Cancer patient who was arrested last week as she demanded access to the secret text this even includes the socalled death sentence clause, which would make her drugs unaffordable. Then Grace Lee Boggs has died at the age of 100. We will remember the extraordinary life and legacy of this activist and philosopher. Born into a chinese immigrant family, she would go on to become deeply involved with the civil rights movement, black power, labor and environment will justice and feminist movement. Black power was not just a thing to it wasnt just a slogan, it wasnt so much an emotional appeal as it was when it was first sounded by willie in mississippis in 1966, it was more and assessing. In Grace Lee Boggs today her own words. She died at the age of 100 in her home surrounded by her community, books, philosophy, and ideas as she had lived. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United States and 11 other pacific rim nations have reached an agreement on the Transpacific Partnership, the largest regional trade accord in history. The agreement has been negotiated for eight years in secret and will encompass 40 of the global economy. Corporations, from cargill to boeingom agriculture to have praised the deal. Congress now has at least 90 days to review the deal before it can vote on whether to approve it. The deal came after an agreement on drug company monopolies which Public Citizen said fell short of big pharmas most extreme. The United States had pressed for longer monopolies on biotech drugs. More after headlines. The top u. S. Commander in afghanistan has acknowledged civilians were accidentally struck when a u. S. Airstrike hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in kunduz. The attack saturday killed 12 medical staff and 10 patients, three of them children. Witnesses described patients burning in their beds. Thirtyseven people were wounded. Doctors without borders said the gps chordates were provided in the bombing continued for half an after u. S. And afghan hour authorities were told a hospital had been hit. Speaking monday, general John Campbell said the airstrike came at the request of Afghan Forces. We have now learned on october 3 Afghan Forces advised they were taking fire from enemy positions and as for air support from u. S. Forces. An airstrike was called to eliminate the taliban threat and several civilians were actually struck. This is different from the initial reports which indicated u. S. Forces were threatened in the airstrike was called on their behalf. Amy general campbell said he has ordered a thorough investigation and, if errors were committed we will acknowledge them. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights said the bombing could be a war crime. We absolutely condemn the attack against the hospital in kunduz. It was the last remaining hospital serving a need that was dire in the area. The attacks, you know, against medical facilities could amount to a war crime. Emika Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent investigation. Russia says volunteer Ground Forces may soon be dispatched to syria following russias decision to begin airstrikes inside syria last week. U. S. Officials say russia already has at least 600 military personnel in syria. These really army shot and killed a 13yearold palestinian boy at a refugee camp in bethlehem monday, less then 24 hours after Israeli Soldiers killed another palestinian teenager in the west bank sunday night. This comes as Israeli Forces have demolished the homes of two palestinians who israel says her behind attacks on israelis last year. North korea has released a south Korean New York University student after detaining him in april. Wonmoon joo said he entered north korea from china illegally on purpose in an effort to improve relations between north and south korea. At least 13 people have died amidst once in a millennium floods in north and south carolina. The flooding has breached at least 18 dams and unearthed caskets at local cemeteries. On monday, as many as 40,000 people were without Drinking Water and more than 26,000 people were without power. Steve benjamin said, i believe that things will get worse before they get better. The u. S. Coast guard has confirmed the cargo ship el faro sank off the bahamas after being battered by hurricane joaquin. One body has been found as the search for survivors continues. 32 people were on board, most of them american. It appears to be the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a u. S. Flagged vessel in over three decades. Scientists have linked stronger hurricanes to climate change. At least 11 people have died and four more are missing after a typhoon hit chinas southern coast, sparking a flurry of deadly tornados with winds up to 134 miles per hour. Newscasters say the strength of the storm was unexpected. The Justice Department says it has finalized its 20. 8 billion settlement with bp to resolve all Outstanding Civil claims over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil disaster. Its the largest civil oil settlement with any single entity in u. S. History. Attorney general Loretta Lynch praised the settlement as a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in u. S. History. But some groups are criticizing the terms of the deal for failing to stop bp from writing off some of the fines as tax breaks, with the Public InterestResearch Group estimating in july that bp will likely pay no more than 14 billion. California governor jerry brown has signed into law a measure to let doctors prescribe drugs to help dying patients and their lives and their lives. Californias the fifth state to legalized assisted suicide. The move comes after right to die advocate Brittany Maynard took her a life last year at the age of 29 while suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer. She had moved from california to oregon to benefit from oregons right to die law, which the california measure was modeled on. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden says he has offered to go to prison as part a plea deal that would allow him to return to the United States from russia. But snowden says the Justice Department has not contacted him to discuss the potential deal. In an interview with the bbc, snowden said ive volunteered to go to prison with the government many times. What i wont do is i wont serve as a deterrent to people trying to do the right thing in difficult situations. Meanwhile, activists with the group intelexit flew a drone over a key nsa complex in germany friday. The drone dropped fliers urging employees at the dagger complex to quit in protest over mass spying. In france, more than a hundred workers stormed air frances headquarters after the Company Announced plans to lay off nearly 3000 people. During the protest, the workers ripped the shirts off two managers, sending the halfnaked executives fleeing over a chainlink fence. Democracy now criminal justice correspondent renee feltz has won the front page award for tv special reporting from the newswomens club of new york for her democracy now report on the Obama Administrations mass detention of women and children from Central America in private prisons. To see her awardwinning report, you can go to democracynow. Org. And the legendary detroit activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs has died at the age of 100. Grace lee boggs was involved with the civil rights, black power, labor, Environmental Justice and feminist movements , over the past seven decades. She died on monday at home in detroit. Her friends and caretakers shay howell and Alice Jennings said she left this life as she lived it surrounded by books, politics, people and ideas. Over the past decade, Grace Lee Boggs was a frequent guest on democracy now in 2010, she talked about why it was important for the u. S. Social forum to come to detroit. Detroit, which was once the a miracle of industrialization and became the symbol of the devastation of deindustrialization, is now the symbol of a new kind of society, of people who grow their own food, of peoplep , to how we begin to think not so much of getting how we depend on each other. It is another world were creating here in detroit. Amy Grace Lee Boggs in 2010. She died monday at the age of 100. We will remember her in her own words and with a longtime friend Alice Jennings later in the broadcast. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now1, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United States and 11 other pacific rim nations reached an agreement monday on the Transpacific Partnership, the largest regional trade accord in history. The agreement has been negotiated for eight years in secret and will encompass 40 of the global economy. U. S. Trade representative Michael Froman praised the deal. We expect this historic agreement to promote economic growth, support higherpaying jobs, enhance innovation for the competitiveness, raise living standards, reduce poverty in our countries, and government transparency, good governance, and strong labor and environmental protections. Amy the secret 30chapter has still not been made public, although sections of draft have , been leaked by wikileaks during the negotiations. Congress will have at least 90 days to review the tpp before president obama can sign it. The senate granted obama approval to fasttrack the measure and present the agreement to congress for a yesorno vote with no amendments allowed. During Senate Hearings in june, vermont senator Bernie Sanders fought fasttrack, warning the American People need time to understand the tpp. The now democratic president ial candidate issued a statement monday saying, im disappointed but not surprised by the decision to move forward on the disastrous Transpacific Partnership trade agreement that will hurt consumers and cost americans jobs. Wall street another big corporations have won again, it is time for the rest of us to stop letting multinational corporations rigged the system to pad their profits at our expense, he said. One Sticking Point had been the socalled death sentence clause, extending drug company anomalies on medicines. United states and drug copies have pressed for longer monopolies on new biotech drugs while multiple countries opposed the push saying it could deny lifesaving medicines to patients who cannot afford high prices. The compromise reportedly includes monopolies of between five and eight years. Well, in atlanta last week, Zahara Heckscher, a cancer patient, disrupted tpp negotiations. She was arrested as she demanded access to the secret to see text to see you whether it includes a death sentence clause. Leave untilgoing to [indiscernible] death sentence clause so i can verify that the tpp is not going to prevent women like me with cancer from accessing the medicines we need to stay strong and stay alive. That was Zahara Heckscher, a Breast Cancer patient, being arrested for protesting tpp negotiations last week at the westin hotel in atlanta. Well, she joins us today from washington, d. C. As well as robert weissman, president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. We welcome you both to democracy now talk about on the of the approval of the tpp, or at least the agreement reached, now must be approved at least in the United States by congress, why you got arrested. Thank you, amy. I got arrested because i learned about this death sentence clause in the tpp that would make these lifesaving cancer drugs unavailable to women around the of fiver a period years, eight years, or 12 years. We call it the death sentence clause because it would actually condemn women to death because they cannot afford or their Health Care Systems cannot afford theres there medicines. I knew as a Breast Cancer patient that i had to do something. Amy can you say what your tshirt says . A tshirt says, i have cancer. I cant wait eight years. That theve learned agreement seems to still include a five to eight year time that allows de facto monopolies for lifesaving drugs. And other provisions that make regular medicines, not just the biologic medicines, unaffordable. Unfortunately, the death sentence clause is still in the tpp. Amy your mother also had Breast Cancer . Yes, and that is another big motivation for me. I was only 11 when she died of Breast Cancer, and that was before these drugs were available. She only lived one year after she was diagnosed, and that is what Breast Cancer means without access to the modern medicines, the biologics and the other emerging medicines for example, have kept me alive for seven years so far and still going strong. So i know very personally what it means when people dont have access to the medicines. I also know that Breast Cancer is not about just the individual patient, it is about the family. And for me, i am fighting for my son to have a mom as much as im fighting for myself and for other women in our families. Amy what do pharmaceutical companies have to gain from this . The pharmaceutical companies have obscene profits to gain. And all tell you, just one of , a biological drug , they make multiple billions of dollars on it every year, rging patients between 50 50,000 to 100,000 a year for each patient. And that is just one medicine. So 6 billion and up depending on the year that you look at is how much theyre making from just one cancer medicine. Profits t about they deserve some profits, but this is price gouging at the cost of lives. Amy i want to ask about comments made by the u. S. Trade representative Michael Froman on the impact of the tpp on both research and access to lifesaving drugs. Biologics, this is one of the most challenging issues in the negotiation. We have worked cooperatively with our tpp partners to secure a strong and balanced outcome that both incentivizes the development of these new lifesaving drugs while ensuring access to these high nearing medicines and their availability. And this is the first trade agreement in history to ensure a of protection for biologics and in doing so will help set original model. It will create environments in which through comparable treatment, the will be ineffective period of protection to encourage innovation and access. Amy Zahara Heckscher, can you respond to this . And can you also talk about the relationship between generic drugs and bio similar drugs . First, respond to froman. That statement i find very upsetting because it is so much the that it is spinning truth into a lie. ,t is really inaccurate inaccurate description of the text as far as we know. Of course, the final text is secret, but we have some good information about what is in their and he is saying it is balanced. The balance looks like this, pharmaceutical profits up steam, down,s when things patients right access affordable medicine thrown out the window will stop so i dont call that balanced by any stretch of the imagination. And when he says protection, he is not talking about protecting peoples lives, he is talking about protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical countries,d in frankly, where some of the country patients cannot afford these medicines that are the theent prices, nor can Health Systems. Even in the wealthier countries, australia and new zealand for example, or Health Systems are having trouble even paying for the existing biologicals, not to mention the new ones, down the pipeline that are going to be affected by the tpp. Amy i want to bring rob weissman into the conversation. Vicet weissman is president of Public Citizen. Can you put this in the larger context of the tpp overall, who this benefits, who this hurts, who made the decisions around this, and then, who gets to decide whether the u. S. Approves this . Partnership,acific the tpp, is a collection of provisions that amount to a wish list for a giant multinational corporations. It is really as simple as that. The most important industry in the whole deal was the pharmaceutical industry, which is why the ustr, the u. S. Trade representative insisted on putting the provisions Zahara Heckscher was talking about, why the agency was willing to hold up the entire deal to try to extract more concessions for big pharma. As your viewers and listeners know, this is a deal negotiated in secret over a period o