Woman aiming to be on the palate, ballot, jill stein. We will speak with green Party President ial candidate jill stein. Then new York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs a sweeping antibds executive order. If you boycott against israel, new york will call you. Amy we will host a debate. And then as outcry grows over the stanford rape case we will , look at the Hunting Ground, the groundbreaking documentary about Sexual Assault on College Campuses. I went to the dean of Students Office and said, i just want to make sure above all else that you dont talk to anyone about this. It could be bad for everyone if people started rallying. He is a predator and he is dangerous and that is exactly what i want. Amy we will speak to the filmmaker and a Sexual Assault victim featured in the film. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More than 22 people have been killed and 70 wounded in two separate bombings around the iraqi capital baghdad. One of the explosions hit a commercial street, killing at least 15 people. The second hit an army checkpoint. The United Nations says it underestimated the number of civilians trapped in the iraqi city of fallujah, which iraqi forces are attempting to reclaim from isis. U. N. Humanitarian coordinator lise grande revised the numbers. We underestimated the number of civilians in fallujah. I think we thought there would civilians who0 are at grave risk. What we now think raised on the stories people are telling us is that are probably closer to 90,000 civilians that are still inside of fallujah that are still trapped that still cannot reach safety. Amy in syria, airstrikes hit three hospitals in a rebelheld area of the aleppo, including a u. N. Supported pediatrics center. Unicef said it was the Second Attack on the alhakeen hospital. At least 10 civilians were reported killed. In israel, two palestinian suspects opened fire on civilians in a restaurant in tel aviv wednesday, killing four people. Police have identified the attackers as cousins from the israelioccupied west bank. In the United States, senator Bernie Sanders returned home to vermont wednesday after his rival Hillary Clinton claimed the democratic president ial nomination. Sanders heads to the white house today for a meeting with president obama, who is expected to endorse clinton in the coming days. Obama said he hopes democrats will be able to pull things together over the coming weeks. I have spoken to hillary and bernie at certain points turn the campaign, and i dont know if they asked me for advice, but i did it anyway. [laughter] you know what . It was a healthy thing for the democratic already to have a contested primary. I thought that Bernie Sanders brought you norm is energy and new ideas, and he pushed the party and challenged them. I thought it made hillary a better candidate. Amy we will have more on the race for the white house with green Party President ial candidate jill stein after headlines. Climate activists have delivered more than 90,000 petitions to the Democratic National committee demanding the partys platform for the 2016 race include a nationwide ban on fracking. This comes as voters in butte county, california have approved , a local ban on fracking. Critics say it threatens health on the climate. The United Nations says the government of eritrea has committed crimes against humanity. The crimes against civilians since 1991 include enslavement, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, persecution, rape, and murder all aimed at keeping leadership in power. Eritreans are among those attempting to flee to europe in the greatest refugee crisis since world war ii. The military has confirmed two senior commanders of the militant Group Alshabab have been killed in somalia. The u. S. Africa command said one of the commanders was killed by a u. S. Airstrike in late may, while the other, mohamad dulyadayn died in a somali ground operation. He was accused of masterminding the attacks on a Kenyan University last year that killed 148 people. A former cia officer convicted of a role in the kidnapping of an egyptian cleric under the cias Extraordinary Rendition Program says she is facing extradition to italy. Sabrina de sousa faces four years in prison after an Italian Court convicted her in absentia for the kidnapping of abu omar. Omar was snatched off the street in milan and sent to egypt, where he said he was tortured. If de sousa is imprisoned in italy, it would mark the first time any cia officer involved in the Rendition Program has gone to jail. Here in new york, the powerful leader of one of the largest Corrections Officers unions in the country has been arrested on corruption charges. Norman seabrook, who has led the Correction Officers Benevolent Association for 21 years, was for 21 years. U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara said seabrook steered money for officers pensions into a highrisk hedge fund, in exchange for 60,000 in kickbacks. Arrested norman seabrook, longtime president of the correction officers association, the Union Representing over 9000 Corrections Officers in new york city. We also charged and arrested the founder of Platinum Partners a a new yorkbased hedge fund. They are charged with engaging in a straightforward and explicit bribery scheme. The complaint describes a simple quid pro quo, 60,000 cash kickback to seabrook with promises of even more in exchange for a 20 Million Investment in the hedge fund. Amy and in california, a judge who sparked National Outrage by sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail after he was convicted of three felony counts for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, has quietly started a new sixyear term. Santa Clara County Superior Court judge aaron persky did not face election for the new term because he had no challengers. So his election was canceled. To see our interview with the stanford law professor who has launched a recall campaign against judge persky, go to democracynow. Org. Later in the cast, we will have more on the case. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and i am juan gonzalez. Welcome to our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We turn now to the race for the white house. Hillary clinton has dominated this weeks news after claiming victory in the democratic contest setting her on a path to become the first woman to win a major partys president ial nomination. With only one primary to go, clinton has an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates over challenger Bernie Sanders. But clintons pledged delegate count falls short of the 2383 needed, meaning she will need to rely on the support of unelected superdelegates to officially secured the nomination at next months convention in philadelphia. But Hillary Clinton isnt the only woman aiming to be on the ballot in november. Jill stein is moving closer to securing the green party nomination. On tuesday, she won the green partys primary in california. She has so far won 20 of the 21 contests ahead of the Partys National convention in august in houston. Amy jill stein first announced her candidacy on democracy now last june. She also ran for president on the Green Party Ticket in 2012. In april, she wrote an open letter to Bernie Sanders urging him to consider joining forces to ensure the revolution for people, planet and peace will prevail. Jill stein joins us now from albany, new york, ahead of saturdays nominating convention of the new york green party. Jill stein, welcome back to democracy now can you respond to what happened this week, Hillary Clinton clearly saying in the Brooklyn Navy yard before thousands of people that she has secured the Democratic Partys nomination. She is the presumptive nominee. Yes, and good morning, it is great to be with you. This is kind of what many people have for seen all along. It was kind of in the cards. The democratic machine has very steeply tilted the Playing Field from the beginning by limiting the debates, limiting the exposure of Bernie Sanders, some very questionable election practices, 100,000 voters disappearing from the rolls in brooklyn, some very questionable things that happen in the democratic primary in california where independent voters thought they could just show up at the polls and cast a vote for Bernie Sanders but were unable to buy large numbers. And huge discrepancies between the polls in advance and the actual outcome of the elections. Know, needless to say, the superdelegates have massively tipped the Playing Field. In the announcement the night before by major news organizations that Hillary Clinton had already clinched it, you know, hard to call that just a coincidence. Dustems tailormade from for discouraging people from coming out and exercising their right to vote. This is what the democratic ty has done for decades many decades, in fact. After the election of George Mcgovern in 1972, i should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party, the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that Playing Field, creating superdelegates and super tuesdays that make it very hard for a Grassroots Campaign to prevail. Over the years, the party has allowed principled candidates to be seen and heard, but at the end of the day, sabotaged them in one way or the other, often through fear campaigns and smear campaigns in the same way that bernie is being called a spoiler now and has been for some weeks. Dennis kucinich was redistricted and basically taken off of the political map. We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. Scream remember the dean used against howard dean as a peace candidate. In many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake left while it moves right and becomes more corporatist, the lecherous, imperialist. This is why we say it is hard to have a revolutionary campaign inside of a counterrevolutionary party. That is why we are here at the green party to build a place where a revolutionary movement can truly grow with a political voice. Jill stein, given try for monster reach out to Bernie Sanders because you acknowledge inre are many similarities your program and his, to join forces. What has been the response from the campaign and what are you hopeful for now . The response over the last several weeks has been the same as the response over the last several years. In fact, the green party reached out to Bernie Sanders before the last election to see if you might be interested in running on the Green Party Ballot line. That was in 2011. Basically, we have not heard back yet. So im not holding my breath that we are going to. In fact, i think it was just yesterday that senator sanders he would be meeting with president obama to basically stay the course and to essentially move his campaign inside of the Democratic Party which i think is a mistake and would be essentially an abandonment of the movement that has been built. We have seen principled and powerful efforts to reform the Democratic Party from within over the course of many years. The Democratic Party keeps marching to the right. My hope as senator sanders himself said, this is a movement, not a man. My hope is that the movement will continue. We have offered i have offered, basically, to put everything on the table and to see how we can Work Together and take inwhat it would order for that to happen. Amy lets go to Bernie Sanders lets talk about that from and it. Lets go to Bernie Sanders last july speaking at the u. S. Hispanic chamber of commerce and was asked if he would run on a Third Party Ticket if he failed to win the democratic nomination. If it happens that i do not when that process, what i run outside the system . No, i made a promise i would not and i will keep that promise. And the reason for that is i do not want to be responsible for electing some rightwing republican to be president of the United States. Amy that is Bernie Sanders last july. You talked about the possibility of a joint ticket. Iou saying you would mean, you are not the president ial nominee of the green party yet, you are running in different state primaries and conventions, but are you suggesting that the green party would consider him being the president ial candidate whether or not he would consider this . It would obviously take a major change of rules for that to happen. But what i am saying is that if senator sanders made the case that now he understood, after the very disturbing experiences of the last many months in the way he has been mistreated and beaten that by the party, perhaps he has a different view of the potential to create revolution inside of a counterrevolutionary party. Maybe he has come to see the necessity for independent third parties to actually move this movement forward. Ift would be a game changer he made the case that he has come to understand the critical need to build the green party as the political voice of that revolution. If that were the case, i think many things would become possible at that point for making the rule changes. I cannot change those rules, but i can have those discussions with him and lay the groundwork for it. It would probably have to be taken to the green party convention. It in terms of my own view, am a physician, not a politician. I dont have a vested interest in a political career or particular political office. My job is to do everything that i can to create an america and a world that we can live in and that we can survive in. I would be very interested in having this discussion. I am not holding my breath it is going to happen. I think it is important our campaign be plan b, if not for senator sanders, then for his supporters. Juan jill stein, what you say to those who for instance criticize thirdparty efforts as spoiler efforts through out the history of the country ross perot running in the early 1990s with the result that bill clinton was able to defeat republican candidate. And of course, ralph nader in the 2000 race, blamed by some although others disagree that that was the result, for resulting in george bush being elected in 2000 . Let me say first off, this is a problem that could be fixed with the stroke of a pen. This electoral system that tells you to vote against what you are afraid of, and not for what you believe. What we have seen over the years, this strategy has a track record this politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. All of the reasons you were told you had to vote for the lesser evil because you did not want the massive wall street bailouts, off shoring of jobs, the meltdown of the climate, the endless expanding war, the attack on immigrants all of that we have gotten by the droves because well out ourselves to be silenced. Silence is not what democracy needs. We have an election where even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority dont support hillary, they just oppose donald trump. The majority of donald Trump Supporters dont support him, just oppose hillary. The majority are clamoring for another independent or several independent candidate and an independent party and feel they are being terribly miss served and mistreated by the current politics. So to further silence our voices is exactly the wrong thing to do. I will point out, donald trump himself is lifted up by a movement which is very much the product of the clintons policies. The lesser evil very much makes inevitable the greater evil because people dont come out to vote for a politician that is throwing them under the bus. And so we see houses of congress, state house after statehouse slipping from red to blue over the years as the Democratic Party has become the lesser evil party. And donald trump is buoyed up by the policies passed by bill clinton, supported by hillary, that is deregulation of wall street which led to the disappearance of 9 million jobs, 5 Million People thrown out of their homes. Which exported those jobs. That is exactly the economic oppression and stress that has led to this ri