Were not going to forget about the agreement for the sake of an election, are we . Amy indigenous, racial justice, and climate activists staged an biden beon dubbed brave outside the headquarters and adc thursday, calling on the president elect to take immediate Climate Action and to approve the Green New Deal. We will hear from congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez and congresswomanelect cori bush. Thenwe being tolbiden wont be ablto achie much. We must ject tt idea. That ithe headne oa new pie by autr d organir astra taylor of the debt coective. As we looforward to a new demoatic administration, we need toe clear what power you will have. It is within his power to erase. Ll fedel student debt egypt where the head of the leading egyptian Human Rights Group has been arrested in an unprecedented crackdown. We will speak with sharif abdel kouddous. All that and more, coming up. Weome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States confirmed 187,000 new Coronavirus Infections on thursday the highest oneday total of any nation since the start of the pandemic. More than 2000 people died across the United States thursday, the highest oneday death toll since may. Disease modelers at the university of Washington School of medicine now predict over 470,000 u. S. Coronavirus deaths by march 1 unless face masks are widely adopted, something they say would save 65,000 lives. The centers for Disease Control and prevention is calling on americans to avoid travel over the thanksgiving holiday, warning family gettogethers could lead to a spike in new infections and deaths. On thursday, the White House Coronavirus task force held its first news Briefing Since august, led by Vice President mike pence. Vice pres. Pence this administration and our president does not support another National Lockdown and we do not support closing schools. Amy President Trump was notably absent from thursdays white house briefing, as was coronavirus adviser dr. Scott atlas, who opposes face masks and has promoted a widely discredited herd immunity strategy and has encouraged people to rise up against Public Health restrictions. Mexico has become the fourth nation to pass 100,000 covid19 deaths, following brazil, india, and the United States. In honduras, tens of thousands of people who fled hurricanes iota and eta have packed overcrowded storm shelters, raising fears of a spike of new infections. Across europe, hospitals report a shortage of both icu beds and healthy doctors and nurses to staff them amid signs that a second wave of covid19 is finally slowing due to Public Health measures that were reintroduced beginning in october. In south australia, officials have lifted a strict coronavirus lockdown three days early after they determined a man who became infected lied to contact tracers, raising unfounded fears of a highly contagious strain of the virus. Australia has nearly eradicated covid19, with only a handful of cases reported in recent weeks. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization is advising doctors around the world not to administer the antiviral drug remdisiver to covid19 patients after concluding it has no meaningful effect on mortality or recovery times. Georgias republican secretary of state said thursday joe biden clearly beat donald trump to win georgias 16 Electoral College votes. Brad raffensperger said a statewide hand recount of 5 million ballots failed to turn up any evidence supporting President Trumps consracy theoes about atolen election and that he will certify georgias results before todays 5 00 p. M. Deadline. Meanwhile, South Carolina republican Lindsey Graham faces a Senate Ethics investigation into his phone call with raffensperger last friday, when graham allegedly asked the secretary of state to toss out thousands of mailin ballots. Senator graham has denied making the request, which legal experts say would amount to felony Election Fraud in georgia. The Associated Press on thursday formally called georgia for joe biden, giving him 306 Electoral College votes nationwide to trumps 232. In delaware, president elect biden blasted trumps refusal to concede his election loss. Mr. Biden i think we are witnessing an incredible irresponsibility, incredibly damaging message is being sent to the rest of the world about how democracy functions. Amy President Trump has called Republican Leaders of michigans state legislature to the white house today as he continues to seek to invalidate joe bidens victory. Election results show biden beat trump in michigan by about 157,000 votes. Late wednesday, two republican members of wayne countys board of canvassers said in affidavits they wanted to rescind their votes to certify Election Results in detroit, which has a large africanamerican population. Both officials, who are white, initially refused to certify the Election Results but reversed their opposition after their actions sparked outrage. One of the officials, board chair monica palmer, said thursday she reversed course a second time after receiving a call from President Trump. This comes as federal Court Filings allege 14 militia members who planned to kidnap michigan governor gretchen televiselso planned to the murder of other Public Officials and burned down the Michigan State house. They have all been arrested. In washington, d. C. , lawyers for President Trumps Reelection Campaign said thursday theyve uncovered a vast conspiracy to subvert the will of u. S. Voters by manufacturing votes for joe biden. Trump attorney and former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani led thursdays news conference, which was held in the lobby of the Republican National committees headquarters on capitol hill. I can prove do you that he won pennsylvania by 300,000 votes. I can prove do you he won michigan by probably 50,000 votes. Amy giuliani offered no proof of his claims. As he spoke, he began sweating profusely, causing dark liquid to stream down both sides of his face ian apparent cosmetic malfunction. Trump campaign Attorney Sidney Powell described a vast conspiracy to fix the election involving george soros, hillary clinton, antifa, china, cuba, and former venezuelan president hugo chavez who died in 2013. Powell has called for legislatures in swing states to disregard the popular vote in der to appoint Trump Supporters to the Electoral College. Christopher krebs, the top u. S. Election security official fired by trump this week for failing to support conspiracy theories, tweeted that press conference was the most dangerous 1 hour and 45 minutes of television in american history. And possibly the craziest. On thursday, Nebraska Republican senator ben sasse blasted the trump campaigns efforts, writing rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets. Republican senator mitt romney of utah added it is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting american president. The Labor Department reports 743,000 u. S. Workers filed for new unemployment claims last week a rise of about 30,000 from the previous week, as Coronavirus Infections hit record highs from coast to coast. This comes as a new study by the Century Foundation found that, unless republican senators follow House Democrats by passg a covid relief bill,2 million u. S. Workers will lose federal Unemployment Benefits by december 26. Here in new york, food banks report theyve had to turn away some needy families amid unprecedented demand. On monday, a Harlem Food Bank handed out 500 turkeys to residents, including ruth crawford. Have to try to relax and think of the Better Things because it wasnt always like this. It is just that. You work all the time and then you cant go to work and you cant work from home, so it is not easy. Amy the hungerrelief Group Feeding america warns some 54 million u. S. Residents currently face food insecurity. In washington, d. C. , indigenous, racial justice, and climate activists staged a protest outside the Democratic NationalCommittee Headquarters thursday calling on president elect joe biden to take immediate action on the Climate Crisis and approve the Green New Deal. Advocates are also calling for a corporatefree cabinet. This is climate activist john henry of the sunrise movement. Two years ago, we stood here at the sunrise move and we ask nancy pelosi to form a Green New Deal committee. Today we are asking president elect joe biden to form a select office on climate mobilization. Treat this crisis with the urgency it deserves. Treat it with the urgency of a mother in lake charles who is homeless for the second time this year, with the urgency of the california farmworkers working under blood filled skies, and treated with the urgency of the middle schoolers. If you do that, we will never forget you. If you fail us, we will never forgive you. Amy after headlines, we will hear from others who attended the protest by commerce member alexandria ocasiocortez and congresswoman elect cori bush Immigration Rights advocates are demanding temporary protective status, or tps, for refugees from Central American nations hurricanese ta and iota. For the national tps online said there are no shelters for people to go to, roads are underwater, hundreds of thousands are displaced. This is what tps was created for. A federal court in september sided with the Trump Administration and its efforts to end tps for several countries, including nicaragua and el salvador, affecting hundreds of thousands of People Living in the United States. In related news, federal court on wednesday blocked the Trump Administration from continuing to deport unaccompanied Migrant Children under a policy that allowed immigration officials to quickly deport Asylum Seekers arriving at the u. S. Mexico border without due process, citing covid19. Some 13,000 unaccompanied children have been deported during the pandemic. This comes as Immigration Rights advocates are demanding the release of 28 children and their families who were placed in expedited deportation proceedings by ice. Advocates say the families initial asylum pleas were botched by officials, resulting in the rejection of their credible fear claims. This is alexa, a girl who was imprisoned by ice for 11 mths. Why did they say children haveights in this country when children dont haveights . Horrible because was and and my mother was sick the medical staff did not want to help us. Finally released from detention, they discovered my mom has cancer. Thee was discrimination in detention centers. Immigrion officials yelled at us. They treated as less than human. They did horrible things to us in that detention center. Amy on thursday, the federal government executed orlando hall at the federal penitentiary in terre haute, indiana. Hall is an African American man who was sentenced to die by an allwhite jury. He was the eighth person to be executed by the federal government this year. And a correction to a headline we reported on thursday. The federal government is scheduled to execute Lisa Montgomery on december 8 in the First Federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years. We misidentified her as lisa coleman, who is a woman executed by the state of texas in 2014. In uganda, at least 37 people have been killed as protests continue over the arrest of president ial opposition candidate bobi wine. Some 350 people have been arrested since protests erupted in the capital kampala wednesday after wine was taken into custody. His Campaign Says hes been denied access to a lawyer and medical attention. The rapper turned politician is seeking to unseat president yoweri museveni, whos been in power for 36 years. And argentina is once again poised to become the largest latin American Country to legalize abortion after president Alberto Fernandez sent senators a bill overturning strict antichoice laws. On wednesday, crowds of reproductive rights activists rallied outside the Argentine National congress as the legislation was introduced. We are sure there is going to be a fight over the bill, just like we have seen in past years. We have to defend legalized abortion out in the streets because we dont trust those who are sitting in the senate, nor lawmakers from the major parties. Amy last year alone, nearly 40,000 people in argentina were hospitalized after receiving botched abortions outside of medical clinics. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. When we come back, we go to washington, d. C. , where there thea sit in staged outside Democratic NationalCommittee Headquarters. Stay with us. [music break] amy this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. In washington, d. C. , indigenous, racial justice, and climate activists staged an occupation outside the Democratic National convention thursday calling on president elect joe biden for immediate Climate Action and to approve the Green New Deal. Advocates are also calling for a corporatefree cabinet. Included im going to ask biden, please, put an end to the fossil fuel addiction, to the genocide, to the injustices against our people because we will stand and we do know there are people willing to put their bodies on the line to make sure our future generations will have a clean, beautiful, and just thriving community. They become a number of lawmakers spoke at the protest including congresswomanelect cori bush from missouri. Bush is a formerly homeless nurse and single mother who helped lead the protests following the Police Killing of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri, in 2014. She recently became the first African American woman elected to congress from missouri. First of all, i think we need to make sure that something is very clear. When we dont act, people who look like me die. So let me say that again. When people dont act, people who look like me die. And so there is no other alternative right now and make sure we have bold leadership. And some people say, oh, you have to play this game most of well, i am done with the games. We wont play more games because when we play the games, people die. What were looking at right now, when we crossed the mark for 250,000 people dying at the hands of trumps covid19 . And i am calling it trumps covid19 because this could have been done differently. So were looking right now to president elect joe biden to make some changes and do some things that are different, but it is not good enough to just do different. He got to do bold. You gotta do change that happens now. Youve got to make sure black folks, brown folks come every marginalized group, indigenous groups feel the change. That is why we are here. We need change that everybody can deal. Yes, we are going to get in good trouble doing it. Yes, were going to make sure we say the names of those that have passed because of failed leadership. That is what we are asking for right now. When i think about the day when i did not care about the climate does one thing you all know about me is i tell my own. I dont need somebody to tell it for me. There was a day when i did not care about the climate. I thought the Climate Crisis and re aboutissues we recycling and endangered animals. I tell you what, i found out after fighting about why is