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Is this a bridge too far? tell me your thoughts and digesting this news. >> i think that clare is right, this is an issue that democrats wants to feel energized by and lead our base within the elections. historically, you all know very well, reproductive rights and anti abortion stance has been something republicans have really relied on, even when it was not a mainstream issue, to seek sub port from their base and battlefront states. that something they're going to try again. but democrats are seeing that this idea that we have all talked about so far, the fact that even with donald trump gon...

That narrative could be put out there. but we as latinos need to make sure that we show up. and we also have to understand that this has been happening over 200 years. we know that the history shows that latinos, particularly mexicans, were lynched here in california. about 600 were lynched across the country. so we understand that police killings is our issues, too. however, we need to make it a mainstream issue. >> nicole, broaden this out for me. we are talking specifically about police brutality. how does this apply to bigger questions of justice reform? >> well, what's happening to the la...

Implement renewable energy and the kind of house of the well if you have the workers in the fossil fuel industry and in the of course tourism industry as well so there's kind of a confrontation there isn't there a do you see your protest building the kind of momentum necessary to turn your demands and the public policy. absolutely sir i remember exactly a year guard. i was stretching outside my local m.p.'s office and we had around 50 people there and full of the masses of. global strike we had more than 1500 people in a regional town which is really quite amazing and we've really seen this mo...

Is that's a no it's a very close group to the greens but in any case no matter which candidate you're talking about it really all depends on the content do you feel like let's say the fight against climate change has been adequately represented ever since the european election so are people talking about it enough now or are they talking too much about people. what i think to talk about the climate crisis has certainly increased so that's but it's not by far not enough if you just look at the council conclusions or at least have been produced before sure it's great to see that finally there's ...

The issue where it needs to be, and that is in the mainstream dialogue and conversation in the country? i remember when i was a teenager and we all were protesting the war in vietnam, when i was in high school. when muhammad ali, who was the heavyweight champion of the world, stood up and said, i won't go to the war, it made it a mainstream issue and it added to the anti-war effort. so isn't kaepernick, who's not facing jail or poverty like ali, but by making this stand and then by having the nikes of the world put it in a mainstream commercial, isn't it really advancing the conversation and a...