10/28/20 10/28/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new rk, this is democracy now! >> his wife come his children, his family should have him here right now. you should still be here right now. when you call for help, you should get help, not execution. amy: hundreds took to the streets for second night tuesday to protest the police killing of walter wallace, jr., a 27-year-old black man who was shot and killed by two

philadelphia police officers in front of his mother while he was having a mental health crisis. the national guard has been ordered into the streets. we will go to philadelphia to speak with professor marc lamont hill about the police killing and president trump's call to -- four poll watchers to pennsylvania. is the president sanctioning voter intimidation? then we go to chile, where voters have overwhelming approved rewriting chile's pinochet dictatorship-era constitution following a year of mass protests. >> this is the beginning and the end. we are giving birth to a new constitution and leaving behind the constitution of pinochet and his entourage. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the united states recorded nearly 75,000 coronavirus cases

on tuesday as the confirmed death toll from covid-19 neared 227,000. the u.s. has recorded over a half-million new coronavirus cases over just the last week. more than half of states are at or near record levels of infections and no state in the union is seeing a decline in new cases. despite the grim news, the trump administration declared victory over the coronavirus on tuesday. in a news release accompanying the release of a 62 page report, the white house office of science and technology policy cited "ending the covid-19 pandemic" as one of president trump's first term accomplishments. in wisconsin, health officials reported 64 coronavirus deaths and nearly 5300 new daily cases tuesday -- shattering previous records. just hours after that announcement, president trump

rallied his supporters in western wisconsin, where thousands packed shoulder-to-shoulder at a campaign event where few people wore masks. president trump said tuesday that any deal on a new stimulus bill would have to wait until after the november election. trump's comments came after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell adjourned the senate until november 9 following monday's vote to confirm amy coney barrett to the supreme court. this comes as more than 54 million u.s. residents are struggling to afford food according to the hunger relief organization feeding america. york, food bank operator city harvest says 2.5 million people don't have enough money for basic necessities. this is guillermo lugo, manager of a food distribution market in the bronx. about 250rage was families. since the onset of the pandemic,

the average attendance is 650 families and it does not seem to be slowing down. amy: in philadelphia, hundreds of people took to the streets for a second straight night tuesday to protest the police killing of walter wallace, jr., a 27-year-old black man who was shot and killed by two philadelphia police officers monday while having a mental health crisis. pennsylvania governor tom wolf called out the national guard to help quell the protests after some people set fires and broke into businesses. on tuesday evening, walter wallace, sr. called for an end to chaos and looting but demanded justice for his son. has to be held accountable for what they did. callu're going to justified shooting multiple times, what kind of lost we have? amy: after headlines, we'll go to philadelphia for the latest on the police killing of walter wallace, jr.

two members of a grand jury convened after the police killing of breonna taylor have spoken on camera for the first time, calling the actions of the louisville officers responsible for taylor's death "criminal." the two jurors say kentucky's republican attorney general daniel cameron never gave them the option to consider murder or manslaughter charges against the louisville police officers involved in taylor's killing. the pair had their identities concealed as they spoke with cbs's gayle king in an interview airing today. >> can ask you what you both inc. of the police behavior and actions that night? >> negligent. >> negligent? >> they could not even provide any risk assessment and a semi-they had not even done one, so the organization leading up to this was lacking stop that is what i mean by they work negligent in the operation.

>> number two? >> they were criminal leading up to this. the way they moved forward, including the warrant, was deception. amy: a record 71 million early votes have already been cast in the presidential election, surpassing the 2016 early vote count. in texas, 46% of all registered voters have already cast their ballots. on tuesday, democratic presidential nominee joe biden campaigned in georgia -- a state not won by a democrat since bill clinton in 1992. trump campaigned in nebraska, wisconsin, and michigan where a judge just ruled voters can openly carry firearms at polling places. trump attacked michigan democratic governor gretchen whitmer and downplayed a recent right-wing plot to kidnap her. trump supporters repeatedly chanted "lock her up." he also criticized the media's

reporting on the pandemic. pres. trump: now with them, you can't watch anything else. covid, covid, covid. covid, covid, covid. covid. we have a spike in cases. they don't use the word "death" they use the word "cases." case, heon trump is a was sniffling. one clean it is all he needed. amy: former president barack obama campaigned for joe biden in order and ridiculed trump's comments. pres. obama: more than 225,000 people in this country are dead. more than 100,000 small businesses have closed. half a million jobs are gone in a florida alone. and what is his closing argument? that people are too focused on covid. he said this at one of his relatives.

"covid, covid, covid." he is jealous of covid's media coverage. incoming well, president trump continues to attack mail-in ballots, claim -- claiming it would be inappropriate to count any ballots received after election day. pres. trump: it would be very proper and nice if a winner were declared on november 3 instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and i don't live that is by our loss. amy: on monday, the supreme court ruled mail-in ballots and it was kind can be counted only if they are received by election day. justice brett kavanaugh's concurring opinion has alarmed voting rights activists. kavanaugh said counting ballots received after election day could create "suspicions of impropriety" because they could "potentially flip the results of an election." one voting rights expert slammed kavanaugh for adopting a "trumpian mind-set." meanwhile, many voting rights

groups are now urging voters to drop off absentee ballots in person instead of relying on the u.s. postal service to deliver them in time due to cutbacks implemented by the new postmaster general louis dejoy, a major supporter of president trump. in other voting news, the texas supreme court has backed republican governor greg abbott's order limiting ballot drop box sites to just one per county. muslim communities around the world are denouncing french president emmanuel macron's public backing of caricatures of the prophet muhammad, accusing macron of attacking islam. macron made the comments during a vigil for a french teacher beheaded outside his school earlier this month. the teacher had previously shown his students a cartoon of muhammad. erupted across bangladesh, otherine, iraq, and predominantly muslim nations. meanwhile turkey, qatar, kuwait, and others are demanding a

boycott of french products. the united nations is warning severe child malnutrition is soaring in yemen with nearly 100,000 children now at risk of dying. the food security crisis is being driven by a combination of the u.s.-backed saudi war, the pandemic, climate change, and cutbacks in international aid. fuad ahmad remi is a nurse in sanaa. >> we are receiving many malnutrition patients and sing many deaths caused by the poor economic conditions and the inability of parents to come to the hospital because of poverty. if the aid agencies stop their support, this will lead to humanitarian disaster for the yemeni people who are unable to pe with the economic sanctions and the lack of fuel. amy: the united arab emirates has become the first arab state to open a consulate inside western sahara, which has been occupied by morocco for 45 years.

meanwhile, the united nations security council is voting today to renew its mandate to keep a peacekeeping force in the occupied territory. amnesty international has issued an appeal for the u.n. to include a human rights monitoring component for the peacekeepers. most independent human rights organizations and journalists are not able to enter western sahara. the homes of right livelihood laureate aminatou haidar and human rights defenders mina baali and elghalia djimi remain under police siege since they and other activists launched new organization known as isacom that demands self-determination and human rights for sahrawis. visit democracynow.org to watch our special "four days in western sahara: africa's last colony." a teenage activist in hong kong was detained by police tuesday near the u.s. consulate where he was planning to seek asylum.

19-year-old tony chung helped found the pro-independence group student localism and had been arrested previously under hong kong's new national security law. two of his associates were also detained tuesday. in the gulf of mexico, tropical storm zeta has strengthened back into a hurricane ahead of its expected landfall near new orleans as a category 2 storm late this afternoon. officials along louisiana's gulf coast are warning of flooding and life-threatening storm rges. on tuesday, zeta struck mexico's yucatan peninsula, which was still recovering from hurricane delta's landfall just three weeks ago. zeta is the 27th named storm of the 2020 atlantic hurricane season which is on pace to break records. in new york, keith raniere, the leader of the nxivm sex cult, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other charges. over a dozen women testified at the sentencing hearing saying

raniere traumatized and brainwashed them. he posed as a self-help guru. one of the survivors said raniere started sexually assaulting her when she was 15 and he was 45. others testified raniere referred to them as slaves and branded them with his initials using a cauterizing pen. a federal judge has denied a -- federal judge has ruled president trump can be sued by e. jean carroll, who accused trump of raping her in the 1990's. the judge rejected an attempt to switch theoo defendant in the ce from donald trump to the u.s. government, claiming trump's rape accusation denial was done in his official capacity as president. the judge ruled the president is not an employee of the government and that trump's comments regarding the rape accusation "would not have been within the scope of his employment."

and in poland, protests continue following a constitutional court ruling last week that banned almost all formsf abortion, tightening anti-choice laws that were aeady among the most restrictive in europe. demonstrators took to the streets tuesday blocking public transit and streets in one of warsaw's richest neighborhoods. >> the truth is thathere is going toe illegal underground abortions now, whi many will beonductedn inhumane conditions, devastating conditions. amy: meanwhile, lawmakers opposing the near-total ban on abortion led a protest inside the polish parliament tuesday, wearing t-shirts and masks with a lightning bolt symbol representing the women's strike movement. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and -- the quarantine report. when we come back, we will go to

philadelphia where hundreds of people have been protesting in the streets for the last two nights after the killing of an african-american father. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

"everybody deserves to be free." this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by my co-host juan gonzalez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country d around the world. amy: this story today, a warning to our audience. it contains descriptions of police violence and some disturbing images. protesters took to the streets of philadelphia for a second night tuesday to condemn the police killing of walter wallace, jr. the national guard has been

deployed to philadelphia as outrage grows after two philadelphia police officers shot and killed the 27-year-old black father on monday while he was having a mental health crisis. both police officers were reportedly wearing body cameras when they shot wallace. philadelphia police commissioner danielle outlaw said tuesday she does not know if she will release body camera footage of the killing. wallace's lawyer said tuesday his family was calling for an ambulance to help him with a mental health crisis, but police arrived on the scene instead. cellphone video of the fatal shooting shows walter wallace, jr.'s mother trying to restrain him before he pushes her away and walks toward the officers, who then shot wallace at least 10 times. police allege wallace refused to drop a knife he was holding.

wallace was at least 10 feet away from the police officers when they shot him. at least one witness told the "philadelphia inquirer" the officers were "too far from him" and said bystanders were trying to de-escalate the situation. on tuesday, walter wallace, jr.'s mother cathy wallace told reporters the officers knew her son was in a mental health crisis because they had been to the family's house three times on monday. >> did you tell the police about his condition when you called 911? >> they already knew about it. they already knew. >> they were there earlier that day? >> yeah, there were there earlier that day and they were standing out there laughing at us. they were not trying to help us. they did not give a damn about us. my sense had come a look at

them, they're there laughing at us. -- we walked down the street. lots of cops standing out there. that's it. i'm done. [cheers] amy: during tuesday night's emotional news conference, the wallace family's attorney shaka johnson said wallace's wife dominique who witnessed his killing is pregnant and scheduled to have labor induced today. johnson said wallace had nine children. several of his young sons introduced themselves. name?t is your can you tell us about your dad? out., we would always hang

around. play >> that's all right, son, keep going. be strong. you can do it. >> he would teach me how to be a man. >> praise god. praise god. the cops got my own dad because -- black lives still matter. amy: one of the sons of walter wallace, jr. he was killed monday by philadelphia police. for more, we go to philadelphia where we're joined by marc lamont hill, professor of media studies and urban education at temple university. his forthcoming book is "we still here: pandemic, policing, protest, and possibility." he was at monday night's protests. welcome back to democracy now!

can you talk about everything you understand at this point that has unfolded, beginning with monday when the mom said that the police knew full well her son was in a mental health crisis because they had been to the house three times that day and they said that night they were calling for an ambulance for him? >> that is the point. when the police began to release their statements and tell their version of events, they left out theyad been to the house three times earlier that day. they said, oh,e had no way of knowing he had a mental health episode. one, it was clear from the previous phone calls but it was also clear from what his mother told them on the scene stop not to mention anyone chasing police around a car with a knife -- not chasing come of that walking route the night, is clearly having an episode. from all of those elements, it was clear the police did not respond as if someone were

having a mental health episode. instead, they decided to shoot him instead of exercising any kind of negotiation. the parents were not calling the police. they were calling for an ambulance, for me to help support. this is the problem with society, the police become the response to all our social crises and contradictions. juan: specifically i want to a about that because so many incidents have seen not only over the last year or two, but over decades, police responding to what are essentially mental health issues and very few cities have the structure by which there could be mental health professionals responding. it is always the police and it always becomes a situation where violence is, unfortunately, used. >> exaly right. if all you have is a hammer, then every problem is like a nail. if the only solution we have is policing, then we're going to

militarize,pe of criminalize response. r decades, we have seen assorted raid of the social resources. we no longer have access to mental health, schooling, housing, all of these things are taken out of the public good and replaced by more militarization, more policing. the police become the response to all of our social problems and crises. the police are not equipped to handle a situation for mental health. we have seen this is the 1970's beginning with reagan and into president carter's -- i'm sorry, beginning with president carter's administration and entering president reagan's administration, the stripping of mental health resources. we see the criminalization of mental health as mentally ill pele in up on the streets and get locked up for loitering. we see the killing of ducks with mental illness when they have confrontations with police. anyways this is more emblematic of the crisis of police that went unarmed people die. for every george floyd that gets

killed unarmed, there are hundreds of people with mental illness that are forced to be criminalized and have these types of engagements with law enforcement every single day. juan: i wanto ask aut the respon of president trump immediately because of the protests and there was some violence and looting that occurred. there have been now pretty credible rorts that there have been agent provocateurs in many of these protests across the country. "theommend the article counterpunch" had earlier this month that detailed seral of these cities, includi they mentioned philadelphia in june, numerous reports circulated that peaceful protests across the state were being infiltrated by white supremacists and they quoted the pennsylvania human chads commission director young lassiter who said, well, what i saw was accorded effort of looting encouraged by white supremacists and hid behind signs demanding jtice for

promoting anarchy. could you lk about the violence that has erupted in at the last couple of days from these prests and how prident trump is responding trying to use what has happened here to say there are definitely now poll watchers needed in philadelphia, trying to utilize the violence as part of his campaign and in philadelphia? >> there are agent provocateurs. i saw with my own eyes in june, monday -- excuse me, monday with my own eyes. when you look at what is happening on the ground, the people who are righteously rebellinwere needed in these wanton act of reckless violence. it is important to acknowledge this then becomes the pretext for people like donald trump and governor wolf calling anymore -- calling for more militarization, calling in more police and troops as a means of engaging in more violence and squelching the dissent. it is also important to say even with people on the ground that are not engaged the resistance,

this is righteous resistance. it is important to say the state is killing us and we have a right to respond, a right to have our voices heard. these are rebellions. that is what i talk about in my book "we still here." no one pays attention to black death unless it affects their money or they think their safety is threatened. i'm not saying to kill people, but we have to use some form of resistance, some form of rebellion if we are to have our voices heard. amy: on that point of the white supremacists, we are seeing one arrest after another that the initial breaking up the glass, the initial fires that are set, of those are arrests white supremacists involved. we talked about this yesterday with alicia garza.

it was vice president mike pence who in his republican national convention address brought in the relative of a federal security guard who was killed in oakland as if he was killed by black activists but he was killed by by glue boi who arrested and was well-known -- was arrestedwho and was well-known. your response to these killings, the responses within the protests, and what you think me stabbing now? we were looking at some of your tweet over the last days. on monday wrote "abolition now." wallace'slk about killing a lot of the movement to defund the police? as you said, every -- we have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. i think something like half the city budget of louisville -- where breonna taylor was killed by police -- half the budget is

for theolice. >> that is exactly the problem. an abolitionist vision ultimately is a world without policing and prisons. wonderful work of angela davis and other important black feminists who encourage us to have these aitious sort of freedoms of what the world could be. it is important think about that but it is not just about what we're getting rid of. what we want. we want people's needs being met. people can have access to jobs and mental health support. without those things, we will end up with circumstances like this. the withe of what was walter wallace is exactly why we need abolition because the money we're spending for policing should be spent to provide mental health. when people call for defining, they are say what would it mean for public safety forced to come out rather than police? what would it mean to have a social worker or a therapist on scene?

instead of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later? we need to reimagine with the world looks like and reimagine our social network. for me, that is abolition. we saw this in june. we went for a call from abolition to defunding to integrate poce forces to a call to reform to police taking knees. freedom,ater down our taking theeeth out of the radical demand. we need to return to this vision of a future without policing and without prisons. and to start, we begin with defunding. defunding is a step toward abolition if we're doing this the right way. in philadelphia, milwaukee, louisville, we need to be calling to take money out of these police force budgets and placed them in places people can actually have their needs met. that is the key here. we need a structure that lows for those thgs to happen.

don: along that line, how you assess how the city of philadelphia has handled this particular shooting now of walter wallace? off and by progressive politicians, supposedly have one in philadelphia in mayor kenney, and they end up little by little being influenced sharply by the enormous power that police unions and their supportersave , whether it is in the city, municipal governments, or the state level. ho do you see the city handling not only the situation, but the whole issue of defunding police? >> mayor kenney has essentially thrown his hands up. larry krasner maybe one of the most progressive district attorneys in the country and i think has made tremendous mov forward. but the question right now is how do you engage with the lice unions? it is one thing to decriminalize things and another to eliminate cash bail. these are necessary moves toward abolition.

but what we have right now is a situation where the police union continues to lead a path toward reinforcing militarization, toward justifying bad shoots. we have a black police commissioner who i think -- who i know cares about black people but again, the structure is the problem. unfortunately, the mayor, the city council, and many people around the city cannot imagine a world without policing and prisons. so we have to reorient them. that means our call on the ground has to be consistent. what politicians are doing now is saying we need community policing, body cameras. but these are all reform measures that can convince the world that policing as an institution is still a viable possibility. what was the added the case of walter wallace, as opposed to george floyd or breonna taylor, it is not because when george floyd happened -- a moral atrocity -- everybody greed for this man. with breonna taylor they can say, let's get rid of the bad

apples. but when you see walter wallace, jr. laying on the ground and his mother crying for help as the police shoot her baby down in front of her, what we see is the institution of policing is not designed to do with mental illness or homelessness or domestic violence or rape culture or any of these other extraordinary social ills that we wrestle with. we need something different. amy: i want to turn to election day, talking about possibly something different or not. final week of the election season, both presidential candidates are heavily campaigning in battleground states like pennsylvania, where in a victory for voting rights and democrats, the supreme court ruled friday that mail-in ballots with mismatched signatures cannot be rejected. republicans in pennsylvania are now asking the u.s. supreme court to take up their case, attempting to block that counting of mailed-in ballots

received up to three days after election day. so far this week, trump has held three campaign rallies in pennsylvania. at a rally in allentown on monday, he accused democratic governor tom wolf of making it hard for him to campaign in the state and suggested voters can't trust their ballots will be counted. pres. trump: think of it. we have a venue and the governor that counts the ballots, right? the governor counts the ballots. we are watching you, governor, very closely in philadelphia. we are watching you. a lot of bad things. a lot of bad things happen there with the counting of the votes. we are watching you, governor wolf, very closely. we are watching you. amy: this comes as the president's son donald trump, jr. has taken to social media to call "able-bodied" people to join an election security "army" for his father. >> the radical left are laying

the groundwork to steal the selection from my father, president donald trump. they a planting stories that president trump will have a landslide lead on election night but will lose when they finish counting the mail-in ballots. their plan is to add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your votes and overturn the election. we cannot let that happen. we need every able-bodied man, trump's join army for election security operation. amy: pennsylvania's democratic attorney general josh shapiro has worn trump's reelection campaign representatives to stop filming dropping off their ballots. shapiro said in a statement -- "pennsylvania law permits poll watchers to carry out very discrete and specific duties -- videotaping voters at drop boxes is not one of them." for more, we're continuing with marc lamont hill, professor of media studies and urban education at temple university in philadelphia.

his forthcoming book is "we still here: pandemic, policing, protest, and possibility." mark, is the president sanctioning voter intimidation? clearlthe courts are moving against him in pennsylvania. >> that is exactly right. trump has been weaving a kind of rely interesting narrative about what is happening in pennsylvania and in philadelphia. he's admit romney got zero both in -- although he got 50%. claiming this is a left-wing conspiracy to take away his presidency. when he called for people to come and form this kind of army, calls for people to be his security force come he is calling in his white nationalist base. this is the proud boys stand standby part two. calling them in to engage in voter intimidation and also to create chaos on election day. donald trump knows the numbers are against him.

after the court decision for pennsylvania, he sees the courts are against him in some of the swing states. he looks at the early vote and sees it is not his demographic. the early ballots are against him. he is trying to create enough chaos and hope he can get a photo finish that he can then allow the supreme court to bring him home into another -- into a second term. he knows on the ground, ultimately, if everybody votes, he does not win and they lose the senate. he is going to do everything he can to create chaos in crisis to make some american stay home. he hopes his cultlike base will push him toward victory. juan: both the president and joe biden have been repeatedly now in pennsylvania over the last few weeks. trump often talks abt how the suburbs, how he needs the suburbs. they don't show him any love anymore. could you talk about how the suburbs of philadelphia has so dramatically changed?

i lived there many yearsgo for about 15 years. the suburbs, montgery count bucks county, delaware county, chester county, robust all white. how have the suburbs around philadelphia changed in the recent decades? >> it is not just in philadelphia. all around the country we have seen suburbs shift come the in then poverty, people city pushed out because of judge vacation. -- gentrification. a place, derby, which may have been white 20, 25 years ago is now largely black in their voting democrat. there's a set of economic policies that have push them there. trump at one point would have hoped, i will lose philadelphia, liz pittsburgh, but i will get everything in the middle of the state and i will get the suburbs .ome right outside but that is no longer the case.

feel economic -- policies have push people out. suburb. was a now is the other places that are suburbs and they're not serving trump's interest. trump's problem is people in philadelphia, pittsburgh, they know, places like cleveland rc economic policies that have not benefited them. they're dying from covid and their friends and family members are. they don't have access to living wage jobs. i'm pennsylvania, you're going to see an interesting conversation in the middle of the state around fracking. trump is coming back, why biden is coming back, trying to walk the tightrope on environmental issues because he understands theiddle of the state may have a very different political disposition then in philadelphia. because of that, pennsylvania could still be up for grabs. i think biden wins this but it is still of her grabs in terms of the political debate. amy: i want to end our

discussion not in pennsylvania, but you cover police brutality issues all over the country. i want to end in louisville with this latest development. you have a judge ruling that members of the grand jury can speak. two members of the grand jury convened after the police killing of breonna taylor, have spoken on camera for the first time calling the actions of the louisville officers responsible for taylor's death "criminal." a second text republican attorney general daniel cameron never gave them the option to consider murder or manslaughter charges against the louisville police officers involved in taylor's killing. the pair had their identities concealed as they spoke to cbs cbs's gayle king. >> can ask you what you think of the police behavior and actions that night? >> negligent most of >> negligent? >> they could not provide risk assessment and it sounded like they had not done one.

so the organization leading up to this was lacking. that is what i mean by they were negligent. >> they were criminal. , the way theythis move forward on it, including the warrant, was deception. amy: professor marc lamont hill, can you talk about the significance of this given that daniel cameron, kentucky's attorney general spoke at the republican convention, when he held his news conference come he said this was an independent grand jury. they made the decision. the only charges that were brought were against one of the white police officers, not for the death of breonna taylor, but because some of his bullets went into the apartment of the neighbors who were white. >> yeah. it is disturbing and disgusting but unfortunately, it is not surprising from the beginning we

have seen a campaign of dishonesty, about right just neglect of any semblance of justice for breonna taylor or for her family. when daniel cameron came out after the decision was made not to do anything, he had the crocodile tears, the explanation that -- he did all that he could and gave us the impression that the grand jury was acting independently, that they were simply acting of their own volition and looked at all the evidence and made the best choice they could. we always had skepticism. no one believed him. and now we have evidence, hard-core evidence, that proves that. reasons does stand to given that daniel cameron is republican prosecutor who is attempting to leverage this moment into a bigger moment was tough and the way to leverage a bigger moment as a black republican, quite frankly, is to show your willing to lock up like, you are indifferent to their suffering, and willing to support the state is

specifically law-enforcement in cases like this. he will ascend quickly if god were not trump and administration. i'm not saying it is conspiracy, i'm saying it is very clear angle here politically and there is hard-core evidence to suggest breonna taylor should have -- does not call it justice. justice with her being alive. at the very least, some sense of accountability for those who killed her was that even the grand jurors are saying it. i think the more we unravel this, the more ugliness we will find and hopefully we can get another crack at this because this is one of the most sort of gross and disturbing public demonstrations of injustice and the so-called criminal justice system. amy: marc lamont hill, thank you for being with us, professor of media studies and urban education at temple university. his forthcoming book, "we still here: pandemic, policing, protest, and possibility." when we come back, we will go to

chile to talk about the precedent setting vote i took place for a new constitution. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. to chile, where an overwhelming majority voted to rewrite the country's pinochet dictatorship-era constitution on sunday. one year after mass protests rocked the country, many hope the historic referendum will lead to changes in social and economic inequalities, address police brutality, expand access to education, and indigenous sovereignty. tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of santiago and around the country sunday evening to celebrate. this is local resident maria cecilia castillo responding to was historicit take i would not get to it in my lifetime. i lived through the yes or no

for an after many years of dictatorship. it seemed to me participation was high and the important was that newer generations by the voices heard. political parties and political associations are now institutionally obsolete and we all have to understand this. so we have to find new paths and i think the youth and social organizations are fundamental for this to europe. amy: for more on chile's historic put to rewrite the constitution and what happens next, we are joined by two guests. javiera manzi is a spokesperson for chile's largest feminist advocacy group. in toronto pablo vivanco, , chilean born journalist and the former director of telesur english. we welcome you both to democracy now! first --ng to santiago although both of you got to vote in chile as well as canada as a chilean. can you talk, about the significance, what led

to this boat and dish vote and the results of it, what they mean? >> first of all, i would like to make a distinction. we finished the constitution that was imposed in 1990 under the dictatorship of pinochet with a revolt that broke out a year ago, 18th of october. it was not just a vote. experienced marks two presidents with an absolute majority. we voted for a new constution with the majority. together with that we voted for a buddy and made exclusively made up for this function. this is a demonstration of a majority that goes far beyond elections. never before seen in chile. vote -- ins

october. vote that challenges more than 30 years come the dictatorship [indiscernible] the same people who voted in 1982, 1988, yes for the continuity of the dictatorship. those are the 1%. those are the extreme right.

those who concentrate the wealth behind thehose are other option of rejection. those are the ones who lost. , i wanted to manzi ask you, could you talk about what were some of the parts of the old constitution that were most objectionable and most hated by the pulation? could you talk specifilly about what it did to distort the possibility of democracy in chile? wasell, this constitution imposed during the dictatorship was precisely to protect and model. designednstitution for the implementation -- the revolt that started and we have

said that neoliberalism will start and and in chile, has a lot to do precisely with this change. radical transformation and necessity to change the constitution. --s constitution, there is privatizedhat has human social rights. it is a constitution that also denies for women are right to choose for our own bodies. it is a constitution that guarantees -- state were humanely it is not rights, social rights in the front, but other than that, private accumulation -- of course, this is a very important challenge we are

.tarting iin chile know what starts now is a dispute. a dispute from different sectors, of course from the ones that are going to try to save the continuity of this model and from all of those from the revolt, the people who are out with the right precisely to change everything in terms of how our lives have been administrated along these 30 years. juan: we're ao joined by pablo vivanco, chilean born journalist and former director of telesur english. welcome to the program, pablo. could you talk about you were able to vote from canada and would you talk about how the united states has sold chile a

a neolibal model in latin america now for decades and the impact of this vote? >> absolutely. myself, along with chileans from all over the world, a vast majority of which are folks that left because of the dictatorship, people forced to flee for their lives were other folks like my family who were forced to flee in the 1980's, fleeing the economy, which have bottomed out and put working people and put working people in situation where they had to leave -- which is another thing which is seldom talked about because chile is upheld as a model, not only since his return to civilian government, but also the 1980's neoliberalism was a disaster in chile. but chile has been upheld throughout the region as the

model to follow. it has been held as the example that if countries follow market-based reforms, allow the private sector to do what it wants, then you will achieve some measure of development. all across latin america, like in most places that i have been to, which is most of the countries in latin america and barely come across people that when they find out i am from isle, though say,, chile well-off, compared to their own country. now with this vote like she said, close to four and five chileans voted to reject this model, to reject institutionalization of neoliberalism through the 1980 constitution and have now also rejected politicians being the ones to draft the next page in the country's history. is since a signal throughout the region -- it sends a signal threat the region that selling of the chilean model and

neoliberalism can neoliberal state, is a lie and something that chileans know is a lie, no has failed, and now they have come out and said overwhelmingly they're rejected. amy: this is chile's president sebastian pinera responding to the landslide vote to rewrite the pinochet dictatorship-era constitution. >> today, chileans have really expressed their will at the ballot box, choosing the option of constitution which for the first time will have full equality between men and women in order to agree on a new constitution for chile, citizens and democracy have triumphed. today, prevailed over division and peace over violence. this is the triumph for all chileans who love democracy and peace without a doubt. you are invivanco, canada, but you did get to vote

and you voted alongside your parents and your unsent uncles. does your and send uncles. her people were not familiar yet that history of chile, september 11, 1973 when the democratically elected president of chile died in the palace, pinochet forces rose to power, writing for years, thousands of chileans killed their operation condor, thousands of people around chile were killed also as a result of the pinochet dictatorship. can you talk about how that impacted your family and what it meant for you to vote with your family that had gone into exile in canada? family to clarify, my was not part of -- my immediate family, my parents and myself and my sisters, were not part of the exile community. i groep around the exile

community and had various family members who also were forced to leave. my family stayed in chile. i was born under dictatorship. my mother was working in the hospitals of santiago sing the bodies come in on september 11. for myself and my family as well as the people that i grew up around, my community here, it was important, something that had a lot of symbolic meaning to be able to go out and vote, to finally bury one of the last remaining remnants of the dictatorship. you mention september 11. this constitution, the one chileans overwhelmingly voted to which is no, 1980, coincidence that the dictatorship specifically put this -- something imposed on chile for a vote you cannot have

a democratic vote under a dictatorship. that is what the dictatorship did in september 11, 1980, when constitution -- imposed this constitution on chile. when you look at the diaspora of chile exiles located in north america or in europe, australia, france, sweden -- all the places where the majority of chileans went to in the 1970's and 1980's fleeing the human rights abuses and authoritarianism are dictatorship or the economic collapse, overwhelmingly chileans voted outside the country to do away with this constitution and to start a new chapter. juan: javiera manzi, could you talk about what this vote mns, specifically iterms o assroots movements such as the feminist movement in chile and

also the indigenous populations of chile? starts, we voted sunday, begins with the first time in the world history there will be a constitution that will be drafted between men and women and equalization. ,his means for the first time 50% of this country -- will be women and the other 50% men. this is historical. this is the feminist movement. thatis the first process -- in latin america in the last cycle of feminist mobilization. with feminist strikes in the massive demonstration of feminism -- of this process. for us, it is a major concern

because our major concern now is women in the0% of process doesn't guarantee it is a will be -- necessity that feminism is in the institutional process but also outside in the streets, mobilizing the need for social transformation. for us it is important to organize this process with our demands, our programs during the feminist strike. movement,puche precisely in these hours there is a very important boat in the congress being discussed. amy: we just have 10 seconds. >> a national revolt. and now there is the discussion

of mapuche people and indigenous people to participate in the convention. amy: javiera manzi, thank you for being with us, the coordinadora feminista 8m. and also pablo vivanco,