naomi Osaka: "Well, 'What was the message that you got?' 00:15:21.220 --> 00:15:22.520 was more the question. 00:15:22.520 --> 00:15:26.290 I feel like the point is to make people start talking." 00:15:26.820 --> 00:15:29.070 And those are some of the headlines this is Democracy 00:15:29.070 --> 00:15:32.850 Now, Democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. 00:15:32.850 --> 00:15:34.170 I’m Amy Goodman. 00:15:34.170 --> 00:15:36.290 AMY GOODMAN: California, Oregon and Washington 00:15:36.290 --> 00:15:39.370 continue to face a climate apocalypse 00:15:39.370 --> 00:15:43.290 as devastating fires burn across the West Coast. 00:15:43.290 --> 00:15:45.260 At least 35 people have died, 00:15:45.260 --> 00:15:47.970 but the death toll is expected to be far higher. 00:15:47.970 --> 00:15:52.360 Oregon says it’s bracing for a, quote, "mass fatality event." 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.130 Entire towns have been destroyed. 00:15:54.130 --> 00:15:56.640 Nearly 5 million acres have already burned. 00:15:56.640 --> 00:15:57.960 Parts of the West Coast 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:01.450 now have some of the worst air quality in the world. 00:16:01.450 --> 00:16:03.880 President Trump is visiting California today 00:16:03.880 --> 00:16:07.270 but refuses to link the fires to the climate crisis. 00:16:07.270 --> 00:16:08.870 California Governor Gavin Newsom 00:16:08.870 --> 00:16:12.880 says there’s no question about the climate crisis. 00:16:13.560 --> 00:16:16.670 GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: The debate is over around climate change. 00:16:16.670 --> 00:16:19.040 Just come to the state of California. 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:22.490 Observe it with your own eyes. It’s not an intellectual debate. 00:16:22.490 --> 00:16:25.570 It’s not even debatable any longer, 00:16:26.130 --> 00:16:27.640 what we are experiencing — 00:16:27.640 --> 00:16:32.580 the extreme droughts, the extreme atmospheric rivers, 00:16:33.190 --> 00:16:39.350 the extreme heat. Just think. In the last few weeks alone, 00:16:39.910 --> 00:16:43.000 we’ve experienced the hottest August in California history. 00:16:43.770 --> 00:16:47.790 We had 14,000 dry lightning strikes over a three-day period. 00:16:48.770 --> 00:16:50.150 We’re experiencing temperatures, 00:16:50.150 --> 00:16:52.690 world record-breaking temperatures, 00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:54.690 in the state of California, 130 degrees. 00:16:55.690 --> 00:16:57.580 AMY GOODMAN: Some of the most vulnerable people 00:16:57.580 --> 00:16:58.800 on the West Coast 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:01.430 have been farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented. 00:17:01.430 --> 00:17:04.810 First came the pandemic, now the climate-fueled fires. 00:17:04.810 --> 00:17:08.080 Despite the risks, many feel they have to keep working, 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:12.210 even if that means working inside evacuation zones. 00:17:12.210 --> 00:17:15.230 Authorities in California have repeatedly allowed growers 00:17:15.230 --> 00:17:18.790 to continue harvesting despite evacuation orders, 00:17:18.790 --> 00:17:20.840 putting workers at great risk. 00:17:20.840 --> 00:17:23.300 The Intercept reports agricultural commissioners 00:17:23.300 --> 00:17:25.280 in California’s wine regions 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:28.160 have worked closely with the Sonoma County Farm Bureau 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.640 and Sonoma County Winegrowers to repeatedly grant permission 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.910 to grape growers to harvest in wildfire evacuation zones. 00:17:36.600 --> 00:17:37.980 The issue is not new. 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:41.440 In 2017, the Sonoma County Agricultural Commission 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.970 issued evacuation zone entry permits to 280 groups of people 00:17:45.970 --> 00:17:48.100 to conduct, quote, "critical functions." 00:17:48.100 --> 00:17:50.310 The Intercept reports such critical functions 00:17:50.310 --> 00:17:51.620 included, quote, 00:17:51.620 --> 00:17:54.590 "harvesting, feeding and watering livestock, 00:17:54.590 --> 00:17:58.320 managing fermentations, and irrigating nursery crops," 00:17:58.320 --> 00:17:59.540 unquote. 00:17:59.540 --> 00:18:01.910 Farmworkers have also been disproportionately hit 00:18:01.910 --> 00:18:03.110 by the pandemic. 00:18:03.110 --> 00:18:06.410 Gervacio Peña López is a former farmworker 00:18:06.410 --> 00:18:08.190 who now serves as the executive director 00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:11.100 of the Cultural Movement of Indigenous Alliance. 00:18:11.100 --> 00:18:15.110 GERVACIO PEÑA LÓPEZ: [translated] 00:18:15.110 --> 00:18:16.950 From the beginning of the pandemic, 00:18:16.950 --> 00:18:20.150 there was the recommendation to stay home and protect yourself. 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:24.220 But for our immigrant community, that was not a viable option. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.610 How are you going to survive — at the time, we thought, 00:18:27.610 --> 00:18:31.520 for the next two or three weeks, now it’s been half a year — 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:35.010 without an income and without support from the government? 00:18:35.010 --> 00:18:36.710 This was almost impossible. 00:18:37.670 --> 00:18:40.050 AMY GOODMAN: We’ll hear more from Gervacio Peña López. 00:18:40.050 --> 00:18:42.620 But first we’re joined by Estella Cisneros, 00:18:42.620 --> 00:18:45.280 the agriculture worker program legal director 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:47.110 at California Rural [Legal] Assistance. 00:18:47.110 --> 00:18:49.630 She joins us from Fresno, California. 00:18:49.630 --> 00:18:51.430 Estella, welcome to Democracy Now! 00:18:51.430 --> 00:18:53.370 It’s great to have you with us, 00:18:53.370 --> 00:18:57.350 although under these extremely dire circumstances. 00:18:57.350 --> 00:19:01.020 Can you explain what farmworkers are facing right now? 00:19:01.020 --> 00:19:04.870 So many in California who are not being forced to evacuate 00:19:04.870 --> 00:19:07.380 are staying in their homes, if at all possible, 00:19:07.380 --> 00:19:10.190 because the horrendous air quality conditions 00:19:10.190 --> 00:19:13.460 from the fires, this on top of COVID-19. 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.440 But what about the farmworkers? 00:19:16.990 --> 00:19:19.440 ESTELLA CISNEROS: Thank you, Amy. Such a pleasure to be here. 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.700 Right now farmworkers are facing a triple threat. 00:19:22.700 --> 00:19:26.570 They are facing the dangers of COVID-19, wildfire smoke, 00:19:26.570 --> 00:19:28.820 as well as an unprecedented heat wave. 00:19:30.300 --> 00:19:35.010 Farmworkers, as many already know, are essential workers. 00:19:35.010 --> 00:19:38.190 They have continued working throughout this entire pandemic. 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:41.630 Agricultural workers include those who work in the fields, 00:19:41.630 --> 00:19:43.510 but also those who work in dairies, 00:19:43.510 --> 00:19:48.040 as well as meat processing and other food processing locations, 00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:51.420 as well as people who work in packing houses and nurseries. 00:19:51.420 --> 00:19:56.720 Now, farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time 00:19:57.770 --> 00:20:01.730 despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, 00:20:01.730 --> 00:20:06.630 despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, 00:20:06.630 --> 00:20:09.200 and now despite fears of the dangers 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:10.930 that wildfire smoke brings. 00:20:11.540 --> 00:20:14.740 Now, the reason wildfire smoke is so dangerous, 00:20:14.740 --> 00:20:17.420 not just for farmworkers, but anybody who inhales it, 00:20:17.940 --> 00:20:23.060 is because smoke tends to have particulate matter 00:20:23.060 --> 00:20:26.980 which is 2.5 [micrometers] or smaller. 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:30.970 Now, the inhalation of what’s called particulate matter 00:20:30.970 --> 00:20:35.590 2.5 or smaller is very, very dangerous for one’s health. 00:20:35.590 --> 00:20:38.860 It can lead to long-term both lung, 00:20:38.860 --> 00:20:41.530 heart and respiratory illnesses. 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:44.340 So, the fact that farmworkers are out 00:20:44.340 --> 00:20:49.740 there working in the fields, facing the dangers of COVID-19, 00:20:49.740 --> 00:20:53.500 as well as the dangers of heat stress and wildfire smoke, 00:20:53.500 --> 00:20:55.640 is a very, very dire situation right now in California. 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:56.880 AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to go back 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:58.610 to former farmworker Gervacio 00:20:58.610 --> 00:21:00.660 Peña López, now executive director 00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:03.280 of the Cultural Movement of Indigenous Alliance, 00:21:03.280 --> 00:21:06.680 describing to Democracy Now! the dangerous working conditions 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.050 that undocumented farmworkers face 00:21:09.050 --> 00:21:11.130 as they’re forced to work in the vineyards 00:21:11.130 --> 00:21:15.080 of Sonoma County amidst the wildfires. 00:21:15.080 --> 00:21:17.580 GERVACIO PEÑA LÓPEZ: [translated] 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:19.190 The situation with the smoke, 00:21:19.190 --> 00:21:21.690 because we have experienced this before, 00:21:21.690 --> 00:21:23.710 it is already known that employers, 00:21:23.710 --> 00:21:25.180 if they are conscious, 00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:28.640 they should provide N-95 masks to protect their workers, 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:31.590 which is the only thing that filters the toxic particles. 00:21:31.590 --> 00:21:35.070 But working in the fields, everything moves very fast. 00:21:35.070 --> 00:21:37.960 Sometimes the workers themselves do not want to bring masks 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.010 because they cannot breathe well. 00:21:40.010 --> 00:21:41.880 They have to move at a very fast pace 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:43.960 because the promise is that they are paid 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:45.800 for the work they produce. 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:48.920 The typical amount of product to harvest in one day 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.960 or one night is like two tons of grapes. 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:55.440 So they receive two payments, or two minimum wages, 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.390 but it is because they have to earn it. 00:21:58.550 --> 00:22:02.080 AMY GOODMAN: So, Estella, if you can explain further: 00:22:05.050 --> 00:22:10.620 Are the farmers, are the owners of, for example, the vineyards — 00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:13.440 are they forcing workers to work? 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.010 Do they lose their jobs if they don’t? 00:22:16.010 --> 00:22:20.090 And also, what kind of access do they have to masks? 00:22:21.870 --> 00:22:23.660 ESTELLA CISNEROS: So, unfortunately, 00:22:23.660 --> 00:22:25.400 there are a lot of farmworkers 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.570 who face the very real risk of losing their jobs 00:22:28.570 --> 00:22:32.330 if they either speak up about unsafe working conditions 00:22:32.330 --> 00:22:37.370 or if they refuse to work, before being provided, 00:22:37.370 --> 00:22:39.580 in this case, an N-95 respirator. 00:22:40.830 --> 00:22:44.120 We have had a lot of cases of workers 00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:45.720 who have faced retaliation 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.520 after they have spoken up in the workplace about their rights, 00:22:49.520 --> 00:22:52.570 and so there is a very, very real danger 00:22:52.570 --> 00:22:55.050 of losing your job if you speak up. 00:22:55.050 --> 00:22:57.370 Now, there’s that aspect of things, 00:22:57.370 --> 00:23:02.000 but there’s also the unspoken aspect of working in a workplace 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:05.160 where N-95 respirators are not provided to you. 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:07.610 Even if an employer doesn’t tell you, 00:23:07.610 --> 00:23:10.060 "You will be fired if you stop working," 00:23:10.060 --> 00:23:14.320 what kind of message are workers getting when employers are not 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:18.520 affirmatively following their duty in California, 00:23:18.520 --> 00:23:23.690 which is to address workplace health and safety hazards? 00:23:23.690 --> 00:23:25.160 What kind of message are employers 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:27.850 sending it they are not proactively, 00:23:27.850 --> 00:23:31.510 as the law requires them to do, providing the training, 00:23:31.510 --> 00:23:33.820 as well as the equipment and the materials, 00:23:33.820 --> 00:23:35.320 the personal protective equipment 00:23:35.320 --> 00:23:37.430 that people need to access? 00:23:37.430 --> 00:23:41.980 Now, when it comes to whether farmworkers 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:45.320 are having access to N-95 masks, 00:23:45.320 --> 00:23:48.730 unfortunately, the reports that we’re hearing out in the fields 00:23:48.730 --> 00:23:50.890 is that hardly any farmworker 00:23:50.890 --> 00:23:53.300 is getting access to N-95 respirators, 00:23:53.300 --> 00:23:56.490 which is really the only thing that is going to keep them safe 00:23:56.490 --> 00:23:58.260 from particulate matter inhalation. 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.050 AMY GOODMAN: And I want to talk about the people 00:24:01.050 --> 00:24:03.420 that are coming out to the fields, even more so, 00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:07.630 and start with the former farmworker Gervacio Peña López. 00:24:07.630 --> 00:24:09.210 This is what he said, 00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:12.070 when you were talking about the triple threat. 00:24:12.070 --> 00:24:15.770 GERVACIO PEÑA LÓPEZ: [translated] 00:24:15.770 --> 00:24:17.870 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 00:24:17.870 --> 00:24:21.090 many people were left without work in other industries, 00:24:21.090 --> 00:24:24.730 such as hotels, restaurants or factories. 00:24:24.730 --> 00:24:26.590 So, many people in our community, 00:24:26.590 --> 00:24:28.570 because they have the necessity, 00:24:28.570 --> 00:24:31.420 and others because they do not have documents 00:24:31.420 --> 00:24:33.990 and do not receive aid from the local or state 00:24:33.990 --> 00:24:35.430 or federal government, 00:24:35.430 --> 00:24:38.380 they have no other option but to go to work in the fields. 00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:40.370 And many of them do not know the risks. 00:24:41.050 --> 00:24:42.550 AMY GOODMAN: So, Estella Cisneros, 00:24:42.550 --> 00:24:46.440 can you talk about who are the farmworkers in the fields, 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:49.270 and tell us further where they’re coming from? 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:51.470 ESTELLA CISNEROS: Certainly. 00:24:51.470 --> 00:24:54.990 So, farmworkers in the state of California, 00:24:54.990 --> 00:24:59.580 and certainly across the nation, tend to be immigrants. 00:24:59.580 --> 00:25:02.250 They tend to be undocumented. 00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:06.720 And they tend to speak a language other than English. 00:25:07.250 --> 00:25:11.520 So, a lot of farmworkers have a very similar situation 00:25:11.520 --> 00:25:14.200 to what the gentleman was describing, 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:19.010 in the sense that they were working in another industry, 00:25:19.010 --> 00:25:20.650 they’ve been displaced from that industry, 00:25:20.650 --> 00:25:23.000 and they’ve translated that skill set 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:24.410 to working in the fields. 00:25:24.410 --> 00:25:28.190 However, there are a very large number of farmworkers 00:25:28.190 --> 00:25:31.030 who are essentially lifelong agricultural workers, 00:25:31.030 --> 00:25:34.350 and so they have been working in the fields for many, many years. 00:25:34.350 --> 00:25:36.350 And that’s certainly the population 00:25:36.350 --> 00:25:40.370 that is still active in the fields today. 00:25:41.650 --> 00:25:44.090 AMY GOODMAN: How much do farmworkers get paid? 00:25:44.600 --> 00:25:48.160 And what about during this horrific period? 00:25:50.100 --> 00:25:52.250 ESTELLA CISNEROS: The state minimum wage in California, 00:25:52.250 --> 00:25:54.190 which is one of the highest, 00:25:54.190 --> 00:25:58.300 if not the highest, currently is $13 an hour, 00:25:58.300 --> 00:26:01.520 if you have 26 or more employees, 00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:05.910 but it’s $12 an hour if you have 25 or fewer employees. 00:26:05.910 --> 00:26:07.310 Now, eventually, that minimum wage 00:26:07.310 --> 00:26:09.130 is going to increase to $15, 00:26:09.130 --> 00:26:11.029 but we’re still a couple of years off. 00:26:12.010 --> 00:26:16.410 Farm work tends to be one of the lowest-paid industries 00:26:16.410 --> 00:26:18.690 in the United States. 00:26:18.690 --> 00:26:21.370 And so, even when workers are paid 00:26:21.370 --> 00:26:23.140 by what’s called piece rate, 00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:26.130 which is when you’re paid by the bucket or the pound, 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:27.830 something other than by the hour, 00:26:29.370 --> 00:26:33.930 farmworkers still have very low wages. 00:26:33.930 --> 00:26:36.770 And actually, the fact that you’re paid by piece rate 00:26:36.770 --> 00:26:39.710 is actually a disincentive in terms of slowing down, 00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:42.110 in terms of taking health and safety breaks, 00:26:42.790 --> 00:26:46.360 because the more that you work, the more that you get paid. 00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:48.580 And so, you either have workers 00:26:48.580 --> 00:26:50.420 who are being paid the minimum wage, 00:26:51.150 --> 00:26:53.199 which is not enough, nowhere near enough, 00:26:53.830 --> 00:26:56.350 or you have workers who are paid by piece rate, 00:26:56.350 --> 00:26:59.560 which actually is a disincentive, 00:26:59.560 --> 00:27:03.970 to continue to work more and work through all the rest breaks 00:27:03.970 --> 00:27:06.330 and lunch breaks that are more legally required, 00:27:06.330 --> 00:27:09.940 as well as work through the pandemic and wildfires 00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:11.640 and the heat. 00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:15.880 AMY GOODMAN: And what kind of benefits 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:17.900 do they get from the government, 00:27:17.900 --> 00:27:21.800 dealing with this period of the pandemic and the fires? 00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:26.010 ESTELLA CISNEROS: If a worker has legal status, 00:27:26.010 --> 00:27:28.450 which a lot of farmworkers don’t, 00:27:28.450 --> 00:27:31.090 they may have access to the state’s unemployment 00:27:31.090 --> 00:27:33.770 insurance program, as well as, you know, 00:27:33.770 --> 00:27:36.650 a variety of other public assistance programs. 00:27:36.650 --> 00:27:40.190 However, such a large percentage of the farmworker population 00:27:40.190 --> 00:27:41.630 is undocumented. 00:27:41.630 --> 00:27:44.140 They really don’t have any other recourse 00:27:45.060 --> 00:27:46.760 in terms of income replacement. 00:27:47.510 --> 00:27:49.760 They are really struggling right now, 00:27:49.760 --> 00:27:51.050 if they are displaced, 00:27:51.050 --> 00:27:53.910 either by the fires or by the wildfire smoke, 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:57.570 because they don’t have access to the safety nets that citizens 00:27:57.570 --> 00:27:59.540 and residents of the United States do — 00:27:59.540 --> 00:28:00.800 AMY GOODMAN: And what kind of — 00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:02.030 ESTELLA CISNEROS: — including the — 00:28:02.030 --> 00:28:03.760 AMY GOODMAN: Go ahead. 00:28:03.760 --> 00:28:05.600 ESTELLA CISNEROS: — including stimulus payments, 00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:08.280 as well as unemployment insurance payments. 00:28:08.280 --> 00:28:10.190 AMY GOODMAN: And what kind of — 00:28:10.190 --> 00:28:12.920 and what languages are instructions given in? 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:14.850 Are people getting accurate information 00:28:14.850 --> 00:28:16.130 about what’s happening, 00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:19.070 from COVID to the climate catastrophe? 00:28:20.950 --> 00:28:23.340 ESTELLA CISNEROS: Unfortunately, we have heard reports 00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:26.700 of either employers or other individuals in the community 00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:29.620 giving incorrect information about COVID. 00:28:30.910 --> 00:28:34.170 So that’s one issue. We anticipate that there may — 00:28:34.170 --> 00:28:39.370 that that may also exist for information about heat stress, 00:28:39.370 --> 00:28:41.070 as well as the wildfire smoke. 00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.120 I mean, even the information that’s provided by state 00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:47.380 and government and other governmental agencies, 00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.580 unfortunately, is not provided in Spanish. 00:28:50.130 --> 00:28:53.210 Just this morning — or, last night, I should say, 00:28:53.210 --> 00:28:55.380 I looked on the CAL FIRE website, 00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:56.710 as well as the website 00:28:56.710 --> 00:28:59.160 for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department, 00:29:00.300 --> 00:29:01.590 which are the two agencies 00:29:01.590 --> 00:29:04.160 that are giving information on the wildfires, 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:08.150 as well as evacuation zones, as well as evacuation orders. 00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:11.700 Neither of those are available in Spanish. 00:29:11.700 --> 00:29:12.910 That’s one issue. 00:29:12.910 --> 00:29:14.120 The other issue, of course, 00:29:14.120 --> 00:29:17.020 is that a lot of farmworkers don’t speak Spanish; 00:29:17.020 --> 00:29:20.050 they speak Native Mexican Indigenous languages, 00:29:20.050 --> 00:29:23.020 such as Mixteco, Trique, Zapoteco. 00:29:23.020 --> 00:29:26.790 And these communities are facing even a greater challenge 00:29:26.790 --> 00:29:30.960 to the very critical and necessary information 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:32.980 that they need in order to keep themselves 00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:34.850 and their families safe. 00:29:34.850 --> 00:29:36.370 AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Estella Cisneros, 00:29:36.370 --> 00:29:38.320 we quoted The Intercept at the top, 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:41.840 which has an article saying "In California’s Wine Country, 00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:44.890 Undocumented Grape Pickers Forced to Work in Fire 00:29:44.890 --> 00:29:47.860 Evacuation Zones," the article stating, quote, 00:29:47.860 --> 00:29:51.210 "Officials that regulate evacuation order exemptions 00:29:51.210 --> 00:29:54.750 have close relationships to agricultural associations 00:29:54.750 --> 00:29:57.680 that serve local business owners’ interests." 00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:59.729 Your response, and what needs to be done? 00:30:02.600 --> 00:30:04.800 ESTELLA CISNEROS: So, while I don’t have personal information 00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:08.060 about the facts that are cited in that article, unfortunately, 00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:11.580 it has been a common occurrence in our experience 00:30:11.580 --> 00:30:14.540 that the safety of farmworkers is not prioritized 00:30:14.540 --> 00:30:16.320 and is actually sacrificed in the name 00:30:16.320 --> 00:30:18.450 of profit and business interests. 00:30:18.450 --> 00:30:22.670 Certainly, the reasons that those permits were given — 00:30:23.350 --> 00:30:26.880 taking care of livestock, picking fruits and vegetables — 00:30:27.760 --> 00:30:33.070 to a farmworker, the fact that some people may believe 00:30:33.070 --> 00:30:34.770 that that’s essential — right? 00:30:35.390 --> 00:30:37.980 — is very difficult to comprehend, 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:40.350 when their literal health and safety, 00:30:40.350 --> 00:30:43.780 as well as that of their families, is being compromised. 00:30:44.590 --> 00:30:47.700 The other part, of course, is that even in areas 00:30:47.700 --> 00:30:49.740 where you are not being evacuated, 00:30:50.570 --> 00:30:52.780 there is so much wildfire smoke in the air 00:30:52.780 --> 00:30:54.260 that you have two sets of workers 00:30:54.260 --> 00:30:55.460 that you’re worried about. 00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:59.420 One are the workers who are working in evacuation zones, 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:01.300 such as those cited in that article, 00:31:01.300 --> 00:31:03.370 but then you also have 00:31:03.370 --> 00:31:05.080 a significant number of farmworkers 00:31:05.080 --> 00:31:10.440 who continue to work despite the air quality index 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.880 being at hazardous levels. 00:31:14.710 --> 00:31:16.910 What we’re asking for is for, 00:31:16.910 --> 00:31:19.180 first of all, employers to follow the law — 00:31:19.180 --> 00:31:23.030 there is a wildfire smoke emergency regulation 00:31:23.030 --> 00:31:25.270 that is currently in effect in California 00:31:25.270 --> 00:31:28.050 that requires employers to provide workers 00:31:28.050 --> 00:31:34.680 with N-95 masks or mask respirators — 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:36.750 as well as take other measures to ensure 00:31:36.750 --> 00:31:40.480 that if a worker must work outside 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.300 and they are exposed to wildfire smoke, 00:31:42.300 --> 00:31:44.920 that they have the correct equipment 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:47.840 in order to protect them from inhaling that harmful smoke, 00:31:48.430 --> 00:31:52.710 as well as the wide distribution of N-95 masks — 00:31:52.710 --> 00:31:54.710 we have yet to speak to a worker, actually, 00:31:54.710 --> 00:31:57.850 that has actually been provided one by their employer — 00:31:58.540 --> 00:32:00.250 as well as robust 00:32:00.250 --> 00:32:03.620 and widespread enforcement of current regulations. 00:32:03.620 --> 00:32:05.460 AMY GOODMAN: Estella Cisneros, we want to thank you for being 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:08.030 with us, agricultural worker program legal director 00:32:08.030 --> 00:32:10.790 at the California Rural Legal Assistance. 00:32:10.790 --> 00:32:13.420 When we come back, we go to Oregon 00:32:13.420 --> 00:32:15.220 to speak with a former firefighter, 00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:19.940 now wildland fire ecologist, amidst the climate apocalypse. 00:32:19.940 --> 00:32:23.580 As devastating fires burn across the West Coast, 00:32:23.580 --> 00:32:27.810 President Trump continues to deny the climate crisis. 00:32:27.810 --> 00:32:29.110 Stay with us. 00:32:29.110 --> 00:33:19.300 [break] 00:33:19.300 --> 00:33:22.030 AMY GOODMAN: "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals. 00:33:22.030 --> 00:33:24.920 Reggae pioneer Toots Hibbert passed away 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:27.160 at the age of 77 Friday. 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.870 AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, 00:33:29.870 --> 00:33:32.330 The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy Goodman. 00:33:32.330 --> 00:33:33.800 As California, 00:33:33.800 --> 00:33:37.730 Oregon and Washington face unprecedented fires, 00:33:37.730 --> 00:33:41.250 President Trump is refusing to link 00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:44.220 the devastation to the climate crisis. 00:33:44.220 --> 00:33:46.420 After ignoring the fires for a week, 00:33:46.420 --> 00:33:48.380 Trump is traveling to California today. 00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:51.830 Over the weekend, he blamed the fires on poor forest management. 00:33:51.830 --> 00:33:53.070 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But, you know, 00:33:53.070 --> 00:33:54.740 it is about forest management. 00:33:54.740 --> 00:33:58.460 Please remember the words, very simple: forest management. 00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:02.840 Please remember. It’s about forest management. 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:05.110 AMY GOODMAN: California Governor Newsom rejected 00:34:05.110 --> 00:34:07.990 Trump’s focus on forest management practices. 00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:11.060 GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: I’m a little bit exhausted 00:34:12.040 --> 00:34:14.339 that we have to continue to debate this issue. 00:34:14.970 --> 00:34:17.250 This is a climate damn emergency. ... 00:34:17.250 --> 00:34:19.299 And I’m not going to suggest for a second 00:34:19.970 --> 00:34:21.520 that the forest management practices 00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:22.760 in the state of California 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:26.170 over a century-plus have been ideal, 00:34:26.950 --> 00:34:30.960 but that’s one point, but it’s not the point. 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:33.600 AMY GOODMAN: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also pushed back 00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:35.760 on Trump’s characterization of the wildfires 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.100 as a forest management issue. 00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:40.130 Speaking on CNN, Garcetti said the president was reluctant 00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:41.950 to help California, Oregon and Washington 00:34:41.950 --> 00:34:44.200 because they have Democratic governors. 00:34:45.010 --> 00:34:46.690 MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI: This is climate change. 00:34:46.690 --> 00:34:49.500 And this is an administration that’s put its head in the sand. 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:51.940 While we have Democratic and Republican mayors 00:34:51.940 --> 00:34:54.470 across the country stepping up to do their part, 00:34:54.470 --> 00:34:56.140 this is an administration, a president, 00:34:56.140 --> 00:34:57.930 who wants to withdraw from the Paris 00:34:57.930 --> 00:35:00.330 climate accords later this year — 00:35:00.330 --> 00:35:02.850 the only country in the world to do so. 00:35:03.430 --> 00:35:04.690 Talk to a firefighter 00:35:04.690 --> 00:35:06.860 if you think that climate change isn’t real. 00:35:06.860 --> 00:35:08.540 And it seems like this administration 00:35:08.540 --> 00:35:10.890 are the last vestiges of the Flat Earth Society 00:35:10.890 --> 00:35:13.550 of this generation. We need real action. 00:35:14.090 --> 00:35:15.300 AMY GOODMAN: In Washington state, 00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:17.910 where firefighters are tackling 15 large fires, 00:35:17.910 --> 00:35:21.320 Governor Jay Inslee also emphasized the climate crisis 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.890 is most responsible for the wildfires. 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:27.020 GOV. JAY INSLEE: These are not just wildfires. 00:35:27.020 --> 00:35:29.060 They are climate fires. 00:35:29.060 --> 00:35:33.450 And we cannot and we will not surrender our state 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:36.670 and expose people to have their homes burned down 00:35:36.670 --> 00:35:39.300 and their lives lost because of climate fires. 00:35:39.300 --> 00:35:40.550 AMY GOODMAN: Meanwhile, in Oregon, 00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:43.250 six of the military helicopters 00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:45.220 operated by the state’s National Guard, 00:35:45.220 --> 00:35:47.810 that could have been used to help fight the wildfires, 00:35:47.810 --> 00:35:49.060 are not available 00:35:49.060 --> 00:35:52.040 because they were sent to Afghanistan earlier this year. 00:35:52.040 --> 00:35:54.589 This is Oregon Governor Kate Brown speaking Friday. 00:35:55.270 --> 00:35:57.940 GOV. KATE BROWN: Well over a million acres of land 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:02.140 has burned, which is over 1,500 square miles. 00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:05.800 Right now our air quality ranks 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.740 the worst in the world due to these fires. ... 00:36:08.740 --> 00:36:13.030 There is no question that the changing climate 00:36:13.030 --> 00:36:16.830 is exacerbating what we see on the ground. 00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:20.080 We had, as we mentioned earlier, 00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:26.530 unprecedented, a weather event with winds and temperatures. 00:36:26.530 --> 00:36:34.010 In addition, we added a ground that has had a 30-year drought. 00:36:34.010 --> 00:36:38.040 So, it made for extremely challenging circumstances 00:36:38.040 --> 00:36:41.380 and has certainly exacerbated the situation. 00:36:42.010 --> 00:36:43.370 AMY GOODMAN: For more, we go to Eugene, Oregon, 00:36:43.370 --> 00:36:45.290 where we’re joined by Timothy Ingalsbee. 00:36:45.290 --> 00:36:49.950 He is a wildland fire ecologist, former wildland firefighter, 00:36:49.950 --> 00:36:51.470 n ow director of Firefighters 00:36:51.470 --> 00:36:54.950 United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology, known as FUSEE. 00:36:54.950 --> 00:36:56.800 Welcome to Democracy Now!, Tim. 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:59.410 First, describe the scene in Oregon. 00:37:00.810 --> 00:37:03.890 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Well, the situation changes day by day, 00:37:03.890 --> 00:37:05.400 sometimes even by the hour. 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:09.780 But this past week, we’ve had over two dozen very large fires 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:11.830 burning on the west side of the Cascades. 00:37:12.430 --> 00:37:15.170 These have been explosive rates of growth, 00:37:16.160 --> 00:37:19.170 tens of thousands of acres, several miles per day. 00:37:19.710 --> 00:37:22.430 And it is natural for Oregon 00:37:22.430 --> 00:37:24.980 to have big fires high in the mountains. 00:37:24.980 --> 00:37:28.990 What’s very freakish about these is to have these fires 00:37:28.990 --> 00:37:32.070 coming down from the mountains, barreling down our valleys, 00:37:32.070 --> 00:37:33.970 marching right up to the doorsteps 00:37:33.970 --> 00:37:37.570 of major metropolitan areas like Portland and Eugene. 00:37:38.590 --> 00:37:43.130 So, it’s even beyond those people 00:37:43.130 --> 00:37:44.440 within the reach of flames; 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:47.350 the whole region is under a pall of smoke. 00:37:47.350 --> 00:37:49.300 It’s literally blotting out the sun, 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.100 from British Columbia to Baja. 00:37:53.270 --> 00:37:56.220 As you noted, we had some of the world’s worst air quality. 00:37:56.730 --> 00:37:59.950 And interestingly, this dense pall of smoke 00:37:59.950 --> 00:38:04.450 has largely grounded the fleet of helicopters and air tankers 00:38:04.450 --> 00:38:06.950 that would normally be working on these wildfires. 00:38:08.100 --> 00:38:10.860 AMY GOODMAN: President Trump refuses, 00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:12.980 even being in Reno, Nevada, 00:38:12.980 --> 00:38:16.110 to make the connection to the climate crisis. 00:38:16.110 --> 00:38:19.040 He said this is linked to two words: 00:38:19.690 --> 00:38:21.020 "forest management." 00:38:21.020 --> 00:38:23.290 Talk about the link to the climate crisis 00:38:23.290 --> 00:38:25.020 and what we’re seeing throughout the West. 00:38:25.020 --> 00:38:27.250 And these fires are going way beyond. 00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:29.770 I mean, they’re in Montana, they’re in Colorado, 00:38:29.770 --> 00:38:32.630 as well as Oregon, Washington and California, 00:38:32.630 --> 00:38:34.330 that they’re devastating. 00:38:35.530 --> 00:38:38.420 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Well, these are climate fires. 00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:44.660 And they’re the product of extreme heat waves 00:38:44.660 --> 00:38:49.180 and prolonged droughts and then very low humidities. 00:38:49.770 --> 00:38:54.080 What’s really rare about this, this event here in Oregon, 00:38:54.080 --> 00:38:56.960 is there was a regionwide east wind event. 00:38:57.820 --> 00:39:00.800 The winds came screaming from the deserts 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.650 on the east side of the mountains up over, 00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:08.290 barreled down these valleys and just propelled these flames. 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.860 And though some scientists hesitate to attribute 00:39:13.860 --> 00:39:15.800 a single event to climate change, 00:39:16.490 --> 00:39:21.620 these are exactly the conditions predicted by climatologists. 00:39:21.620 --> 00:39:25.010 And where once they were rare — I mean, they’re not entirely 00:39:25.010 --> 00:39:28.090 unprecedented in our prehistoric past — 00:39:28.740 --> 00:39:32.570 they will become much more frequent in the days ahead. 00:39:32.570 --> 00:39:37.650 So, just the combination of heat and dryness and winds 00:39:37.650 --> 00:39:43.380 and lightning storms are making these fires explosive. 00:39:44.680 --> 00:39:47.620 AMY GOODMAN: What about the fact that six helicopters 00:39:47.620 --> 00:39:49.700 that are supposed to be fighting Oregon’s — 00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:53.600 that could be used to fight the wildfires 00:39:53.600 --> 00:39:56.460 are in Oregon — are in Afghanistan? 00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:00.500 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Yeah. Well, I guess we’re fighting one war 00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:02.290 or the other all across the planet. 00:40:02.290 --> 00:40:04.940 But in addition to that, 00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:08.010 there’s been several firefighters and engines 00:40:08.010 --> 00:40:10.480 and other crews from Oregon 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.830 that have been in California or Colorado for weeks. 00:40:13.830 --> 00:40:17.260 So, I mean, it’s really a West-wide phenomenon, 00:40:18.010 --> 00:40:20.820 another indication of climate change. 00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:24.220 Trump isn’t entirely wrong about forest management 00:40:24.220 --> 00:40:25.480 playing a role, 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:28.250 because in addition to these fires 00:40:28.250 --> 00:40:31.350 being propelled by these hot, dry winds, 00:40:31.350 --> 00:40:38.730 they’re also raging through the industrial tree farms 00:40:38.730 --> 00:40:41.780 that were clear-cut in the 1970s and '80s, 00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:45.450 covered over with densely stocked young trees. 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:49.330 And where, you know, for an old-growth forest 00:40:49.330 --> 00:40:50.920 it takes a very rare, 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:55.460 very high-intensity fire to kill those trees, 00:40:55.460 --> 00:40:58.440 it doesn't take much for these tree farms 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.240 to just be incinerated. 00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:03.770 And what will be seen here in the Oregon landscape 00:41:03.770 --> 00:41:06.410 is kind of time going in reverse, 00:41:07.150 --> 00:41:12.330 the green veneer of tree farms that are being stripped off, 00:41:12.330 --> 00:41:15.790 and we’ll just see these proverbial moonscapes of barren, 00:41:15.790 --> 00:41:19.100 ash-covered slopes as these tree farms are incinerated. 00:41:19.100 --> 00:41:22.560 That’s what’s burning in the Holiday Farm market — 00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:25.290 Holiday Farm Fire outside my town. 00:41:26.940 --> 00:41:30.520 AMY GOODMAN: So, can you talk about your experience 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:31.770 as a firefighter, 00:41:31.770 --> 00:41:34.290 and what you think needs to happen right now? 00:41:34.290 --> 00:41:36.000 Now, we had heard that something like 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:41.170 10% of the population of Oregon was under evacuation orders, 00:41:41.170 --> 00:41:44.040 but that was taken back. What is happening? 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.470 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Well, again, it’s very chaotic. 00:41:47.470 --> 00:41:52.590 When these fires erupted, in some cases, you know, 00:41:52.590 --> 00:41:55.910 the wind event blew down power lines 00:41:55.910 --> 00:41:58.920 in the dark of night right on the edge of towns, 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.940 and so people had almost no warning, 00:42:02.450 --> 00:42:06.580 and flames lapping at their walls, 00:42:06.580 --> 00:42:08.430 and they had to flee for their lives. 00:42:09.680 --> 00:42:11.210 The first crews to arrive 00:42:11.210 --> 00:42:13.550 there were not even able to engage the fire. 00:42:13.550 --> 00:42:16.350 They had to help people evacuate. 00:42:16.350 --> 00:42:19.080 So, it wasn’t for a couple days 00:42:19.080 --> 00:42:22.250 that firefighters were actually able to fight the fire. 00:42:22.250 --> 00:42:24.620 They were being more like traffic control cops. 00:42:24.620 --> 00:42:27.900 So, we were really short-handed. 00:42:29.110 --> 00:42:32.370 A very important point, though, is, no amount of firefighters, 00:42:32.370 --> 00:42:34.130 engines, air tankers, or whatever, 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.800 will be able to handle phenomena like this. 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:40.220 This is a climate-driven wildfire. 00:42:40.890 --> 00:42:43.740 Nature is far more powerful than us. 00:42:43.740 --> 00:42:45.360 And so, 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.360 unless and until we get a handle on our fossil fuel emissions, 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.960 there’s nothing we can do that will really prevent 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:54.880 these kinds of events from happening. 00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.200 And once happening, very little that we can do, 00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:58.950 other than just get out of the way. 00:42:59.950 --> 00:43:01.990 AMY GOODMAN: Tim Ingalsbee, 00:43:01.990 --> 00:43:04.770 if you can talk about your daughter’s lawsuit? 00:43:04.770 --> 00:43:08.830 Last year, Democracy Now! spoke to Kelsey, Kelsey Juliana, 00:43:08.830 --> 00:43:12.190 who was the lead plaintiff in the landmark youth 00:43:12.190 --> 00:43:14.610 climate lawsuit against the U.S. government. 00:43:15.310 --> 00:43:17.740 I started by asking her about the lawsuit. 00:43:18.570 --> 00:43:20.540 KELSEY JULIANA: This lawsuit is a constitutional climate 00:43:20.540 --> 00:43:21.780 change case 00:43:21.780 --> 00:43:23.440 against the U.S. federal government, 00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:28.000 filed by 21 courageous young individuals in 2015. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.630 At the time, the youngest was 8, and the oldest, myself, was 19. 00:43:33.030 --> 00:43:36.690 This case looks at the actions of the federal government 00:43:36.690 --> 00:43:38.600 for the past several decades 00:43:38.600 --> 00:43:41.430 of helping to perpetuate the climate crisis 00:43:41.430 --> 00:43:43.770 by continuing to fund the fossil fuel economy, 00:43:44.730 --> 00:43:46.850 endangering the lives of all citizens, 00:43:46.850 --> 00:43:48.640 but especially disproportionately harming 00:43:48.640 --> 00:43:51.950 the lives of young citizens and future generations. 00:43:51.950 --> 00:43:55.280 AMY GOODMAN: So, that’s Kelsey Juliana, Tim, your daughter. 00:43:55.850 --> 00:43:58.430 Explain this lawsuit and what’s happened to it. 00:43:58.940 --> 00:44:00.310 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Well, I’m very proud of my daughter 00:44:00.310 --> 00:44:01.510 and her peers, 00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:04.950 who are, you know, taking on the federal government. 00:44:04.950 --> 00:44:07.270 An important point for people to understand 00:44:07.270 --> 00:44:10.370 is it’s not the inaction of the federal government 00:44:10.370 --> 00:44:12.420 that is part of the climate crisis; 00:44:12.420 --> 00:44:14.220 it’s their deliberate actions, 00:44:14.220 --> 00:44:16.770 pushing more fossil fuel extraction 00:44:16.770 --> 00:44:22.480 and burning, you know, promoting the alteration 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.940 of the planet’s atmosphere and oceans. 00:44:25.810 --> 00:44:29.770 And so, this is a constitutional-based case, 00:44:29.770 --> 00:44:32.180 that this is causing — 00:44:32.180 --> 00:44:35.090 the government is causing my daughter’s generation 00:44:35.090 --> 00:44:37.740 and all future generations, of all species, 00:44:37.740 --> 00:44:40.700 for that matter, significant harm. 00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:46.940 And so, it’s been tied up in court for years. 00:44:46.940 --> 00:44:50.350 My daughter was a young girl when she started this case. 00:44:50.350 --> 00:44:51.760 Who knows when it will be resolved? 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:53.040 She may be a middle-aged woman. 00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:54.560 AMY GOODMAN: Started under Obama, is that right? 00:44:54.560 --> 00:44:56.210 Now moved on to Trump. 00:44:56.210 --> 00:44:57.530 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: That’s right, because this has been, 00:44:57.530 --> 00:44:59.820 you know, both parties. 00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:02.570 All administrations, for decades, 00:45:03.370 --> 00:45:07.400 have knowingly been putting the planet in peril 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.400 by promoting the fossil fuel civilization, you might say. 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:19.300 So, I’m hopeful that the case will be resolved in our favor. 00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:23.120 But in the meantime, these are big, 00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:27.830 big, huge problems, dealing with climate change, 00:45:27.830 --> 00:45:29.460 dealing with rural sprawl. 00:45:29.460 --> 00:45:31.530 I mean, that’s what’s making this a disaster. 00:45:31.530 --> 00:45:34.170 So many people are in the pathway of these fires. 00:45:34.700 --> 00:45:38.550 And then the legacy of clearcut logging, 00:45:38.550 --> 00:45:40.940 livestock grazing, you know, mining, 00:45:40.940 --> 00:45:44.770 other things that have really damaged the ecosystems, 00:45:44.770 --> 00:45:47.640 made them less resilient to climate change. So — 00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:48.850 AMY GOODMAN: Timothy Ingalsbee, 00:45:48.850 --> 00:45:52.380 if you could talk about wealthy people hiring — 00:45:52.380 --> 00:45:54.600 or, taking out Cadillac insurance, 00:45:54.600 --> 00:45:57.780 and what this means, hiring private firefighters? 00:45:57.780 --> 00:46:00.540 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Right. This is — 00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:05.000 wealthy people can purchase private firefighters 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:08.580 to protect their properties in case of fire. 00:46:09.150 --> 00:46:11.450 And that goes back to the early days 00:46:11.450 --> 00:46:13.630 of even municipal fire departments, 00:46:13.630 --> 00:46:17.060 where, you know, you’d have to buy protection, 00:46:17.600 --> 00:46:19.240 and they would skip over homes 00:46:19.240 --> 00:46:20.880 that weren’t part of the service, 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:22.850 and protect those that were. 00:46:22.850 --> 00:46:27.250 But what that portends is a further decline 00:46:27.250 --> 00:46:30.280 in the public agencies 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:33.730 and the ability of agency crews to protect all of us, 00:46:33.730 --> 00:46:37.380 in favor of just those who are wealthy enough 00:46:37.380 --> 00:46:38.730 to buy their own protection. 00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:40.720 And just like the pandemic, though, 00:46:41.310 --> 00:46:44.980 wildfire makes no distinctions between rich and poor. 00:46:45.590 --> 00:46:49.020 And, you know, as now in Oregon, 00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:52.540 we’ve suddenly realized we’re all in the fire zone, 00:46:52.540 --> 00:46:54.730 even those of us in the middle of the city. 00:46:54.730 --> 00:46:57.090 It just takes one home to ignite, 00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:02.050 and then we have house-to-house ignitions, like a domino effect. 00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:05.110 And so, we’re all in this together, really. 00:47:05.110 --> 00:47:06.640 AMY GOODMAN: You know, California Governor Newsom 00:47:06.640 --> 00:47:09.940 just signed a law that will allow some prisoners, 00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:11.910 who are firefighters, 00:47:11.910 --> 00:47:14.030 who haven’t been able to become firefighters 00:47:14.030 --> 00:47:15.240 once they get out of jail, 00:47:15.240 --> 00:47:17.760 though they’re among the most experienced, 00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:19.700 that they will have their records expunged, 00:47:19.700 --> 00:47:22.980 making it easier for them to become professional firefighters 00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:26.050 when they’re released, and apply for jobs. 00:47:26.050 --> 00:47:29.850 Newsom tweeted Friday, quote, "CA’s inmate firefighter program 00:47:29.850 --> 00:47:32.460 is decades-old and has long needed reform," 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:34.120 unquote, along with a picture of him 00:47:34.120 --> 00:47:37.610 signing the law in a scorched forest. 00:47:37.610 --> 00:47:39.840 A lot of these private firefighters — 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:43.890 some of them are those former prisoners 00:47:43.890 --> 00:47:48.020 who couldn’t get into the public firefighting forces. 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:52.350 TIMOTHY INGALSBEE: Yeah, yeah. You know, in California, 00:47:52.350 --> 00:47:55.530 the inmate firefighters have a reputation 00:47:55.530 --> 00:47:56.900 to be some of the bravest, 00:47:56.900 --> 00:48:00.810 most hard-working, fearless firefighters. 00:48:02.040 --> 00:48:04.740 This is — it’s about time. It’s a matter of justice, 00:48:04.740 --> 00:48:07.310 that once they pay their sentence, 00:48:07.310 --> 00:48:11.650 they should be members of society with job opportunities. 00:48:12.450 --> 00:48:18.790 But we have to kind of get beyond the monopolization 00:48:18.790 --> 00:48:21.210 of fire management by government agencies. 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:26.600 And really, there’s a huge role that communities and citizens 00:48:26.600 --> 00:48:30.990 should play as partners with government agencies 00:48:30.990 --> 00:48:33.350 in preparing their homes for fire, 00:48:34.190 --> 00:48:36.760 because we know we can’t prevent all these fires. 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:39.400 Large fires are natural and inevitable, 00:48:39.910 --> 00:48:43.550 but urban fire disasters are entirely avoidable. 00:48:45.010 --> 00:48:47.290 AMY GOODMAN: Timothy Ingalsbee, we want to thank you so much 00:48:47.290 --> 00:48:49.910 for being with us, wildland fire ecologist, 00:48:49.910 --> 00:48:53.880 former wildland firefighter himself, now director of FUSEE. 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:57.240 That’s Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology. 00:48:57.240 --> 00:48:58.470 When we come back, 00:48:58.470 --> 00:49:01.520 we go to Reverend William Barber in North Carolina 00:49:01.520 --> 00:49:03.630 to talk about a new voting campaign. 00:49:03.630 --> 00:49:05.330 Stay with us. 00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:38.090 [break] 00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:40.190 AMY GOODMAN: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" 00:49:40.190 --> 00:49:41.850 by Toots and the Maytals. He [Toots Hibbert] 00:49:41.850 --> 00:49:43.680 died on September 11th in Jamaica. 00:49:43.680 --> 00:49:44.880 AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.090 I’m Amy Goodman. 00:49:46.090 --> 00:49:47.850 Early voting begins this week in Minnesota, 00:49:47.850 --> 00:49:50.530 Wyoming and South Dakota, with the November 3rd election 00:49:50.530 --> 00:49:52.120 just seven weeks away. 00:49:52.120 --> 00:49:54.570 But voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm 00:49:54.570 --> 00:49:56.980 over efforts to disenfranchise voters, 00:49:56.980 --> 00:50:00.850 as President Trump and others cast doubts on voting by mail. 00:50:00.850 --> 00:50:02.490 In the key battleground state of Florida, 00:50:02.490 --> 00:50:04.680 a federal appeals court has ruled hundreds 00:50:04.680 --> 00:50:06.520 of thousands of former prisoners 00:50:06.520 --> 00:50:08.640 must first pay court fines and fees 00:50:08.640 --> 00:50:10.810 before they can register to vote. 00:50:10.810 --> 00:50:13.460 The ruling overturns a ruling by a federal judge 00:50:13.460 --> 00:50:18.130 who compared the restriction to an unconstitutional poll tax. 00:50:18.130 --> 00:50:20.570 This comes nearly two years after voters in Florida 00:50:20.570 --> 00:50:23.650 approved a landmark referendum to restore voting rights 00:50:23.650 --> 00:50:25.560 to people with felony convictions. 00:50:25.560 --> 00:50:28.030 In other election news, the Wisconsin Supreme Court 00:50:28.030 --> 00:50:30.560 has temporarily blocked absentee ballots 00:50:30.560 --> 00:50:33.770 from being mailed last week, one week before the deadline, 00:50:33.770 --> 00:50:35.290 while the court decides whether to add 00:50:35.290 --> 00:50:37.490 the Green Party’s candidate to the ballot. 00:50:37.490 --> 00:50:38.800 Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:41.110 election officials delayed sending out ballots 00:50:41.110 --> 00:50:43.780 due to a slew of lawsuits and other challenges. 00:50:43.780 --> 00:50:46.170 To talk more about voting rights and the election, 00:50:46.170 --> 00:50:47.860 we’re joined by Reverend William Barber, 00:50:47.860 --> 00:50:49.410 co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, 00:50:49.410 --> 00:50:52.360 president of Repairers of the Breach. 00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.780 The Poor People’s Campaign is running a campaign 00:50:54.780 --> 00:50:57.840 ahead of the election called MORE. 00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.310 It stands for Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, 00:51:00.310 --> 00:51:01.510 [Educating] 00:51:01.510 --> 00:51:04.090 People for a Movement That Votes. 00:51:04.090 --> 00:51:06.660 Reverend Barber is joining us from Raleigh, North Carolina, 00:51:06.660 --> 00:51:08.770 a key swing state. 00:51:08.770 --> 00:51:11.480 What are you doing now, Reverend Barber, 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.160 to get people out to the polls, 00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:16.220 as clearly that right is being cracked down 00:51:16.220 --> 00:51:17.920 on all over the country? 00:51:18.740 --> 00:51:20.900 REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Yeah. We must do more, Amy. 00:51:20.900 --> 00:51:22.190 And thank you for having me on. 00:51:22.190 --> 00:51:24.790 We must do more mobilizing, organizing, registering, 00:51:24.790 --> 00:51:27.270 educating people for the movement who vote. 00:51:27.270 --> 00:51:29.190 And voting is power unleashed. 00:51:29.190 --> 00:51:32.070 And there’s a great fear of people of every race, 00:51:32.070 --> 00:51:33.450 creed and color, 00:51:33.450 --> 00:51:36.000 particularly poor and low-wealth people, organizing. 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.360 There is fear. It’s a fear that’s been around 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:40.960 ever since the Southern Strategy was implemented by people 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.830 like George Wallace and Strom Thurmond 00:51:43.830 --> 00:51:45.560 and Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater, 00:51:45.560 --> 00:51:47.270 because they know that if poor 00:51:47.270 --> 00:51:49.670 and low-wealth people mobilize together, 00:51:49.670 --> 00:51:51.719 they can change the outcome of elections. 00:51:52.470 --> 00:51:54.700 And that’s not just emotional, that’s empirical. 00:51:54.700 --> 00:51:56.910 So, what we’re doing is we have this campaign. 00:51:56.910 --> 00:52:01.730 And tonight, you can go to www.PoorPeoplesCampaign.org 00:52:01.730 --> 00:52:04.770 tonight at 7 p.m. East Coast, 4 p.m. West Coast. 00:52:04.770 --> 00:52:06.920 We’re having a National Moral Monday 00:52:07.670 --> 00:52:11.300 "Voting Is Power Unleashed" teach-in. 00:52:11.940 --> 00:52:14.350 And we had 3 million people that showed up 00:52:14.350 --> 00:52:16.950 for our Mass Poor People’s Assembly in June, 00:52:16.950 --> 00:52:19.220 on June 20th, to view. 00:52:19.220 --> 00:52:21.350 We are inviting them and millions more to join us. 00:52:21.350 --> 00:52:24.700 We’ve got to train the people on the power of the vote, 00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:26.890 the power to protect the vote, 00:52:26.890 --> 00:52:29.390 and the power to shape public policy by the vote. 00:52:29.390 --> 00:52:32.160 And here’s what the metrics say, Amy. 00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:35.930 In the last election, 63 million poor 00:52:35.930 --> 00:52:38.170 and low-wealth people did not vote — 00:52:38.170 --> 00:52:40.730 63 million were eligible to vote, 00:52:40.730 --> 00:52:43.560 29 million voted, 34 million didn’t vote. 00:52:44.140 --> 00:52:46.430 We also did a study with a professor of Columbia, 00:52:46.430 --> 00:52:49.500 and it showed us that from Maryland to New Mexico, 00:52:49.500 --> 00:52:52.210 there are 193 Electoral College votes, 00:52:52.210 --> 00:52:54.820 so whoever locks that up goes into this race 00:52:54.820 --> 00:52:56.740 with 193 Electoral College votes, 00:52:56.740 --> 00:52:59.040 that are good in a race to 270. 00:52:59.040 --> 00:53:02.350 But we also found out from the data that in 15 states, 00:53:02.350 --> 00:53:05.500 many of them in those Southern states and across the Midwest, 00:53:05.500 --> 00:53:08.610 if poor and low-wealth voters just vote from 1% 00:53:09.210 --> 00:53:11.740 to 19% increase from last time — 00:53:11.740 --> 00:53:13.420 I want your viewers to hear that: 00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:16.670 not 20%, not 21, 25, 30%, 00:53:16.670 --> 00:53:21.600 just 1 to 19% increase among poor and low-wealth people, 00:53:21.600 --> 00:53:22.860 regardless of race, creed or color, 00:53:22.860 --> 00:53:25.340 who vote issues, who vote their agenda — 00:53:25.340 --> 00:53:28.440 fundamentally shifts all the elections, 00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.500 from the gubernatorial to the Senate to the presidency, 00:53:31.500 --> 00:53:33.900 can literally determine who sits in those seats, 00:53:34.540 --> 00:53:36.290 and we can break the solid South. 00:53:36.290 --> 00:53:39.380 So that’s why our campaign is really about 00:53:39.380 --> 00:53:41.940 mobilizing poor and low-wealth voters. 00:53:41.940 --> 00:53:44.290 And tonight, we have them coming on. 00:53:44.290 --> 00:53:47.810 We also invited Biden and Trump to talk about their campaigns 00:53:47.810 --> 00:53:49.420 and relate to poor and low-wealth people. 00:53:49.420 --> 00:53:53.060 Trump never responded. Biden said yes and is coming on. 00:53:53.060 --> 00:53:56.060 Because here are three things our study also found out, Amy. 00:53:56.670 --> 00:54:00.330 Poor and low-wealth people have not voted for three reasons, 00:54:00.330 --> 00:54:02.500 and they’re not necessarily in hierarchy. 00:54:02.500 --> 00:54:04.200 One is voter suppression. 00:54:04.820 --> 00:54:08.450 The other is transportation and time off from work. 00:54:08.970 --> 00:54:11.900 But the third is issues, 00:54:11.900 --> 00:54:14.990 not hearing candidates talk to them. 00:54:14.990 --> 00:54:18.020 They talk about the middle class and the wealthy, 00:54:18.020 --> 00:54:20.150 but not talking to poor and low-wealth people. 00:54:20.150 --> 00:54:21.980 When we say poor and low-wealth people, 00:54:21.980 --> 00:54:24.620 we’re talking about that 62 million people who work — 00:54:24.620 --> 00:54:28.190 62 million people who work every day for less than a living wage. 00:54:28.190 --> 00:54:30.370 We’re talking about 140 million poor 00:54:30.370 --> 00:54:32.580 and low-wealth people prior to COVID, 00:54:32.580 --> 00:54:37.270 and now upwards of nearly 50% of the nation after COVID. 00:54:37.270 --> 00:54:41.730 We cannot leave this demographic untouched, 00:54:41.730 --> 00:54:45.630 untalked to, untransformed and unorganized. 00:54:45.630 --> 00:54:47.320 AMY GOODMAN: President Trump recently suggested people 00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:48.600 in North Carolina, 00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:51.490 where you are, break the law by voting 00:54:51.490 --> 00:54:54.030 twice in the upcoming presidential election — 00:54:54.030 --> 00:54:56.600 once by mail and then again in person — 00:54:56.600 --> 00:54:59.100 to test the election system. This is what he said. 00:54:59.650 --> 00:55:01.010 PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Let them send it in, 00:55:01.010 --> 00:55:02.740 and let them go vote. 00:55:02.740 --> 00:55:05.020 And if their system is as good as they say it is, 00:55:05.020 --> 00:55:07.040 then obviously they won’t be able to vote. 00:55:07.040 --> 00:55:09.250 If it isn’t tabulated, they’ll be able to vote. 00:55:09.250 --> 00:55:12.049 So that’s the way it is. And that’s what they should do. 00:55:12.730 --> 00:55:15.370 AMY GOODMAN: Under federal law, voting twice is illegal. 00:55:15.370 --> 00:55:17.830 In North Carolina, it’s also illegal to induce 00:55:17.830 --> 00:55:19.360 someone to vote twice. 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.050 Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee 00:55:21.050 --> 00:55:23.450 and the Trump campaign have sued the state of Montana 00:55:23.450 --> 00:55:26.670 to block an expansion of mail-in voting. 00:55:26.670 --> 00:55:29.030 Reverend Barber, if you can comment on this, 00:55:29.030 --> 00:55:32.660 and also what just happened in Florida with the appeals court 00:55:32.660 --> 00:55:34.850 ruling that hundreds of thousands of people — 00:55:34.850 --> 00:55:36.710 I mean, this is a key swing state, 00:55:36.710 --> 00:55:38.980 where this could clearly tip the balance — 00:55:38.980 --> 00:55:42.350 will not be able to vote if they have felonies on their record 00:55:42.350 --> 00:55:44.760 and can’t afford to pay all of the costs 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.230 related to this at once? 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:49.340 REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: Well, first of all, 00:55:49.340 --> 00:55:52.030 Trump is criminality personified. 00:55:52.900 --> 00:55:54.760 He will put his people at risk, because, you know, 00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:57.030 there’s a five-year felony prison sentence 00:55:57.930 --> 00:55:59.650 for doing exactly what he said do. 00:56:00.350 --> 00:56:02.960 He wants to confuse the systems. 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:05.340 He knows that in North Carolina, for instance, 00:56:05.340 --> 00:56:07.110 we have numerous days of early voting, 00:56:07.110 --> 00:56:10.820 same-day registration. We also have absentee balloting. 00:56:10.820 --> 00:56:13.220 And we also have on Election Day. 00:56:13.220 --> 00:56:16.400 And he knows that if people engage, they fundamentally lose. 00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:18.370 You know, we just finished beating 00:56:18.370 --> 00:56:20.570 all of the racist voter suppression laws 00:56:21.290 --> 00:56:23.110 that Thom Tillis, who’s now in the Senate, 00:56:23.110 --> 00:56:25.820 who’s running again, in North Carolina, 00:56:25.820 --> 00:56:30.030 had helped put in place. So this is the first election 00:56:30.030 --> 00:56:32.440 where we’re not under those voter suppression laws. 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:34.460 The courts have ruled both in our favor 00:56:34.460 --> 00:56:36.690 in terms of undoing racist gerrymandering, 00:56:36.690 --> 00:56:37.910 undoing those laws. 00:56:37.910 --> 00:56:41.180 And North Carolina can easily turn with people 00:56:41.180 --> 00:56:42.470 turning out to vote. 00:56:42.470 --> 00:56:44.820 He simply wants to confuse everything. 00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:46.280 We see, in these other states, 00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.390 the great fear that Republicans have of people voting. 00:56:49.390 --> 00:56:50.780 They don’t want anybody to vote. 00:56:50.780 --> 00:56:52.030 The only people they want to vote 00:56:52.030 --> 00:56:54.340 is the small group of people that support them. 00:56:54.340 --> 00:56:55.950 They don’t want persons 00:56:55.950 --> 00:56:58.200 who have paid their debts to society to vote. 00:56:58.810 --> 00:57:01.120 We’re having strange decisions, though. 00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:03.940 And one thing we got, the decision we saw in Florida, 00:57:03.940 --> 00:57:06.320 but in North Carolina we just won a decision 00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.950 that actually will allow a large number 00:57:09.510 --> 00:57:11.160 of formerly incarcerated people to vote, 00:57:11.160 --> 00:57:12.420 even if they have not finished 00:57:12.420 --> 00:57:15.480 paying their monetary debt to society. 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.670 What we are seeing is — in our Constitution, 00:57:18.670 --> 00:57:20.150 the 15th Amendment, 00:57:20.150 --> 00:57:23.160 it says no one can deny or abridge the right to vote. 00:57:23.160 --> 00:57:27.360 What we’re seeing is an attempt to both deny and abridge 00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.040 the right to vote in real time. 00:57:30.040 --> 00:57:31.580 And that’s why we have to fight back. 00:57:31.580 --> 00:57:33.640 That’s why we have to know the law. 00:57:33.640 --> 00:57:35.910 That’s why we can’t allow these poll watchers 00:57:35.910 --> 00:57:39.090 he’s talking about sending in to question people, 00:57:39.090 --> 00:57:40.570 to intimidate us. 00:57:40.570 --> 00:57:42.630 That’s why we can’t let precincts close. 00:57:42.630 --> 00:57:45.270 That’s why people have to engage early voting. 00:57:45.270 --> 00:57:47.330 That’s why we need to know our legal rights. 00:57:47.330 --> 00:57:49.090 And that’s one of the things tonight. 00:57:49.090 --> 00:57:51.230 We have two law firms 00:57:51.230 --> 00:57:53.540 that have fought against voter suppression: 00:57:53.540 --> 00:57:56.330 Forward Justice, led by attorney Caitlin Swain, 00:57:56.330 --> 00:57:59.890 and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, led by Sherrilyn Ifill. 00:57:59.890 --> 00:58:02.450 They’re going to be laying out what your power 00:58:02.450 --> 00:58:04.610 is to protect your vote. 00:58:04.610 --> 00:58:07.110 And we have to stay in and be steadfast, 00:58:07.110 --> 00:58:10.770 because nobody would be fighting this hard 00:58:10.770 --> 00:58:13.610 to keep people from voting, if it was not rooted in fear. 00:58:13.610 --> 00:58:14.950 AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Reverend Barber, 00:58:14.950 --> 00:58:16.220 we just have 20 seconds. 00:58:16.220 --> 00:58:18.230 Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 15th, 00:58:18.230 --> 00:58:19.920 is the 57th anniversary of the bombing 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:21.140 of the Birmingham church 00:58:21.140 --> 00:58:24.700 that killed the four little girls in 1963. 00:58:24.700 --> 00:58:26.130 In these last 20 seconds, 00:58:26.130 --> 00:58:28.580 your thoughts on what we should know today? 00:58:29.690 --> 00:58:30.950 REV. WILLIAM BARBER II: We’ll be there, 00:58:30.950 --> 00:58:32.810 Richard Trumka and I, with the AFL-CIO, 00:58:32.810 --> 00:58:34.930 and myself and a pastor laying a wreath 00:58:34.930 --> 00:58:36.760 and then speaking to the nation, 00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.900 that just like labor and faith came together in Birmingham 00:58:39.900 --> 00:58:41.860 to transform the nation, 00:58:41.860 --> 00:58:43.660 even after their deaths and before, 00:58:43.660 --> 00:58:45.990 we have to do the same thing today. 00:58:45.990 --> 00:58:49.240 Tune in at 11:00 Central, 12:00 Eastern. 00:58:49.240 --> 00:58:50.590 We have a message to the nation, 00:58:50.590 --> 00:58:52.720 calling everybody to join together 00:58:52.720 --> 00:58:54.820 to fight against regressivism and racism, 00:58:54.820 --> 00:58:56.600 and stand up for life, for justice and for truth. 00:58:56.600 --> 00:58:58.140 AMY GOODMAN: And that’s the PoorPeoplesCampaign.org. 00:58:58.140 --> 00:58:59.390 Reverend Dr. William Barber, 00:58:59.390 --> 00:59:00.990 I want to thank you so much for being with us. 00:59:00.990 --> 00:59:02.050 I’m Amy Goodman. Thanks for joining us.