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A very strange thing because its i mean its such a long held tradition its such an important part its why people go there its part of why certain people live there and its strange to me that you know republicans especially tend to be so big on tradition and respecting tradition and respecting the wishes of people in communities like that that i did find a very strange that it wasnt it wasnt one which most of them will bring one for emergency and i was. Vehicles inserted but theres literally at a car motorcade i dont think theres 8 total cars in all of mackinaw island that are even allowed it and i guess is not its like i mentioned its like ford you know he was from michigan yeah and went there and when he when he was there a horse drawn carriage took them around the island when they stopped one car in case of emergencies and they never used it and that was in 1975 and al was suddenly decides i want to what was so important mike and i learned that he had to be there to. Julie paul over a registered nurse and michigan had tweeted for those of you not from michigan you should understand what a huge transgression this is our mackinaw island has been a car free haven forever a piece of history frozen in time tell anyone from michigan that b. P. Just drove not one but 8 cars on this island and watch their blood boil so this is an island that gets about a 1000000 visitors a year its its for people in michigan and wisconsin in that area its kind of a track that you all take because its as you would a full piece of history that is protected its one of their most precious Natural Resources and i. I dont know how you show up with 8 cars and dont realize that thats my specially when youre trying to win an election next year you know its not you know youre up in the locals the wrong way you know what the locals the roadway mashable security letters about for a trip there should be in transit how many cars do you think you can. Route when you look at that as r. B. I. Imaginal security one of the its incredible i mean were talking big big small banks universities Money Transfer Services Domain registrars and voiceover writers they even when theyve been sent these letters to biddy you know Game Companies when you go through this list it was 750 that were made available through this foyer lawsuit and its truly incredible because a tab its estimated that since 2001 when the patriot act sped up the powers of this the National Security letters half a 1000000 have been used and these are the ones that get the person that gets the letter their credit here is not you cant tell anybody that you got it ever and if you do then youre in trouble its its ruthless its rude well is this is why its so important that in a free market there has to be a free market in which there company is that that enough that people can use that dont. Go along to get along when it comes to things like this so after the passage of the usa freedom act that was one in 2015 the f. B. I. Had had adopted these guidelines that is yours and you would. Tell them that they had to be reviewed for every 3 years after they were issued or after an investigation is closed so aaron mackey whos a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier foundation has always been sort of on top of this stuff said the records also show that the f. B. I. Is falling short of its obligations to release an s. L. Recipients from gag orders that are no longer necessary and i think thats the thing you really have to to look at in this situation is that these are our major. Problem this is major weight on the constitution when it comes to our privacy and to our rights and as since for the last 20 years myself and others pointed this out its a very slippery slope of actual slippery slope and where were going to be in this place where we dont have a right to say no to the government and thats exactly what we fought a revolutionary war for is to have the right to question our government and this is another things are as like you can say security all you want but at the end of the day are you just putting 8 cars on an island with a big band scars to prove a point and show power and maybe these letters are about power not actually keeping anyone saying it is that is i think exactly what this is all about. In the shadow of u. S. President Donald Trumps 3rd trip to the United Nations General Assembly this week tensions are once again rising between the Top Administration and the iranian government in the wake of United States sending military troops and support in to saudi arabia after the recent attack on Saudi Oil Facilities and september joining us now to discuss trumps United Nations plans in the meetings and the latest on the state of u. S. Iran relations is our t. America correspondent sara modest welcome thank you general so. Theres a lot of. Water of the main topics of water over the years we should all be look at no 4 well iran is definitely at the top of this list right now tensions are extremely high especially after the saudi attack happened just last week in which the United States is blaming iran for it as well as other countries and let me start by saying that just a few hours it broke that france germany and the u. K. Also agree with the United States and say that iran is responsible for these attacks but trump is scheduled to have bilateral meetings some are scheduled for today actually and he was scheduled to meet with pakistan leaders of poland new zealand singapore egypt and south korea but one of the most anticipated bilateral meetings is going to take place on wednesday this is when President Trump meets with the ukrainian president bulleting mirrors the lenski now this is also the timing of this is particularly important as growing concerns that trump pressured ukrainian leaders to investigate joe bidens family let me show you who will not be attending so canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau russian president Vladimir Putin chinese president xi jinping israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro so those are some pretty big top leaders where tensions are pretty high with what the United States that will be missing out on the meetings. Few of them have some slight problems just. So that the top of these meetings this situation what are the expectations what obviously you know president has always been about pushing and pushing to get them to the table so that you can get what you want what are the expectations that he might get what he wants well really its really hard to say but right now tensions continue to escalate as u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o last week said that iran was responsible for the saudi attack trump has not come out and directly said that hes responsible but pompei also. I said our mission is to avoid war you saw what secretary esper announced on friday we are putting Additional Forces in the region for the purpose of deterrence and defense so the u. S. Is responding by sending more troops to the middle east and iran has warrant us and Foreign Forces to stay away from the region to stay away from the gulf earlier today before leaving to new york this is what rouhani said take a listen. To my city or saudi arabia and the u. S. Are exaggerating the damage inflicted on aramco it is because the United States wants to fully take control of the region they say they are bringing in air Defense Systems such as the patriot it is clear that they would like to completely take hold of eastern saudi arabias oil so secretary of state my pompei o has said that the iranian leaders accuse them of being a bloodthirsty and eager for war and that hes the one that wants to avoid war but really i mean there is there is no way theres nothing really to say where its going to go from here its really impossible in the terms minutes of that kind of where this could go is there any possibility the donald trump will actually meet with the iranian president rouhani because i mean thats the big thing you have to keep them talking if you want to avoid war you have to keep the leaders talking is there any possibility that could happen at the u. N. This week well theyre both under the same roof but iran will not meet with trump unless sanctions are removed trump also said that he has no intentions to me with rouhani take a listen to what he said before leaving. But i am telling. You. That. Like a. Lot of. Other running. So the u. S. Is trying to build a coalition against iran is trying to create a platform here at the u. N. G. A. However its going to need a lot of International Support i think both are. And the United States in order to deescalate the situation and not let it go further into hopefully not any military action but are on did have a military parade where they showed off some missiles that are capable of possibly destroying american bases around the world so its really a tough call where its going to not think of diplomacy i mean the u. N. Was created in the idea of keeping things like this one happening where you you did you have rebuttal you agree that at some point no matter what was going on you could come to the table and keep people from dying because thats the only there is only one you know alternatives to diplomacy and thats war so hopefully dialogue can overcome our very day theres a lot of pressure on that from the military Industrial Complex and what they want to do and all that lot of different for them aspire to still get thank you so much for coming on always a pleasure having you on and informing our viewers of whats happening this week at the u. N. Thank you all right as were going to break Court Watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover over social media and be sure to check out watching the hawks the podcast is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere he was in the podcast coming up we get a firsthand look at the Climate Change protests currently taking place in cities around the world with Digital Campaign of course the brooks of 350. 00 dot org stay tuned to watch in the. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those words. The day. Thinks. We dared to ask. The tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented for inside venezuela things look different were going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate. In the school have a son of a moment to. Get out of that political battle so honestly advocating. The moment the focus of the who story isnt new makes him cold in Henry Kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an alternative that konami and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants now making the economy of venezuela screed. This weekend and into this week all around the world activists have taken to the streets and massive demonstrations the size and scale weve not seen since the iraq war protests back in 2002 here in washington d. C. On monday protesters took over major street in our section stopping morning traffic an attempt to shut down city commuters but this time its not an impending war or civil rights violation that has pushed children along with men and women into the streets and protest its the very future of life on this planet. Protesters started gathering at intersections like this or at k. And 17th in Downtown Washington d. C. And you can see theyre starting to open the lanes up again but before that intersection was completely blocked off and these protesters say that they want to do stop all business as usual all in efforts to promote Climate Change earlier that morning at the same intersection we were at protesters bound themselves to a sailboat and police were forced to cut the metal to let them go it took authorities several hours but by 10 oclock they were freed and given warnings those who didnt cooperate were arrested but this wasnt the only area that was met with protesters heres a look at all the different intersections spread all across downtown d. C. Where protesters blocked intersections ultimately slowing down traffic or bringing it to a complete halt when asked about why protesters wanted to shut down traffic heres what they had to say im 13 its so important to make a difference because when i grow up i want to have a family like my parents did i want to get an education i want to get a job and be in for him but if china doesnt change im not going to have the experience and im not going to have. Time to do that so thats why its important to come here and support everybody and make a change we are standing on the cross walk in the police start getting kind of hands the pushing people to say get out get on the sidewalks and i mean people protesters are obviously biting my hands off me dont touch me all of that. But thats the only thing weve had to deal and so for now as of this afternoon only 26 people have been arrested and theyve been charged with blocking an intersection and thats about as serious as the crimes will get right now but i want to take a look at this group behind me these were protesters that all met after the intersection was closed off they all just took a vote asking if they were going to come back tomorrow and do the same thing and all their hands went up reporting in Downtown Washington d. C. Fair in front act. Joining us now to discuss the climate strike and more is Writer Community organizer and Digital Campaigner for 3 or clarissa brooks thanks for joining us. Hey how you doing closely related as we said over the weekend weve seen massive globe spending protests and strikes you know over society and governments lack of real action on Climate Change i want to ask you because you know youre part of this what do you feel is the most Important Message of these protests regard list of the country your region youre living in what is the real heart of this. Yeah its a great question and i think the real heart of the work that youth black and brown folks are doing is really about understanding that we have a limited amount of time some of the most important to me and that the youth organizers and Coalition Workers were focusing on was really around the Green New Deal for the u. S. And really like ending fossil fuel money thats a big part of our government and really discussing the ways that we can start to lessen the amount of carbon that we produce the way that were affecting the environment because we do have a limited amount of time and i think thats something that these young folks are very aware of probably more than any of us and ive said its weird to see that for 20 years you know even back in the ninetys when i was a kid we had earth day we were told and we were kind of lulled into this sense of everythings taken care of theres policy there is legislation and everythings great dont worry so weve seen these climate protests in recent years but this is so different what sets these recent demonstrations apart from the ones that have come before. Yes i think i mean like any Mass Mobilization a movement right like this didnt come out of nowhere people have been organizing around the Green New Deal for years people have been having other small or medium sized mobilization for the past 5 years around Climate Change and really thinking about just like the conversation of Climate Justice that kind of started in the early 2000 and that has really been a part of like lower level conversations but its coming to the forefront now and i think with these young folks especially with they have seen the direct impacts and i think you know we do have to like in. College ancestry and realize that these are also kids who came up during the b. L. M. Movement and who have seen how Mass Mobilization is important to their work. And understand that theyre not going to be able to be a part of the future if they dont start to really get engaged in the world that we have been fighting to involved in school. One of the things thats interesting about that is im seeing the generational change where i feel like a lot of people they sort of said you know if you do this its enough and then people kind of lost hope. Because we became this very suddenly again very corporate sized world that didnt worry about these things and where i see these kids they see what happened and they see it and there are so committed to it in a way that we havent seen before and i think that a lot is because of black activism over the last 5 to 10 years because thats the new generation of activists in that movement have made such a change and moved so many needles and change so many lives so i have to point out how the connection between those things i do you think that part of like you had said black lives matter and that activism do you feel like that set the stage to show these kids how they could do that how they could have power and to use it for what theyre trying to do. Yeah i mean i also want acknowledge like the you know dapple in the keystone organizing that made a focus of me doing i think that like these histor