A standoff with the government over crop prices shows no sign of being resolved. Plus a backlash and boycotts the nikkei it for its provoke debate about diversity in japan. And im he said with the sport and then pick organizers say the tokyo games will cost an extra 2400000000. 00 because of the delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than one of the half 1000000 people have died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those deaths happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting Record Numbers of deaths in new cases among them italy which registered its highest daily death toll on thursday since the start of the pandemic its introducing new restrictions including limiting movement between regions in the worlds worst affected countries the United States hospital admissions and fatalities have also reached new highs the president elect joe biden says he will ask americans to wear masks during his 1st 3 months in office. Its on the 1st day im an arguer had
Saket soni about how immigrant workers have been lured to the United States and trapped in forced labor to rebuild communities after climate disasters. Then well go to salvadoran poet and writer javier zamora, author of the best selling memoir solito. As a nineyearold boy, he traveled alone 4000 miles to reach the United States. From seven, eight, and nine, i knew that i wanted to be reunited with my parents. What kid doesnt want to be and wake up next to his parents . And so i didnt really understand how i was going to get here or how dangerous it was for me to travel the 4000 miles that i did. But what i did know is that i loved my parents and i really, really, really wanted to be with them. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, a labor day special. As the rate of climate fuel disasters intensifies, we begin todays show looking at how immigrant workers had been lured into forced labor by corpor
Saket soni about how immigrant workers have been lured to the United States and trapped in forced labor to rebuild communities after climate disasters. Then well go to salvadoran poet and writer javier zamora, author of the best selling memoir solito. As a nineyearold boy, he traveled alone 4000 miles to reach the United States. From seven, eight, and nine, i knew that i wanted to be reunited with my parents. What kid doesnt want to be and wake up next to his parents . And so i didnt really understand how i was going to get here or how dangerous it was for me to travel the 4000 miles that i did. But what i did know is that i loved my parents and i really, really, really wanted to be with them. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, a labor day special. As the rate of climate fuel disasters intensifies, we begin todays show looking at how immigrant workers had been lured into forced labor by corpor
To start to do with the rise for the power of unions. Still to this day there is a real reduction, theres been a a real reduction over the intervening 40 years or so for more speed is well step away from this to take you live to the u. S. Senate where today members will be voting on the confirmation of the u. S. Ambassador to the southeastern asian nation. This week senators are working on a fiveyear reauthorization for the federal Aviation Administration ahead of the friday deadline. That legislation would increase the number of air Traffic Controllers and require the faa to use new technology to design to prevent collisions on runways. Live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, known to us in countless ways, thank you for answering when we call. Lord, we turn to you that in your light we might see light. Illuminate the minds of our lawmakers regarding how to solve the difficul
Then we are going to zero in on women in the labor market after the war, and follow that through the late 20th century. Today isimportant task to dispel the notion that american women went home after world war ii. American women workers did not go home after world war ii and we are going to do our best to wipe that notion out of our minds. Primary goal. If we can accomplish that we have done a lot. Before we dive into the arguments, i want to do a Free Association exercise. This is going to involve having you close your eyes, relax for a second, and im going to speak a phrase. I want to see what images walked into your minds eye. What images pop up . Is american women in the 1950. 50s. Can women in the 19 do any images come into your mind . Would you share . June cleaver. Great. We will come back to that area . Housewives. Anybody else . A different picture. How many of you thought of suburbia . Whennk it is the most we asked that question of most americans, we ask that of most america