And a way to really try to dismantle the work we are trying to do. Amy when they call you a terrorist a black lives matter memoir. Today we speak with patrisse khancullors, one of the cofounders of the black lives matter movement, about growing up as a black girl in a poor neighborhood of los angeles amidst rain but Police Violence rampant Police Violence next one of the richest neighborhoods in the world. We will also be joined by her coauthor journalist and activist asha bandele. The importance of the storys the treess come it shows us the human cost of the drug war and the war on gangs and the is an industrial complex. It is not just the stats and facts and figures. These policy choices have destroyeyed real lives and patrisse shows us how. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The New York Times is reporting the pentagon is quietly preparing for a potential war with north korea, with the u. S. Military launching a series of war games and exercises from fort bragg, north carolina, to the skies above nevada, to a planned deployment of even more special operations troops to the Korean Peninsula during the Winter Olympics in south korea next month. The planning for a potential nuclear war comes as President Trump has repeatedly threatened to launch a Nuclear Strike against north korea. Meanwhile, the wall street journal is reporting the pentagon is also planning to develop two new seabased Nuclear Weapons. The report is based on a new pentagon Nuclear Strategy review, which says the proposed new Nuclear Weapons would be to counter russia and china. Last week, the guardian reported the Trump Administration is planning to loosen the restrictions on the use of Nuclear Weapons and d develop a nuclear r warhead for u. S. Tridt missiles. This all coming asas trump has proposed building up the United StatesNuclear Arsenal and has reportedly asked about Nuclear Weapons, if we had them, why cant t we use them . Meanwhile, residents of hawaii experienced panic on saturday morning when an Emergency Management worker mistakenly sent out a false alarm warning residents about an incoming Ballistic Missile. The amber alert which residents received on their cell phones read emergency alert. Ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. It took 38 minutes for hawaii to then inform residedents that the alert was, in fact, a mistake. This is the Hawaii Governor. Today is the day that most of. S will never forget a day when many in our community. That our Worst Nightmare might actually be happening. A day when many frantically tried to think about the things that they would do if a Ballistic Missile launch would happen. That is Hawaii Governor david ige. Meanwhile, on tuesday, japanese residents also received a false alert about an incoming Ballistic Missile. This alert was sent as a news alert by the National Broadcaster nhk. The u. S. Ambassador to panama has resigned, amid International Outrage over President Trump racist comomnt in whicich trump rereportedly called afafrican nations and haiti shole countries. But used the full four letters first word shole countries. In his resesignation letter, the u. S. Ambassador to panama john feeley said he feels he can no longer serve t the president nt. His resisiation takekes effect mamarch 9. The news of the resignation comes after trump sparked an International Firestorm by reportedly saying during a meeting with lawmakers at the white house last week why do we want all these people from africa here . Theyre shole countries we should have more people from norway. Its now being claimed by some lawmakers who were present at the meeting that trump used the word shouse not shole. In response to the comments, the government botswana wrote in a statement the botswana government has also inquired from the u. S. Governrnment through the ambassador, to clarify if botswana is regarded as a shole country. This all comes as President Trump has denied being a racist, duriring an ininterview with repoporters onon sunday. Pres. Trump no. No, im not a racist. Im the leaeast racist person yu have ever interviewed, that i can tell you. Amy meanwhile, on saturday nigh activists projeeded ont the trump teternatnal l hol in washington, c. C. , the words need a plactoto sta trthisis sole. Spelli o out t whoholeord. T theyeytoo, like the president , ud d the ll fourletter ear before hole the walstreet jrnal s repoed predent trums lawyers portedly paid 130,0 a former or and stato ke her from ing publ about her sexu encouer with dold ump in 200 the ney was ported paid to stephanicliffo, known as stormy danls, in oober o 2016, ly a monthefore th genel ection. Thsexual encnter alledly occred shtly after esident manierrd hisife anhile sheas pgnant wi thr son barr. Meanile, forr playbomodel said s also had affair th dold trumpn 2006. She rertedlyold the exclusiv rigs tohe storyo theationaenquirer for 150,000hortlyefore th presential ection. Thenquirer ner ran t story. The ceof the nspapers rent comny is a ose friend of predent tru. Foer u. S. Ar whistleower chela manninis runni for r u. S. Sene in maryld. Thiss a clipf her new campgn ad,hich featus imag of thdeadly wte suemacist lly in arlotteslle, vginia, lt year. We live in trying times. Imes of fear of suppression. We need to stop expecting that our systems will somehow fix themselves. We need to actually take the reins of power from them. Amy thats Chelsea Manning speaking in her new campaign ad announcing her run for u. S. Senate in maryland. Shell face democratic incumbent senator Benjamin Cardin in the democratic primary later this year. The pentagon is planning to escalate the u. S. War in afghanistan by sending an additional 1000 new socalled combat advisers, as well as sending additional armed and surveillance drones. The u. S. War in afghanistan is the longest war in u. S. History. Its escalation comes as the pentagon has also indicated it plans to recruit and train thousands of u. S. Backed kurdish fighters in syria to form a Bordersecurity Force in Northern Syria along the border with turkey. U. S. Backed Syrian Kurdish fighters already control large swaths of Northern Syria. On monday, turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the United States for the proposal and accused the syrian kurds of being terrorists. In iraq, at least 27 people were killeded in a double suicide bombing in the center of the capital baghdad during rushhour on monday morning. The majority of the attacks victims were Street Vendors and day laborers who had gathered in the market looking for work. No group has claimed responsibility so far. Mondays bombing was the first major attack in baghdad since the Iraqi Government declared victory overer isis. In libya, at leastst 20 people werere killed amid clashes in te capital tripoli. The fighting shut down the main airport. The government says the clashes began when a militant group tried to free imprisoned members from a nearby prison. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas slammed President Trump and the United States in a speech sunday, saying trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is a slap in the face. Negotiationscal should be under International Mediation and not solely american mediation. Dould i make it clear, we not accept america as a mediator between us and israel. Now we said no to trump and others. No, we will not accept his project. We told them the deal of the century is a slalap of the centy , and wewe will retaliliate. Amy o on monday, papalestinian leleaders voted d to call on t e papalestine beberation organizatition to suspenend its recognitioion of israel l until israel rececognizes the state of palestine and stopththe construction of jewishonly settlements s in the israeliococcupied terriritorie. Meanwhile, israeli pme minister benjamin tatanyahu faced protesests when he a arrid in new delhihi on sunday a as pt of a sixday visit tinindia. Protesters demandeinindia cu tities with israrael over itss treatmenent of palestinians. In mexico, longtime journalist Carlos Dominguez rodriguez was murdered in the border town of nuevo laredo on saturday, in the first murder of a media worker in mexico this year. He was an independent journalist who, in one of his final columns for the Online Outlet noreste digital, wrote about the growing Political Violence ahead of mexicos president ial elections in july. Reporters without borders says dominguez was dragged from his car by masked men and stabbed to death in broad daylight. Last year, mexico was among the deadliest countries in the world for journalists. In honduras, protests continue against the reelection of the incumbent, u. S. Backed president juan orlando hernandez. On friday, protesters took to the streets to denounce alleged widespread Election Fraud and what many are calling an electoral coup. The military attacked the protesters with tear gas and rubbercoated steel bullets. Among those attacked was opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla and former president Manuel Zelaya who was ousted in a u. S. Backed coup in 2009. This is one of the protesters, mario trejo. We have come out to accompany president elect Salvador Nasralla, come out as United People before the world to tell them the government robbed the election. In honduras, theres a serious problem. Wants to stay and has all of the media, all of the weapons to show he won, but to the world, we say he is lying. He needs to go. He needs to geget up power. Amy in greece, teachers, judges, doctors, nurses, and transportation workers launched a strike on monday to protest the greek parliaments passage of a new round of austerity measures imposed by international banks. Mondays strike came on the heels of a National Strike on friday also protesting austerity measures and the governments efforts to restrict workers ability to go on strike. This is one protester speaking during the walkouts on monday. We, the older generation, spilled blood to acquire the right to strike. Or us, the workers, the people to have a voice, we will not sit on the couch with our arms crossed. There is no way. We will ruin the governments plans. Amy back in the United States in california, thousands of people gathered on sunday night to commemorate the 20 people w o have died in the deadly mudslides in montecito near santa barbara. At least three people remain missing, including a 2yearold girl. The deadly mudslides come after Southern California was ravaged by historic and deadly winter wildfires. Both wildfires and torrential downpours, which triggered the mudslides, have been linked to climate change. In tennessee, a member of the white suprememacist gangng the n nations was arrested for the alleged shooting and wounding of a Police Officer last thursday. Meanwhile, the fbi has charged a white supremacist with terrorism after he allegedly attempted to derail an amtrak train. The man, taylor wilson, had traveled with other neonazis to charlottesville, virginia, for the deadly white supremacist rally last year. And former the klansman edgar ray killen, who was convicted for orchestrating the murders of three civil rights workers in mississippi in 1964, died in prison on thursday night. In a democracy now exclusive in washington state, undocucumented saidists maru mora immigration and customs enforcement, ice and has placed her in deportation proceedings in a move she calls retaliation for her political activism. Activist she is a who leads the organization northwest Detention Center resistance. She is in gauged in multiple acts of civil disobedience to protest deportations and immigrant detention. She says only days before christmas, she received a notice to appear. She writes with a letter delivered to my house, ice has officially made the week from a lawenforcement agency told political repression agency, crossing a line that should concern us all. We will have more on her case later in the week. Here in new york city, hundreds gathered to oppose the detention and possible deportation of prominent immigrant rights activist ravi ragbir and jani montrevil. Ravi ragbir w was to attain on thursday at a scheduled check in with ice agents. Hes executive director of the new sancnctuary meant that ofofw york city. Just a week prior, jani montrevil, another leader with the organization, was detained outside of his home and could be deported as early as today to hahaiti. On monday, hundreds circled Washington Square park in a jericho walk, then gathered at Judson Memorial Church. This is ravi ragbirs friend and lawyer reading a letter written by ravi entitled letter from an immigrant jail. It was a wild and crazy ride. Every moment was uncertain except the certainty that they wanted me gone. I am still here because of all of you. Thank you. I miss everyone. I fill very heartbroken to see how many of you are suffering for me, how many people were abused during this process. I feel heartbroken that care for someone invokes violence. Want everyone to stand strong at this moment, we need to speak about changing this system so that no one has to face this type of harm. Not just for me, but for all of the families who face being torn apart. Until we get reform, we need to repeal the act that criminalizes immigrants, that makes us less than human because of a document. Amy that is alina das reading a letter written by ravi ragbir while in detention in florida. More on those cases tomorrow on democracy now prisonida, state would stririke. The prisoners say they were protesting being used as u unpad labor during the cleanup from ththe massive Hurricane Irma lat year. And communities s and congregagations across the couoy marked Martin Luther king day monday. Many pastors and civil rights leaders denounced President Trump, including Martin Luther king jr. s daughter. Our colollectivee voice in ts hour must alwayays be louder thn ththe voice of onee who may spek sometimes representing these United States, whose words sometimes do n not reflect thatt legagacy of my fatather. We cannonot allowow thehe natiof wordsworld to embrace t the that comome from our president s a reflection of the true spirit of america boston amy that was Martin Luther king juniors youngest child speaking at Ebenezer Baptist church in atlanta on monday. And a correction to our earlier travetti that was ria speaking about ravi ragbir, not his lawyer. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We turn now to a powerful new book released today that tells the story of one woman as she fights back against the impacts of social and Racial Injustice in america on her family. That woman is patrisse khancullors, cofounder of black lives matter. The book titled, when they call you a terrorist a black lives matter memoir is a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. Patrisses story follows her childhood in los angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as her mother worked three jobs, struggling to earn a living wage. And it puts a human face on the way mass incarceration and the war on drugs hurt young black men, including her relatives and friends. Sses father died at the age of 50. Her brotother spent yearars in prprison for nonviolent crimes stemming from his battles against Mental Illness. He was once even charged with terrorism after being involved in a car accident. The police would target patrisse , too, rating her house without just cause. In 2013 after George Zimmerman was waited for the killing of 17yearold Trayvon Martin, patrisse cofounder black lives matter along with early cigars a an opel to nettie. The Movement Began online but soon spread acroross the countr. Blblack lives matterer became te rallllying cry off protest decrg the popolice killingng