07/27/20 07/27/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: f from new york, ththis is democracy now! >> what does democracy look like? >> this is what democracy looks like. amy: president trump's deployment of federal forces to portland, oregon, seattle, and other cities has sparked a new round of protests across the country. we will go to seattle and portland for the latest. then we remember civil rights icon congressman john lewis.

hope.n never gave up he inspired is what in all of us. we're all confused with that optimism -- infused with that optimism. can't you hear him? "find a way to get in the way. trouble. necessary trouble." amy: dr. martin luther king called him the boy from troy. he was a 17 term congressmember from georgia. on sununday, horse-drawn carriae carried lewiwis' body over the edmund pettus bridge where he was almost beaten to death at a voting rights march in 1965, now known as bloody sunday. we will speak to princeton university professor eddie glaude about the legacy of john lewis, the black lives matter

, and glaude's new book "begin again: james b baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." all that and more, coming up. welcome to d democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'i'm amy goodmaman. coronavirus cases continue to surge in much of the united states where confirmed cases has topppped 4.2 million, with nearly 147,000 reported d death. florida has surpassed new york to become the state with the second highest number of infections after california. the white house coronavirus task force's dr. deborah birx called florida, texas, and california "three new yorks." inin california, h healthcaree providers sasay they are a again dealing with shortages in testing, which is hitting low-income and immigrant communities the hardest. in texas, doctors at a rural hospital in starr county have received critical care guidelines to help them decide which covid-19 patients the hospital can treat and those who

they send home because they are more likely to die. southern texas is now also reeling from hurricane hanna, which battered the region sunday, causing flash flooding and knocking out power lines. hurricane hanna also caused major damage in parts of mexico. meanwhile, in puerto rico, a protest caravan on saturday called for san juan's international airport to shut down a n non-eentitialravel l touristsonontinuto vacatn onon the land destete risg vid-19 cases and are often seen n w weari masasksr acticing social distancing.. this iricacardsantososf the socialisist rkers moment, ich h ornized d e protest. >> we are not backindodown. we're goingo continue this caravan because th i is a life or dea s situaon.. this govnor has not been addressing thihis issue. so as we have done in the past, people are going to take matatts in theheir own hands. amy: in immigration n news, a federal judge has denied a trump request to delay today's deadline for r releasing immigit

children from family detention centers run by ice, imimmigratin and customs enforcement, in texas and pennsylvania. the release wawas ordered due eo coconcerns over rising coronavis infefections. "there will be no family separation without parental coconsent," judge dodolly gee specified in her order. on capitol hill, the republican-contrololled senate s expected to unveil a $1 trillion proposal todayay for the long-awaited seconond coronavirs relief packagege. the legislation includes another round of $1200 stimulus checks, according g to treasury secretay steve mnuchin, and scraps the $600 weekly boost in unemployment benefits, which democrats are fighting to extend. instead, unemployment will covor 70% of lost wages, which will likely amount to approximately $200. republican senators are also trying to pass senanator mitt

roromney's s trust act as part f the billll, which h would gut sl security and medicare. globally, coronavirus cases have now topped 16.2 million. last week the global caseloaoa jumped by 1 million in just four days. as european nations scramble too prevent a second wave of infections, britain has reinstated a 14-day quarantine for travelers coming fm m spain. north korehahas lock dowown a cicity borderingng south koreaed declared a national emerergencys the first suspected case of cocovid-19 was a announced, thth outside observerers say north korea may have already had unidentified or unreported cases. in the philippines, thousands of people packed a stadium in the capital manila over the weekend as they awaited mandatory covid-19 testing before being able to return to their home towns after many lost their jobs during the lockdown. unemployment in the philippines has surged to over 17% since the start of the pandemic.

latin america remains one of the worst-hit regions. in costa rica, hundreds of nicaraguans have been stuck at the border after authoritities shut down entry into nicaragua for anyone who is unable to present a nenegative covidid-19 test, including their own citizens. in mexico, the heaealth minister of the northern state of chihuahua has died from covid-19. in brazil, the second-most affected country with 2.4 million cases, new year's eve festivitieies in rio de janeiro have been n canceled. the event draws up to 3 million people each year. in bolivivia, where coronavivirs cases arare still surging, election officials delayed the presidential election for the second time this year, citing the pandemic. former bolivian president evo morales was ousted last year and replaced by right-wing interim president jeanine anez. the world health organization warned last week covid-19 is taking a major toll on

health care professionals across africa. over 10,000 health workers across 40 african nations countries which have been infected. morocco has locked down major cities, incluluding c casablanc, marrakesh, and fez as recent spikes have e been reported acrs the country. anti-racist protests across the cocountry and the united states this weekend were met with violent police attacks, arrests and the death of a protester in austin, texas. for the 60th day in a row, demonstrators rallied in portland, oregon, sunday. shortly after midnight this morning, federal officers fired tear gas and other crowd-control weapons to disperse a crowd that had gathered outside the federal courthouse, which has become a flashpoint of the nightly protests. prpresident trump's deployment f federal agents to portland and other cities sparked a new round of protests across the country this weekend. on thursday, the trump administration sent a team of federal tactical border officers to seattle. it remains unclear what role the agents played this weekend as

seattle police arrrrested dozens of protesters and fired flash grenades and pepper spray into crowds. in related news from seattle, a judge has ordered "the seattle times" and four tv stations to hand over to the police photos and videos of a protest in may during which windows were smashed and d police cars were t ablaze. the e police hope the images wil help them identify suspects in a move press freedom advocates and reporters warn endangers all journalists. in austin, texas, a protester named garrett foster was shot dead. foster's mother said her son was pushing his fiancee's wheelchair when a car drove into the crowd and opened fire. on satururday, three people were injured at a louisville, kentucky, protest over the police killing of breonna taylor. the gun fired belonged to a member of the armed coalition of mostly black activists known as the "not f-ing a around coalition."

the three victimims were also pt of the group. in aurora, colorado, authorities authorities are investigating after a car drove through black lives matter protest. one protester also reportedly fired a weapon at the march. in chicago, christopher columbus statues were taken down from two parks, after an order from mayor lori lightfoot. one of t the statues was in grat park, where a police officerer last week punched teenage activist miracle boyd in the face, knockiking out her teeth, during a protest to topple the statue. for more on her case, go to democracynow.org. the body of civil l rights leadr and georgia congressmember john lewis s has made one last trip across a bridge in selma, alabama, that became a flashpoint in the struggle for racial equality in the jim crow south. on sunday, a funeral caisson drawn by two black horses crossed the edmumund pettus brididge, with family members placing red roses on the stt

where lewis was alalmosteaten n death the police in 1965 while mamarching for voting rightsts. this is fred lewis, speaking at a weekekend memorial service for his brother,r, john lewis. >> i remember the day when john left home. my mother told him not to get in trouble, not to get in the way. but we all know that john got in .rouble, got in the way but it was a good trouble. john was different from the rest of the family. and he would have does that all of the troubles he got himself into would change the world. amy: aftfter his body was taken across the summer bridge, he lay in state in the capital of alabama in montgomery. lewis' body will lie in state at the u.s. capitol in washington, d.c., head of a funeral in

georgia. meanwhile, house majority whip jim clyburn is seeking to rename a major voting rights bill after john lewis. the legislation, which has already been approved by the house, would restore parts of the voting rights act gutted by a supreme court ruling in 2013. republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has so far refused to schedule a debate on the bill. in hungary, over 70 journalists -- almost the entire editorial staff -- of "index," the country's largest online independent news outlet, resigned friday following the removal of its editor-in-chief. the news deals a major blow to press freedom in hungary, which has been under attack by the e authoritarian primime minr viktor orban and his fidesz party. earlier this year, a powerful businessman and ally of orban but have to "index part bs" advertising agency. protesters took to the streets friday to defend press freedom. >> we can do protest because

another indedependent news porol has fallen victim. i don't like that. thisis is why i came.e. there'e's hardrdly any left. amy: in honduras, protests continue demanding the return of five garifuna land defenders who were kidnapped last week in the northern coastal town of triunfo de la cruz. on saturday, police reportedly began shooting at a crowd of protesters. garifuna leaders believe the honduran police and military are involved in the disappearance. this is miriam miranda, a garifuna leader with the group black fraternal organization of honduras, speaking from her home in honduras sunday. > w what happeded eight d dao today is t reflectioion of a syststemic persecution and syststemic repepression, bubut a well-crarafted plane on behalf f the honduran state to exterminate the garifuna community. amy: in russssia, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets for the third straight weekend in the far east

city of khabarovsk. demonstrators arare calling for prpresident vladimir putin to resign and for an end to corruption and economic inequality. in other news from russia, president putin said he is arming the navy with hypersonic nuclear weapons and underwater nuclear drones as fears of a new nuclear arms race have been mounting following trump's withdrawal from the inf treaty last yeaear. the trtrump administrationon has cleared a major hurdle for the proposed pebble mine, a multi-billion dollar copper and gold mine in alaska that would be among the world's largest. environmentalists and local indigenous communities have fought against the proposed mine for nearly two decades, saying it would poison their communities and devastate bristol bay's salmon fishery. in other environmental news, a group of progressive democrats , including minnesota congressmember ilhlhan omar andd firm on senator bernie sanrs, introduced a bill friday that woulstop fossifuel companies from reiving billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies and federal coronavirus relief

funds. propublica has published the disciplinary records for ththousands of new york city police o officers -- records tht were until recently completely sealed off from the public. new york lawmakers voted i in je to repeal the cocontroversial "50-a" law that shielded t the records, i in the wake of george floyd's killing and amid the nationwide anti-racist uprising. propublica obtained the records from new york city's civilian complaint review board before a federal judge last week issued a restraining order, blocking the city from releasing the data. nypd unions are suing to prevent the city from making the records public. florida congressmember ted yoho was forced to resign from his position on the board of a christian organization amid the fallout from his verbal attack on congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez. the organization bread for the world said yoho's recent actions are "not reflective of ethical standards."

yoho called ocasio-cortez a "f-ing b-word" after he accosted her on the steps of capitol hill last week. aoc responded to his attack from ththe house floor, calling out e culture of violence against women in a video that quickly went viral. to see her full address, go to democracynow.o.org. and republican senator tom cotton of arkansas has proposed a bill that would d cut federall funding to any public school that includes "the new york times'" pulitzer prize-winning "1619 project" as part of its curriculum. the initiative is named after the year that enslaved africans were first brought to north america. in an interview with the "arkansas democrat-gazette," senator cotton refers to slavery as a "necessary evil upon which the union was built." in response, "1619 project"

writer nikole hannah-jones tweeted -- "if chattel slavery -- heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit -- were a 'necessary evil' as tom cotton says, it's hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynynow.org, the quarante report. i'm m amy goodman. for the 60th day in a row demonstrators rallied in portland, oregon to protest , sunday against police brutality and racism as well as the deployment of federal forces to the city. shortly after midnight this morning, federal officers fired tear gas and other crowd-control weapons to disperse a crowd that had gathered outside the federal courthouse which has become a flashpoint of the nightly protests. the weekend demonstrations in portland came days after the portland city council unanimously voted to bar portland police officers from

cooperating with federal authorities. on saturday, federal authorities revealed they had arrested or detained 6 60 people since being deployed to portland in early july. meanwhile, oregon congressmembers earl blumenauer and suzanne bonamici and about a dozen other lawmakers are demanding the resignation of chad wolf, the acting head of the department of homeland security, over his handling of the protests. president trump's deployment of federal officers to portland and other cities sparked a new round of protests across the country over the weekend. on thursday, the trump administration sent a team of federal tactical border officers to seattle. in a statement, the federal protective service said -- "the cbp team will be on standby in the area, should they be required." it remains unclear what role the agents played this weekend as seattle police arrested dozens of protesters and fired flash grenades and pepper spray into crowds. protests were also reported in

-- protests also took to ththe streetss i in other cities inincluding oakland, newew yorks angeles,s, louisville, kentucky, omaha, nebraska, richmond, virginia, aurora, colorado, and austin, texas, where a protester named garrett foster was shot dead. foster's mother said her son was pushing his fiancee's wheelchahr when a car drove into the crowd and opened fire. we begegin today's s show in see and portland. in portland, we are joined by pastor e.d. mondaine, a civil rights activist and president of the portland, oregon, branch of the naacp. and in seattle, washington, nikkita oliver is with us, the co-executive director of creative justice. she is also an artist, attorney and a community organizer with "decriminalize seattle" and "king county equity now." we welcome you both to democracy now! nikkita oliver, let's s begin wh you. can you explain what is happening in seattle right now with president trump saying as part of this surge they have brought federal agents in on

"standby"? talk about the protest this week and and what this means. >> this weekend, many people took to the streets. i want to make sure we keep the focus on black lives -- ultimatetely, people are in the streets in defense of black lives, howevever, it canannot be ignored that trucks sending federal officers to our city have certainly further emboldeneded the protests. that being said, we don't know exactly what the federal officers are doing. what we do know is that we are in a situation where local police are welcoming those federal agents into our city had -- the head of the police officers guild went on conservative radioio about a wek ago praisingng the federal arres of p protesters in porortland ad saying it mimight be time for te feds to come t to seattle. this past weekend, we e also saa b by seattleencnce

police departmenent against prprotesters. they actively have been fighting against a ban on tear gas and rubber bullets at the seattle city council imposed. trump department of justice essentially back the city police department in lifting that band. we know in addition to fighting police in our own city, we are also fighting at the federal level against federal enforcement being sent to our cityty. amy: can you talk about how you're protecting ourselves? you tweeted "police are snatching up gas masks from protesters. these are literally protective gear to keep protesters safe from police violence." >> absolutely. a lot of new tactics are being developed in the streets to o kp people safe such as i'm jealous, mutual aid networks, protective goggles. peoplele are wearing bike helmes

and construction helmets as a way of protecting ourselves from the debris of flasashbangs. this weekend we saw seattle popolice dropping flashbangs frm the top of private roofs. soso people are developing mamay tactics with industry to keep each other say. i think that i is really the important part, people are protecting each other the way that we always have knowing when it comes to police violence, we as a community are really what we have as our safety -- street medics are playing a key role and also putting themselves at great personalal risk to take ce of people on site. , the bestw ultimately protection that we are looking for isn't just these tactics we're developing right now in this moment, but it is an overarching protection against police violence where we have less police. people are staying in the streets in defense of black lives, and the demand currently on the ground here is to defund spd by 50% about the rebalancing

package of our city as covid-19 has caused a $300 million shortfall but in the upcoming budget, as a tactic for decreasing police violence across the board. so while we are developing many tactics on the ground and industries to keep people safe from pepper spray, various seo gas, flashbangs, there is also an overarching work that is say from to key people police violence across the board. amy: n nikkita oliver,r, some 50 protesters stopped at a youth detention center. can you talk about the history of that place? we are seeings right now w are literally on yes of a growing abolitionist movement and the seattle king county region. one of the fights that began in 2012 was to stop king county from building a new $244 million new complex.d a

there was anan entire generation of young people or there is an entire generation of young people since 2012 who have literally come of age fighting the construction of this new youth jail. it opened earlier this year. policing, police brutality in our city is also knowledge in the criminal president system is deeply -- punishment is deeply attached to policing and black indigenous andnd people ofof cor neighborhoods. last week a significantly picking county executive who was the biggest cheerleadader a building t the youth jail announced in 2025 ththey will attempt to close it. ththere are presenently somewhee between 19 and 21 young people being h held in cages in that facility. we k know that withoutut the groundwork that black and native folklks have led in our city to stop the building of the youth

jail, police bunkers, ththe work we are presently doing right now around defunding the police would not have the foundation it has. summer,isings began the we already had demands ready because we have been for an extended period of time fighting this new youth jaiail. two coalitions really rose out of that work. so keeping our sights on that movement of no new youth jails, closing down youth prisons, so closing down adult prisons come has been a significant part of length foundation this present uprising for black lives. amy: i want to go to a a portlad black lilives matteter protester addrdressing thehe crowd lasast. thrhreat!se no [a[applause] sealing g the deal on being

divided. we will not t be divided ever again! [applause] nation underr god!! >> god bless americaca! >> we are the human n race! black lives matter! >> black lives matter! amy: that is a scene from the streets of portltld, oregon.n. in addition to nikkita oliver, we're joioined by pastotor e.d. mondaine, civil rights activist and president of the portland, oregon branch of the naacp. wrote a piece for "the washington post" titled "portland's protests were supposed to be about blackck lives. now, they're white spectacle." can you explain."." >> we have to explain the civil rights era with seriousness and more seriousneness than n we hae

gotten in the 6060 years since e ---- since itsts inception. the shalloww graves reach the streets of portland tear gas and rubber bullets.. at the core ofof the trurump administration's acactions in portrtland are decepeption. the federal government's the presidedent and his allieses went to b be a spectacle. they need to be a distraction to the country by engaging our movement where there is no advantage. en we engngage on their tererms, we c certainly most definitely lose b but we've got to be ableo keep the focus on blblack lives. this is not a war. we are notot in beirut. wewe are in the united states sf americica, the most powerful country in the w world.

thised toto understand that revolution has brought us into the streets and is going to keep us in the streets until we see great movement. amy: oregon senator ron wyden talking about the federal agents that trump has deployed to portland as essentially fascist. he said "if a line is not drawn in the sand right now,w, america may be staring down the barrel of martial law in the middle of a presidential election." do you sharere that assessment,, paststor? >> yes. and we cannot fall for that deceptioion. wewe cannot s settle for the mal law. we know where that is going to take us. listen, it is time now for us to make our voices known a and vois heard in the halls of justicece. we welcocome the protesters. wewe are not necessarily attracd to the violence, but that is all a part of the game. war is deception. deception is what kills our

settlededn we are not in u understand what truth is ad how to divide that truth. we need to be of the march forward with the power that revolution brings and that tells us that it is time right now for the social change that we are seeking. amy: can you talk -- i mean, the scenes in ththe street of portland, thousands of people, of a wall of moms and now a wall of dads. you have that wall of veterans that have lined up as well. can you talk about the various movements that have come together and what you think is the critical agenda of the black lives matter movement riright n? >> everyone seeking to advance justice, facingg great danger. i want to be clear, we welcome our white allies in the streets. we welcome the wall of moms.

we welcome the leaf blowing dads. right now there are unmarked, unarmed federal forces kidnapping our citizens off the street without justification or authority. the mayor portland and the governor of oregon have both asked them to leave, and d it is to no avail.l. we know this is a violation of our constitution. it with president trump promising only more occupations in more cities, we ignore this risk in our peril. the trumpet administration's actions are really hurting america n not bringing america closer together. the focus has to b be on blackck lives and black lives matter. it is black lives and black lives mamatter thahat took us te streetet. it is black lives and black lives matter that keep us in the street. it is a black lives issueue that keeps us downtown nightly in the face of peril and trouble.

, what areta oliver you demanding of the state right now in seattle, washington? i will ask the same question of the pastor. i mean, you have interestingly the authorities in oregon from the governor to the senators to the mayor to wheeler -- also the police commissioner who was tear gassed himself -- vehemently protesting the presence of federal agents, but you also have the local police tear-gassing people.e. explain, although recently the city council last week in portland voted not to cocooperae with the federal agentnts, expln the situation in seattle right now. >> i want to be very clear that while certainly we are against federal agents ring g in her ciy and our couounty, we are not fighting for a local monopoly on police violence. -- a a huge focus ever moment is fighting to defund the police. and s specifically, we e are

fighting to defund the seattle police department. we know there is no instance in which police actually keep us safe. very often when police are called in to any situation, they tend to escalate it or people involved in the situtuation are sent i into the crcriminal punishment systetem, which is disproportrtionately made a bla, indigenous, anand people of col. ththere are three key demands tt have remainened athe f forefront of our movement. it is fight to defefend black lives. the first is to defund the seattle police department starting with the rebalancing package. the city council have an historical about on either august 3 or august 10 to bidding on how the process goes where council members will vote on that 50% package first with a 2020 rebalancing. we have seven of nine councililmembers, veto-proof vo, that have committed to defunding seattle police department by 50%.

there is a strong chance that we will see some defunding in this rebalancing package but our focus is also much on the 2021 budget and those council members are committed to finding those cuts within the seattle police department -- but that is only one strategy. the next one is knowing we need a community-based, community led, community safety and public health infrastructure. part of the first defund dollars from this 2021 package should be and will be invested in a participatory budgeting process that will be led by those communities most affected by police terrorism and that participatory budgeting process will lead us into 2021 to determine how the 50% investment of the 400 -- credit $410 bibillion the police e in seatt, so about 205 million, will be invested in community-based public health and public safety and will invest as soon as possible $10 million and scaling up the current community based

infrastructure. so we have a very strong focus and understanding that defunding the police, shrinking the police is an important strategy to get into the place where we don't hahave police involved in our public health or public safety infrastructure and then finally, since may 29, hundreds of protesters have been arrested. soso our movement is calling for all protesters to be freed. no one should be taking a a case or charge by exercising the first amendment right, especially as it comes to defending black lives and fighting against state sanctioned violence. amy: and what is the role you , of othertee allies people of color, in black lives-led movement? >> i believe our co-conspirators are an essential part of this movement, especially in a region like seattle king county. we are about 4% black community

within our city, so having strong allies -- i use co-conspirator very intentionally. allies are people who may look at your struggle and say, "we align with you, we see the value of your life," but that is not necessarily folks who will join you in the streets, join you in councill chambers, who will take a risk of their own lives, their own wealth, their own property in order to join your movement. so in a city like ours where the black community has been displaced and gentrified out of the neighghborhoods that we have , in manyrong and popular ways the black community has not had access to the immense wealth that is grown and now region, having the co-conspirators is essential and industries but also in many of our political strategies. what i will say is this correct uprising is the first time that we have seen a considerable amount of our white allies and white co-conspirators take to

the streets in assisting movement. for the past 60 days, we have seen thousands upon thousands of people in seattle consistently protesting, consistency -- consistently rallying and focusing on the three demands that the black liberation movement here in our city and our region have brought to the surface. it really is essential that we have that co-conspirator movement happening at the same time, while simultaneously recognizing that no movement is successful without a diversity tactic. we know historically we have had to s see aiviversity tactic putn place in order to win, in order for momovements to remain strtr, sosoe're a also seeing that hapn on the ground here from movements in the streets to movements in council chambers to movements of educators, and people all over our city, in order to assure the movement in defense of black letters -- lives is present. yet pastor e.d. mondaine,,

this massive susustained protest movement in portland which is the whitest largest city in this country. the whitest of the 35 largest cities. the new york times wrote the state was founded on principles of white supremacy and 19th-century last law call for whipping any black person found in the state. in the earliest part of the 20 century, oregon's legislature was dominated by members of the ku klux klan. you have a very interesting piece in the "atlantic" that the -- that talks about passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th mm its organs laws preventing black people from living under the state and owning property were superseded by natioional lw but oregon itself did not ratify the 14th amendment equal untiltion because

1973. this history, to say the least, revolting debts resulting in a very white state. what you want to see happen now? >> i am t thrilled that we're sg so many new memembers coming o t toto join us as allies and justs my sister spoke, the allies will go with you to the gate but they become accomplices when they go out into the streets with us, when they join as in our fight. we will work together gives battlefield. whererever it goeoes and wherevt takes as, however it fulfills those efforts we are trying to obtain black lives matter ring and not -- under t this battle,, some of us will fight our greatest call the service and help open the g gates and guard those perimeters that black people deserve to live in. again, this was the only state in the nation that was in set -- incepted in racism. we're in a time we will never

see again. the reality of the everyday black existence has been promoted to the greater public consciousness. we have woke up in this country. we are awakened now.. we were awakened by the sound of again those clarion criers that were killed in the 1960's. they are saying it is time for justice, it is time for change. amy: pastor e.d. mondaine, thank you for being with u us, presidt of the portland naacp. and nikkita oliver co-executive , director of creaeative justic. next up, john lewis. this week. we remember the civil rights icon andnd speak with professor about his book "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. 55 years ago, alabama state troopers brutally beat john lewis and hundreds of protesters who crossed the edmund pettus bridge on bloody sunday to demand the right to vote. on sunday, john lewis' body crossed the edmund pettus bridge for the final time. rose petals s were scattereredlg the path as two black horses pulled a caisson with his casket. he died july 17 at the age of 80. the carriage driver wore a white face mask to guard against of coronavirus and a black top hat, which he took off and placed over his heart when he reached the top of the bridge and paused for two minutes over the alabama river. the day before, congressman lewis was remembered in services in his home town of troy, alabama.

one service at troy university was titled "the boy from troy," the nickname dr. king gave lewis at their first meeting in 1958 in montgomery. john lewis was denied admission to thehe school in 1957 becausee was black. decades later, he was awarded an honorary degree. after sunday's ceremony in selma, john lewis' body was taken to the alabama capitol to lie in state. he will lie in state at the u.s. capitol in washington, d.c., private funeral thursday after he lies in state in the georgia state capital. the funeral take place at the historic ebenezer baptist church in atlanta once led by king. in 2012, john lewis came to the democracy now! studio and talked about what happened in that day in march, that they known as bloody sunday. head by thet in the

state trooperer with a nightsti. my legs went outut from under m. i felt like i was going to die. i thought i saw death. all these many years later, i don't recall how i made it across that bridge come to the church. but after i got back to the full tothee church was capacity. more than two thieieves and ople trying to geget in -- or thahan0 people trying to get in. at the like,d sits i don't understand it.t. how president johnson can send troops to vietnam but cannot sendnd troops to selma, alabamao protect people who just want to register to vote. the next thing i knew, i've been admitted to the local hospital. they make of that was a late civil rights icon john lewis speaking at democracy now! to see the w whole hou g go to dedemocracynow.org. ththe bravery john lewiwis and others shohowed in the face of police violence that dayay playd a key role in the passage of the 1965 voting rights act just two

months later. he would go on to be arrested some 40 timemes during the c cil rights movement. and many times after that, making what he called "good trouble." to more on his legacy, we go professor eddie glaude, chair of the department of african american studies at princeton university, author of "democracy in black: how race still enslaves the american soul" and "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." welcome back to democracy now! this is the week of john lewis, as he will lay in state in three different capitals -- alabama, georgia, washington, d.c.c. -- d then be buried on thursday. he was not only a 17 term congressmember, he also was the head of sncc.

this he cacame out of movevemen. he marched in the streets. he was beaten and arrested numerous times. talk about the significance of this. >> whenever i think of john lewis, i thihink about his fundamental faith, his find a mental commitmtment thahat human beinings cocould be otherwisese. he writes that faithth is beingo sure w what this has whispered anyone's heart that your belief in it t is unshakeable. he demonstrated a courage rooted in his faith but i think i it is important when we tell the story of john lewis, we understand that he comes out of the student movement. we are g going to connect this o the earlier segment with what is going on with black lives matterer. he comes out of the student movement, those young folk who radicalized in some significant way the civil rights movement, the students between 15, 16, 17, 22 years old, some 23 years old. in nashville come as he was going to school, trained under jijim lawson, he was a part of that shookf sit-ins

the nation. othersd marion belly and and courtland cox, these are these young students who became the shock troops of the movement, who went into the bowels of the south, sometimes ononly 2, 3, four deep and riskd everything. i never risked their lives to change the nation. i thinink it is imimportant whee tell the story of john lewis that we don't simply yolk him to dr. king, which is important, we understand him as aa product o f this student activism. at the march on washington, they had archbishop o'boyle but his sins or his speech. in some ways they were successful. that famous quote the peopople f and using over and over againn aboutt patients in the original

version of that speech, john lewis said patatients is a nasty and dirty word. there is more to be saidd about his legacy and about the movement that he came out of. amy: when you say he was not only tied to dr. king, on democracy now! he talked abobout memeeting with malcolm in africa in neroli and spitting several days with them. in fact, malcolm x was in selma. bashedn he had his head in, dr. king was not next to him then. he went later r for the later march but he was not there then. that was led by john lewewis. >> right. it is important understand, tell the story of selma a as his high point -- and it was -- you are right to note it laid thee foundationon for the passage of the votingng rigights act of 19, moment ofwas an extraordinary conflict. john lewis marched in that march without the sanction of sncc.

you could not be sncc a representative of sncc because sncc disagreed with the strategy of sclc. malcolm was present. sncc organizers were challenging the basic strategygy. member, ththe they end up organizing and what would become the first iteration of the black panther party a year later, stokely carmichael will declare he no longer is going to say freedom now but say black power. john lewis was the chahair of sc from 1963 to 1966. he in effect was in some ways the leader of the radicalization of this student organization. and it broke his heart, amy, that he lost t to stokely carmichael as chairperson, that he had to walk away, but i it hs something g to do with his commitment to the philosophy of nonviolence. let me tell you this really quickly, we often n tell the sty of black power t the civil righs

movement as if they arare wholly separate. when we look at sncc i look at the life of john lewis, we see that many of the people who cried black power were somome of the same young people who risk their lives nonviolently and in the bowels of the south. they confronted the terror of the countntry, the betrayal of e country, and her angerer bubbled over. shook.wis is faith nenever it never changed. and that is why to this day he believes in nonviolence and that is why he is going to his grave as in some ways a martyr of that particular philosophy. amy: we're going to go to break and then t talk about a man that you also wrote about at that time also a contemporary, actually, john lewis, and that is james baldwin. 1963, two years before bloody sunday when john lewis was the youngest speaker at the march on washington, it wasn't a few weeks before the bombing of the birmingham church

to show the stakes and in the killing of these little girls. we're going to talk about the civil rights movement t right up through h the selection. we a are talkiking to professssr ededdie glglde. we will continue with him in 30 seconds. ♪ [music break] this is dedecracy now!w!, i'm amy goodman. we are speakaking with professor eddie glaude. his new book just out, "begin again: james baldwin's america

and its urgent lessons for our own." this is james baldwin speaking backed about federally urban renewawal programs. 1 16 - -oy y last week,k, television. mamae someone e will start to lien. he w was only 16 y years old. sayay y you do.t i don't ve any evividenceo prove he does. they were e tearing down his hoe because san francncisco is engaging a as well and sosomethg cacalled urban renewal, whic means momoving the negegroes t. negro removoval. the fefederal government is an accomplicece to thisisact. we''re talking about humuman beings.. not mononolithic wall some abstractct from these e are nego

was engrossesed with 1and 17 don't belieie the country means anythihing i says. on n the basis of the performane of the entire country. amy: that was james baldwin and a 1963. 96 trip three was the birmingham church bombing, four little girls killed. tim's baldwin giving fiery addresses about what this meant. he would eventually leave the united states. professor eddie glaude, he has been the backdrop of your life. talk about what he represesented than and what it means for today. thinkining and thinking about james baldwin for 30 years. he has been in my spirit and my head at the fououndation of my scholarly career in some ways. what i wanted to do was to think about t him asas this poet who e the truth to our time. amy, had to come to o terms with the fact that country turns its baback on the black freeeedom struggle. assassinated dr. king

and yet to p pick up the pieces. i wanted to walk with james baldwin as he in some was grappled with his moment of betrayal andnd find resources fr us in our moment as were grappling with their own moment of betrayal. what i have learned is that he spoke truth, spoke truth, insisted the nation confronont e lie, the illusion that protected so-called innocence. and that became the basis of writing this book in this moment determine sopism much of our lives. amy: and what -- why did he leave america? talk about that. and also, what does he teach us about today in this election that we just spoke to noam chomsky that says the most important election in human history right now here e in the united states, the most powerful country in the world? he left the u.s. in 1948 because he had to get away.

he said the hatred was taking root in him and either he was going to kill somebody or he was going to be killed. so he left harlem and went t to paris. and there he engaged in this extremely active self creation where he willed himself to being a writer but he had to d it outside of the country so he could at least breathe, soso he could find the space to imaginee hihimself otherwise, to do with what was the positive in his gut. -- baldwin's who tried to make real the suffering that is the lesson w we ne to learn today. he insisted, amy, that we tell the truth about who we are and what we hahad done. and we put asaside the nyths illusions and understand what white supremacy is that in terms of disfiguring and distorting the character of this nation in this moment wewe have the forces of authoritarianism clashing with the forces of democracy. in this moment we have the nation trying to confront what will itt be. will it doubled down on its

ugliness? will white folks simply double down on being white folk again? and you have to do with another generation, my son and his children, having t to deal with the implication and the consequence of that dastardly and ghastly decision to be white? book "begincall the again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." take it forward to now. >> i get the title from his last nonovel "just above my head," ad i paraphrase, when the dream was shattered, people scattered. some lost their minds, some went toto jail, some of t the countr. but we know what we did. he says, responsibility isn't lost. responsibility is abdicated. if one r refuses a abdication, n one begins again. at the end of the 1972, an important book "no name in the street," he likens us to midwives trying to g give birtho

a new america. every time we are at this moment where we can give birth to a different way of being in this country, different multiracial america, the umbilical cord of white supremacy isis wrapped around the baby's neck and it chokes the life out. so here we are in thisis moment once again, our respsponsibility if we don't abdicate it, is to try to give birth to a generally multiracial democracy. i think if we fail this time, i'm not so sure ththe country wl survive, but that is what is in our hands in this moment. it is in hours. amy: his bravery in speaking out asas a blackqueer and in america and leaving this country? >> yeah, i interviewed angela davis right hehere in princeton and she said and if so many ways he was alone. he says, when he woke giovanni's room," he said, i could not hold my sexuality over me. i told you. the courage of this vulnerable

frail man to speak truth to power no matter the consequences, and i think his someways is exemplar for us. what is the need to hold true and steadfast to our convictions and not take a bribe? when james baldwin understood, when he embraceced those youngg people who cried black power, he understood the call. he knew what would happen to his career. the book focucuses on the latter part of james baldwin's career, not the early part. i think we need to understand the cost and be willing to take the risk. amy: about those risks and what the selection means right now? your assessment t of president trump? >> he is a disaster. i was on your show debatating if you recall about the 2016 election. i said i would not vote for hillary clinton. i was thinking about this -- in some ways, i overestimated white america. i did not think that would elect someone who is so clearly unqualified to be the leader of

the country. the mandndate of donald trump is clear. line t the pocockets of the oligarchs and make america white agagain. we have to do two thihings. we have to get him out of office and we have to pusush a vision r complete reimagining of american life. we have to put forward a radical visision of this country, something like what nikkita oliver put together -- put forth in the last t segment. its not an either/or. sometimes, as jimmymy bultmanand in 197979 when faced with h the election of ronald reagan and perhaps the first neoliberal president in the united states jimmy carter, said sometimes voting for black america simply a matttter of buying time. we need to understand our choices but we need to get donald trump out of office and we need to put toward a radical vision of america moving forward. amy: and president trump hanging out under these toppled confederate generalals, the significance of this committee

in federal troops to american cities and doing this all during the time of covid, which disproportionately affects communities of color?? >> we have been risking our lives ever since folks brought us here. so we see folks risking their lives in the midst of this globobal pandemimic to call attention to w what police are doing to us daiaily. donald trump is in the midst of reasserting ththe lie. at every moment, every moment at which the nation faces a kinindf moral reckoning, there is a reassertion of the lie and that light is the belelf that amemera is thehe shining city on the hi. that light is the belief that black photo really have the capacity truly take on the real serious -- that light is rooted in this idea that racial justice is a philanthropic enterprise. so what we're seeing in this momentnt is not only -- amy: we have e 10 seconds. >> everyday, ordinary people. we see donald trump trying to

reinsert the lie. medical princeton university professor eddie glaude. his new book is "begin again: james baldwin's america and its urgent lessons for our own." that does it for our broadcast. stay

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