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Im after an recounts here were going underground is the United States Congress Reconvenes to consider its latest Coronavirus Relief package in a country that has so far suffered a 5th of the worlds cope with 1000. 00 deaths this why dont you having 4. 25 percent of the worlds population coming on the show is the underreporting of the revelation the black and brown people make up 2 thirds of coronavirus deaths in the usa and the issue of media representation we are only puerto rican character actor who is famous for his groundbreaking work with directors like Brian De Palma Steven Soderbergh and ridley scott and what is the true extent of the older representation of black and brown people of the u. S. President ial ballot box we investigate with voter disenfranchisement boy and greg also more coming up in todays going underground but 1st around the world the coronavirus pandemic and black lives matter. Protests in the name of the Police Killing of george floyd have arguably laid bare the true extent of systemic inequality on the racial capitalism one of the areas its revealed itself in is the disproportionate coronavirus deaths of black in latin x people 2 thirds of all covert deaths in the United States so will this pandemic within a pandemic be tackled within the next Coronavirus Relief package being discussed today in congress or will it be swept under the rug joining me now from vermont his iconic puerto rican character actor luis guzman thank you luis for coming on amazing that have a legendary screen presence were going underground today during the month so you must have been keeping up to date with the failure of Bernie Sanders to win his primaries across the democratic nominations for the november elections where i do believe that our. Democratic national party. You know was a shame because it was pretty much the start rather they ganged up on but in fairness to by. Only sign is accepted the result and said you know joe biden is going to be the candidate and joe biden is doing so well in the opinion polls. Well. You know i think i think you know when you have no choice you have no choice but to fall in line just like everybody else well angela davis former black panther said she was backing biden on this program created a bit of control of a sea. Back to coronavirus what is the scale of the disproportionate covies impact on people of color joining this crisis where so many people are dying in your country we have a people need to educate ourselves you know especially when it comes to black and brown you know black and latino stuff like that because. Food and the byproduct of food like like food. Eating fried food and stuff like that we need to educate ourselves about how to eat better because our body our our our vessels and we dont take care that vessel and virus like around the world take advantage of people who are not healthy you know and if they knew system is compromised then its no win situation i watched i watched a documentary months ago called the game changer and i kind of blew me away and i stopped eating meat back in fridge you know and ive lost 25 pounds i feel healthier if you could buy a mac and cheese. To make mac and cheese which is not healthy for you you can buy brown rice so you could buy Sweet Potatoes when the coronavirus 1st hit and i went to the supermarket it was very telling to me all the spaghetti that was gone on the mac achieve that would go on when you went to the full through investable section that was that was. Past the bottom line is that cost dimension to education what have you made in the black lives matter protests after the murder of george floyd. Listen i understand that and is that where it comes from. You know. It was it was a Tipping Point and people went out then they protested and i think they continue to continue to do that but i also think with that we need to take a deeper look within our own communities in the United States the United States of the hub for sex trafficking Human Trafficking you know when when when the when the outcry over that stuff and i will say this not all cops are back cops you know i have friends i have family members who work in Law Enforcement or decent people or listen any kind of perfection you have bad people you have back back there you have bad accidents. You have you know back politicians and stuff like that and and thats not to say that everybody is a bad person in my view. In my opinion it really starts at the fact they said well youve got to you have a police chief you have Police Commissioner its up to those people to tell their people said this man were here to serve a community you know and this is how we need to go about it and they dont do that and you have a george floyd situation you have agree on a terror situation you know if its like i think its going to cause chaos and they ask or scare us well you know weve covered weve covered communities of color being affected by f. B. I. Programs cointelpro as to why disproportionately violence occurs in these communities where drugs were imported into those areas do you think that hollywood depictions have have skewed our understanding of people of color in the United States. The picture since i would say that some have some have not i mean look you know at film is a medium through be able to teach people about history. You know. I also i also believe. That. How the hell can we go to mars and talk about mining the moon when we cant even eradicate you know you in the United States it doesnt make sense to me doesnt like it like the priorities are wrong apparently the definitely wrong you know and method on methadone is just a way of really keeping people down you know methadone messes up peoples bodies and there is no war on drugs there is not because if there was a war on drugs we would not be having the opiate crisis that we still have today in america winning the war was winning the war on drugs you know Pharmaceuticals People are over those in every day we are that anyone watching related drug issues who can sell their medical practitioners and the social workers or whoever theyre working. Through that problems with them do you think because you were a social worker you understand and brings in your acting parts which are often in the underworld some extra gravitas youre not just to get whacked in. The cement when i when i was working at so short a which for me was one of the best jobs i ever had because i was helping people to help themselves i was helping people to not become 3rd 4th generation welfare row clients to the system you know but go out and get a career and learn a skill and take charge of your life i mean that was my approach i was. And out of the front my worker an essential worker back in the eightys you know. As a social worker and i just saw how the system worked missing men i was getting kids young people between 17 and 21 years old that graduated from high school and i had to minister from reading science because i had to see what. What math and reading that was i was getting kids for this great mass of reading levels and this is what the system was graduating and it was like that was so wrong you know specific specifically on history you commented that and i dont know what you think so many is on after doing that in the eightys so many decades on the 95 percent Puerto Rican School and it was about a paragraph about puerto rico in a 400 page history book. But ive definitely believe its still happening you know this immense they dont they dont talk about the trail of tears you know that the native americans in this country went through you know they dont talk about you know the genocide that happened during the Mexican American war where exodus 18000 mexicans one you know they dont talk about imperialism and stuff like that as a teenager it was up to me to find out what the in puerto rico was about it was about me finding out that they were native american i mean native i know in the in the caribbean and thats part of my heritage but i have to find my own lets just turn to something slightly like the the statues are being taken down in the United States thats being taken down here that was one taken down which was a defiant. Criticism of having statues of slave. Here in britain. You probably saw in the Series Community where or theres a statue of you in a Community College so i think you think statues of you should replace all the statues of racists in the United States absolutely absolutely because this and i believe in diversity i believe that number one people should get educated it were that oh yeah just so you know people in america should read things see this this is the u. S. Constitution constitution states certain things are not be hat you know im not saying everybody should become a scholar but i think everybody should be at least knowledgeable and inspires all those statues that are being taken down i never understood why we celebrate columbus day in the United States when columbus never stepped foot in north america he basically went and to central Central America and the caribbean and he meant that or that which definition and a whole bunch im gonna read him stuff like that and kill the Beautiful People you know. Like i said you know people need to understand its 3 and no history you know and and why do we celebrate that why do we find the great someone who came in and destroyed a whole culture people people dont understand that in this country. The Republican Party the Republican Party was started by black people back in the day back in the day. People. That when there was there was the whole Civil Rights Movement and stuff like that that. They had some kind of vote for some kind of civil rights law a bunch of democrats voted against that you know we need to understand something. The nature of politics does have to change has to change to reflect the diversity that is in america. Because its not black or white but its made to be black the way i dont expect government to take cant stand you know government is more event should be and and administrator you know and its not about president ial politics its about local politics and its about making sure that the people put in place of the people that reflect the communities that they come from and that they represent and that they have not bought. Lobbyists and my pharmaceuticals and stuff like them. Thats the problem here money rules you know. I watched the video the other day and it was it was a Community School Board Meeting in buffalo new york and what they were talking about was they were talking about the police and the Police Officers that work in those communities and there was same here we are our tax money to pay a Law Enforcement department of officers and none of them live in our community. They come and work in our community it take our tax dollars they spend their money in their own communities that have way better schools way better teachers way better facilities for these kids here in our communities we dont we dont we dont have the access to better facilities this is a real incorrectly that goes on real its not a battle. Because well thank you thank you brother and we have may be safe and. So we can all get. After the break is there any point in taking part in the United States democracy or is trouble already stolen 2020 we asked york times best selling author greg when asked if the best democracy money can buy is already sold out all of them all coming up in part 2 of going underground. One of the greatest the greatest church in the history appreciatively will soon be converted into what is the importance of the hardness of the. Europes energy security. Its in the balance. The world. Thinks. We dare to ask. Welcome back the 2020 us president ial election is fewer than 4 months away at the end of a year thats been eclipsed by a pandemic that has taken more lives in the United States than any other country in the world a country that has also found itself at the center of weeks of black lives massive protests the Largest Movement in u. S. History but if you think this will change anything of the ballot box voter disenfranchisement joyann the New York Times bestselling author greg palast says you should think again because the next president has already been chosen without a single vote being cost he joins me now via skype from l. A. To talk about his new book out trump stole 2020 greg thanks so much for coming back on i want to get on to the main issues but you know you talk about the book being about Corporate Power ultimately and how al gore said we hate that son of a about you when you exposed the fact that he actually should have been president all joyn. W. Bush but theres a theres an oblique reference in this book to why you knew a direct mail expert who helped you understand why trump will win in 2020 and you Say Something about you using to show our corrupt the u. K. Government wars. Because you were able to meet the alleged iraq war criminal themselves tony blair just tell me about that well back in 1998 the direct mail expert marx wieland consultant help me set up a front for the Guardian Newspapers and we went undercover and basically offered to buy the the the blair government we were supposedly working for a company that very few people ever heard of called enron do we have that massive or not that was set up and they helped me set up this whole scheme we had offices in the tower hotel etc and we were able to get on you know on microphone hidden mikes and camera tony blairs cabinet minions basically willing to sell policy legislation you name it for 5 grand a month so every you know its not just id like to say im sorry to tell you in britain that i know you think you have a lot of fun talking about the corruption of Us Government but its there too ok but at least british voters dont move around as much as a americans so you use some of this direct mail data because direct mail is a best way to analyze peoples addresses and where people live and you came out with a figure what 17000000 americans moved in the run up to the 2016 election in the usa people still moving you doubt that. Yeah as as once as a Democratic Supreme Court justice said if all these people are moving our highways should be completely shut down moving trucks where the moving trucks everyones moving now why is this important because a new gimmick. Used by the republic in. Voting official and i understand in america we have Something Different very different the rest are most the rest are all we have a part party policy in partisan politicians who actually are in charge of whether you get to vote so they require removing they removed and i kid you not as has happened in china and russia well in china and russia but its not supposed to happen in in a self described democracy weve removed 16700000 voters that by the way that is from the United States governments own figures which keep track of not only are voters but the people we blocked from voting because we block millions of voters this is something not known in the rest of the world so we said so these republican official said 17000000 people have hit the road in the last 2 years americans move a lot but not that much millions and millions of people the rickshaws and suitcases why is this important well obviously if you moved in for if you moved from mill say the city of milwaukee you cant vote in milwaukee you left there is real evil to to go there so i talked to some of these voters who supposedly moved to quanah taylor an africanamerican woman and thats important they said she moved out of milwaukee so shes not want to vote milwaukee flew to milwaukee i met with the quantity or said if you moved out of milwaukee she says. Im the county supervisor of milwaukee what do you mean i moved from milwaukee but she is guilty of voting while black in america thats almost become a crime i kid you not we had on the purge lists one in 7 africanamericans are on the hit lists to have their votes removed in georgia alone which is an important state in this election because it has 2 senators we could have the control us senate we have the white house hinge ing on georgia which is by the way a minority a white minority state white people in minority in georgia so how do the republicans win if there are my if the white people are a minority the answer is you remove the nonwhite people they removed a 3rd of a 1000000 people for supposedly moving including christine jordan i was at the atlanta polling station youll see in the book how trumps cold 2020 get a picture i thought you had a voting station when they threw her out said you cant vote here you no longer registered shes been voting at that same place for 50 years 50 years since her cousin Martin Luther king jr was assassinated this is her cut this is kings cousin who was thrown off the voter rolls of georgia with a 3rd of an a 1000000 other people mostly. Guess what black people and young people who are also democratic voters a 3rd of a 1000000 in a single american state weve got millions across the nation 150000 in the swing state of wisconsin now understand we have this strange Electoral College system