07/22/19 07/22/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy nonow! >> change your course. if you obey, you will be safe. amy: iran seizes a british oil tanker and its current and the strait of hormuz amidst

escalating tensions after britain and pounded in irannn nkerer elier t ts month will stop them protest in hawaiiadad a s secd week over the cotrtructi of f a massive telescoponon top of of all cannot be sacred native site that has become a flashpoint of indigenous resistance. >> we're here to stop the desecration. this is our land. in this isre we live wherwe a areoing t tdie. amy: last week, police arrested 33 peoe, most of them elders, as theblblockea roroado thee telescope being planneatatop maununa kea. we will get an u update from indigenous activist pua case. the epa will not ban the wideley used pesticide chlorpyrifos, even though the agency's own research shows it can n cause brain damage in children. >> there is a class of

are nervees that agents. they were developed by the nazis in world war ii. is the most commonly known. after world wawar ii when the nt was broken up,tate they turn these nerve agents into pesticides. america we will speak with patti goldman from earthjustice who represented health and labor 2007ates against the epa's decision not to ban chlorpyrifos . all of that a more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in iran, authorities say they've arrested 17 iranian citizens and charged them with being cia-trained spies for the united states. iranian media reports some have

-- have said some have already been executed. this comes as tensionsns in the persian gulf continued to mount over the weekend following iran's seizure of a british oil tanker and its 23 crew friday. iran said it seized the tanker and ritually nation -- in retaliation. the iranian national guard released video sunday showing the vessel flying an iranian flag. brititain says iran forced thehe stena impero out of international waters and rerouted the tanker into iranian territory. audio released sunday appears to show an iranian official directing the vessel to change course. to 360.e your course degrees in italy. amy: britain classified iran's capture of the tanker as a hostile act.

today, prime minister theresa may, who is expected to leave office on wednesday, is holding emergency cabinet meetings. this comes as iran continues to deny president trump's claim that the u.s. military shot down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz. iranian foreign n minister mohad javad zarif spoke out again -- against the harsh u.s. sanctions while at a meeting of the non-aligned movement in caracas, venezuela, sunday, calling them "economic terrorism pure and simple." meanwhile, the pentagon has said u.s. troops are being deployed to saudi arabia to defend american interests from emergent credible threats. the saudi kingdom has not hosted u.s. combat forces since 2003 when donald rumsfeld announced their withdrawal. we'll have more on the latest in iran after headlines. president trump isis continuing his attacks on four progressive congresswomen of color after tweeting last weekend that they should go back to the "crime

infested places from which they came." they are all of american citizens. trump tweeted sunday -- "i don't believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. they should apologize to america and israel for the horrible, hateful things they have said. they are destroying the democrat party, but are weak & insecure people who can never destroy our great nation!" on friday, trump said that congress woman ilhan omar is "lucky to be where she is." he also praised his supporters who chanted "send her back" last week, referring to omar, calling them incredible patriots despite disavowing the racist chants just a day earlier. on saturday, trump retweeted a right-wing british media personality who praised his attacks on the congresswomen and his crowd of supporters. katie hopkins tweeted -- "new campaign slogan for #2020? 'don't love it?

leave it!' send her back is the new lock her up. well done to #teamtrump." hopkins has previously compared migrants to cockroaches and feral humans. at a town hall saturday, new york congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez fired back at trump. >> he e has been thinking this e entire time, but he has been keeping it in here. and this week, it went out here. when he started telling american , where we going to go? we are going to stay rigight he. we are not going anywhere. amy: an intense heat wave that gripped much of the central and eastern u.s. over the weekend is using today. 157 million people were under a heat warning saturday as the heat index soared into the triple digits across the east coast, reaching 110 degrees in washington, d.c. severe storms in the midwest caused power outages for around

half a million customers in michigan. last month was the hottest june ever recorded, and experts say july is on track to become the hottest month in recorded history. in the u.s., the number of days with a heat index of more than 100 degrees fahrenheit will more than double by 2050 due to climatate change according to te union of concerned scientists. in brooklyn, new york, where tens of thousands of people also experienced power outages this weekend, a fire broke out at the metropolitan detention center friday as a stifling heat swept over the city. the non-profit brooklyn defender services warned that heat could make conditions at new york jails particularly unbearable and potentially dangerous as most prisoners do not have access to air conditioning or even fans. in related news, the warden of the metropolitan detention center, herman quay, was recently promoted five months after prisoners had to suffer freezing arctic conditions at the jail without heating.

amidst massive ongoing protests in puerto rico, governor ricardo rossello announced sunday he w s resigning as head of the ruling new progressive party and that he would not seek reelection next year. he stopped short of resigning as governor despite the demands of protesters, who will take to the streets again today and what is expected to be the largest a administration since a text message scandal rocked puerto rico a week and a half ago. a massive leak of text messages showed governor rossello exchanging sexist, homophobic and profane text messages with government officials, calling former new york city council speaker melissa mark-viverito a whore, mocking victims of hurricane maria, and joking about shooting san juan mayor carmen yulin cruz. this is a protester in san juan speaking sunday. >> his resignation is inevitable.

the question is whether he is going to make us wait another week or two weeks or how many more weeks he's going to force us to continue on the streets. there's no question of whether he is going to have to resign. he has to because puerto rico will continue to hit the streets. once we get this governor out, we must continue to fight because we still have to deal with the austerity policies come all of the measures they want to impose on us to do with this untenable d debt. wewe have to transfer this enery to the struggles. amy: boris johnson is expected to become the new british prime minister this week as theresa may makes her exit. he previously served as lonondon mayor and foreign secretary post a president t trump has cacallem a friend of mine who would make in a leader. in hong kong, police deployed tear gas and rubber bullets as protesters again took to the streets sunday, calling for an investigation into police abuses against protesters and the withdrawal of the contested extradition bill, alongside other pro-democracy reforms. late sunday night, masked men stormed a a subway statition, attacking dozens of commuters,

including many protesters returning home, as well as women and children. a reported 45 people were injured as the suspected gang members beat travelers with rods. opposition leaders and organizers condemned hong kong police following the attack. one of the demonstration's organizers said -- "while the police were unnecessarily teargassing protesters, on the other side in yuen long there were real thugs chasing and beating passersby, journalists, and lawmakers. this is outrageous." in the occupied palestinian territories, hundreds of israeli troops have begun demolishing homes in the wadi al-hummus neighborhood of sur baher, a west bank village located close to the separation barrier with israel. dozens of families could be pushed out of their homes. residents say israel wants to build more illegal settlements on the land and is destroying structures that were built with permits from the palestinian authority. palestinians have been protesting against the planned demolitions for years.

u.n. officials called on israeli authorities to halt the move last week after the israeli supreme court allowed the destruction to go ahead. back in the united states, democrats are preparing to question former special counsel robert mueller wednesday in two house committee hearings. house judiciary chair jerrold nadler spoke on n fox news sund. > i t think thehere's very subsbstantiall - -- report press substantial evidence that t the president is guilty of hhh crimes and misismeanors anand we have to present or lelet him -- muelleprpresenthosose facts to the american people and then go from there. the administration must be held accountable and no president can be above the law. amy: three white supremacists were sentenced to two to three years in prison friday for committing violent acts including kicking, choking, and punching people at the 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia, as well as other rallies in california. the u.s. attorney in the case said -- "they were not interested in peaceful protest or lawful first amendment expression.

instead, they intended to provoke and engage in street battles with those that they perceived as their enemies." a fourth man is still due to be sentenced. the men belonged to the white supremacist group rise above movement, which the attorney's office said has since disbanded. "the los angeles times" is reporting the los angeles police department sent a confidential informant to record meetings of the local chapter of refuse fascism, a political group that organized anti-trump protests in 2017. the lapd's spying on the group became public as several members of refuse fascism are being charged for blocking a section of an l.a. freeway during protests. the police reportedly determined the group posed no threat to the public, but civil rights groups say the lapd may have overstepped in its surveillance. an attorney for the southern california aclu told "the times" -- "when you know that your investigation is going to infringe on core political rights that communities have, you have to be damn near certain

that there is some criminal activity afoot." independent senator and 2020 democratic candidate bernie sanders unveiled his right to a secure retirement plan friday. the plan includes expanding social security, protecting pensions, guaranteeing housing, food assistance and care for seniors, and providing fully covered healthcare through medicare for all. sanders introduced the plan as he and 16 other democratic hopefuls participated in the aarp presidential forums in iowa over the past week and weekend. and in oklahoma, hundreds of immigrant rights andnd iigenous activistdedescended ononort sill saturday, ococking the e erance the site and shtiting down freey y trafc fofor severall hours. activivists ardemanding the trump admiministtion and oklahoma r rublicacagovernoror kevin stitt hahalt pns to ja migrant ilildren at fofo sill, which was usedo o incarceratat japanese america during worlrld war ii and h haseen n caed a concentrtratiocamp.

fort silill waalso onca a pris for native americansns. this is daniniela melendez f frm united we dream. >> fort sill has a lonong histoy he in oklahoma. used to be a plee where aftfterrinsns wer held the trail ofof trs a andlso keeping them as prisononers, babasically, and a also japese americans have also o haa long histstory here athey w we also in attention camamps during word wawar ii d now w'rere seeing that for sillll is gog to become a detentnn center for ildren of immigrants who are seeking asylum. amy: to see our coverage of bytests at fortsill japanese-american elders, go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in iran where authorities say they've arrested 17 iranian citizens and charged them with being

cia-trained spies for the united states. iranian media reports some have already been executed. this comes as tensions in the persian gulf continued to mount over the weekend following aransas seizure of her british oil tanker in its 23 crew members in the strait of hormuz. inn said it seized it retaliation for the british and pounding an iranian tanker earlier this month off the coast of gibraltar. video was released sunday showing the vessel flying an iranian flight. britain says around forced the stena impero out of international waters and rerouted the tanker into iranian territory. audio released sunday appears to show an iranian official directing the vessel to change course. >> >> no challenge is intended.

amy: britain classified iran's capture of the tanker as a hostile act. today, prime minister theresa may, who is expected to leleave office on wednesday, is scheduled to hold a series of emergency cabinet meetings. iran said it seized the tanker in retaliation for the british impounding of an iranian tanker earlier this month off the coast of gibraltar. this comes as iran continues to deny president trump's claim that the u.s. military shot down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz. meanwhile, iranian foreign minister javad zarif accused the u.s. of engaging in economic terrorism with its sanctions. which have devastated iran since president trump's 2018 decision to withdraw from the iranian nuclear deal. >> this is economic terrorism, pure and simple. we need to repeat it again and again. we do not negotitiate wiwith

terrorists. they do not negotiate with terrorists. we do not negotiate with terrorists because this is economic tererrorism what thth'e dog. amy: amimid the heightened tensions with iran over the safety of shipping lanes in the gulf, the pentagon has said u.s. troops are beingng deployed to saudi ararabia to dedefend amern interests from so-called emergent credible threats. saudi arabia confirmed that king salman had approved the move to -- and the kingdom has not hosted u.s. combat forces since 2003 when donald rumsfeld announced their withdrawal. meanwhile, u.s. national security adviser john bolton is in tokyo, reportedly to meet with japanese officials about a u.s.-led military coalition to safeguard shipping in the strait of hormuz. for more we go to washington, d.c., where we're joined by narges bajoghli, professor of middle east studies at johns hopkins university and author of the forthcoming book "iran reframed: anxieties of power in the islamic republic." she is also the director of "the

skin that burns," a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in iran. professor, welcome to democracy now! cacan you talk about this latest series of actions in the strait of hormuz, the latest news we're getting just today that an unnamed iranian official held a news conference saying they had arrested 17 people somehow linked to the cia and the cia and that some of them were executed? he would not identify himself. and then we have this seizing of the british tanker following the seizing of t the iranian tanker. can you respond to all that is developing right now? >> sure. well, president trump's pressure campaign against iran is a multipronged campaign. there is the issue of sanctions, which you had spoken about earlier in your segment.

the economic sanctions the trump adminiratition is puput on iran, especially on oil exexports. thatat has gained d a lot of mea attention. iran for the first year after president trump was out of the iran nuclear deal, s sort of practiticed a lot of restraint n that first year. it tried not to retaliate in any way. however, as the oil sanctions an pressure has resulted in the iranian currency crashing quite a bitit, what tht has intel is iran has promised it will l retaliate in o order o show it is not going to stand by idly while pressure is imposed on them. so as things have heated up between the u.s. and iran, iran has attempted to react in different ways in order to sort of stand and front of different forms of american pressure. one being economic sanctions, the other being sort of a waste

the trump administration -- ways the trump seems to be cornering them militarily. they're trying to raise the stakes not only for -- for e e countrieies as well as other persian gulf countries in saying that if their stroller military confrontatioion, it wiwill be something that varies countries will have to pay the cost of, not just the u.s. thattran is trying to show the u.s. pressures are going to have reperercussions for not j t the americans, but also other countries involved. amy: what do y you know of what has happened today with this --est of iranians at this this unnamed official said were somehow linked to the cia? who knows if someone executed at this point. news as youing the all are as well. inre has been a lot of -- different instances in this past

year, there have been points which the arena government has certainy are accusing individuals or groups of individuals of working either with the americans from the cia, or with other intelligence agencies. this is one of those instances and this is why so many involved in -- those in civil society in iran have been against the sanctions and against the pressure from the u.s. because what this means is it further securitize is all of civic society within iran. whether or not these individuals their climbingng have tieses toe cia, t the fact is in this sortf environment when there is this maximum pressure from the u.s., what ends up happening is it becomes easy for the government within iran to securitize the atmosphere andnd s say different people are involved in activities with the united states.

some may be, we don't know, but it is also a net they can sort of cast widely. and that is why a lot of lawyers activists and rights workers in iran have very much been against this pressure from the u.s. because it ends up working agagainst those e within iran. amy: there's an interesting piece in the guardian that is headlined "how trump's talked lured britain to punish iran." he's talking about the -- john bolton hearing they had ceased in an iranian oil tanker, his joy was unconfined. he tweeted -- it goes on disabled's delighted reaction suggested the seizure

was a surprise but accumulating oppositesuggests the is true and that bolton's national security team was directly involved in manufacturing the gibraltar incident. the suspicion's conservative politicians distracted by picking a new prime minister in britain jockeying for power and preoccupied with brexit stumbled into an american trap. talk about this very significant what boris johnson is expected to be the new prime minister a britain, perhaps tomorrow, theresa may leaving on wednesday. but what this means bringing britain and. what is interesting in all of this, which is probably not lost on many iranians, you go back to 1953, not a signifificant year r many americans, but all iranians, whether they were born in or not, know that was the year that the u.s. cia was involved with overthrowing the democratically elected president of iran. of what is now british

petroleum, anglo-american oil. u.s./u.k. this alliance here? it was the u.k. who was actually trying to bring the united states into what ended up becoming a u.s. and u.k.-leled presidentst the because he had nationalized iranian oil and kicked out the british who were controlling the iranian oilfields. consequences inin history. many historians point to the fact that might have been one of the reasons that later on the 1979 r revolution came about because the shah was reinstated after that cooney was extremely unpopular in iran and the years after the 1950. in this instance the guardian article you're referring to, it is interesting -- well, another

-- another reason this is significant is john bolton was involved in the lead up to the war with iraq in 2002. in that war, the u.s. really relied heavily on the u.k., on tony blair, incoming behind it and helping to lead that war into iraq and also the u.s. really needed is coalition in europe in order to do so. in this instance, the trump administration doesn't have the support of the europeans, including the united kingdom, once it pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may 2018. that was a a deal that the unitd states, russia, china had worked for years to build that deal and a come to terms with the iranians on the nuclear issue. when the trump administration decided to unilaterally pull out, the europeaeans tried at least in word to say they

continue to bebe committed to ts deal and have try to figure out ways to work around the sanctions the u.u.s. has unilaterally imposed on iran. so as this maximum pressure campaign has ramped up, the trump administration has tried to bring in allies in the middle east, including saudi arabia, uae, and israel, and confronting iran. for various reasons, some of those, including the emirates specifically, have begun -- it seems at least -- to pull away from the u.s. in trying to support some sort of military or some sort of campaign against iran. now in this instance, w what they're reporting in the guardian today, what is showing his john bolton is trying to get the u.k. involved in confronting iran. if the u.s. can build some sort of coalition at least. and it seems like john bolton out ofof the trumpmp administran really is at least the one strand we can point to ththat wt

some s sort of military confrontation with iran. at the and of the day, he was some sort of regime change. if this reporting is true from the guardian and he has been able to set out this trap to into the united kingdom this confrontation, that is very significant. and none of this should be lost -- w we need to be u up to connt these dots to who john bolton was during the g george w. bushf administration and his role in the iraq war. amy: so the significance right now -- i mean, you h have the to oil l tankers, one held byby brn and one by iran right now. trumpve the u.s. -- announcing the shot down an iranian drone and iran saying they haven't. you have the u.s. sending troops to saudi arabia. how serious is this right now? you have done a lot

of research over many years around the revolutionary guard. there were also divisions within iran right now. and the question is, who is being empowered by this conflict that started with trump pulling out of the iran nuclear agreement that led to these intense sanctions that is putting intense rusher on the population? -- pressure on the population? >> for many years, voters in iran cap voting for reformers and moderate in open they would engage with the west and the u.s. in particular and hoping to bring iran out of this isisolatn it has been inin since the 1979 revolution in which -- iran is a country that has been sanctioned by the u.s. for about 40 years now. so the idea with the iran deal was to b begin the sorts of conversations and to at least allow certain avenues of trade

between iran and western powers. the point that is happening today is that the moderates and reformists cap pushing f for l's engage with the u.s., let's engage with the west. with trump pulling out and imposing all of this pressure on iran, right now what has happened is it is the hardliners within the islamic republic and especially within the revolutionary guard who are gaining the e upper hand here. in thehe face of -- again, as i mentioned, maximum pressssure fm the trtrump is m multipronged. there aree covert t operations,e economic sanctions, social media campaigns been targeted at iranians w within the country. so in this sort of atmosphere, what is happening is the hardliners in iran have been vindicated by saying, see, we told you could not trust the united states. in this instance right now, for the moment at least, we have

seen a united front on the iranian leadership in standing up to what it sees ass a war by the united states s in multiple ways is that it just has not war quite yet.rot the sanctions, the media wars come all of these things are happening in tandem. this is a situation in whihich e a rainy leadership is rallying around the flag and trying to get the iranian public to rally around it as well. and that has -- that will only benefit the hardliners within iran. amy: can you talk about the social media campaign the u.s. has launched as part of its "maximum pressure strategy"? >> this is multipronged d as we. one of the t things that we know journalists have been reporting on within the past month and a half is the u.s. state department has been funding social media campaigns that have been targeting american

journalists, scholars, for those against the trump administration's iran policy. those e have beeeen smear campa, trolling campaigns, letter sent to employers of these journalists and editors and scholars, and then on the -- within iran, there is been a lot of money given by the u.s. state department as wellll as otheher enentities to promote either trl firms to promote specifically iranian -- persian language iranian satellite stations are broadcast to iran. if you began to trace t the differences in the guest t they have been invitingng in the past year, the kind of analysis being provided by some of these different stations like voice of saudi-funded -- all of these different satellite

stations are embroiled in this maximum pressure campaign which is geared toward creating as much economic pressure on iran due to sanctions and then showing feelings of discord and despair within the population. it is one e of the hopes of john bolton -- and you mention this publicly many times -- that maximum pressure will help -- will lead to a situation in which iranians within iran will rise up and asked for regime change themselves. the economic sanctions are one part of it, a and that is where the morere visible part we're seeing. but there is an entire media campaign that is going on around us as well as is meant to both the unitedssent in states against whahat the trump administration is doing, as well as create discord within iran through these different media campaigns. amy: what do you think needs to happen right now to avoid a war? w well, i iran has said, and is

acactions show, whatever actions the u.s. or european powers take military within iran, iran will retaliate. what needs to happen at this stage is there are talks between iran and the united states going minister'she foreigign trip your last week indicated. the those conversrsations need o continue and all sites need to begin to deeeescalat whatever actions either the united states or any other powers take in the persian gulf region, iran will retaliate and eventually these tit-for-tat devastating military confrontation in the middle east. but it seems no one really wants it at this time. amy: narges bajoghli, thank you for being with us professor of , middle east studies at johns hopkins university. her book "iran reframed: anxieties of power in the

islamic republic" will be out in september. she is also the director of "the skin that burns," a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in iran. when we come back, we go to hawaii to look at the growing resistance against the construction of a massive .elescope on top of mauna kea we will go to that site. stay with h us. ♪ [music break]

amy: kalana pe'a. this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. we go now to hawaii's g island, erere preststs hd intoto a second wk k overhe consucuctionf aa massive telesce e on t of maunkea,a, which is condedered sacred natitiveite. on sunday, demonstrato repoeded morthanan 20 peopop had gathered at an acssssory stop construction fr s startg.

last week police arrteted 33 people -momost othemem haiiann elders -- as they blocd a road to prevent wk k crewfromom reaching the site of the 30 meter telescope being planned atop the mauna kea volcano. god inr right to worship the environment of our people. respect it. amy: just hours after the arrest hawaii's democratic governor , david ige signed an emergency order granting police more power to clear the way for consuction equipment. >> this afternoon, i signed an emergency proclamation for the situation on mauna kea. since monday, p protesters have illegally occupieied roads and highways. we do believe that this emergency proclamation gives law enforcement the additional tools

they need to continue to work to keep the people safe. amy: activistsay the constructionf the tescscope wawas provededithout consulting thlolocal tiveve cmunity. the protest builds on decades of in digital resistance in haiaii. thisis wk thatathite county counsel plans to vote on resolution "strongly urging govern ige and mayorarry kim for day mororium onhe cotruction for mo, we go to the big land wheree are joinedy pua casese, organiz and tivist dending haii' mauna a. welcome democra now! it is great to have you with us. if y you can describe for as whe what isand just tell us happening, who is building or attempting to build this tetelescope, and wirire the didigenous p people of hawaii so concncerned? >> aloloha.

my name is pua case. i am reportingng from a hunter's check-in station at a place rit across the strt of the access road leading up to mauna kea. mountain is a sacr fousus here in hawaii. mauna kea is june a logically linked --enealogically linked tohe people. oura a kea is own as ancestor, rr teacher, our protector, corrector, and our guide. so for the last 10 years, we have held off the project of the building of an 18 story telescope on the top of our

mountain near the summit on a pristine area over our water aquifer and the source of water for much of this island. those who are partnering in this project are canada, china, indidia, japan, and the united ststatesn ththe area ofalifornia withhe largest single donor beg the gordon andetetty mre foundation in palo alto. so why we're standing for this motatain i quite simple, amy. anand thk you for having me on the sh.. if i could put it ryry simply, i would saifif we don't stand for the most sacred, what will we stand for? ananif not now, when willll we

and? the stand -it isotot jusnative pple e an not just the local communit but rlly a worldwideommunity becae trere areo many milariti. therare native peopl everhere around the worl stananng for their mountaints, further waters, for their land bas,s, the oceans and their life ways. we are no differt than them. but becausmauna kea is the highest motatain ithee world from seafloor a spiritually eaking there are reasons that maa a kea is connected to man differt t mouninss around the world and the integrity and the essee ofof watern our spirituaty is why we must not olow 18 storieso be built

the rtrthernlateteauf ourr mountain. it is the one to many a t the 1 big. and we haveaid no for the last 10 years. and have been suessful s far in stopping the oject. amy: t foundation ve money to calte, is tharight? y, it is. amy: a andho w wasonsulted? why dihave rights to this untainin there e other telescopes,s that rht? >> yes, there are other telescscopes on the e summit ofe mountain. ae e university of hahawaii has lease on the mountain until 2033. so from thee late 1960''s, there have been smaller telescopes built on the mountain. and you know, amy, you have to

understand and i am explplaining to thehe world community right now, it would take the whole semester course to try to explain why 13 telescopes are now sitting at the top of the mountain. what i can say is for many of grandparerents generation a and my parents as well,, in thatat time period, yo don't even know if you have thte ability t to stop something like that. werere in a t time peririod whe pepeople would s say, oh, they'e jujust going to build it anyway. and a lot of timeses, we were et even aware that building was occurring on the summit. so for a lot of different reasons, 13 telescopes sit on the summit of mauna kea. telescopery, 30 m meter cannnnot possibly fit on the

mountain. the desecration, the constructionon, and the destruction of thehe northern plateau is just sometething that cannot be allowed on our sacred mountain. asas i said before,e, it is thee tooo manyy and the onene too bi. the university of phone way initiated the -- of h hawaii of theed the permit application on behalf of the country's because most of the countries are already up on the mountain in those 13 other telescopes. only china and india are not on the mountain at this time. amy: we heard that the national guard might be called in. you have the hawaii governor david ige granting police more power to clear the way for

construction equipment. he says the protesters are dangerous. can you u talk about whahat you expect to o happen today? first, i want to go to an activists speaking last week during a news conference. >> i reaffirmed to each and every police officer, each and every individual who is going to come and attempt to get us out of the way, we will stand. we are committed. we are absolutely committed to peace, peaceful protest, nonviolent action. we are not wavering from that. folks to make that same commitment because you guys are not my enemy. none of you are my enemy. this illegal occupying state that continues

to deny the rights, continue to treat us as a nonexistent dead people. are we dead? we are a alive. activist at an news conference last week. talk about the governor's chcharges and also o where e the honolulu m mayor stands. is one ofyoung g activistst our organizers. his words exemplify the stance that we we taking on the day int the law enforcement came to theccccess ad area. or -- want to preference --anduld ever think

that is wh i i spo tthe law enforcement ouout ashey y std ere, some of them in all riot gear with their batons, many of them either our relativeoror naveve hawaiians who areutting a veryry difficult posioion to have t stand the a and psibly ararrest us. and certnlnly, t p possilityty of harm. so what i saido o themhat t da wawa who wou ever think -- who woulevever think tha in hawaii, i as a mdle scho teaer and justhehe dauter of ranchers that come from tss area, and ma of us -you know, we are moths and fathe. are aunts a uncles. youth.elders and

and being so passionate about what is left of our culture, our sacred places, and our life ways, that we would find ourselves standing in the middle of the street facing armed officers with only the manner in which we stand, our code of conduct, integrity, standing in the way our ancestors would expect and command of us in ce,violent, no resistan facing our relatives. so that in itself is very difficult. issue anor ige d state emergency at the e o of that day after 33 of our elde rs were rested because they

had made a stand, and they are still tttting thehe sirs blo thee a stand to access road beususe th is s th onon way that the machinery will bebe ablto g go up the mouain. so what i want -- on amy: i want honol's orthe adverter, the cal pape it says the gordoand betty moore fountion in 2000's of a hundred mimillion dollars toto e institute.an and t you have e what happene yesterdy at standing rock, standining rok sioux tribal members gathering at the d dakota access pipelinto show solidarity with you, with

native hawaiians, who are posing the -- opposing the construction of this huge telescopope at maua kea. cacan you compare what is happening right now to what took placee in standing r rock? do you see similaritie >> i certainly can because i was at standingg rocock twice.. and so were a lalarge numbmber f our r people here when standing rock occurred, we already had a relationship with the leadership. stone camp and standing rock. in fact, the first d day when we took that stance when the elders sat there and chose to block the road, the first caller that we had that morning to bless our -- so we have a very close relationship to our relatives because we are both

standing for what is sacred water. we are standing for the water from our mountain and they are standing for their water. the similarities are astounding. some of them being you have a's all space with a large amount of people that cannot help themselves but be there because for those of us who are either struggling, who have lost so much, when we see the opportunity to assist and support relatives who are going through the e same being, we wil do eryrythinin o our power to eieither be ere or assisin .ome way from afar so my,y, many of o ourelatives fromomtanding rock have pledged to be here if we puthe call out. so the, writer he, the alliances, -- e camaraderie, the alliances, theelelatiohipp you create when you stanonon

ch o oth'front lines is something that is binding. we make a commitmt to eac other. rit t now havave t put t t that call because we went from 30 people would we started last fridayndnd arep toto aut 3000 people. so at this point, we havnonot put a call out to anyon anywrere oth than hawaii. howeve w we are finding each day that relatives fm m all oundnd the world a finding their way here, even though that call out has not been made. amy:y: do you expect the natatil guard to come out today? >> the national guard is here, yes.s. whwhen goverernor ige did issuee state of ememergency that allowd for the deployment of the nationalal guard, we know they'e been flying inin. we know they arere housed very closose to whehere we arare bece

the milita b base jusust les wn the roa i can't tell y what wi happen tod, to be ite honest. it chang every second ofhe da i amotot sur we are aware of what igogoing ha -- i'm not sure we aware of what is ining toappepen. we r rain vigilant 24 hour we are actually locat in a parking lot,hihich has become a sanctioned sanctuary andafe place for us. of the roadehe side in a lava field. that is where weiffer from standing rock. we do not have the kinofof inasastrucre here crereata rge camp excepto be right in the elements, in n the lava, and

in the parking lot across from the access road. we know the national guard is here. we know that a large amount o of law-w-enforcement is here e as . again, i have to emphasize that people.eople -- just we are not trained. we are not armed. we come from a all walks of lif. we are native people, local residents, visitors. but we h have made a a commitme. so what i would like to share as an example of how it is here -- i'm amy koch we just have 30 seconds. inwhat it would like to say ending, if we have 30 seconds left, i want to thank the worldwide community for standing with us. what we're asking is that you go to actions for mauna kea facebook page and find out allll of thehe information abobout us. thanank you to you foror allowis

to voice what is happening here in hawaii.i. we are proud peopl. we're standing for wh we e have left.. amy: i want to say thank you for joining us. i would like to ask you to stay to the top of the hour to do part t two of this interview whe you can explain further why you're taking this stand. i want to thank you, pua case, organizer and activist defending hawaii's mauna kea. she is there at the access road with so many others were trying to prevent the 30 meter telescope from tmt from being built at the summit of mauna kea , the largest mountain in n the world, a volcano. thank you so much for being with us from hawaii. when we come back, the environmental protection agency says it will not ban a widely used pesticide and even of the agency's own research shows it can cause brain damage and shorten.

we will be back in 30 seconds. ♪ [music brbreak] amy: protesters singing in hawaii. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show with news that the environmental protection agency says it will not ban the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos, even though the agency's own research shows it can cause brain damage in children. the substance is sold under the commercial name lorsban and is banned for household use. but it still used by farmers for

more than 50 fruit, nut, cereal, and vegetable crops. the announcement thursday came after the obama administration said it would ban the toxic chemical in 2015, but the rule never took effect and was suspended in 2017 by then-epa head scott pruitt. for momore, we are joined in seattle, washington by patti , goldman, a managing attorney at earthjustice. she represented health and labor advocates in a l lawsuit against the epa's 2017 decisioion to not ban chlorpyrifos. can you explain what chlorpyrifos is, why you think it is such a danger? is a pesticide that was d developed first by te nazis as a nerve agent and after world wawar ii, this pesticide s turned into a pesticide. sarin gas is in this family. it causes acute poisoning for

people if they come into contact with it. what we have learned over the last 15 plus years is that it also causes learning disabilities in children at even lower doses. so we're talking about reduced iq, autism, attention deficit disorder. every parent's fears. it causes that harm at extremely low doses. so scientists have found in numerous studies, including columbia university, mount sinai school of medicine, berkeley, and the e epa has found b basedn all of those s studies and animl studies that this pesticidede causes brain damage to children. permanent brain n damage. theit refuses to ban pesticide. instead it once to put it off and you this pesticide on the market, on our food come in children's bodies until 2022. an artificial deadline for it to address all of the older pesticides. amy: at this point we only have a minute.

talk about what you are demanding right now, why earthjustice has gotten so involved with this. >> we have gotten involved because often the epa is under pressure from the regulated industry not to do its job. and we represesent the v voicest need to be heard, the public, organizations, labor, farm workers, food advocates. we live in a country under the rule of law where we can go to court and hold the epa to the law and d the law which requires it to findnd a pesticide safe before it can be allowed on our food. the epa has not made that finding and cannot make up finding for this pesticide. the only legal action is for the epa to ban it and that is what we are going to make cap and through the courts. it will happen, it is just a question of how long it will take and howow many children wil suffer, how many families will suffer from learning disabilities and acute poisonings in the meantime.

amy: patti goldman, stay with us so we can do part two. patti goldman is a managing attorney at earthjustice. that does it for our broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your commmments

♪ hello. a very warm welcome to nhk "newsline." it's 9:00 a.m. on tuesday in tokyo. we begin in japan wherere the prime minister has announced h will take hihis time and think carefully about reshuffling his cabinet as well as the ruling party executives. shinzo abe said he has not yet made any decisions, but many believe the reshuffle will take place in mid september. observers s are eager to finind