Speech and look at how he and the Democratic Party plan to confront the trump white house. We will speak to sanders advisor larry cohen, National Nurses united head Roseann Demoro, and californias Senate PresidentKevin De Leon. But first here in marrakesh we speak to Mary Robinson, the former president of ireland. I realized when i read the science, we are running out of time. Has been said often now during this year, were the first generation to fully understand the dangers of Climate Change and the last generation with time to do something about it. And that time is now. Amy that was Mary Robinson a year ago at the climate talks in paris. Now she is saying the United States will become a rogue state if donald trump follows through on his threat to pull the u. S. Out of the paris climate accord. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from cop22 in marrakesh, morocco. A member of Donald Trumps transition team, kansas secretary of state kris kobach, says the team is moving ahead with plans to build a wall across the entire length of the u. S. Mexico border, and to reinstate a registry for immigrants from majority muslim countries. Kobach is an architect of antiimmigrant laws. Following 9 11, he helped design the registry for immigrants from majority muslim countries, known as the National Security entryexit registration system, the system was dropped in 2011 after years of criticism from civil rights groups. On wednesday, carl higbie, a spokesman for the protrump Great America pac, defended the proposed registry by citing world war ii japanese internment camps while speaking with fox newss megyn kelly. We did in world war ii with japanese. Well it what you will youre not proposing we go back to the days of internment camps, i hope. Im not proposing that at all. That is the kind of stuff that gets people scared, carl. Im just saying there is president for it. Im not saying i agree you can be citing japanese enterment camps as preced anything the president elect is going to do. He has to protect americans first. Until we can identify the true threat and where it is coming from, i support it. Amy the wall street journal and the Washington Post have also reported that antimuslim extremist Frank Gaffney has joined trumps transition team. Gaffneys group, the center for security policy, has been labeled a hate group by the southern poverty law center. Gaffney has denied being part of trumps transition team, but did tell politico i look forward to helping the president elect and the National Securityminded team he is assembling in whatever way i can. Students at as many as 100 colleges and universities across the United States wednesday held protests demanding their schools become sanctuary campuses that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities carrying out trumps plan to deport millions of undocumented people. Speaking on 60 minutes sunday, trump vowed to immediately deport up to 3 Million People. During his campaign, trump also said hed reverse president obamas executive orders, which include the program daca deferred action for childhood arrivals which has shielded 750,000 young people from deportation. This is maria maes of columbia university. The am here to demand that president of the university of our school think is a sanctuary campus make the facing story campus and provide the financial undocumented and their ability to work with them. Amy in arizona, the Tohono Oodham nation has said it will fight trumps plan to build a wall across the entire length of the u. S. Mexico border. The native american reservation spans 75 miles of the border, and the Tohono Oodhams Ancestral Lands extend across both arizona and sonora, mexico. This is Tohono Oodham nation vice chairman verlon jose. Over my dead body i do not wish to die, but i wish to Work Together with people so we can theect truly protect homeland of this place they call the United States of america. Not only for my people, not only for our nation members, but for the American People. Amy journalists are also fighting back against trump after he ditched his press pool for the second time in less than a week tuesday night. Its a longstanding tradition in u. S. Politics that president s and president select travel with a pool of reporters. In response, 15 journalism groups from the National Press club to the society of professional journalists wrote an open letter to trump, saying the role of the press pool is critically important to our country. This isnt about access for the press itself, its about access for americans in Diverse Communities across the country. Donald trump also bucked press traditions during his campaign, when he banned journalists from nearly two dozen Media Outlets from covering his events, including the Washington Post. The leaders of the black lives Matter Network have issued their first statement on trumps election. In the statement, they called trump a white supremacist and said today, like every day before it, we demand reparations, economic justice, a commitment to black futures, and an end to the war on black people in the United States and around the world. The work will be harder, but the work is the same. Amy in his first major address in tuesdays election, Bernie Sanders called on trump to drop his chiefnnon as strategist. We will have more on that beach later in the broadcast. Here at the 22nd annual u. N. Climate change summit, known as the conference of parties, or cop22, chinas vice foreign minister has refused Donald Trumps claim that Global Warming is a chinese hoax. Instead, liu zhenmin said if you look at the history of Climate Change negotiations, actually it was initiated by the ipcc thats the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the support of the republicans during the reagan and Senior Bush Administration during the late 1980s. Opponents of donald trump have expanded their boycott of trump casinos, resorts, and hotels to include retailers selling products featuring the trump brand. Using the hashtag grabyourwallet, organizers are targeting 32 Companies Including macys, amazon, and bed bath beyond. The boycott comes as the trump family is accused of cashing in on Donald Trumps election victory. Trumps daughter ivanka appeared alongside her father on 60 minutes wearing a goldanddiamond bracelet from her ivanka trump fine jewelry collection. The Company Later circulated an advertisement for the nearly 11,000 bracelet featuring a photograph of ivanka trumps appearance on the program. Facebook is coming under fire from critics who say the social media giant helped swing the election for donald trump by failing to crack down on an epidemic of fake news articles targeting Hillary Clinton. Such articles drew millions of clicks and featured such phony headlines as fbi agent suspected in Hillary Clinton email leaks found dead in apparent murdersuicide. Facebook said this week it will stop allowing advertisements to fake news sites, but Ceo Mark Zuckerberg has denied the fake news played a role in trumps victories. One member of facebooks board of directors, peter thiel, supported Trumps Campaign with a 1. 25 million donation. Speaking via videostream at a conference in oakland this week, nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that Silicon ValleyCompanies Like facebook have become too powerful. Has enough power to reshape the way we think. Well, i dont inc. I have to describe how dangerous that is. Amy meanwhile, twitter has suspended several accounts of prominent members of the altright movement, criticized for being a haven for white nationalists. But twitter has not suspended the account of steve bannon, Donald Trumps chief strategist and a leader of the altright movement. Feminists and people of color have for years called on twitter to crack down on Online Harassment and abuse. This year, bestselling author and feminist writer Jessica Valenti quit using social media after she received a rape threat aimed at her child. White house officials have quietly admitted that president obama will no longer push for the transpacific partnership, known as the tpp meaning the massive proposed trade deal is effectively dead. It would have encompassed 12 pacific rim nations, including the u. S. And 40 of the global economy. In recent days, malaysia, vietnam, and japan have all backed away from the deal following the u. S. Decision to abandon it after Donald Trumps election. The tpp has faced years of Global Public resistance by those who say free trade deals benefit corporations at the expense of health and environmental regulations. The trade deal was also lambasted by donald trump and Bernie Sanders on the u. S. Campaign trail this year. Lori wallach, director of public citizens trade watch program, said the unremitting push by the Obama Administration for the tpp right through this election helped to elect donald trump, but trump has not derailed the tpp people power united across borders did that. President barack obama is on his final president ial trip overseas this week visiting greece, germany and peru. On tuesday, obama spoke about trumps election in athens. Pres. Obama i do believe separate and apart from any particular election were movement or movement that we are going to have to guard in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them. Meanwhile, the guardian is reporting that president obama will not tighten rules governing the u. S. Drone Assassination Program before Donald Trumps inauguration. The decision will leave trump with the worlds most Lethal Program of targeted killings. The Obama Administration said this year that between 64 and 116 civilians have been killed in drone attacks since obama took office. However, monitoring groups estimate the death toll from dronerelated killings is as much as 10 times higher than that estimate. In syria, activists say the governments renewed Bombing Campaign against eastern aleppo has killed at least 32 people and has destroyed a childrens hospital, a blood bank, and multiple ambulances over the last two days. This comes after syrian or russian bombing destroyed four other hospitals across syria since sunday. Russia has pulled out of the International Criminal court, only one day after the court called the russian annexation of crimea an occupation in a report. Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte said wednesday he might also withdraw from the court. The United States is not a member of the International Criminal court, although, u. S. Officials are currently facing the possibility of being prosecuted by the court for war crimes in afghanistan. Kenya announced its delaying the closure of the Worlds Largest refugee camp for six months following widespread interNational Pressure. As many as 300,000 Somali Refugees live in the dadaab camp, and its closure could force them back into wartorn somalia. Back in the United States, the federal bureau of prisons has extended one of its contracts with the forprofit Prison Company corecivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of america. This comes despite the fact the Justice Department announced in august the bureau would phase out its contracts with private known as Corrections CorporationPrison Companies after finding higher rates of violence, abuse, and neglect in these facilities. In minnesota, Police OfficerJeronimo Yanez has been charged with seconddegree manslaughter for the killing of africanamerican Philando Castile during a traffic stop. Castiles death was livestreamed on facebook by his girlfriend, diamond lavish reynolds, in an extraordinary video in which she narrated the aftermath of the shooting while she was still in the car with a Police Officer pointing a gun at her and her fouryearold daughter as her boyfriend lay dying next to her. Yanez has also been charged with felony charges of endangering the safety of reynolds and her daughter. Its the first time in at least 30 years that a Police Officer in minnesota has faced charges for killing someone while on duty, and comes after nationwide demonstrations protesting castiles killing. And president obama has awarded blackfeet nation tribal leader Elouise Cobell the president ial medal of freedom. She was the lead plaintiff in a landmark 1996 lawsuit claiming the u. S. Department of interior had misspent, lost, or stolen hundreds of billions of dollars meant for native American Land trust account holders dating back to the 1880s. After a nearly 15year legal battle, the u. S. Government settled for 3. 4 billion, the largest government Class Action Settlement in u. S. History. This is Elouise Cobell speaking on democracy now in 2008. In our indian communities, people are living in dire poverty. People that have oil wells pumping in their backyards are not receiving their money. They dont have homes. They cannot send their children to school. It is a very sad condition. It does not take you very long to drive through in Indian Community and see all of these wonderful resources, but seeing our commuties living in dire poverty. After you find out and what we found up this lawsuit is the fact that while the government was just using our money to reduce the national debt. Amy that was Elouise Cobell. She died in 2011. Other recipients of the president ial medal of Freedom Award this year include artist maya lin, actor and environmentalist robert redford, singer and songwriter bruce springsteen, and basketball legends Michael Jordan and kareem abduljabbar. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from marrakesh, morocco, the site of the u. N. Climate talks or cop22, the conference of the parties. Delegates from more than 190 countries are gathered here discussing how to implement the paris accord from last year. But questions are swirling over the future role of the deal following the election of donald trump who has vowed to pull the , United States out of the agreement. Trump is a longtime climate denier. On wednesday, chinas vice foreign minister rejected trumps claim that Global Warming is a chinese hoax. Instead, liu zhenmin said international Climate Change negotiations began in the 1980s. Secretary of state john kerry gave a major speech here in marrakesh. He referenced the election of he referenced the election, but did not mention the president elect by name. I know it has left some here and elsewhere feeling uncertain about the future. I obviously understand that uncertainty. Ande i cant stand here speculate about what policies our president elect will pursue, i will tell you this, and the time that i have spent in public life, one of the things i have learned is that some issues look the little bit different when youre actually in office compared to when you are on