08/24/16 08/24/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! pres. obama: as i think anybody can see, the streets, much less the inside of the homes, people's lives have been offended by this blood. amy: as president obama tours the flood devastation in baton rouge, we will look at why climate activists are protesting plans by the interior department to lease off as much as 24 million acres in the gulf of mexico for oil and gas leasing. the lease sale is taking place

in the superdome -- the very building where displaced new portland's residence sought residents your lens sought shelter during hurricane katrina. we will look at two new stunning climate studies. one suggests it may soon be too hot in most of the world's cities to host the summer olympics. another study estimates the millennial generation will lose trillion in lifetime income due to climate change. then to the campaign trail. pres. obama: african-american communities of suffered -- mr. trump: african-american communities have suffered. to those i say the following, what do you have to lose by trying something new like trump? what do you have the louisiana go amy: as donald trump has to spend his days, we go to his campaign chief created an online

haven for white nationalists. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on tuesday, president obamama visited louisiana for the first time since last week's devastating floods that killed 13 people and damaged 60,000 homes. the red cross has called it the worst natural disaster in the united states since hurricane sandy. it also marked louisiana's worst flooding sincece hurricane katrina. some neighborhoods still have up to two feet of standing water . president obama spoke in baton rouge. pres. obama: i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here i louisiana. i come here first and foremost to say their prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones, as i think anybody who can see just the

streets, plus the inside of the homes, peoeople's lives haveve n enended by t this flood. amy: while many climate scientists have tied the historic floods in louisiana to climate change, president obama made no link during hihis remar. while obama was in baton rouge, he also met with the family of alton sterling who was killed by police on july 5 and with the families of three police officers who were killed byy former u.s. marinene in a mass shooooting in baton rouge on juy 17. but while president o obama was speaking in baton rouge, four environmental activists were arrested in new orleans on tuesday while occupying the headadquarters of the e interior departmentnt's bureau of oceann energy management in new orleans. they were protesting the interior department's decision to go ahead with a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the gulf of mexico for oil and gas exploration and development. the sale is being held in the superdome -- the very building where thousands of displaced residents of new orleans sought refuge during hurricane katrina

11 years ago. we will have more on the protests with antonia juhasz after headlines. in breaking news from italy, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake has killed at least people, with the 38 death toll expected to rise. the quake struck the central italy town of norcia collapsing homes and buildings as people were sleeping. rescue crews arere currently pulling people o out of the rubble. this comes as deadly extreme weather continues around the world. inin india, at least 300 people have died in widespread flooding acroross eastern a and central states. the flooding, cacaused by heheay rains, has closed schools, dedestroyed roadsds and submergd , hundreds of towns and villages. meanwhile, in philadelelphia, pennsylvania, at least four people died during last week's heat wave, which broke four separate temperature records. and in washington state,

gogovernor jay i inslee hahas dd a state of emergency in nearly two dozen counties amid raging wildfires, which he blamed on climate change saying -- "our forests and wild lands are under attack from climate change." wildfires are also raging across parts of california. we will have more on climate change later in the broadcast with climamate scientist kirk smith. in news from the campaign trail, a new associated press investigation has revealed that while hillary clinton servrved s secretary of state, more than half of the private citizens she met had donated toto the clinton fofoundation. the analysis shows atat least 85 of 1 154 people hillary clinton either had schcheduled p phone r in-person meetings with h were fofoundation donors. this does not include meetings clinton held with u.s. or foreign government workers or representatives, only private citizens.

these 85 donors contributed more than $150 million to the clinton foundation combined. hillary clilint has slammmmed te investigation, saying it cherry-picked information and that it "relies on utterly flawed data." but the ap says it has been asking for the schedules for three years and that what has been released thus far covers only half of her four-year tenure. this comes as the clinton foundation says it would spin off its international programs if clinton wins the presidency. former president bill clinton is also said he will resign from the foundation if hillary clinton wins. repeatedlyp has attacked her over the clinton foundation, calling fofor it toe shut down. thisis is trump speaking in austin, texas. mrmr. trump: it is impossible to figure out where the c clinton foundationon ends and the state department begins. clear thahatbundant

the clintons set up a a business toto profit frfrom public offic. they sold access and specific actitions by and really for, ii guess, the making of large amounts of money. the specific crimes committed to carry y out that enteterprise ae too numerous to cover in this speech. amamy: donald trump himself has donated $100,000 to the clinton foundation in the past. a new "washington post" analysis of hillary clinton's august schedule finds that she has raised at least $32 million over the last three weeks through a series of exclusive fundraisers. the events -- held in wealthy areas such as greenwich, connecticut, nantucket, massachusetts, and beverly hills, california -- frequently cost upwards of $50,000 a ticket. in news on guantanamo bay, prisoner abu zubaydah has argued for his release at a rare

hearing held via video stream tuesday. he has been held for 14 years without trial, during whwhich te he was water boarded more than 80 times. when he was captured in 2002, the cia insisted he was a top al qaeda operative. the u.s. government has since admitted he was never an al qaeda leader, yet his imprisonment has continued. during tuesday's hearing zubaydah declared in a prepared , statement read by a u.s. soldier that he "has no desire or intent to harm the united states or any other country.y." graduate students won a significant labor victory tuesday when the national labor relations board ruled graduate student teachers and research assistants at private universities have the right to unionize. the 3-to-1 ruling stemmed from a case b brought by colulumbia graduate students. it overturns a 2004 ruling that denied collective bargaining rights to some graduate student teachers. american federation of teachers president randi weingarten said -- "the truth is graduate workers

are the glue that holds higher education institutions together -- without their labor, classes wouldn't get taught, exams wouldn't get graded andnd ofoffice hours wouldn't be held" in news from afghanistan, a u.s. soldier has been killed in a bomb explosion outside lashkar gah, the capital city of helmand provovince.. this comes only days after more than 100 u.s. soldiers were sent to lashkar gah to fight the taliban in what is believed to be thehe first deployment of u.. troops to the city since 2014. the name of the u.s. soldier who died has not been released. turkey has begun a ground offensive into syria, marking a major escalation of its role in the ongoing conflict. the u.s. military is backing turkey's incursion, which began about 4:00 a.m. this morning with an aerial bombing camampai. turkey says the offensive is against isis-held areas along the border. but tuturkey says it's also concerned about syrian kurdish militias a at the border. these militias are backed by the ununited states.

in kashmir, another protester has died after reportedly being hit in the chest by a tear gas shell fired by police during a protest sunday. 18-year-old irfan ahmad is at least the 69th person to be killed amid the ongoing protests, which began more than a month ago after indian security forces killed a kashmiri independence leader. indian soldiers and paramilitary forces have cracked down on the protests against indian rule, opening fire during demonstrations and imposing a strict curfew. among those who have been killed is a 30-year-old professor who was beaten to death in indian army custody. many others have reported being beaten by troops in their own homes. in mexico, a journalist has survived an attempted assassination in the eastern state of veracruz. freelance journalist lucia lopez castillo was about to enter her home sunday night when she was approached by a masked manan, wo attacked her and then shot her. veracruz is one of the deadliest areas of mexico for journalists.

at least 16 journalists have been killed in veracruz since 2010. another three have disappeared. in newark, new jersey, a story has surfaced about policice traumatizing a 10-year-old child by chasing him through the streets with guns drawn. fifth grader legend preston was standing outside his home on august 14 when police say they mistooook him for a robbery suspect and began chasing him down an alley. preston says he thought the popolice were running afafter hm because he'd chased a ball into the street without l looking. he says neighbors then surrrroued him to o protect him, yelling "thihis is a child." this is 10-y-year-old legend preston. >> somome police started coming from thiss way with gunsns poing righght at me. and d iran into the backyard wil stop -- i r ran into ththe back. i threwght they thought

the ball in the street on purpose. there holding guns like this. amy: in california, judge aaron persky has recused himself from another sexual crimes case, amid the ongoing controversy over his lenient sentencing of former stanford swimmer brock turner. in june, persky gave turner a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, saying he was concerned a longer prison sentence would have a severe impact on the stanford university swimmer. persky has also sparked controversy over his 2015 decision to give robert chain a four-day prison sentence after he led guilty -- pled guilty to possessing child abuse images. persky has now stepped down from chain's case, which has a hearing on thursday over whether chain's charge will be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. momore than 1 million people hae signed a petition demanding persky be removeved from the bench. in pennsylvania, immigrant mothers have suspended their hunger strike at the berks county residential center citing intimidation by ice officials.

the women launched the hunger strike on august 8 to protest department of homeland security secretary jeh johnson's claims that the average time in family detention is only 20 days. by the end of this month, at least three families will have spent a full year in custody at the berks facility. on tuesday, the women suspended the strike, saying ice officials threatened them saying if their health weakens, their children could be taken away. on monday, democracy now! spoke with one hunger strikers inside berks. >> the head of ice for the center came. he can only to threaten us, to tell us if we were a danger for the facility, for the other women who were not on strike, then he was going to be obligated to take action such that they would send us to texas. simply that they would send us to adult prison, and that if we continue this way, if we continued refusing to eat,

simply they would arrive a point at which we would debilitate and then he would be allocated to call the government so they would take away our children. quitek this is a threat direct and quite strong. i think it is not fair because were only asserting our rights. amy: and in west virginia, residents are celebrating the permanent shut down of a coal mine near a state forest. the announcement by the west virginia department of environmental protection comes after a two-year organizing effort by the kanawha forest coalition, which sought to shut down over the issues of water contamination and other environmental impacts. this is daile rois of loudendale, west virginia, whose house sits less than 2000 feet from the mine. >> when i started this journey, i did not understand the apathy that you cannot fight coal attitude. i do. it is not apathy. it is weariness. it is survivor mode. i would love a victory.

that can only happen if people will hear this. we can fight for our personal rights. we can fight for our families, our communities against these big companies and a nonresponsive government. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on tuesday, president obama visited louisiana for the first time since the devastating floods that killed 13 pepeople d damaged homes. 60,000 t the red crossss has cad it the worst natural disaster rn the ununited s states since hurricicane sandy. it also marked louisiaiana's wot flooding since h hurricane kakatrina. some neighborhoods still have up to two feet of standing water left. president obama spoke in batonon rouge. pres. obama: i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here in louisiana. i come here first and foremost to say the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones.

we are heartbroken by the loss of life. there are also people who are still desperately trying to track down friends and family. we're going to keep on helping them every way that we can. as i think anybody who can see just the streets, much less the inside of the homes here, people's lives have been upended by this flood. amy: while many climate scientists have tied the historic floods in louisiana to climate change, president obama made no link during his remarks. but while obama was speaking in baton rorouge, four enviroronmel acactivists were a arrested in w orleans while occupying the headquarters of the interior department's bureau of ocean energy management headquarters . they were protesting the interior department's decision to go ahead with a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the gulf of mexico for oil and gas exploration and development. the sale is being held in the superdome -- the very building

where thousands of displaced residents of new orleans sought refuge during hurricane katrina 11 years ago. one of the four arrested tuesday was john clark, a professor at loyola university. >> in a sense i'm doing this for my ancestors, my children, my grandchildren. and in my lifetime, i have watched an area of the coastline the size of the state of that it disappear and is very painful to me to think about the fact that my grandchildren and their children will not even be able to live here in the future because we're going to lose southwest louisiana. amy: to talk more about the flooding of baton rouge and today's oil and gas lease sale at the superdome, we are joined by antonia juhasz, an oil and energy analyst and author of "black tide: the devastating , impact of the gulf oil spill." welcome to democracy now!

talk about the connections we are seeing today from the in new orleans to the flooding of baton rouge. having me.u for the timing of all of these events could not be more devastating, really. you have the this torque flood, the president there to offer assistance from fema and hopefully try to assist those on the ground while at the same time the interior department is continuing the problems that help excel the storm in the first place, help make it more for osha's, make the storms more for white and that is the burning of fossil fuels leading to climate change. president obama has been very outspoken and in some ways, aggressive and the needs to tackle climate change. at the same time as expanding offshore oil drilling, expanding the production of oil and gas to new record heights across the

united states, but in particular, right now most expansion ofhe gulf of mexico. the sale taking place in about two hours at the superdome for 24 million new acres in the gulf of mexico, this sale will complete, if all of the leases are sold, all unsold leases in the western part of the gulf. that is basically federal waters offshore of texas. ahese include some ultr deepwater leases. leases that would be at twice the depth of that which bp was drilling when the deepwater horizon disaster happened. it is a big sale, a sizable sale. amy: for those who don't remember when you talk about the bp deepwater horizon, talk about how many people died and how extensive the pollution and the damage was. >> well, that would take many

hours. it was one of -- the most -- the largest offshore journaling oil spill in history. this was april 2010. 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the gulf of mexico released over a three monthth pereriod of time. exextensive damage, which i woud not -- witnenessed firsthand frm a submarine e and the bottom of the gulf of mexico, to the shores to the air to the animals to the people, and the devastation continues. one of the outcomes of this oil spill was, obviously, a tremendous amount of oil within thegulf and it is estimated that 30 million gallons of oilil remn and the gulf ecosystem to this day of oil's from the bp disaster. that was april 2010. with the oil has had -- cost all caps of problems. one of the problems it contributed to was the destruction of marsh and the

further erosion of the gulf shore. that destruction of the marshland is a continuation of harm caused by the oil and gas industry over decades that has contributed to coastal erosion, the elimination of wetlands in louisiana which makes storms much more ferocious. the wetlands, the marshes, should be there to suck in the water as natural sponges, if you will, when water floods onto land without that marsh that was the away by oil, without that coastline that was even away by salt that was allowed to incur on the coastline because of canals built for pipelines another oil and gas infrastructure, the coast is not there and the flights just come in and decimate communities, which received more and more of. in addition, there's the ongoing economic harm suffereded by

fisherfolklk and peoeople - -- l workers, people e who live off f the gulf of mexico that w were harmed by this oil s spill. that m makes d dealing with catastroeses evemorere difficult becacause theyey d't veve the back spendiding to deal withth this catastrophe. and a lot of peoplple whose livs ended because this for the last six years organizing to stop offshore oil gelling the gulf of mexico and their lives are focused on doing that and their hit by these storms. it makes it even more difficult to do that type of organizing. so the chain of events roll on and on. one of the biggest problems is that we have not -- while lessons have you learned from the bp deepwater horizon's bill, meaning numerous studies, incredible analysis, the policies that are -- should be

the expected outcome of those lessons have not been implemented. so the chemical safety board, the most important independent investigative body looking at disasters like these, most conference of analysis of the disaster said, basically, the chance of another deepwater horizon like disaster is still very likely and the lessons have not been learned. regulatory environment that invites companies to essentially say they can do the right thing, but not have to prove they can do it, still perpetuates offshore oil julian in the united states. amy: in march, hundreds of protesters disrupted another government auction of oil and gas filling right of the gulf of mexico. the government was attempting to auction off 43 million acres of off-shore drillingng rights at n event held at the superdome in new orleans. cherri foytlin of idle no more gulf coast spoke out during the protest. >> i am here with 200 saying no

to the fossil fuel industry and yes to our people. it is the most amazing thing to see all of these people stand and say it is time for a new day and the gulf of mexico. you areuel i industry, done. it is over. bye-bye. amy: cherri foytlin of idle no more gulf coast sayingng it is over. but is it over? what is the difference between a public option and what is happening today? >> that was quite a historic event. againstrganizing offshore oil drilling is something that is fairly this size and skill in the gulf of mexico. ,t is in a process over decades communities experiencing the

harms of the industry, the up and downs of the market for the workers as well, and the impact of the deepwater horizon disaster have led to this evolution of increased opposition to journaling among gulf coast communities. that protest in march against the previous lease sale was really historic and nearly shut the the sale in response bureau of ocean energy management, which is part of the interior department, for this sale taking place this morning, for the first time, closed the sale to the public. the superdome, which is this enormous facility, is going to have a room with 50 oil comedy representatives and -- company representatives and maybe 10 or 20 journalists sitting in a room and it will be close to public participation because they do not want to see this type of public opposition to the lease sale that they saw in march.

it will be viewable online. people can watch it online if they want, but that means all you can do is watch what unfolds, not try to participate in the process. the protest you mentioned at the opening at the office in new orleans, 15 or so gulf residents and others who showed up to deliver 180,000 signatures on a petition calling for this lease sale today to be canceled, as you said, four of them were arrested because they said they would not leave until the lease sale was canceled. they were hoping the obama administration would start doing in the gulf coast what it has done in the atlantic, which in its new proposal for the next five years, finalizing their new proposal for offshore oil drilling, new julian in the atlantic was taken off the table in that proposal. offshore -- offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico was expanded. what the gulf residents are doing, saying we no longer want

to be the sacrifice for the u.s. if it is good enough for the atlantic, it is good enough for us. lease saleoping this would be canceled and if not canceled, i would imagine hoping to have the opportunity to be there and be present and show their opposition. that is not going to be able to be the case. amy: antonia juhasz, thank you for being with us, oil and energy analyst, author of "black , tide: the devastatating impact of t the gulf oil spill.l." this is democracy now! when we come b back, we look at two stunning the reports on climate change. one, will your lithic summer games be able to be held in the coming decades because it is simply too hot? and another about the cost to the millennial generation nearing $9 chilean, the cost of climate change. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the 2016 summer olympics may have just ended, but might we be seeing the end of the summer olymympics for good? a new article in the prestigious medical journal the lancet, by -- has concluded much of the northern hemisphere will be too hot by 2085 to host the summer olympics. researchers are protecting only eight cities in the hemisphere outside of western europe would be cool enough to host the games. this includes just three cities in north america -- calgary, vancouver,r, and san frarancisc. a list of f cities where it coud be too hot is staggering. rome, tokyo,adrid,

new york, chicago, los angeles, and the list goes on. extreme high temperatures have impacted the athletic world. in 2007, high heat forced the cancellation of the chicago marathon. at the trials in los angeles, 30% of the runners dropped out of the race due to the heat. and this has implications well beyond athletic events. for more we are joined by kirk smith, lead author of the article, and professor of global environmental health at the university of california, berkeley. welcome e democracycy now! professor smith, talk about whwt you have found. >> thank you for inviting me today. and sitting in berkeley, which is part of t the san francisco y area and we often repeat what mark twain is often reported to say which is, the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco. people who have been her know it is cool in the summer. this is going to be an advantage in the future as climate change proceeds. as you say, those three cities in north america, including san

francisco, san francisco is likely to be the last place that a summer olympics could be held as their held today. why is that? why does heat make it hard to have the olympics? it doesn't make any difference force bring board diving, but it does make a difference for outdoor endurance events like the marathon, but others. although temperature is part of the picture, one of the things people don't realize is an impact of climate change is as temperature rises, and increases the evaporation of water from the oceans and other bodies of water, therefore, humidity goes up as well. and your ability to do outdoor work is a function notot only of temperature, but also the humidity. if it is 100% humidity, even a not low temperature will allow you to work heavily because you need to sweat in order to give off the extra heat that your body produces when you are doing work. at the a look

olympics because we know how they are run and workout of exercise is done. and we took regular climate models that other people were using. we assume the same projection of greenhouse gases in the intergovernmental panel on climate change, which of both the conservative model and a more liberal model, if you like, and averaged them. so we would not be accused of cherry picking. we were surprised to find how few cities in the world were left in 2085. just ate outside of western europe, only three in north america. we are not really all that concererned about our most elite athlhletes. they are very well conditioned, very well managed by the positions on their teams. but it is the tip of the iceberg , the last line in our paper is, if we have to worry about our

most newly athletes, what about the rest of us? because it is the rest of us that are most at risk fromom th e rising heat and unity. some think it is the largest impact of climate change in the next 50 or 60 years, the change in the ability to do what we have always done, doing for too many years, is work with heavy exertion outdoors. probably very few people listening to this program work outdoors, but 50% of the planet works outdoors all the times. mainly in agriculture and construction. so those professioions are more and more challenged, if you like , as certain times of year r as climate change proceeds. the areas of the planet that will be dangerous to conduct that kind d of work will grow ad grow with climatee changnge. and the olympics illustrates this. we of course published this paper at the time of the real

olympics to call attention to the water problem of climate change changing how we do things. amy: you talk about the report isis on the summer olympics, yor study. what about the winter olympics? basedre was a paper also on a report done in canada that was published in 2014 just before the sochi winter olympics. they did a somewhat similar analysis. they took the 19 sites where ththere had been winter olympics before and examined how many of them would still be liable for the winter olympics and about 2085. they found that o only six of tm would still be viable. there it was that the risk to athletes from exertrtion and he, it w w whether thehere would be enougugh snow. they used d the 30 centimeters f snow -- 10 inches or 15 inches of snow is the minimum requiuird for the winter olympics. issue.e

of course, you could get around these things a bit. you can do everything indoors. in fact, more and more, both summer and winter olympic evevet seven n moved indoor. it would be hard to do downhill skiing indoors. running a marathon indoors would be a pretty boring event. .ut you could do it you could do the marathon in january if you like, and that would not be the same winter olympics, but there would be ways to adapt your way out of it. the point is, what we have been doing for many years is no longer possible. we of healthy olympics for 2500 years. more than 100 years and the modern olympics. we have come to expect certain ways of doing things that are not going to be possible.e. of people doa lot exertion outdoor for sports. there are hundreds of marathons every year around the world in cities. as you mentioned, those are

starting to be constricted as well. the chicago marathon had to be stopped in the middle. hundreds of athletes had gone to the emergency rooms around chicago because of the temperature and humidity had exceeded the limits for athletes. of course, the rest of us are more vulnerable than ely athletes that train and finish -- the marathon runners finished the highly competitive ones and a little over two hours. but three hours later, there were 10,000 other athletes still out in the heat and humidity. that is why they had to stop it. amy: and of course, professor smith, it is not only the and the g general populalation, bubut the kind of political and social uphpheaval this kind of extreme weather causes. >> well, yes. we think the biggest impact will be, as i say among the poor.

climate change, i have said before, is the most regressive t ax in human history. the rich benefit from the use of fossil fuels and an economy run by them, and the poor get the biggest impact in terms of on the health side. in terms of help, it is the poor that will suffer the most from climate change. the illustration of that is the workers who work outdoors in this case.e. inin california, for exaxample,e are he have a few workers who might die from acute exertion every y yearn the summer -- from heat exertion every year in the summer. at that will increaease unless something g is done. what can b be done? you can change work practices. allow people to sit in the shade between 10:00 and 2:00 entering lemonade, but bosses are not known for that kind of laxity. what happens is it gets to be a very difficult trade-off between expectations on productivity, how much you're supposed to

prododuce, and health. that is a difficult trade-off. it is a pernicious trade-off. we want labor to be more productive, , of course, but w e also what labor to be protected. another sportsom example, thousands of workers are toiling in extreme heat in qatar, building the stadiums for thee 2022 world cup soccer championships. the international l trade union confederation estimates more than 7000 workers will die before a ball is k kicked inin e world cup in 2022. >> yeah, well, that is a good example. some people will respond, well, 20 85 is a long way off. i then, we could all be living in air-conditioned mallsls. we donon't work outside, we dont care. a summit he has to build those malls or stadiums. somebody has to repair them. we are not going to turn into a space colony on the planet earth. maybe air c condition gaps can e ineloped for farm machinery

rich countries, but they're not when you be doing that in india even if- in 50 yeyears. itit is a set t of issues. the stadadium and qatar will probably be air-coititioned. it is the only way to protect the people who go to those games and ththe players. ,ut somebody has to build it including in the summer. amy: professor kirk smith, thank you for being with us. he teaches global environmental health at the university of california, berkeley. we will link to your recent article in the lancet is "the last summer olympics? climate change, health, and work outdoors." as we continue to talk about climate change, a new study is found that without action onn climate change, the millennial generation as a whole will lose trillion.8 the study was produced b b nextgen climate and the most.

joining us now is heather mcghee president of demos and demos , action. welcome to democracy now! talk about the economic effects of climate change. >> in some ways it is stunning this study is to have a dummy for. we know millennials, us and our children, are going to be the ones to bear the brunt of the and action to address global climate change. we know millennials are the first generation likely to be worse off economically than our parents. gen, we wantedex to combine these two issues. millennial generation as guinea pig cutting back on comics and come by the story of inequality with the story of climate change, not only in the environmental impacts, but economic impacts.

we use the methodology from a stanford and berkeley study which used 166 d different countries, historical data over the past 50 years, and found the overall gdp impacts of rising temperatures. for the first time we looked at that at the household level. and separate just a g generatio, a college student i graduated last your come over her lifetime, she would lose $127,000 in lost income. and because we know lost income is not just lost ability to spend it tododay but to save for tomorrow, we wanted to look at the wealth impacts and that was daily $200,000. amy: explain how that happens. >> stanford and berkeley study showed rising temperatures, much like the lancet study them a stanford and berkeley researchers showed rising temperatures create lost productivity. there are hundreds of different ways that this happens and this was one of the first studies to look at it from a nyberg level.

just say, whether it is in production, agriculture, construction, the lost because of extreme temperatures and weather, all in all over 166 countries, we can take a step back and say when temperatures rise over a certain point, gdp falls. and we know when gdp falls, wages fall, jobs fall, and that has been the threat economically to millennials that we have not ever calculalated at a household level -- although, we have known it at a gut level that there will be a price to pay for in action today. amy: it is interesting because the republican party, though their individual republican politicians and commerce who do believe climate change is an issue overall, are saying it is not an issue -- silly, donald trump says it is a hoax. and fact, i want to go to donald trump talking about the issue of climate change earlier this year. mr. trump: president obama said the biggest threat is global

warming. give me a break. the biggest threat to our country is nuclear. and we cannot let iran get a nuclear weapon. amy: so his call climate change hoax, among others come it is a chinese conspiracy. but this issue, you're talking about building off the debt. and that is a concern to republicans. thisis is a climate debt. >> it is a climate tax, which seems to be a concern to republicans. it is a wallop to our gdp. the stanford and berkeley study said by 2100, our gdp would be 36% lower than it would be if we took action on climate change. those are supposed to be concerns of conservatives. and you are already seeing it in non-fossil feel businesses, which are starting to make the transition. they understand there's a massive economic cost to an action and on the flip side, there is a great economic opportunity by transitioning to

100% clean energy. we know the millennial generation is 91% supportive of transitioning to 100% clean energy. the only thing that is going to makeke a difference between cris and opportunity is more democracy. amy: what would that look like? >> really, a world war ii style momobilization both of our politics and our economics. of all of us saying areas actually a better way, that we can re-create our economy and put those communities that have been last in line in a fossil fuel economy first in liline ina new clean energy economy. amy: how? >> we can use technology that exists today. that is one of the things that makes people feel like it is hopeless, the idea we have to land a man on mars in order to have 100% clean energy. but through existing technologies, we can do it. we can do it building on the progress of the obama in administration has made with the clean power plant from the pa and paris, and we need to get

more aggressive than those compromised steps forward. in california, they have done something that makes sure the revenue that comes from polluters is actually targeted to the lowest wealth communities including jobs, public transit, efficiency. efficiency of buildings is going to be a massive part of how we get to clean energy, and that saves working families on their energy bills and it puts people to work in the buildings in their community. amy: heather mcghee, we will .ink to your reporort i would like you to stay with us as we transition to the alt right what does that mean. we're talking to heather mcghee, president of demos and demos action. we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!,!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we turn to look at how donald trump's new campaign chief created an online haven for white nationalists.

that's the title of a n new article in mother jones by investigative journalist sarah posner who has closely following -- followed the right-wing for years. the piece looks at trump's new campaign chief stephen bannon who until last week headed the right-wing website breitbart media. in her piece, sarah posner writes ---- "by bringing on stephen bannon, trump was signaling a wholehearted embrace of the 'alt-right,' a once-motley assemblage of anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, ethno-nationalistic provocateurs who have coalesced behind trump and curried the gop nominee's favor on social media." breitbart regularly spurs headlines with -- criticism of breitbart media has grown over the past year. southern poverty law center recently said --

"over the past year however, the outlet has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. racist ideas. anti-muslim and anti-immigrant ideas -- all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the "alt-right." even former breitbart employees have spoken out. the site's former editor-in-chief ben shapiro recently wrote -- "breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with milo yiannopoulos pushing white ethno-nationalism as a legitimate response to political correctness, and the comment section turning into a cesspool for white supremacist mememakers." well to talk more about breitbart, stephen bannon, and the trumump campaign, we are joined by journalist sarah posner. and still with us in heather mcghee. sarah, welcome to democracy now! why don't you talk about what you found. >> i was covering alt-right activities at thehe rnc in cleveland last month.

that is where and d counter the cocouple of times the sisite technology editor and the principal link between breitbart and activists onon the alt right. i also met and talked to stephen bannon, who was, at the time, the hehead of breitbart and now the ceo of tmpmp's campaign.. in our interview, bannon told me that breitbartrt is the platfom for the alt-right,t, but he denied that the alt-right is a an inherently racist or anti-semitic movement that embraces white nationalism. he said breitbart is a nationalistic site. he denied d it is a white nationonalist excite. and he said while there are elements of anti-semitism or some peopople

who might be racist in thehe alt-right, as a whole, the movement is not a racist or anti-semitic momovement. i asked d him specifically ababout ben shshapiro, who prproves the w wasditor of breitbart,, who ememerged as one of the site's leading critics and has been attacked on social media by anti-semites, just tweeting horrible things at him and saying thingngs about him and his famimily. and i asked d bannon about thatat hate that has been directed at his former employee. and he dismissed it, calling shapiro a whiner. amy: explain more the term alt-right. >> as much as bannon wanted to claim breitbart as t the platform for the alt-right, the alt-right existed before bannon took over breitbart when andrew breitbart, the site's foundeder died suddenly in 2012.

the alt-righght had been around before that. the alt-right term w was coined by richard spencer, who o is a white natitionalists writer and activist who positions the alt-right as a a dissident movemen that is dissatatisfied with conservatism -- which theyey portray a a term you often see people in the altlt-right using for a conservative, movevement conservrvative, is a disparaging term in putting the word cuckold in the word conservative. that is how they portray conservavatives. this is why theyey have been cheered byby trump c candidacy because they see him as a candidate who has abandoned the traditional gop, who scoffed at movement conservatism, and in fact, embraces their issues -- willing to t talk about building a wall, who is willing to talk abouout race

in a way that trump talks about race, who is willing to break with gogop orththodoxy on t trade deals. these are all thinings that have led the alt-right into thehe trump camp. and a lot of it has s to do with the ways in which he has rejected gop and movement conservatism orthodoxy. amy: i want to go to donald trump speaking in michigan, a largely white suburb of lansing. mr. trump: african-american communities have sufferedd under democratic control. to those i say the following. what do you have to lose by trying something new like trump? what do you have to lose? amy: donald trump has been addressing the african-american community from the largely white, ovoverwhelmingly white communiy he was there in michigan, and before that when he spoke in west bend,

overwhelmingly white community, a suburb of milwaukee. heather mcghee, that question, "what do you have to lose?" >> we have beeeen clear, i thinink many of usus in the african-american community that donald is goioing to make an appeal to the black vote.e. he was very quick to attack memexicans, latino immigrants,s, muslim americans. it has been somewhat more reticent -- and we have all been anticipating this moment when he would try to d divide and conquer among people of color and d say to working-c-class black k men, particularly, that immigrants are coming to take their jobs. you have to remember that donalald trump -- speaking of the alt-right, donald trump was the loudest and as he has with many racist ideas, the most effective mainstreamer -- saying the first african-american president

was not born here,e, not even a cititizen, therefore not a lelegitimate presisident. that is not t somethingg ththe black community forgets. amy: donald trump was a leader of the birther movement. going back years. >> we don't forget the way he burst onto the scene in new york with the slumlord who was forced to settle massive discrimination claims against african-american tenants. donald trump has very littlsusupport in the african-american community. some polls say it is 1%, some say 0%. and they understand what he is doing, even more importanant, then whahat donald is is what he is doing to reinvigorate white supremacy in this country. even if donald trump is defeated on election day -- which i don't think is a givive. polls do not vote. we do not actually have election day by random dialing surveys. people do actually have to come out and vote,

which is not necessarily a given right now. even if he is defeated, the unmasking of american racism, the mamainstreamaming of thesess is going to be with us the day after election day. the african-amamerican comommuy is very y aware of t that. amy: even indiana governor, the vice presidential running mate of donald trump is aware of this. he was beieing questionened onx by the fox news host ainslie ehrhardt about donald d trump's claim to get to sometething like 95% of the african-american vote b by 2020. >> donald trump is telling the african-american community, i am the g guy for you. and he says by 2 2020, he is when i i have 95% of the africican-american suppo. why are you u laughing? >> well, t that is donald trtr. amamy: so there is g governor pencnce laughing.

so talk more, sarah posner, expanding on what heather mcghee has said, on what donald trump is doioing with this alt-right. >> i think on the one hand, he has embraced the alt-right -- either explicitlyy by hiring baon, , obviouslsly, but also implicitly there is a lot of wink-wink at the way t trump ususes his twitter account and surrogates use the twitter accounts. but i think at the same time, he is trying, and i think this is completely going to be transparent, to t the african- american community and to african-a-american voter, he is trying to pretend that he hahas got a strategy for reaching out to black voters and that he has a prayer of reaching out to black voters.

amy: let me interrupt and ask you somethining. some are saying this whole presidential election that he is involved with is actually a strategy for develoloping trump tv, that he is consolidating and media leadership here wiwith bannon, roger ailes -- who is nowow forced out because of sexual harassment allegations by more ththan 20 women from fx and now reportedly advising donald trump. housing g the forget is this possibilitity? >> i will carry out my answer by saying i haveve not done any inindependent reporting on the prospspects of this media outlet, but ifif this is somethihing that trumpmp does in fact have in mimind, you know, the e fact that he is asking roger ailes for advice -- and hehe was in regular contact with roger ailes even beforore ailes was forceded out o of fox over the sexuall harassment lawsuit. and the fact that he has hired bannon anand combined that t with how- throughout his campapaign trump

has been so disparaging of the mainstream media, the way he callsls out inindividual repororters at his campaigign events,, calls on his rally attenders to turn around and scscoff at in didisparate the media thatat is covering the rally frfrom a press pen and also how he talks about the unfairness of the way thehe media covers sm and alalmost setting the stage for blaming the media if he loses. so if you putt all of this together, regardleless of what trumpmp does orgrganizationallyy in terms of creating a media outlet after -- if you're to lose the presisidey after r the campaign, it seems pretty evident there is a lot of sowing of discontent about the mainstreaming you and the bolstering of these alternative media sites that have been supportitive of trump and supportive of the alt-right. amy: we have to leave it there, sarah posner,

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sami yaffa: a republic that works asas the gateway between e east and the esest, greeks s of antiquity, romans, byzyzantine a ottomoman empires, ththis places built upon the cultural heritage of all these ancient powers. it''s a place e of conadadictios that has been the meeting place and the destination for different peoples, traditions, cultures, and art forms. it respects tradition but wants to be modern. this mumusical melting popot is the perrfect subjeject f "sound acker." wewelcome to turkekey. [kanun, b baglama, and clarininet playing]]

i'm sami yaffa, and i'm a rock-and-rolling globe trotter with an endless curiosity about all things musical. this is my exploration into why music is so important to us all. this is "sound tracker." [hipip-hop music p playing] yaffa: sulukule is the gypsy neighborhood of istanbul. it's the home and headquarters for the band called tahribad-i isyan. they are keeping turkey's

protest song tradition alive. this neighborhood is a fertile place for protest songs. it's hard to find what is not wrong here. here, vioiolence is part f everyday life. this poor ghetto is practically a war zone. criminal gangs and drug dealers fight over the tertories. turkey's histories is very turbulenent. you know, i it's,s, you know, uprisings s and brutal governments and stuff like that, and it seems to be going almost every decade,e,ore or lesess. there's--there's, like, a reaction to it.

[kanun, baglama, and clarinet playing] yaffa: just like rome before it, constantinople was built in 7 hills. it became a gateway between two w worlds. istanbubul still has one foot in asia, the other in europe. istanbul is steeped in h history. the silhouettes of the many bridges, mosques, and minarets create a mystical atmosphere. this city has its own unique identity.

the narrow alleyways and streets are teeming with life, with its many shops, merchants, cafes, food, and, naturally, its musicians. taksim trio is a supergroup of the best trio of musicians in turkey. the trio's music is an exotic gumbo of gypsy musisic, turkish folk music, arabesque, jazz, and sometimes even classical music. these instrumental virtuosos have made an impact all over the world. their touring calendar takes them from dubai to new york city. man: ole.

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yaffa: over 800 years ago in persia in the modern-day iran, a poet was born. he was also a philosopher, lawyer, and a scholar of islam. his name was jallal ad-din muhahammad rum of course, this genius wawas so a a mumusician.hehe mevvi s sufi brotherhd d that was formemed after t the passing of mr. rumi cocombines mumusic, movement, ad meditation. the ritual takes you through thehe veil of mysticism towards cosmic understanding. it brings you closer to god. [people singing in arabic]

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yaffa: and this foundation, it--it doesn't--it's not part of the--the government foundation. this is a very independent, uh, foundation, and it's also-- i heaeard that it't's the firste and,d, i think, one of the o ony ones that--that admits, uh, women into it.t. how did ttt come to be?

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yaffa: in this time when, uh, there's a lot of division going on in--in the world, it seems to be that--that instead of world coming together, it seems to be that the world is dividing again, and, uh, do you have any advice for the younger genererations autut howo gogo forward in order to bring g peoe together instead of separating?

[man singing in arabic] yaffa: i've never been too enthusiastic about any religion, per se, or the writings and ancient maxims about how to live your life which, at the end of the day, end up putting your mind in bondage. the other side of the coin is, of course, the idea that everyone should make their own decisions about what they want to listen to and what

they want to worship. in any case, after the session, the vibe is warm and good. [singing continues] [baglama, bass guitar, and drums playing] the band's name is equal to its ideals and way of thinking. "kakardes turkuler" is freely translated as "songs of brotherhood." the group originated from protest movements. the divisions and tensions between differentnt

ethnic groups created a musical backlash. [woman singiging in foforeign languagage] diler ozer: we want our music to be--to be based on thehe geogray we live on, and when we look at our geography, w we don't only e the music which is labeled under the naname of turkish music... yaffa: right. ozer: turkish folk music. theree are various languages, various cultures, and they have their own music, so we began making some research. who is living in this country... yaffa: mm-hmm. ozer: and whose music is there? yaffa: uh-huh. ozer: so we decided that, ok, we need to sing the songs of kurds and turks, and, uh, we also chose our culture from armenian culture, armenian music, and also azerbaijani music. the message that we wanted to

give wawas is that these people are l living in this country. these are different cultures, but we live together in the same land, so we want to live together, so t this togethernes, the message of this togethernesess, or the wish towards being living together is the thing thatat we wanted too transmit to ththe people. [woman singing in foreign language]

yaffa: you--you must reallyly think that music can changee ththings. i believe that bececai think it makes people think. ozer: : yeah. yaffa: you know whahat i mean? it makes--it doesn't necessarily change the physical things, you know, the political structures and all that, but i think that it changes people's outlook on life, and it broadens people's horizons.

[clarinet, violin, kanun, and drums playing] yaffa: all of turkey knows didem, a familiar, beautiful face from television, the queen of belly dancing who even got to shake her stuff at madonna's birthday bashshdidem has s brout

one of the oldest forms, if not the oldest form, of dance into the modern agage. lelet's--let''s talabouout belly nce becaususe i think k it's-- a a lot of people, they just hae a very vague idea of it, where it comes from. they think that it comes from somewhere in the middle east, and they don't really know the histstory of it all.

yaffa: i'd like to set a couple of things straight regarding the

belly dance. originally, belly dancing was a fertility dance performed by women to women to prepare a young maiden for marriage. the men had no business in partaking in these rituals. still today most turks feel as though belly dancing is foreign and part of arab culture, not theirs. in reality, the belly y dance was bornrn in india, traveled to egypt, arrived in turkey y with the gypsies, and spread out to the rest of the world..

[rock music playing] [man singing in turkish] yaffa: i made my living as a street musician in barcelona at the end of the nineties. the job was not easy, and the financial stability wass kind of, well, nonexistent. the best thing about the whole experience was the freedom it gave me and the direct c contact to the e consty chaanging audience. street musicians have been around since the time immemorial. as long as there have been cities, there have been street musicians. hopefully, this tradition will continue. these musicians and their predecessors have brought good vibes and anti-stress medication to the people of istanbul for centuries. ha ha ha! how you doing, man?

all right. uh, how long have you been playing on the street?t? yaffa: do you make a living out of it? yeah. yeah, yeah. . i, u- i used to play on the streets in barcelona--in barcelona a long time ago, anand, uh, i i made a living out of it, too. it't's--it's not easy.

yaffa: it's a pleasure to meet you, man, you know? good luck with everything. it's ...ing great, absolutely, man. thank you. yeah. that's right. [cheering and applalause] [rock music c playing] there's something strange going on on the asian side of istanbul. there's a totally unique psychedelic band playing tonight whoho've been called d e most loved indie band in turkey, whatever that means.

baba zula is in constant motion in body, mind, and spirit. dub, rock, turkish rhythms and instruments--it's no wonder this band has a fanatical following all around the world. jimi hendrix would've dug baba zula, n no doubt. the bands very visual. where does that all--all come from? that--is that kind of also, like, sixties influence, or-- murat ertel: yeah. well, i really like the sixties and psychedelia very much, and we wanted our show to combine, like, dance, uh, poetry, theater, uh, every, uh, discipline of art, uh, coming together, so it's kind of like a ritual. yaffa: yeah, yeah. ertel: like a shamanistic ritual. when we are successful, we really get united with the audience, and we go somewhere else... yaffa: yeah. ertel: and, um, yeah, to create this, you--you have to use every single ele--

yaffa: senses. ertel: yes, element. [singing in turkish] yaffa: so what--what is your lyrical content, for, you know-- for people who don't undederstad turkish? ertel: freedom, power for wowom, animals, and plantsts, saving te planet, uh-- i mean, it shouldn't be only about love, man. it's-- there's too much songs about love. that's enough, you know? levent akman: no, no, no, no. ertel: no, no, no. yaffa: yeah. ha ha ha! ertel: we have so many others, don't even start it. yaffa: ha ha! you think so?

i ...ing love it, man. love it. ha ha ha! ha ha ha! oh, man, but how did the, uh--the people react? hi. akman: darbuka is very important, you know... yaffa: yeah. akman: turkish style. nowadays, unfortunately, a lot of, uh, darbuka turks play the egypt style, you know? yaffa: yeah, egyptpt style, exactly. boy, that's crazy. that's--that's--that's turkey. ertel: yeah. yaffa: you have little kids like this that kick ass. you know what i mean? people in the west, you know, they study for-- you know, they're 30 years old, and they still can't do it, and you got a 7-year-old girl coming over here and go... [imitates drum roll] you know? ha ha ha! akman: yeah, and she's very powerful, you know? yaffa: yeah, exactly. she knows how to get the money, too. [laughter] that's brilliant.

[man vocalizing] yaffa: did you get the influence from the seventies or-- ertel: the sixties. yaffa: right. ertel: that's when i thinknk electr, , uh, baglamama, electrc saz was b born. yaffa: yeah. ertel: i find, um, mumusic done with, uh, a guitar, uh, pretty much, you know, like, uh, dead, uh, because, uh, you cannot play better than, i think, uh,

jimi heherix or sanantana, you know? they did it, and electric saz is something really new, and, like, it's like a deep ocean, so it's really inspiring, and... yaffa: exactly. ertel: we, of course, listen to old masters of turkish music or, you know--or american music or cuban music. yaffa: yeah. ertel: we are very inspipired fm the traditional music, but... yaffa: yeah. ertel: we don't want to do the same because it's been done by the masters, and now we are living in the 21st century. we use some machines. we use, you know, pads where e you havea relationship with machines. we have to accept this, electricity. yaffa: yeah, exactly. it's another instrument. it's good to have the traditions go on. know what i mean? i think it's very important that they don't disappear, that they go from-- from--father to son or whatever, you know? ertel: and that's what we think we are doing. yaffa: yeah. ertel: we are continuing the tradition, but we are changing it as the-- yaffa: you're making it your own in a way. man, it's--it's--

it's a real honor. um, respect maximum, man. ertel: that's all right. thank you. yaffa: you know, brilliant, man. thanks so much. [baglama playing] it's about a 10-hour drive southeast from istanbul to get to the province of cacappadocia. this area in asia minor is also known a as anatoliaia. the alevs are a repressed people whose liberal viewew of islam has s bn butting heads with the ruling sunnis for centuries. the valley of love is familiar to me only through books and pictures. when i received the invitation to go interview alevi musicians,

it was an offer i couldn't refuse. i headed east to the barren and harsh central tureye. the a alevis ho insnstrument,t,e baglamama, is central to their religioious rituals. it's an ancient striring instrument that hahabeen foundnd in sumerian excavations that datate back all the w way to 4,000 b.c.

dem: [siing in abic] yaffa: what abt t the ngs? are th passed traditially, or are ey passeon by a teher, are th just paed on by e familyembers? how d-- for example, how d you learn to ay?

yaffa: what is the rhythm? do you cocould, like, to-- is it 9/8? erdem: dort/dorort. yaffa: ok.

so you use--you use the thumb a lot. erdem: of course. yaffa: of course. yeah. what about, like, holding your hand? do you have a-- oh, it's--it's straight... eerdem: yeah. yaffa: like this. yeah. oh, ok. now i get it. all right. well, i don't get it, but i get it, i think. no, i don't. when-- when the cem hououses were, uh, forbibidden, uh, w w longf a time was it that they weree forbidden?

yaffa: the caravan is on the move again, this time heading south. kas, it's a small town on the coast of the medererranean that makes its living out of tourism. the place is also home to the rocking imam. the progressive religious leader ahmet huhsin tuzer comes from a fammily of imams. his father was a religious leader, as was his grandfather. the man has become somewhat of a celebrity because of his own individual religious path.

tuzer: [singing in arabic] yaffffa: what about the songs itself? are they, uh, hundreds of yeaears old, since the time f the prophet?

tuzer: [singing in arab]] yaffa: you have your own rock band. tuzer: yes. i have. yaffafa: yeah, and that's pretty amazing. tuzer: [singing in arabic] yaffa: how did the, uh--the ligious c community react to

this, thougugh?

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tuzer: [singing in arabic] [singing continues on p.a.]

yaffa: what do you think with whwhat is g going on in ththe wd right now, and what do you think ththat we can a all do to make t better?

yayaa: hmm. ththank you very mu. tuzer: you're welcome. you're welcome. yaffa: yeah. thank you, really, really. that's great.t. yes. [baglamama playing] my fifirst visit toto a mosque t me thoughtful and positively susurprised. as s the rocking im put it, the world's view of islam is of violence and suffering, but you have to remember that one of the main tenets of islam is tolerance. a human has to be accepted as the person he or she is.

waah! celeststial and earthly powers e pulling turkey in different directions.s. the religious heas are trying to control the masses with their dogma and threatats f damnation. the rest a are not afraid to ririse from barricades and revolt agnsnst corruptition, political oppression, and general ...holism. somewhere in the middle of the battlefield betweenen religiouserervor and secularism lies something special, something that makes the day a bit more meaningful and easier to get through. it's music.

man: ooh! ooh! ooh! [muffled]/úgg?ñx]ñ]ñ]ñíñíñíññ

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