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KCSM Democracy Now April 14, 2016

Stanford University Historian joel beinin about the candidates positions on israel and palestine. Then to a Landmark Legal lawsuit 21 kids sue the federal government over Climate Change. Demanding the court to enforce climate recovery plans upon our government, to massively cut carbon for future, to honor our constitutional right to life, land, and liberty. Amy and we will look at students challenging Stanford University over the issue appraisal diversity. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. About 100 more people have been arrested in washington, d. C. , as part of the ongoing democracy spring protests against political corruption and big money in politics. Wednesday marked the third consecutive day of mass arrests at the u. S. Capitol after 85 people were arrested tuesday and more than 400 were arrested on monday. About 36,000 verizon workers have go on strike along the east coast, from massachusetts to virginia, marking one of the biggest u. S. Strikes in years. Verizon has sought to cut pensions and ease the outsourcing of work. In new york city, verizon worker gail rodgers spoke out. We are fighting, trying to give the company from taking things that we rightfully gained through previous contracts that should be hours. Medical benefits, the right to work. Work overseas. We cant have that. Work needs to stay in america for americans. Amy both democratic president ial candidates joined verizon workers on the picket lines in new york city. Speaking in his home borough of brooklyn, sanders criticized verizon. It is a question of workers standing up for justice, taking on a large, gritty corporation who wants to outsource good paying jobs, who wants to take away Health Care Benefits from its workers. Somehow, they do have enough money to pater ceos 20 million the year. There standing up for justice and i stand with them today. Amy on wednesday evening, Bernie Sanders drew one of his largest crowds to date in new york citys Washington Square park. His campaign put the crowd at 27,000 people. The entire front section appeared to be Striking Verizon workers. Meanwhile verizons ceo hit back , at sanders in a blog post, calling the senators views contemptible. Hillary clintons critics have noted the Clinton Campaign has received tens of thousands of dollars from verizon executives and lobbyists. Verizon paid clinton 225,000 for a 2013 speech. On wednesday, senator sanders won the endorsement of the new York City Transit Workers Union while clinton was backed by an , electrical Workers Union. Activists with the occupied wall street journal and indypendent newspaper teamed up to publish a newspaper in support of sanders headlined the battle of new , york. They square off tonight five days before the new york primary. Erupted between donald Trump Supporters and protesters outside the republican frontrunners rally in pittsburgh wednesday night. Hundreds of antiracist demonstrators gathered to chant racist bigots have got to go. , inside, trump said both the republican and democratic systems for choosing candidates are rigged. Whether you like Bernie Sanders or not, i have a think he is terrible but that is ok but whether you like them or not no, no, whether you like them or not, you turn on television and every week, Bernie Sanders wins. Bernie sanders wins. He wins every weekend. You listen to the pundits, but he cannot win. Im like, wait come here is one every week for the last seven weeks, but he cannot win. I say, oh, it is a rigged system. Trump and his fellow republican candidates are expected to attend a gala in manhattan tonight. Hundreds are expected to protest truck outside. A great laters have warned five of the 10 or five of the top too bigrgest banks are to fail, meaning taxpayers would need to bail them out again in the event of another financial collapse. The Federal Reserve and fdic said jp morgan chase, bank of america, wells fargo, state street and bank of new york all lacked credible plans to enter bankruptcy in the event of a financial crisis. The warnings echo calls by vermont senator Bernie Sanders to break up the big banks, a plan criticized by rival Hillary Clinton. The biggest banks are even bigger now than before the 2008 meltdown. Officials at the centers for Disease Control and prevention say they have confirmed the link between the zika virus and microcephaly, a condition that can cause infected mothers to give birth to babies with abnormally small heads. Cdc director Thomas Frieden said there is no longer any doubt that zika causes the birth defect. This comes after officials said the mosquitoes that spread zika are now in 30 u. S. States. White House Press Secretary josh earnest said wednesday congress has not done enough to address the virus. You may be familiar with the expression of being a day late and a dollar short. In this case, congress is two months late and 1. 9 billion short in providing the assistance that our Public Health professionals say they need to make sure the respond appropriately to the situation. The bill that Congress Passed yesterday does not include any funding. It certainly it is not going to do anything to help local communities across the country that carry this piracy this virus or fight the mosquitoes that carry this by rest. Light strip s largest privatesector coal company has filed for bankruptcy. Peabody energy is at least the fifth Major Coal Company to seek bankruptcy amid a decline in coal. The Environmental Group 350. Org declared the move a harbinger of the end of the fossil fuel era. Former florida senator bob graham says he received a call from the white house this week over the 28 secret pages of a report on the 9 11 terror attacks. Graham has campaigned for years to have the documents declassified, saying they contain key details about saudi arabias role in the attacks. Graham told the Tampa Bay Times a president ial adviser informed him the declassification review of the documents would soon be completed. The call came after boko 60 minutes ran an episode on the 28 pages sunday. Graham spoke to host steve kroft. Do believe that support came from saudi arabia . Substantially. And you mean the government . Rich people in count arities . All of the above. Amy in chicago, a task force appointed by mayor rahm emanuel has found evidence of rampant racism within the Chicago Police department. The report finds the Police Departments own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color. Despite equal proportions of black, white, and latino residents in chicago, 74 of the more than 400 people shot by Chicago Police between 2008 and 2015 were black. Black people also made up 72 of peoples topped on the street, but not arrested in the summer of 2014 and three out of four people on whom Chicago Police tried to user tasers between 2012 and the report comes as 2015. Mayor emanuel faces calls to resign over a possible coverup of the Police Killing of laquan mcdonald, the teen shot 16 times in 2014. In panama, authorities have raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal. A massive data leak revealed the firm set up a Global Network of Shell Companies for heads of state and other elites to store money offshore to avoid taxes and oversight. Authorities seized 100 computer servers during a 27hour raid. Protesters rallied outside the firm to demand a thorough investigation. We believe it is important for the attorney general to actively investigate this act of corruption, this embarrassment which was revealed internationally in which panama looks very bad at the moment. Amy newly released records reveal how fbi hackers sought to break encryption used by Animal Rights activists by secretly installing software on the activists computers. While it happened more than a decade ago, the effort has just come to light through documents provided to the New York Times by freedom of information activist ryan shapiro. Six activists, including past democracy now guest andy stepanian, were ultimately convicted of conspiracy to violate the animal enterprise protection act in the case. Journalist matthew keys has been sentenced to two years in prison in a hacking case that has drawn protests from Civil Liberties groups. Keys was convicted in october of giving the Hacker Group Anonymous the username and password of his former employer, the tribune company. A hacker then used the credentials to alter the online headline on a Los Angeles Times story from pressure builds in house to pass taxcut package to pressure builds in house to elect chippy 37, a reference to another hacking group. The change lasted about 40 minutes. Keys had faced up to 25 years in prison. After keys sentencing wednesday, nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden was among those to tweet his support, writing two years for a web defacement lasting 40 minutes. Supporters say keys plight shows the need to reform the Computer Fraud and abuse act, the sweeping, decadesold law also used to charge activist aaron swartz. He committed suicide in 2013 while facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Were on the road at Stanford University in california. We are on a 100city tour marking democracy nows 20th anniversary. Today we will be at Pitzer College at noon and then tonight we will be in los angeles. Check our website at democracynow. Org. As Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders prepare for tonights debate in brooklyn, one issue expected to come up is the Israeli Palestinian conflict. New york, which votes on tuesda is home to the largest Jewish Population in the world outside of israel. Much of the population is concentrated in brooklyn. Bernie sanders made headlines recently when he mistakenly told the New York Daily News Editorial Board that 10,000 civilians died in israels assault on gaza. Sanders said i dont remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in gaza. Does that sound right . According to the united nations, the actual civilian death toll was at least 1473 in gaza. Last week, former israeli ambassador michael oren, who now serves in the israeli knesset, said Bernie Sanders owes israel an apology. Oren accused sanders of a blood libel which is a false, centuriesold allegation that jews were killing children to use their blood in religious rituals. On sunday, Bernie Sanders appeared on the leader with jake tapper on cnn. Was israels response disproportionate . I think it was. Israel has what had percent 100 , the right to live in and in, independently, security, without having to be subjected to terrorist attacks. But i think that we will not succeed to ever bring peace into that region unless we also treat the palestinians with dignity and respect. And that is my view. It is interesting, if you will permit me to say, the first jew in American History to win a ,elegate, much less a primary is taking this position with israel that is usually in american politics im not criticizing you or when usually supports israel, whatever israel wants to do. Youre taking a more critical position. More balanced position. Amy Bernie Sanders on the lead with jake tapper on cnn. Tapper later asked Hillary Clinton to respond in a separate interview. Senator sanders, israels response in gaza was disproportionate leading to an unnecessary loss of innocent life. You told the atlantic in 2014 that israel did what it had to do to respond to the attacks. What do you make of senator sanders take on it, that it was disproportionate . He will have to speak for himself you dont agree . I agree with what i said, which is when you are being attacked with rockets raining down on your people and your soldiers are under attack, you have to respond. And i think that what i learned when i negotiated the ceasefire between israel and hamas in 2012 is that hamas provokes israel. They often pretend to have people in civilian garb acting as though they are civilians who are hamas fighters. It is a very difficult undertaking for israel to target those who are targeting them. And i think israel has had to defend itself. It has a right to defend itself. It did not go seeking this. This was promoted by hamas. I support israels right of selfdefense. Any code that was Hillary Clinton speaking on cnn on sunday. The network will host tonights debate in brooklyn. To more about israel and palestine conflict and the 2016 election, we are joined by joel beinin. He is professor of middle east history at Stanford University. He is the former director of middle east studies at the American University in cairo. He is author of several books, most recently, workers and thieves labor movements and popular uprisings in tunisia and egypt. Professor, welcome back to democracy now great to be here. Amy can you talk about the clips we just heard of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton . Bernie has been evolving. If we remember the summer of israels assault on gaza when he tried to shout down people in a town meeting who asked him to be more critical of israel, he was telling the Democratic Party line. He has now backed off from that. He wants to be more balanced. He zimmerman as his jewish cmunity outreach coordinator. She recently wrote an oped in the leading liberal daily of israel saying that we should talk about boycott, divestment, and sanctions very friendly jewish voice for peace. A lot of what he is saying is a good bit away from where i think you should be, but compared to Hillary Clinton who pretty much parrots the line, he is in a different place. Amy Hillary Clinton right now, where she stands and your view on that on the israelpalestine conflict . She is awful. You heard in the clip, israel did not go looking for this. Well, that is not a historical record. Israel provoked hamas into firing the rockets. It is not the first time israel hamas into firing rockets after a period of quiet. The testimony of soldiers who gave evidence to breaking the silence say that israel used an insane amount of violence and firepower in invading gaza, and that the levels of instruction of civilian infrastructure was insane. That is very different than what Hillary Clinton is saying. Amy you wrote a letter to senator sanders . Yes. What he tried to do was to say, ok, great that you are against the influence of billionaires in american politics. You talk primarily about domestic politics and i agree with all of that, but there is also a very pernicious influence of billionaires in Foreign Policy and perhaps nowhere more so than israelpalestine. Sheldon adelson, the abelson primary, the republican candidate traced to las vegas to get his endorsement. On the democratic side, saban is a huge contributor to hillary Clinton Campaign and the past. Ampaigns of the clintons both are single issue people. They care only about israel. He said he is prepared to spend whatever it takes to get Hillary Clinton elected president. And the policies that Hillary Clinton advocates, as we heard in the case, reflect his views. Amy in her speech to aipac last month, democratic president ial hopeful Hillary Clinton said the u. S. Should help israel maintain qualitative military edge. Will make the commitment to ensure israel maintains qualitative military edge. [applause] the United States should provide israel with the most sophisticated Defense Technology so it can do terror and stop any threats. One of the first things i will do in office is invite the israeli Prime Minister to visit the white house. [applause] and i will send a delegation from the pentagon and the jo

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