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Transcripts For LINKTV Democracy Now 20240714

Agents swept through seven chicken plants and arrested nearly 700 people. The raid came on the first day of school, leaving scores o of weeping children without their parents. We will go to mississippi to speak with jackson mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba in mississippi immigrant rights alliance. Then United Nations top climate scientists warn humans are consuming land and Water Resources at an unprecedented rate with the destructive effect of the Climate Crisis increasingly threatening thehe future security ofof hundreds of millions of people. The way we could use food and what we eat contributes to the and of natural ecosystems declining biodiversity. Today, 500 Million People live in areas that experience this. Amy we will speak with one of the u. N. Scientists who authored the report and look at explosive new revelations that u. S. Agribusiness giant monsanto ran a Fusion Center to surveil and discredit journalists, activists, and musicians like neil young who criticized or damn reportsi about its productsn. Speak with h one of the journalists. They have gone after journalists at magazines and newspapers around the world. Carey anyone who does not at the talking points, who tries to bring truth to light, who uncovers facts that are not beneficial to month center monsanto. Amy we will speak with carey gillam. We will also speak with gary ruskin, cofounder of another targeted group, u. S. Right to know. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said thursday he and he willll not convene a specl Senate Session to take up gun contntrol legigislation sayingne and President Trump are crafting bills to tighten federal gun laws when Congress Returns from the august recess. His claim came as republican leaders, who have long resisted any new restrictions on gun ownership, come under intense pressure to do something about gun violence following last weekends Mass Shootings in dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas, which left 31 dead and dozens injured. Mcconnell told a kentucky Radio Station hes preparing to move on legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases and a redflag law that would allow courtordered confiscation of guns from a person deemed a threat. The claim drew skepticism from democrats, who noted mcconnell has an a rating from the National Rifle association. This comes as moms demand action and Ohio Democratic Congress Member and 2020 president ial hopeful tim ryan completed a 400mile march to senator mcconnells hometown louisville, a rally of 1500 peoplele. They are demanding the senate take up comprehensive gun reform bills passed by the house more than half a year ago. New details have emerged about wednesdays visit to el paso, texas, by the president and first lady melania trump. Reporters wewere barred from the trumps as they toured the University Medical center of el paso, where victims of saturdays mass shooting were treated. None of the eight susurvivors wo were still receiving treatment agreed to meetith the presidenent. But t a cellphonvidedeo given no local station kdbc shows the president smiling and laugughing with medical w workers as he boasts about thehe size of a crd atat a Trump Campaign rally in el paso in fefebruary while disparaging a competing Campaign Rally held by beto orourke. Pres. Trump that was someme crowd. We had twice t the number outsi. Ththen you had this crazy beto. Beto had like 400 people in a paparking lot. Amy cnn reports a hosospital official said President Trump showed a an absence of empathy during the visit. On thursday, melania trumps twitter account published a photo from the trip showing the first lady holding a twomonthold infant who was orphaned when both her parents were gunned down saturday. In the photo, President Trump stands next to his wife, flashing a thumbs up sign. Both the president and first lady are grinning widely. Relatives brought the child back to the hospital for the trumps visit. The childs parents, jordan and andre anchondo, died as they shielded their baby from the alleged white supremacist shooter whose online manifesto, published moments before the assault, echoed President Trumps rhetoric about an invasion of immigrants. The baby was grazed by a bullet and was treated for broken fingers. In springfield, missouri, a 20yearold white man wearing body armor sparked panic and chaos thursday morning when he showed up at a Walmart Store cacarrying two loaded guns and over 100 rounds of ammunition. The man proceeded to push a shopping cart around the store, filming himself on a cell phone. A manager triggered the fire alarm and called police. The man was detained at gunpoint by an armed offduty firefighter before Police Arrived and arrested him without a shot being fired. In wayne county, ohio, local police and the fbi are investigating an explosion and house fire as a possible hate crime after racist graffiti and a swastika were found painted at the scene. The house, in the town of Sterling South of cleveland, is home to an interracial couple. They were not at home early wednesday morning at the time of the fire, which devastated the property. In louisiana, buzzfeed newews reports over 100 immigrants were teargassed, shot with rubber bullets, beaten, and put in solitary confinement after they launched a Hunger Strike at the pine prairie Ice Processing Center over the weekend. This happened just one day after guards at a separate louisiana immigration jail peppersprayed more than 30 immigrants for also going on a Hunger Strike according to the Advocacy Group freedom for immigrants. The Group Published photos showing what appear to be wounds from crowd control weapons on the bodies of men detained at pine prairie. Ice had previously denied anyone was injured and that just a brief, calculated use of pepper spray was employed against the immigrants on Hunger Strike. This comes as ice officials in mississippi said they released 300 mostly latino workers swept up in the largest single state immigration raid in u. S. History. Wednesdays round up of 680 workers at seven poultry plants came on the first day of the school year and left scores of children traumatized and crying further parents. After the headlines, we will go to mississippi to speak with jackson mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and the director of the mississippi immigrant alliance. A 41yearold man from detroit, michigan, was found d dead in baghdad onon tuesday, just t two montnths after u. S. Authorities deported himo o iraq. Jimmy aldaoud, an n iraqi natiol who was brought to the u. S. As an infant, was deported in june as part of the trump administrations crackdown on immigrants from iraq and other muslimmajority countries. A frfriend said aldaouds deathh was likely dueue to his inabiliy to obtbtain insulin to treat his didiabetes. Aldaoud struggled d with schizophrenia and bipolar disorderer. He had no famimi or friendnds in iraq and d did not speak arabic. He was born in greece and came to the u. S. When he was six months old. In a video posted to facebook from baghdad before of his death, aldaoud said he pleaded with ice agents not to deport him. I begged them. Ive never been there before. I am here now and i dont understand the language. Im diabetic. I take insulin shots. I have been throwing up. Amy aldaoud was from a minority Christian Community thatat has been severely persecuted in iraq. An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Representing iraqi immigrants said, jimmys death has devastated his family and us. We knew he would not survive if deported. What we dont know is how many more people ice will send to their deaths. In new york city the director of , a brooklyn homeless shelter says she turned d e agents a awy tuesdaday night after they faild to proroduce a warrant. Last month widespread mass rates by immigration agents did not materialize as immigrant rights Advocacy Groups across the country urged people to not open the doors to ice agents unless they produced a warrant. Those who came to the brooklyn homeless shelter just had a photo of a person. In hong kong, hundreds of prodemocracy activists are occupy in the main airport as they kick off a week in a direct action protest, demanding the resignation of carrie lam. Investigation into violence against t them as traitors against protesters. President trump said thursday he will name Joseph Maguire as his acting director of National Intelligence. Maguire is the current head of the National Counterterrorism center and a retired vice admiral who once oversaw navy seseal teamsms as head of the special warfare command. His promotion comes after trump blocked Deputy Director of National Intelligence sue gordon from taking over as acting director. On thursday trump confirmed gordon will be leaving the administration. The current director of national she resigned. Intelligence, dan coats, announced last month he would retire in midaugust after repeatedly clashing with the president over Robert Muellers investigation and trumps frequent attacks on intelligence agencies. An explosive new report by the guardian reveals that u. S. Agribusiness giant monsanto ran a Fusion Center to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who publicly criticized or wrote damning reports about monsantos popular weed killer roundup. Documents show the collected extensive information on neil young, paid google to promote search results that cast critics unfavorably, and contacted at least one reporters editor in hopes of having her fired. She wrote a book about monsanto. Later in the broadcast, well speak to that reporter, carey gillam, as well as gary ruskin ofof the group u. S. Right to kn, which was also targeted by monsanto. Brazils Supreme Court has barred the government of farright president Jair Bolsonaro from launching an investigation into journalist Glenn Greenwald and the intercept brasil. Last month, bolsonaro threatened to impmprison greenwald after he published leaked messages implicating Justice Minister sergio moro in a possible plot to smear and convict former brazilian president t Luiz Inaco Lula da silva. In a a sweeping ruling thursday, the Supreme Court led the governments attempts to investigate greenwald and the intercept violated brazils constitution and would constitute an unambiguous act of censorship. Meanwhile, back in the United States, federal judge has dedend a request by u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning to reconsider mounting fines imposed on her for refusing to cooperate in a federal grand jury investigation into wikileaks. The penalties began at 500 per day and have now risen to 1000 daily as manning refuses to testify about her leak of hundreds of thousands of secret state department and pentagon documents to wikileaks, including evidence of u. S. War crimes. She remains in jail. Customers of soul cycle and equinox have launched a boycott following reports that Miami Dolphins owner stephen ross a major shareholder in the highend fitness chain is planning a fundraiser for Donald Trumps campaign. President trump is expected to attend the event in the hamptons this weekend, which promises donors a photo with the president for a 100,000 or a private roundtable discussion with trump for 250,000. Ahead of the event, dolphins receiver kenny stills noted that ross is founder of the Nonprofit Group rise, which seeks to eliminate racial discrimination, champion social justice and improve race relations. Sills tweeted in reply you cant have a nonprofit with this Mission Statement then open your doors to trump. And californias governor has granted pardrdons to seven peope who transformed their lives after spending years in prison, most of them for lowlevel nonviolent drug offenses. Among ththose pardononed was los angeles activist susan burton, foundeder and exececutive direcr of a n new way of life, a nonprofit that p provides housig and d other supppport to forormy incacarcerated w women. In her memoir becoming ms. Burton, she describes her journey from a childhood filledd with abuse to drug addiciction s an adult and then to the fight to address thehe underlyining is thatat send womemen to prisoson. Thisis is Susan N Burton speakig on democracy now we spend hundreds of thousands a year on a person just wawarehousing g and incarcrcerating them. Aboutifornia, it runs 67,000 year, depending on how healthy you are come up into the hundreds of thousands. When you get back to the community, you cant get any type of support or serviceces. It j jusnot make s sense to me. They may go to see the full hour with susan burton, go to dedemocracynow. Org. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy y now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We begin todays show looking at the fafallout fromom the massive rate in mississippi, where immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven poultry processing plants and arrested 680 people. It was the largest single state grade in u. Historyry. Officis say detainees have 0 been r released for humanitarian reasons. The roundup of mostly latino immigrant workers came as latinos around the country said they already felt shaken and targeted after the mass shooting in a walmart in el paso, texas, where the alleged White Nationalist gunman had published an online manifesto that echoed President Trumps rhetoric about an invasion of immigrants. The mass arrests came as President Trump was in el paso, supposedly there to comfort the victims who survived in the hospital. None of the eight victims in the hospital in el paso would see him. The mass arrests in mississippi also came on the first day of school year there and left scores of children traumatized and crying for their parents. Some childreren walked home from school only to find their doors locked and their family members missing. This is 11yearold Magdalena Gomez gregorio speaking with mississippi cbs affiliate wjtv. Parents be. Please. Children crying and everything. I need my y dad. My dad did not do nothing. He is not a criminal. Amy it is not clear how many children have now been reunited with their p parents, but their families now have no income. Wednesdays raids targeted chicken processing plants operated by koch foods, one of the largest poultry producers in the United States. Last year, koch foods paid out threeandthreequarters of a Million Dollars to settle an equal Employment Opportunities commission classaction suit, charging the company with sexual harassment, National Origin and race discrimination, and retaliation against latino workers at one of its mississippi plants. Labor activists say its the latest raid to target factories where immigrant workers have organized unions, fought back against discrimination, or challenged unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Meanwhile, black farmers say they have also encountered bias from koch foods. In complaints filed with the u. S. Department of agriculture between 2010 and 2015, they said koch foods discriminated against them and used its market control to drive them out of business. The company denied any wrongdoing. For more, we go to jackson, mississippi, where were joined by two guests. Chokwe Antar Lumumba is the mayor of jackson and a longtime activist. Also with us is patricia ice, legal projects director at the mississippi immigrants rights alliance. We welcome you both to democracy now , lets begince with you. Can you explain what to place . This is wednesday when the national cameras were focused on President Trump going to dayton, ohio, and to el paso. In el paso, it was the largest latino massacre in this countrys history. And now on this day, the first day of school in mississippi, ice raided all of these factories and arrested close to 700 people. Explain howow this went down, as you understand it. My understanding is that the department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security investigation, which is also known as hsi, dissented upon the state of

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