Of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something. And i would ask my mother as my father my grandparents my work why segregation why Racial Discrimination it was the best way it is dont get in a way dont get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma Alabama Police cracked his skull as he led a 600. 00 marchers across a bridge. But thats. What it was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewiss ow
Its been pretty clear that theyve been making some very Good Progress whats happened since then is that the afghan prison ashraf ghani has been informed about this by phone hes now come here to munich for a much more detailed meeting of whats going to happen next and the afghan president was briefed here by the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o y mark kasper the us secretary of defense what we understand is that at some point very soon theyll start a period of 7 days a reduction of violence now thats not a cease fire theyre not using the cease fire word and certainly Afghan Government had wanted it to be a cease fire after that though after that 7 days then were told within another 10 days or so talks should start then between the taliban and all of the rest of the afghan political system the Afghan Government and other afghan Political Parties Afghan Government has been wary about this process all along because theyve been left out of it this has been very much a deal between the
Jeopardy. Its now 10 months since general haftar appended the international communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that that it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement there were needed violations of the truce with the targ
Says is the aftermath sounded it was strikes in the area full of which the who these claim will retaliate to at this hour the quality released the statement saying there was a possibility of what it calls Collateral Damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. Several of the. American drones over the skies of yemen in the last 15 months now it seems to me that they are able to slow down despite that get on they can say that if they start at this stage this means that we are going to end that a new stage of the war the who these claimed the plane was downed with then missile some another say that if thats true it would be a very Significant Development in yemens long running war this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left and now the saudis are there and incapable of finishing the war and settling cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game c
We speak to the indigenous scholar and activist nick estes. Then to the acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy on the crisis in kashmir and growing authoritarianism in india and around the globe. There is no voice thats coming o out of kashmir. Thats why i said the silence is the loudest sound. Everyone, whether its the major politicians, whether its boys who throw stones on the e stree, whether it is businessmen, lawyers everyone is in jail, even now. You u know, thenen they cut t off phones. They cut off the internet. I mean, can you imagine . When has it been done before, 7 million peopople, communication lockdown . Amy all that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. In this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. He is s a coffounder of the indigenous Resistance Group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. I talked to him earlier this year about his book our h