Are called d out brought into the light and you can no longer hide from the truth of iraq shows and that my friends is most certainly the case this week as 2 examples of the United States governments addiction to institutional cruelty and torture are making headlines the 1st comes in a new draft report on the office of Inspector General for the u. S. Department of justice which reveals that border u. S. Attorney general Jeff SessionsDeputy Attorney general in russia gate ashtray grid system 0 Rod Rosenstein and other top d. O. J. Epistles were dry were the driving force behind enforcement of the trump administrations family separation policy and pressured officials who spoke out to go along with prosecuting parents of children as young as infants. In fact a 2 year inquiry into the controversial marburys tactics of separating undocumented immigrant parents from their children along the u. S. Southern border even alleges that Jeff Sessions directly told u. S. Attorneys prosecuting these immigrants that quote we need to take away children caitlin because of the immigration reporter for the New York Times called out the official lies surrounding this story over the years tweeting it 1st to the department of Homeland Security said mass operations werent happening they said the documents my sources provided were fake then they said separations were an unintended consequence when in fact they were always the point years later the i. G. Confirms again the truth. And speaking of barbaric practices let us now jump over the great state of oklahoma were courting to charges filed on monday Oklahoma County jail detention officers took a page out of the old one tom obey torture playbook and physically chained incarcerated people to walls and forced them to listen to the popular kids song baby shark audio loop at extremely high volumes over and over and over again for hours on end. Is this the United States we were taught about in schools and we were growing up one of them wantonly terrorizes families whose only crime was crossing an imaginary line one who tortures prisoners for what laps at the end of the day. These arent the actions of the just criminal Justice System no my friends these are the actions of a system run by cowards and addicts high on cruelty which means its time to start watching the hawks. Score on a cd you streets. That are so lets see the rises you always state. Strikes graves see this least systemic deception is to late show which i would. Do in this. World were born watching our sorry im sorry world when it was. So bizarre im sorry but at the end of the day i dont think you can excuse both these actions there and theyre going to. Work more on the watching the arc so you are welcome in terms of. Sobeys or im sorry but at the end of the day i dont think you can excuse both these actions there are indicative of bigger problems in the current criminal Justice System and department of justice in general but at the end of the this is cruelty no one can argue with that its one cruelty whether begins prisoners or as i said the family is crossing into an imaginary line that we shouldnt cross and youre absolutely correct when it comes to what were seeing happen in the sensually concentration camps with a child separations the original argument tried to. Make this less than a big deal make it less of something that was actually written into the process is what we now know is that this was the process to begin with this administration from the beginning wanted to make sure that they were being as detrimental as possible as a form of a deterrent really to stop undocumented immigrants from thinking not only asylum but also from seeking safety in this country in general and to acknowledge that youre absolutely taking children away from their parents regardless of how young those children are and we saw many of those young kids actually have to defend themselves and grown up. From the courts 4 years old this is just the march of deadly horrible and it shows us what this nation feels or at least what the top ministration feels about undocumented immigrants because this was going on long before relatives did things were doing our best to try to solve the issues that still exist today from slavery were not doing good enough now were attacking immigrants which i again say is absolutely ridiculous that you know. The government spin on this i want to read you this quote alexa vance a spokeswoman for the Justice Department disputed the draft report saying quote the draft report relied on for this article contains numerous factual errors and inaccuracies both the timing and misleading content of this leak raise troubling questions about the motivations of those responsible for it. She has more of an issue with the leak than she does the content so that in and of itself is a problem in showcases its own myriad of issues but more importantly you are right in your previous statements about this is it will the trial separation is the new work but the fact that we needed to have comprehensive Immigration Reform decades ago is not a new argument we worked through that or at least try to bring that to the fold in several administrations it just so happens that there is a particular i or against immigrant specifically undocumented immigrants from latin american and Central American countries as well as mexico that President Trump has that we have not seen from administrations past and hes in him in his administration are utilizing this to the fullest to really draw down on some of what i would consider the most disgusting humanitarian crisis weve ever seen and the sad thing is that those people who go home each day after separating these families and all the other orrible things weve heard come out of those those concentration camps where theyre putting these these undocumented immigrants they go home to families every day they go home to someone and what do you justify that oh guess what i separated some kids today oh guess what ill this happen oh id be great at this person today and speaking of that we move to oklahoma where here you have these 2. You know early twentys something. Jailors the sun surely torturing incarcerated people and its sickening. I dont care how cute the song is or what kind of laughs you get from it from the headlines but at the end of the day this is this is disgusting this is what its its disgusting its frustrating i would like to say that it is not commonplace but we know that torture exists in our prisons in our jails across this country and in many cases theyve never become any type of Headline News and a large part because people on the ground people who are outside of the prison system dont really feel like they need to dip into protect people who are prisoners and they think that for that reason you see guards and you see wardens get away with doing things to prisoners who are largely american citizens in this country that you dont see that they would not get away with it these people werent locked up one quick thing those 2 is the remember when the torture came out initially we went after the whistleblowers who brought tortured. Attention that was taking place at guantanamo there on the world in that i do remember that phrase we need to look forward not back which was an obama phrase which i think comes back to haunt us because if you dont hold people accountable thats when you see it filter in starting to happen to everyday people not just the terrorists overseas exactly. Their view images characters for iconic figures more prominent than the rodent with a penchant for laughs and good hearted fun making maps but even mickey cant find much to smile about these days with copa 19 wiping out the Tourism Industry disney world and the Magic Kingdom have become a deserted wasteland employed as highway 192. 00 just outside of disney world when the theme park took a major downturn decoded so did the areas around that that rely on the Tourism Industry to survive the once bustling hotels that burst at the seams with tourists eager to take their kids to see the famous mouse are now home to Homeless People who have no place else to turn and many of those Homeless People are former disney employees eager to take their kids to see the famous mouse are now home to Homeless People who have no place else to turn and many of those Homeless People are former disney employees and tourism supports that. Disney closed its theme park on march 16th in response to the pandemic though its since been reopened tourists just arent coming back the lack of interest in the theme park has created an avalanche of poverty as many workers who relied on disney books no longer have stable jobs motel owners have slashed prices to near nothing in order to rent their rooms out to the new found almost population. Anthony a single father and former chef in the tourist hub of kissimmee florida told daily mail quote im living paycheck to paycheck i cant even save 100. 00 we cant get tourist to come in and out so it limits the hours we can work and unfortunately because i was the highest paid at the restaurant where i work i was the 1st to get cut. Another hurdle for those in kissimmee in the surrounding area is that there is not a single homeless shelter in the city not one just decrepit hotels trapped without a sign of hope in sight many residents feel like theyre living in 3rd world countries one resident wrote just a note spoke with the Washington Post saying quote the economy just keeps going up up up and the minimum wage is staying the same so how do they expect people to be able to pay their rent and pay for their car. Thats why more people are ending up in these hotels theres not enough resources out there to help us be able to help ourselves. Feel like this story is a metaphor for the United States as a whole in light of covert and everything that weve seen happen in 2020 when you think about it were the beginning land of the world and because we based all that we put all our eggs in the Service Industry basket and entertainment basket but now we cant make that because covert comes out and knocks it to work that you see the entire country come tumbling down and revealed for what it is something a place that doesnt pay their workers or treat their workers with respect and dignity disneyland the United States you know you can go on and on with that metaphor no youre exactly correct because i think that there is this the mirror image a dichotomy thats going on right now with the Tourism Industry in america writ large because everyone in there momma could have predicted that the torment Tourism Industry would be the 1st to fall with coke at 191. 00 because the travel industry was going to fall but also because these industries are based off of a lot of crowds being in a place at once that just was not possible due to the spread of the virus so even when disney world and the Magic Kingdom. We opened again nobody was coming back later and they are now less than 10 percent capacity of what they usually see with that being said that population that is served by kissimmee and disney world and its counterparts is largely people who work at the resort but also people who are resort supports that so the people who own hotels near the resort the people who are chefs at the resort cleaning people people who do have these types of support jobs when the tourism stop so that their hours their company has dried up their businesses ended up going under now those folks dont really have anywhere to turn and to cope with 1000. 00 relief package had nothing for them you know about again shows you that as we know from those covert 19 relief packages you know they bailed out probably companies that Business Owner were subsidiaries of disney as a whole not just isnt theme parks but it could be a Business Company but its incredible when you when you see this amount of suffering and it really chills you to the bone when you hear people say i dont have a job working maybe you know paid to the paycheck dont even have 100. 00 mark but at the end of the day i feel like im living in a 3rd world country but that alone should teach school here in the United States and around the world that something has to be done we have to turn this country around and i dont know if we get that done with i dont think were good were not going to get that nor i dont think this is joe biden this were talking about long term change needed in order flip the ship around now i agree with you i feel like specifically in this case when you have an area that is largely a tourism base and there is no other industry they are highly dependent on this turning back around but in the meantime they are waiting for some type of initiative from the government there is nothing left for them there is no homeless shelter within their area and they are relying solely on hotels and hotels that arent free by the way so theyre paying the little bit of money that they currently have to make sure that theres a roof over their heads for them and their children meanwhile not knowing when or if they will have a job any time and that goes back to a lot of our infrastructure and our medical industry issues and. Fact that we have a city without any any form of homeless shelter and how cruel is that at no Point City Council down there or anybody ngo anyone could step forward and say hey you know what we have major issues with almost and borders had issues with almost for a long time this isnt something new just with code its just been double triple exactly and i think that right now there is such a pool and trying to figure out when is the Tourism Industry going to come back but theres no real way of knowing we can talk about there being a back theme but we also know that you know america has a lot of anti baxters out there and they also have people who are anti baxters but are questioning the pace at which this back in the middle east will pose to be coming along and even with the vaccine their parents if i was a parent heck i would not be willing to take a kid any place right now and knowing that there may be that risk there were seeing what President Trump is doing in the white house we dont know how many people might be impacted in a given point and their rates in florida are going up you cannot base an entire economy on entertainment alone you know what im saying thats got to be the lesson we walk away from this not only for the United States and that metaphor started earlier but also for you know these towns of hosts these big you cant just be dependent on tourism and entertainment you have to have Something Else there otherwise its going to happen over and over again we also have to remember that florida has some of the worst Unemployment Benefits of any state in the country good point good out on right there all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the man for the bread and portable t. V. Which is now available on all platforms you got no excuse for me go and pick it up all right coming up despite activists in philadelphia winning a small victory in the fight for Public Housing the war to protect the poor is far from over not want to miss this conversation coming up stay tuned watch for the. World is driven by a dream shaped by phone person. Thinks. We dare to ask. One of those silly jobs law about the villainous ill just. Keep on the one mic i want to why did i build up. The illegal rico police but there were here are some friends that the us are still so that the sole beautiful thing to do something to see. The child. They value about them has a lot of political ally the hospital and i was able put on one of that to double their. On. Thank. You. Housing is once again in the spotlight across america from calls to freeze rent and mortgage payments in the wake of 19 to substantive changes in Public Housing where we lay our heads is a top agenda item just in time for the u. S. President ial election philadelphia pennsylvania just might be ground 0 in the Housing Movement with protests over Police Brutality civil rights and Economic Conditions reaching their boiling point activists arent reducing the pressure in may 100 people in camp but a lot that is the site of a new 52000000. 00 Development Project they distributed food and supplies while calling for Racial Justice particularly focusing on the permanent and pervasive need for housing of the citys more than 5000. 00 homeless residents and it looks like the Pressure Campaign worked organizers recently announced that they reached a tentative agreement with the city and Philadelphia Housing Authority the 371000000. 00 agency that controls the citys Public Housing. The agreement would turn 50 properties over to a Community Land trust created by some of the groups that let the housing protests like the philadelphia Housing Action. Should the reforms be implemented and the agreement adopted this could be a massive win for housing advocates but the Philadelphia Housing Authority is already moving to quell expectations stating quote announcement of a deal is entirely premature the encampment leaders continuing to negotiate in the media and in the room a Public Opinion demonstrates their lack of sincerity although we remain hopeful about reaching an amicable resolution on the encampment this puts any deal in serious jeopardy there is still why the bit of infighting and low income residents are hanging in the balance joining us now is jennifer binik founder of occupy p. H. A. And cofounder of philadelphia Housing Action welcome to another. Area great jennifer there is a lot packed here in philadelphia as you know has a very long and sordid history of housing and security and a Public Housing arm that hasnt exactly always worked with the best interest of low income residents could you briefly explain the history and what brought housing advocates to the streets in the 1st place. Yes so that i wasnt already a lot out there as what are gathered by unit what are regular units outside of the service and the cows and calves. And over decades a lot a lot of these units in the lab but it was able to go out they dont really have them and move people in. Created. Neighborhood particularly part where we are camped on the lot with the taliban a lot of their high high concentrations of the status i units are just blighted by these units and they just sit with boards and then after they be celebrated another for them to say theyre not viable they sell them off private developers and. Kind of the profit of a student at the same time they are these 13 are going to 30 property to Eminent Domain right here in north south by condemning the neighborhood as blighted but they were the ones that all know that like oh here in philadelphia its different in other places where like people are homeless in the Public Housing waiting list isnt really long because they dont have places to put people its just because they left the Public Housing empty so we started like compiling a list of all the vacant units is like over my list of over 500. 00 you know but up right now which is what kind of led to the housing save over is in a lot of protests around the Housing Authority of our ask you because i mean the biggest question going right now and good for you guys for really standing up and trying to and trying to make some changes there in philadelphia but do you believe the Philadelphia Housing Authority is actually going to implement the tentative agreement the youve reached i mean they seem quite agitated by the way housing advocates in organizers have now put them in the spotlight especially a national spotlight. Yes i mean i think that they will follow through with the agreement because it is like a legally binding agreement so we came to a separate agreement for the smaller because there are actually 2 encampment here and but out there one is across an art museum and another one is under the 45. 00 a dotted borders where the if you see laid out development is going to be i think that the Housing Authority out of that statement because they like to be the 1st one to put things out there and then on about they bombarded us. Throughout the course of the protests the way prematurely going through the media and working labor party with all the diaries about something so i had think that they were just they could have acted like we got there if we put out the press and weve heard that they didnt get the frame of the way that they wanted suffering. Through. Years of fire. And do you think that there are any aspects of the agreement that are controversial or you know are going to be sticklers points for the Housing Authority or will be things will be difficult for them to reach consensus on considering how fast this is moving at this point. Yeah i mean i think that i think the thing is that what were asking them to do makes sense for them and i mean their Public Housing authority. And if theyre not going to take care of the units this bed of telling them that developers are just letting them sit is then it makes sense to allow Community Groups to be able to utilize those spaces of low Income Housing and go with the housing crisis in the city at the releases that theyre able to make a lot of money off of those and theres a lot of relationships that are kind of foreign with developers and they get our over the community this is a lot of stuff with the electoral politics here in the city but i think that theres nothing there theres nothing in what were asking for they have to like the tribal his does that they rather sell the property and make money. I want to ask you and the other important thing is to follow up you know who manager whos going to manage and check that the employer the implementation arm of this agreement as you know the devil lies in the employer implementation and in agreement with Quality Controls and in a party that monitors its execution rarely achieves what is agreed to in the groom and so what will you guys be doing to make sure that this agreement that youve made isnt here to go on in the future. Oh yeah i mean i am pretty sure they know theyre were going to be really on top of it and where now i want to have a problem bringing the e if they fall back on the agreement thats why we required it to be a sorry legally established will be binding sign a written agreement thats why we made it public so theyre going to have let bill out of my spanking let it be up on the agreement one of the organizers in a tourney though i mean where were just going to be on them were going to be really on them every minute of every day you need me are they holding up their part and if they dont there will be only x. Is there will be able to i am in the corner so we kind of have it in a place where my baby have to own up on the agreement in and i dont they know that we have the capacity and we will do the same thing again we dont have a problem for people to their homes were going to really have. Let me ask you this is a lot of people out there across this country there are fighting for housing and fighting for Public Housing got a little bit about a minute left what do you recommend you know that you saw work were in philadelphia that could work for other activists around the country in terms of you know fighting to keep people in their homes or get Public Housing in their city. And a sleeve is really really simple in a people but is this day like you can come out on the 3rd tuesday of every month and to our exit no matter how big it is how much attention it drowns bedad best to make piece of it that everybody sees but it is a 1st. At the play weve been doing this for years before the game and even came up and we were you know ignored it overlooked but the 1st person to revel in it is always being there always being that thing that everybody you meet in it you know finally like a dog over it and people say like oh you guys are crazy or a human bill and theres no i remember you and like nobody cares but when you look at it like are Luther King Jr great example of like or neat but for some of the things or even the big thing is that you have a president that by even what youre not seeing the result most definitely jennifer i want to thank you for the hard work youre putting out there in philadelphia and thank you for coming on the show and educating our audience today. That. Are to write about is our show for you today remember in this world were not told up enough so i tell you all i love you oh yeah i robot and i will be sure to keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a good day and i. 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