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i'm mcglochan, doha. the top stories here on al jazeera and millions of women in the us are expected to lose access to abortion. soft of the supreme court struck down a ruling make it a constitutional right. the conservative dominated court voted in favor of overturning the roe. v wade ruling, which was passed almost 50 years ago in 1973 political hang reports for washington, dc. ah, for some this is what they've been working to for almost 50 years. as the supreme court decides access to an abortion is no longer a constitutional right. now, the states can decide. and 26 states are likely to ban abortions in the coming weeks and months. once those words were read that the decision of roe v wade was reverse. i had to kind of this mix of release and excitement. it's really hard to describe. but a bunch of us to start bursting into tears. i outside the supreme court pro
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abortion rights activist, cried enraged at a court. many of them consider illegitimate. confronted the anti abortion rights activists. i well, both acknowledged, they had no hope of changing minds. it's hurtful, there are women birdseye, there people who are going to go to jail for things they can't control in their own body because people who make the laws don't understand. i will not, not being pro white because science is on our side. president joe biden was quick to condemn the decision. it's a sad day for the court and for the country. now with ro gone, must be very clear. the health and life of women, this nation, are now at risk. this, this isn't basically said that the robi way decision was simply wrong. it is highly unusual for supreme court to overrule precedent, especially one of this importance. so this court is unlikely to change its mind. now the focus turned to congress to try and get a law. the guarantees,
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abortion access power concedes nothing without a demand. never has never will. do i think it's realistic that they will restore abortion rights. if we sit home, hell, know, do i think if we come out and raise bloody hell, if we flood these streets and don't go home? absolutely, we can compel them to restore legal abortion on demand across the country and nothing less than that is acceptable. polls showed the majority of americans didn't want this decision to happen, how much they care will determine if this is a permanent new reality. in america. article haine al jazeera at the supreme court . there's been a 2nd earthquake in afghanistan just 3 days off to the most destructive quake and 20 is 5 more people were killed in the overall death toll is at least 1100 people. the governor of ukraine's eastern land screech and says his forces will be withdrawing from the city of fir. the nuts, russian troops are now in control of most of the city and a close to surrounding. it's just a city of least chance both cities have been under intense bob, bob,
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bob and for weeks many of ukrainian forces is for janette sca hold up inside the assault chemical plot where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering from russian air strikes. the president of ecuador has accused indigenous lead us of seeking to overthrow his governments. the national assembly will hear a request for his removal. late on saturday, demonstrations have been taking place for the last 12 days with indigenous groups demanding cuts to fuel prices and price caps on food. the government accused the protested of attacking an army food convoy with the main leda says they only uh, want an answer to their demands. most of kathy wilson tunnel is this will, literally, i was central objective, is to resolve our economic conditions. what if president loss or falls or nothing changes? we have not come here to destabilize what we need results. yes. what the president has put forward as a scenario that they wanted to stabilize yet. they want to carry out to cool that we have not come for that. so we have come for results because our families don't
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have enough money. elk grove is demick, one of the you and has concluded, israeli security forces 5, the shot that killed alger, jed, listerine, i work lay the you and human rights office says its investigations found the bullet did not come from indiscriminate foreign by om palestinians as initially claimed by israeli authorities already up to date with headlines. we have more news count here on out there. right after witness. ah, a
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ah. this is already been really day, you're really good. and we do they raise money for our fran off? i don't know what a student with this is where we're owning our hillbilly. we're taking pride in the way we look down to leave the really nice lane. they help the program with what is your billing?
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let me know you with modern time. this is what we're calling arguably here. i think i can better leg. oh, hi, dr. well, you're left a live one. i'm not those last not member named dictum bag. whack, whack my interview, go talk about the phone. i was going on on their side to amber, go full. so brian doing about with her to marry. you was math it the biology male. you got to get to know me a lot better to. all of these are represent the things that we fear is america a did, does that and that is have but he don't have well house i grew up in appalachia watching my grandfather is like he ha, oh, in the beverly hillbillies. ah, he does. he shows growing up, i'm gonna go with granite, you can't shoot a whole much. there's
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a long history of stereotyping that has plagued the appalachian region. yeah. now the dumb trav voters really or the dumb trombone. she is the certainly all sound as tacky and as stupid as mind blowing. we ignorant as he does, i in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. i was making a film about portrayals of appalachian people and pop culture news coverage about the region exploded, and suddenly every one was talking about the great divide, blue versus red, urban versus rural in one region, my hometown region was singled out as the reason for trump's rise, my hometown kemper, kentucky right in the heart of the appalachian coal fields. though when most people hear my accent, they assume i'm from the south. appalachian in the region where the history and culture that is complicated and all sound the term hillbilly was born here. and
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more recently, the idea of the heart of trump country ah, ah ah, ah, this is me. during the election. this was my facebook page. ah, this is my granny shelby ah, around the time of the election. this was her facebook page. ah, donald trump grabbing me, i just can't believe my grandmother posted this on my wall. i may be the only
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person from kemper kentucky and los angeles. almost everyone i know hear, despises trump, but back home the perspective is quite different. the 2016 election may painfully clear the disdain that urban liberals have toward so much of rural america, particularly appalachian i relate to both worlds. as a progressive feminist and filmmaker, i was curious to visit my hometown during this device. it political moment. her we are on our way to meet house holler, which is where i grew up and where i lived until i was 18 years old. when i was accepted to the university of kentucky. and i packed up the u haul and
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moved out in. this is me when i was 9, i won the spelling bee that year. i was a member of the speech and drama team. i was on the homecoming court. i graduated at the head of my class. there's a photograph from the day i moved out. i had no idea when i was standing in that driveway. what i was about to experience moving from rural kentucky to urban kentucky was the greatest culture shock of my life. people identified me as someone from the mountain, the reactions to the way i talk or insulting and made me feel silent. i moved to los angeles years later and to this day, people fill out. where'd you get that accent? where are you from?
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oh my goodness gracious, this is me health color and my childhood home. right before us we moved out of that house in 1998. is that a rebel flag right there in the middle? yeah, this was my bedroom up here. my dad did all this brick work for the record. this flagpole was not here. when we lived here and there certainly was no confederate flag flying high on our property. my mom was a nurse and my dad worked in the coal mines until he got laid off. he became a brick mason. he once said to me that people would look at him and my mom as embodying the american dream. they went from living in a single wide trailer to building their dream home. i felt fortunate as
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a child for most people in my hometown at that time, there were basically 2 job opportunities. cole and wal mart. i work at wal mart. it gets hard times out here and then gets breath best and you know, when or when you know, and none of you know me and the best way you can just try to make me back in the hills of floyd county, kentucky. you will find some of the poorest places in america one wrote out, lloyd county, i'm going that's right. next door to pike county where i education is the only way out. when i was 9 years old, i saw this 48 hours news program which made sweeping generalizations about people from my region. like we were all to be pity. so this is your room. i was
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a little crowded near that show made me feel shame for being from eastern kentucky during the war on poverty in the 60s. the federal government spent more than $3000000000.00 to build highways, connecting the appalachian hills to the rest of america. but a university of kentucky study found that many residents can't even afford the gas . it would take to get away every day. that's probably the struggle for the things many people take for granted that tv news program had a lasting impact on me. it was the 1st time i saw my community portrayed and for what trash, a legacy that goes way back. and this is going to gratian to they hear and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. but mrs. johnson took to the roots of appalachian property, the morgan county kentucky. the war on poverty is complicated,
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while it helped some people by establishing social welfare programs like food stamps and medicaid. it led to an influx of volunteers and journalists from around the world and their efforts were confusing and troubling to some folks. like my dad and his 2 sisters who were children at the time living in eastern kentucky was one day a school. somebody came in with a truck and gave a ever student. they are a pair of shoes. just half the gym was full of ugly shoes and that's what the government, i guess, thought we needed. and it was an interesting to have people coming in to look at this area. but it became very evident that it's, it was critical. and we did said on the porch and we weren't barefoot. that was just what we did. so when i say the film and there is a depiction of suppor appalachian mountain people, and it really irritates me because i didn't see us is that where my granny shelby live
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a you, i'm good. i'm just putting this my thing on me and then i'm gonna give you her. hi my baby. it's good to see. oh, it's great sweet. you granny, this, let's click that on your bell so that it sounds, i don't know if bill actually ha hi. hello, i'm gonna greet you get right to let you keep my her brian. all right, granting so see. perfect. because otherwise is roosters are competing rooster here, bird. so this 11 penny, tony. brewster touching you to actually sell me on you to yeah, l a for song. oh, what you find me like sam phillips? he said. all stager some talking. now kidding. bullshit trump cap. he's been wearing trunk shirt. trump cap. which will have
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a, a, a, so he went with us to the rally. you're going to look back at this selection and say, this is by far the most important vote that you've ever chose for any one at any time. because it was unfathomable to me, the trunk could be hillary. i just could not understand why my family, who voted for brock obama supported him. what is it about donald trump? that makes he want him to be the 45th president of the $100.00 states? well, the man knows how to make money. no, he is. he's got over $10000000.00. she has know how to make money. so i believe you could actually bring the jobs back and create jobs. i'm not saying probably the same stopped. it should have been say, the locker room talk about aubriana,
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which i've not met anybody who hasn't done something similar to that. and they just blow it out of proportion. did you all expect to be this enthusiastic about the election because it's been very intriguing to see some of these posts that had been going around. i was a democrat all my la and then primary. i went and changed to republican just so i could vote for trump during the caucus here for mountainous about that i for i'm from really had no one have are back before. isn't just the same old thing empty promises. yeah. now, you know, they're just too much stuff on hillary, just all the investigations and stuff like that. so what we had to loose vote trop, reachable for. i voted for from o, shang god,
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ash i did you all. water was getting him sour. looks all i know i did full disclosure. i did a vote by mail application. i did the ballot who's i must not, not a virtue you girls just rap. i should have g upside them. hadn't deal newbert and lady bert and you'd be lot lot smarter. thought okay, i appreciate you. are we still? yeah, he did that. i even if it did lead to me becoming a radical progressive, we still love you no matter what. oh yeah. we did. i mean you need me. forgot about that. ah, this is interesting. this is
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a story that the city paper did in like saying 10. i think the question wise, where do you see yourself in 10 years? i would have been 18 here. and i said, angela. and that's what happened. my family has lived in eastern kentucky for 6 generations. he was a co minor. my grandparents on both sides worked in the coal industry. you were probably 6 or 8 months old. my whole life i was told to get out. i never questioned why. i went to serve my country, but people just it rode. de leon talked over me and like i wasn't even there, they sang just because i grew up in the city and they talk with more pronounced words. especially when i no fancy went after certain california. that was the worst. i was looking for the the brotherhood under pre up
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ah, do you think that was all somehow related to their stereotypes of mountain people or to? yes, yes, will they? they still think northerners always did that. they'd always think that they're above you. bailey, hillary said that we were all deplorable, according to her, we're all nursing. we're a bunch of back woods, people that are scum under her feet. you could put half of trump supporters into what i call the basket of deplorable right. people in california and all these other sites look at the hillbillies like lot me, they have certain perception above what i was, whatever they see on t. they. well, bobby, i empathize when i was that youngster at 18 years old going from the holler to the
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big city, lexington kentucky. that's how i felt, you know, them, i was a journalism student. you know, journalists are supposed to speak with a mid western accent, which is meant to be no accent, so that you can pick up and move. and it basically just like sterilized as any kind of culture or regional uniqueness. that might be an i was told you've got to speak correctly, which man i was b incorrectly. and of course, i believed it like will the teachers, the professionals, you know, i was working for the npr affiliate. i worked at the city newspaper of the editor and student paper. i was the entered t v. stay wondering, change for you were the what you were the hall right. ah, i would have never hurt him any more than i'd heard it june, bug nice eggs that sound like ours go. you got this kind of like florida panhandle playing going where's what you really want is more of a savannah? actually i don't that other book on november,
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arkansas kind of live. it pulls by half of the constant in arkansas, alabama. yep. you mailed that real one. i mean, we're going to have same time and again from these media portrayals is that it produces shame and self hatred. i mean our, with a lot of young people who don't want people to know where they are from. they want to change the way they speak. they want to escape the region as soon as possible because they're ashamed of it. as somebody who grew up in the region, i have always felt several layers of being the other. always describe it is feel like a perpetual immigrant because we've been here so long. i mean, my family has been an avalanche of for 8 generations. to some extent were still treated like immigrants were treated like we're from another country. when we go out into the rest of the united states, such a strange phenomenon,
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people speak slowly to us and expect that we're not gonna, you know, get common references. a woman once asked me if i knew johnny carson was, you know, because i was from appalachian she didn't like we had phoebe's or nobody was literally apalachee was a construction, it was a social and cultural invention. for example, iowa is a construction to the difference between iowa and appalachian is, you know, when you're in iowa because there's a sign there that says, welcome to iowa. there is no such sign with appalachian everywhere in the world. there are half the latches and therefore everywhere you go, there are hillbillies. if we think of the hillbilly as sort of an outcast group, this your 1st trip to new york, i collected an article in which the official chinese news agency criticized a group of chinese people living far away from big gain. as the equivalent of
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hillbillies. everybody has an appalachian everybody has somebody that they can feel superior to. we all do bad. why the hillbilly is the image of a guy with a corn cob pi remote ignorant, barefoot lazy, and so has really been a way of legitimate eating. the dispossession of the mountains, it's a region of people who are praised, not part of the american dream. they don't really deserve the kind of resources and wealth lie beneath the land of appalachian particularly coal. it's only a region of trash, so why not trash it? in the flooded valley, so the appalachians about 20 people are dead. 20000. they've been moved out of helicopters and robots to blame for the flash. flooding is being placed on extreme
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erosion side, coal operations, strip mining, enlarge tree clearing that allow the water to cascade rivers with great speed. there were immediate promises of temporary housing from the federal government, but no trailers have arrived yet. nobody gave us anything we weren't. but then we do need help initially when we do need help. why do we need to go? like if we can't get the coal industry created the towns we grew up in. it was the centerpiece of life and the livelihood and identity of so many folks in my home town, while it sustained their families. it ravished the land without call. you have very little. if anything in our area like this area should be very happy that corporations such as ours, us steel and others are here. for decades, all companies came to where we grew up and took out truckload after truckload of coal. the mining calls floods and destroyed home and left our creeks orange and
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lifeless. they brand, you got anything to say, you know, going, going got anything, display that the news media, my my granny. i remember he's mac, the plug, you know, plus 77 plus took home, floods that, you know, people had to raise their houses and they suffered deeply from that and didn't get support from the government. like migrating i remember her whole life was fighting for support and stuff. this is a flood plain here. what we wrong is for fema to come in and help us. i mean people, this is, this is showing. it's more than i don't care about people that live down here in these areas that feel water to support it was around,
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but i would call the newspaper and get them to come over and take pictures of the government is supposed to be all for bad people but that is the way the patients when they get an office, they know who's take care of because they're the ones take care of them. i certainly didn't agree with my grand and politics, but i knew she had a long list of resentments against the government, which helped me understand her point of view. you know, the minor is to a certain it is so down and they've been treated so badly that they haven't been voted. they haven't been going out and voting like they can. and that includes members of their family that have left the mining business. let members of the family they've left. oh, i think at that time if somebody would have asked her, would you ever bow for someone who would make
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will channel dessert with me. so robin in doha reminder of our top news stories. 0 ah, plenty of moves and demonstrators have been celebrating in the united states and for the supreme court voted in favor of overturning the road versus wait ruling. which made abortion a constitutional right almost 50 years ago. though it massive all that was massive disappointment and anger among supporters of abortion rights after the ruling was announced to us present, joe biden said it was a very sad day for the country. make no mistake. this decision is a combination of a deliberate effort over decades upset balance of our law. it's a realization of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the supreme court. in my view, the court has done what is never done before. expressly take away a constitution, right? it is so fundamental to so many americans has already been recognized. republican
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members of congress, hail the ruling hasn't been meant as victory. the people have won a victory. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. this great nation canal live up to its core principle that all are created equal, not born equal, created equal. in other news, there's been a 2nd. cricket has gone on just 3 days after the most destructive quake in 20 years, 5 more people were killed in the aftershocks on the roll. death toll has now reached 1100 people. the governor of ukraine's eastern hands regents as his forces will have to leave the city of several the nets. can russian troops have taken control of most of the strategic city. at least 18 people are being killed while storming the board and separating the spanish enclave of malea from morocco stains
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at about 130 migrant succeeded in breaching the sentence around 2000. they made the attempt. the un has concluded that israelis security forces fired the shot that killed out. was there a journalist hearing about actually the you and human rights office says its investigations found the bullet did not come from an indiscriminate firing by palestinians as initially claimed by israeli authorities. those are the headlines about ramon use in half now to stay with us. ah, you owe the story and listen to the story that are laid to the this is harland county usa. i saw this movie when i was 19 era guy to go out on the picket lab and we'll wender contract if they'll out stand it. it was the 1st time i remember seeing the people of eastern kentucky represented the dignity on film. oh,
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this film inspired me to make documentaries. that was like an aha moment. i mean, i grew up in a rural place in public education and it wasn't, you know, a space of like radical thought or ideas. and i think that that very much set the tone for me and for the direction of my life. and i was interested in telling stories of marginalized and vulnerable people because i grew up in a place where a lot of people are marginalized and a lot of people are vulnerable. i mean, it's really incredible the way that media works and how the stories can get told in the immediate aftermath of the civil war. the local color writing presented appalachia as a sort of quirky and quaint peoples. but as industrialists become interested in the region for minerals, for lumber, for coal, the people that were living there could also be seen as a kind of potential threat or at least a interference with their economic plans. and so
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a new conception emerges of them as a dangerous and threatening people who might threaten civilization itself or not just talking about hillbillies. i eat people who live in the mountains for talking about poor people who live in the mountains. they're the ones who are going to call your throat regional and national newspapers promote them out and people as dangerous and threatening if they stand in the way of progress. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. you can still hear that. that piece of music. and so you'll lock the car doors just in case the car were to break down. hey, john leo, for the layout lane. in deliverance. there is this horrifying rain. oh, well, now, if you hear that lick on the banjo,
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it brings up this image of right ah, in deliverance, there is an acknowledgement at the beginning, the film with the images mountain being blown up, an acknowledgment of the city's exploitation of the rural gall rate. this god damn landscaper. oh louis my extreme point of view agreements. are you nervous the a little bit? are you nervous? programmed? oh them. oh, i've always been that way. this is used to be my classroom. we had to direct look for acres and somehow i come in our class got to look and it picked tools out. i wouldn't the same is the same person that i was when they put that mike up head mark that and it, and it kind of shop,
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ah, i think one of the things that makes deliverance work on lots of levels is that billy's character and my character were able to sort of connect having that seen work really put this film on a different level. which was the break of my life. i guess that's probably one of the great moments ever been on the screen. is there anyone out there who hasn't seen the motion picture delivers? i've seen it a large number of times. well, there is a moment there when he plays the banjo with a a retarded boy, and they suddenly discover each other. and ronnie plays the guitar and they do dueling banjos. and i guess probably one of the most electric moments on the screen, i get goose pimples. just thinking about it. it was nominated for academy award like 40 them annual academy awards presentation. and it's nearly always listed in the top 15 or 30 of the best films of all time. again,
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with how much money did you make for your role in deliberate and they'd never been. mm. i wish i would, could be an actor. i just let to go to latin. yes. that's my doing and hope to now get or but i don't want to happen in billy was only in the 4th grade when the directors came to his school. he had no
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idea how the movie would be used or that he would become a symbol for the entire region. deliverance for billy his hope and his hendrick, me when i 1st seen the movie, i didn't know that part was going to be in there. and i thought to myself, the people that's going to see that movie is going to fight man. it destroys robbing county. ah, in the sports bar that has a white trash beam. it's called the rescue mall. it connection to me is taking someone else's culture and explaining, you know,
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and use it for your profit. there's a lot of ironic redneck she and i think it only bothers me in the same way. the white people are turning their black through, adopting, and pop culture, those. it's not your experience with along with the same day when you called the white trash party, i thought we just made the biscuit. so anyway, this normally band with, when you get your ideas about what, what trash looks like, wow, i see a lot of imagery on the internet. i see what are they called memes or means internet media. somebody will put up a picture of like, torn jeans on here with the local white trash, you know, port mainly of char turned into, you know, drinking glass, you know, like irrational. and i saw a lot of deliverance when i was kid. ah, if a new hipster like what really? no like white trash like white hair. yeah,
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absolutely. a lot of hipsters that are maybe dressing like this. don't even know where apalachee is or understand any of the issues about it. oh, you poor west virginia and still have to like my coal to get your electricity. when like 14 percent of the power of new york city comes from west virginia cole, these hipsters, these millennials are going to be the people running our country. and do they know, like that, say, for instance, west virginia has the highest rate of overdose desk in the nation from opioid use, but they're wearing our clothes and trying to look our look in can vegetables and drink moonshine? ah, are the co option of politicians?
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there's a long history of here. mcconnell and the senate won his 1st election, running a tv ad in which he used hound dogs. he played the hillbillies switched mich, my 7th, george w bush's seen as a redneck. that's exactly right. yeah. nice child privilege. totally different clubs, ones on the shock ones one, the country club is a cultural politics to the success of more right wing groups in this country. and it hinges in part and depiction of white working class people. so from the right, you get this depiction as the salt of the earth. you know, the people that we lift up and from the left, you get the stereotypes of vicious li voted against their own economic interest because of guns because of gays. and because of god, the 3 cheese their own behavior is precisely what people on the right point to
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in enlisting white working class folks for very right wing cos it. i mean they have contempt for the core, the country for middle class for rural america. and they're now admitting it, it's really important that people who consider themselves progressive, understand what harm they're doing. i'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key in the cold country. because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. we're making a movie about media representations and appalachian american people. so what do you think is important? 2016. 0, man for warren is a mom saying the jobs they really were, the commons is gone. it's got really bad. a lot of folks think about the election. oh, anyway, it goes, there's no way, no co mind and is going to lose a lot of kentucky. people jobs and this is from my goal. lot of people
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not be able to like it's for their family. i really wanted to be present in united states now. well, i don't want you to try because he is very rude to women in this world. people can't help the lightest they all are right and races. what do you think about his promise to make america great. again, things big rationalize. do you identify hillbillies or? yeah, i'm here. leave my keys are here. the only thing i me
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i why now, but it didn't work on i don't don't mess with the color out after you do it. we can go and make adjustments, but i don't actually think it's at blue. really beautiful. you know, it's so rare that you see appalachian through the eyes of an appalachian person in like new york city or, you know, in the new york times or something. there are storytellers here who are able to critically examine their communities and to how powerful and honest stories. and you don't necessarily always have to find somebody. and to tell that story in memory of the black coal mine and i like to show their hands down the fact that there is a small black community given in this place that i didn't even know about for all my years of living. and crazy law was pretty much completely changed off and it's really got me in touch with my community and just help people don't have to be alone in the world that they live. i day,
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the girl in college, her parents really races. obviously, she is why her parents had a very negative view of black people, lazy and dangerous, all kinds of stuff. anna, we had it in secret, and we did it almost 2 years and her parents pulled out of the school. once they found out that we were dating and i haven't seen her since 2012000 really a heartbreaking thing for me. it's tiring to have to have who you are. as a person, everyone should be able to say who they are as a person. that was always very big tomboy, went to school, developed a crush on a girl. like i was laying my bed and just crow every night cuz my entire family, they found out they would hate me like just disowning. sometimes people come in and they haven't really had to hear what it's like for a l g
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b t q used to be discriminated against our for a person color in the group to be discriminated against. so i think it's creating a bridge of understanding between young people and their own community. there is a guardian article that came out about my home town. they were doing a series about poverty in america. they said something like the average yearly income for a household in lee county. kentucky is something like $13000.00 or $14000.00 a year unless you are over the age of $65.00. and then that drops down to like $6000.00 something dollars a year. not only is this a place where people are so overwhelmingly poor, but also it's a place in america where people are overwhelming, the watt and the vast majority of them always vote republican. i'm not conservative, but i think it's wrong to say,
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oh you guys are stupid, you're just doing it to your sales republican. so your student to your sale, that's not the case. it just seems like you know it's, they're not blaming you for being republican and they're by me for being on greg. if they're not bunny for that and they're not by me for that. and you're lazy. after this article came out, there are all these people who outside the community are saying thing, but this article is really sad. i feel so sorry for the people who live here. ok, like this person said, the brown people get up and move to places, the opportunities, which is what brought people always do. it's the brain drain. they're telling people to do the same stuff that teachers said to me when i was going to high school and bite, well, you got to get out. you can't, you don't need to be here. you've got to get out. there's nothing here. ah,
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me there's like around have something else. so yeah, i don't know. i don't know what to tell you to do. why not for you to just have like a big head. yeah. like say, if we were going to do a montage of the you know, gotcha. gotcha. all right. voting and finally got in the race for president motors, head of the whole issue between the 1st woman president and a business man running for his 1st elected office. 2015 has truly been unlike any political race we've ever covered before. trump was eager to out surveys that show him, gaining ground. lot of good falls out there to what still unknown is the outcome on election day. now, i don't know where we are. what's up in america? let's pick a president, y'all been on time for security, nettie, hold on. ah,
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a new hilder. this is real where we did this is the most important election i've ever participated in it before. i really didn't care who voted for this time. i know lots of people with i voted stickers on people seem to be voting a guest here, but we'll see they're like moving up in the morning. what kind of hang over really b o is in error for that. well, you're going to like break it or something. went out with, well, i'm buying the hilary, i get a lot more votes in kentucky than people blank. yeah, she's not a whim, but there are lots of little blue dots all over this red site. so i was for
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my daughter's, i was for me and jason and all the couples i know who were able to get married, filing a lot of laurie a decision. well, you did america. donald trump wins west virginia and it's a state where his message deployed. well, it's a whole industry is taking a, beating the map, filling in 19 electoral votes to trump at this early hour. a . it is such a hard question because i love these people because people are people. they have people that built this country. these are amazing people, so i would, i just hope my family and i historic what's unfolding right now. it's not over yet
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. we're watching every state, every electoral, without a doubt. one of the most momentous nights in american political history are in the bank here. secretary and then you want to pull out, you say, here's the issue, law to red rock, they're smaller, but they're only the only 24 percent of the boat for ah, who all those parcels in hill? what casanova lee? oh gosh. this you lost and i was happy. i'm happy that i support the and i'm happy that my vote helped him get there. i just really believed that hillary clinton was gonna be the 45th president and the united states. i believed
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it so much and i wanted it so badly. you had your hopes on being to be able to see the 1st woman president now voted for. then your dream was crushed and i can accept it. you know, i'm not in that camp of like this is a deal breaker and i want to like in my relationships with people who voted for donald trump because we all know people who voted for donald trump. and i know another problem that was clearly revealed in this campaign is that hillary was unable to appeal to rural folk. and i think that hurt her. i want to see like what a girl could do, but i don't want hailey no way up. when i run pris, it's can all vote me shall be girls. ronnie, i will be a bigger who are don't touch that. i won't live that looks like it would get. it looks like it might
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burn low, laboring your laundry. did you hear my stomach growl? i had i i've been on about the 500 calorie died if that last 4 days. it's not intentional. i'm just, i'm just in the i haven't eaten a whole lot granny. so i am starving. i'm very excited about this fine mill that you are preparing for us. i had the cook couldn't. when i was growing up, were you responsible for making mills for your siblings and your family were mother and daddy now love them. wow. but mother didn't believe that girls should get medication. she wanted me to stay there and take care of kids and washed dish. and sweet mop floors and stuff rather than of school. i just wanted to experience laugh. that's what my dream was. get no jobs,
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pre enough will make something live myself. i have not heard about you. i've never heard you say that you had a consciousness about leaving. it makes me feel like i am leaving your dream in a way, you know what could be that want and desire that you had and didn't get that. that gets transferred to mom and, and amanda and i like as it came to us, we had that opportunity. you know, you know, i'm so grateful for granny. i can't tell you the m m is to be able to go to school. it's so meaningful. yes. because everybody doesn't get an opportunity, you know, the o apple at the wound and enjoy and a poem and not of complication. but you cannot know a place without loving and hating and fill in everything in between. something
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inside you has to crack to live in the lot. so your eyes and brain and heart can just properly those attempting to portray the region must become immersed in the region and a special kind of way. they must go to the mountains, drive these one in rome. i must sit and joe for a while with folk from the front porches, must attend weddings and high school graduation. they must study the history of the place and come to understand them a sin and awake and look at the lands on the faces of the people. the calluses on their hands and not understand the gestational and generational complexities of poverty and culture. i must stand for a while else. smell the air started the gravestones on the hillside that awake inscriptions of name among the people. not just,
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not very ah, look in the line. sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. and other times you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding. oh, and then to purchase 300 years of danish colonization and international interest in the islands resources grace, the younger generation. imagine a new fiance, student, and a politician as they tackle h l t issues with that telephone before the fight agreement, witness documentary on al jazeera.
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hello, the weather slot, you set fare across the middle east. as per usual, lots of hazy sunshine, baby, a little lifted dust and sand, just coming down across the east side of the rabbit, potentially over the next day or so. but nothing too much to speak of. 45 celsius here, dough hobby, a touch warm. as we go on into sunday. we have got some showers further north coming outs of central and eastern parts of turkey. heading towards the caucuses. what a 2 of those showers may be up towards armenia. georgia could be on the sharp side, little bit, a localized flooding possibility. they started the rain for afghanistan, $32.00 celsius in kabul. it will stay dry here. i last you try to across northern parts of africa. we have got possibility of one or 2 showers just around the font west, but again, nothing too much to speak up where to where the further south typically across. so southern parts of west africa, but the showers are creeping back into southern areas of molly into martini,
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maybe into senegal once again. easily waste driving those showers into the heart of africa. central africa see some rather wet weather. northern parts of the democratic republic of congo also sings abroad. wet weather, scattering of showers, just radish nafrica no to save as they should be still one or 2 showers into south africa. we could do with more that radius of the process of moving north. ah, how do you states control information in china local go, if you tried to search the war tenement, we find it is trying to make the whole country forget how did the narrative improve public opinion? the headlight died and that allowed the children to continue to die to how is this is in journalism, we framing the story. i am here to duck you man. the war crimes committed by winter and his resume. the listening post dissects the media on al jazeera in germany's
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