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♪ [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> this is a systemic problem. this is a structural problem that can be handled by better policy decisions. so, that is why we are out here. that is why all of these people showed up, with more people last night. amy: eviction emergency.
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democratic congressmember cori bush has been sleeping on the steps of the u.s. capitol since friday night to protest her house colleagues adjourning for recess without passing an extension on the eviction moratorium for renters. as nearly 12 million people are behind on rent. a congresswoman was once on house herself. last week, she introduced the unhoused bill of rights. we'll go to the capitol to speak with congress member bush. then, "inflame deep medicine and the anomy of injustice." >> when you are in the icu, you look around and noce the disproportionate number of people of color. in the u.s., hospitalization of people of color are far harder than white people. thisyou observe, is the outcome of structural racism. but how did those structes come to be? >> we must go back 600 years to
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a different time when a different pestilence spread across the globe, one that continues today and that continues to make us sick. amy: we'll sak with . rupa mary physici, activi, and coounder othe do nharm coalion, andest-sellg authoraj patel w'll ao talk to patel about his new film, "the ants and the grasshopper," which follows the journey of a farmer anactivist fr malawto wiscons. >> it raed maybehree tim a yea all thcrops y out. il, food,ealthy cmunities taught us that it was climate chan, because of what they are doing in places like america. amy: all that and more, coming up. ♪ welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.
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a nationwide moratorium on evictions expired saturday after mocraticawmakersailed to pass a bill protectillions people o could forced fr their hes durinthe pandic. somerogresves demoats slmed democratic leaders for benning itsummer ress beforextending the moratorium. democratic congressmember cori bush began camping out on the steps of the capitol on friday in protest. rep. bush: the night was necessary, to continue this awareness. we need the powers that be to understand that we are not going to just let this go quietly. then the lives of actual people that we are supposed to represent, actual, whole people, human beings, are at risk by this policy decision, or the lack of one.
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so we are out here. amy: after congress failed to extend the moratorium house , speaker nancy pelosi and other democratic lawmakers urged president biden to take executive action, but the white house claims its power is limited due to a recent supreme court ruling. justice kavanaugh said it was his view that authorization would be necessary to extend the moratorium. we will have more on this story later in the program. the number of coronovirus hospitalizations in florida has topped 10,000 and the number of daily new infections has exceeded 21,000 for the first time since the pandemic began as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread. florida accounts for about one in five covid cases nationwide. on friday, florida's republican governor ron desantis signed an executive order making masks optional in public schools. the united states is now
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averaging about 80,000 new cases a day, about six times as many as a month ago. on sunday, top white house coronavirus adviser anthony fauci spoke to abc and warned the country is heading in the wrong direction. >> things are going to get worse. if you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven-day average has gone up substantially. what we really need to do, john -- we say it over and over again and it is the truth. we have over 100 million people in this country who are eligible to bvaccinated and are not getting vaccinated. amy: china is battling its largest covid outbreak in over a year. more than 300 cases have been confirmed across 15 provinces. china has suspended all flights, trains and buses between beijing and areas with confirmed cases. this comes as vid cases continue to surge across asia, with thailand and malaysia reporting record infections. in japan, authorities reported
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over 4,000 new covid cases in tokyo on saturday, a new single-day high in the olympic host city. in turkey, at least eight people have died as over 100 wildfires continue to burn. president erdogan has declared rts of tury to be disaster areas. thousands have been evacuated. greece, italy, and spain are also battling fires fueled by intense heat in the latest sign of the climate emergency facing the world. meanwhile in bangladesh, thousands of rohingya refugees have been displaced after mass flooding in cox's bazar, the world's largest refugee camp. at least six refugees have died. many others lost all of their belongings. >> the landslide fully damaged my house. somehow my family members could evacuate. the mud coming down the hill
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entered my home and it was totally covered with mud. all of ourelongings e covered with mud. there are very few things i could retrieve. amy: in afghanistan, dozens of people have died after flash floods in the taliban-controlled kamdesh district. the taliban put the death toll as high as 150. meanwhile, here in the united states, there are now 91 large wildfires burning in the west. the new york times reports the bootleg fire in oregon has now burned an area the size of portland, seattle, sacramento, and new york city combined. authorities warn the fire may not be fully contained until october. newly released justice department documents show donald trump directly asked the acting attorney general for help to overturn the november election. according to notes taken during a conversation on december 27th, trump told jeffrey rosen “just say the election was corrupt + lee the rest to me and the r. congressmen.” rosen refused.
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ten days later, trump supporters stormed the u.s. capitol in a bid to stop the counting of electoral votes. meanwhile, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is facing widespread criticism for remarks he made about nancy pelosi during an event on saturday. the top republican in the house talked about what would happen if republicans gain control of the house. carthy said "i want you to watch nancy pelosi hand me that gavel. it would be hard not to hit her with it." in response, a spokesperson said "the threat of violence from your fellow trump supporters is irresponsible and disgusting." mccarthy was speaking at a fundraiser of over 1000 people. in news from afghanistan, the taliban has launched attacks on three provincial capitals, kandahar, herat and lashkar gah.
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on sunday, at least three rockets hit kanadahar airport. on friday, at least one person died after rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire hit the main u.n. compound in herat. earlier today, afghan president ashraf ghani presented a new security plan to a special session of parliament, but details were not made public. israel has blamed iran after a deadly attack on an oil tanker with links to an israeli billionaire. two crew members died in the attack, which took place off the coast of oman. iran has denied responsibility. mexico, russia, and bolivia have sent shipments of food and medical supplies to cuba over the past week. cuba is in the midst of a public health and economic crisis. on sunday, cuba reported nearly 10,000 new covid-19 cases, the highest since the start of the pandemic. miguel diaz reynoso is mexico's ambassador to cuba. >> this awaited arrival together
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with other vessels, other forms of assistance, cooperation represent one single ingrate thing. they are proof of friendship, gratitude, solidarity. for cuba to have what it needs now and that is what is being shipped. amy: this comes as the biden administration continues to reject calls to lift the u.s. embargo on cuba. on friday, the u.s. announced new sanctions on cuba and president biden warned more sanctions might be coming. over 700 refugees, including a three-month-old baby, were rescued off the coast of libya and malta over the weekend as they attempted to reach europe. the humanitarian group sos mediterranee has carried out at least six separate rescue operations since saturday. the group is searching for a safe location to disembark the asylum-seekers. this comes as the number of refugees trying to reach european soil continues to grow due to worsening poverty, violence and the climate crisis.
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over 1,100 refugees have perished crossing through dangerous sea routes so far this year. meanwhile, greek authorities on the island of lesbos have drafted criminal charges against at least 10 humanitarian aid workers, accusing migrant rescue groups of "human trafficking." new zealand has apologized to pacific islanders for the country's past racist anti-migrant policies. in the 1970s, new zealand police routinely raided the homes of pacific islanders in the middle of the night looking for residents who had overstayed their visas. new zealand prime minister jacinda arden spoke on sunday. >> today, i stand on behalf of the new zealand government to offer a formal and unreserved apology to pacific communities for the discriminatory implementation of the immigration laws of the 1970's that led to the events of the dawn raids. [applause]
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amy: in burma, the head of the military junta has named himself prime minister, six months after the military seized power. army chief min aung hlaing has announced the state of emergency imposed after the military coup will extend for two more years. he also vowed to hold elections in 2023. since the coup, more than 900 people have been killed and thousands arrested. “the washington post” reports police in the united states shot dead more than 1000 people in 2020, the highest number since the post began an effort to track police shootings in 2015. about one in five of the fatal shootings occurred after police were called to investigate reports of domestic violence or another type of domestic disturbance. over the past six years, the post has documented more than 6,400 fatal police shootings, an average of almost three per day. in connecticut, ancuadoran father of three, who's lived in the basement of a new haven
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church for the past two years to avoid deportation, has been granted a one-year stay of removal. nelson pinos has been living in the u.s. for nearly three decades. the 47-year-old was given a deportation order in 2017, prompting him to seek sanctuary at the church. in tokyo, the international olympic committee says it's investigating whether an "x" gesture made by u.s. shot put silver medalist raven saunders violated its ban on political statements. saunders, who is african american and identifies as queer, told reporters her gesture from the medal podium represented the "intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet.” in other olympics news, u.s. gymnastics superstar simone biles says she will compete in the balance beam competition on tuesday, about a week after she withdrew from her team finals for mental health reasons.
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meanwhile, belarusian athlete krystsina tsimanouskaya has entered poland's embassy in tokyo requesting political asylum. the 24-year-old athlete says she refused her coaches' demand that she board a flight sunday to return to belarus out of fears for her safety after she criticized belarusian olympic officials. and elka schumann, co-founder of the bread and puppet theater company,as died. elka was born in the soviet union in 1935 and brought to the united states in 1941. she and her husband peter schumann began the bread and puppet theater company in 1963. their first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces protesting poor housing conditions. the group later moved to vermont. its processions involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the vietnam war. the bread and puppet theater
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also milled its own flour and baked its own bread, sharing it with audience members. this is elka schumann appearing in the 2001 film, “ah! the hopeful pageantry of bread and puppet” produced by her daughter tamar, and deedee halleck. >> we grind the grain ourselves, and the bread is not at all like your supermarket bread. you really have to chew it, put some work into it, but you get something very good from that. when our theater is successful, it is the same way. it is not like wonder bread, there it is, here is the story. you have to do some figuring yourself in the theater. if the play is successful at the end, you probably feel it was worth the work. amy: elka schumann died sunday, surrounded by her five children and her partner peter. and those are some of the headlines.
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this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the highly infectious coronavirus delta variant is causing huge spikes in cases across the united states and around the world with china struggling to control surging infections, and the philippines preparing for a new, stricter lockdown. the united states is now averaging some 80,000 new covid cases a day, about six times as many daily cases than a month ago. as much of the world struggles to cope with the pandemic and its impact, we begin today's show with the authors of a new book that examines the social and environmental roots of poor health. "your body is part of a society inflamed," write the authors. in a minute, we'll speak with the co-authors of "inflamed: deep medicinand the anatomy of injustice," raj patel, best-selling author and
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activist, and rupa marya, physian, activist, and co-founder of the do no harm coalition. first, this is an animated introduction to their book, by aaron kierbel. >> you wake up one morning with a dry, hacking cough and you have lost yourense of smell. you visit your doctor with a diagnosis. with an x-ray a nasal swab, e diagnosis coronarus. your lungs and nerves are now inflamed. >> when you aren the icu,ou look around and notice a disproportionate number of pele of color. in the united states, hospitalization and death rates of people of color are far higher than white people. this, you observe, is the outcome of strucral racism. but how did those ructures come to be? >> to understand that,e must go bk 600 years to ime when a different pestilence spread ross the globe, one at continues today and still makes us sck -- sick.
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it makes us sick to a patterned way, through inflammatory disease. >> eurean colonization transformed the plet to slery, genoce, and disease, colonis brought with tm a coology of heople relate to each other and e living rld around them. those who resisted were sento the flame. >> this histy lives inde you,hether you know it or not. since you were conceived, your body has been exposed to t consequences of a wod on fire. >> the covid hospital board and the specific patients in its bed looks that way because of centuries of attempts to extingui other kds of knowledge and cilization. >> if we understandisease with this new kind of diagnosis, the treatment options beco radically different. >> rudolph, sitting bull. >> harriet tman.
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>>hey understoodur modern nails cannot be simply vaccinated away. >> we need a world rebuilt with care at its heart. >> but what does that look like? many indigenous communities have continued toare for e living world around them. as the care folife protects them inside an out. >> indenous communities defend the greatest range of biodersity on the pnet and as a resulhost the most diverse microbiota inside their bodies. this can be protection against inflammatory disse. >> when culture is not capitalist ands not, lysed, it can soothe the inflammatory diseases that inflict us. >> deep medicineffers new and old stories that connect humans to the teaming microbes our guts and t stars in the skies. we offer a glimpse into coologies thatring a cooling balm. >> to a world, soeties, and
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bodi that are inflamed. amy: that'the animated introducti by aaron kierbel to the book "inamed: deep medicine a the anato of injustice.” for more we are joined by its co-authors. in austin, texas, raj patel is a research professor at the university of texas's lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs, a professor in the university's department of nutrition, and a research associate at rhodes university, south africa. he is also the author of "stuffed and starved: the hidden battle for the world's food system," and the bestselling book "the value of nothing: how to reshape market society and redefine democracy.” and in berkeley, california, dr. rupa marya is an associate professor of medicine at the university of california, san francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. she is a co-founder of the do no harm coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. welcome you both to democracy now!
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this is an epic work. roche, let's begin with you in texas. if you could talk about this connection between capitalism and the covid pandemic. raj: thank you, amy, for having us. for listeners and viewers who are unaware, one of the ways that the moderfood system operates is through a sort of legacy of separating humans from the rest of the web of life. what that means is, humans feel, particularly under capitalist colonialism, free to exploit the world around them. we feel free to do that because the rest of the web of life is just worth less than our profit motives. that is why, for example, 60% of current human infectious diseases come from pathogens
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that jump from one species to anotr, and the industrial system incubates those. while the jury is out around covid, it is certainly the case we have seen a vast array of diseases coming from the industrial food system. h1n1 in 2019 -- 2009, was one example of a disease that emerged from a food system which is quite happy with treating the rest of the web of life as a disposable resource. also quite happy in treating the working class as an expendable kind of insulation between the burden of disease and the needs of the rich and the global north. when you have a kind of set up based on this 600-your process of exploitation and ammonium domination, then you are preparing the world for pandemics not just of virus, but also the consequences of a virus
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reverberating through societies that are deeply unequal. we opened today's show talking about the climate disasters happening around the world. guess who is on the front lines of the climate crisis? it is the same communities that are at the forefront of those predominantly exposed to the kinds of narratives, exposures that render their body more ready to become susceptible to covid. y: which brings us to the title. dr. rupa marya, the title of your book, "inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice." talk about why you called it "inflamed," and the kind of work you are doing that shows the disparities that result from the system we have. dr. marya: thank you for having us, amy. happy to be speaking to you today from the occupied territory. you can see where our friends are trying to save the oldest
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inhabited site here in the bay area. inflammation is the body's appropriate response to damage, the threat of damage. the leading cause of death and illness in industrialized places are all inflammatory disease, whether talking about cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression, even suicide. all of these diseases have inflammation as a part of their process. we are learning now the immune system is being primed for inflammatory disease through not just genetics, which is what we've been taking about for many years -- why do some people get autoimmune disease, why do some get inflammatory valve disease, why do some get cancer? now we are learning the social structures around us, the environments and political structures around us, are tuning the immune system to sound out the full range of inflammation.
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unfortunately, medical education is steeped in the same enlightenment errors that raj was speaking about, separating humans from the web of life, humans from nature. these false dichotomies and errors are a part of medical education today. while it is helpful that we are talking about structural determinants of health while looking at the glaring disparities with the covid crisis, we don't learn in medicine where these structures came from or how to dismantle them. that is really what deep medicine is, if we want to make an impact on these structures, if we want to make an impact on the health outcomes, we have to start working with communities who are already identifying the problems and leading the change. that is a brief summary of what we are doing in this book. amy: if you can talk about the pandemic, roche patel, providing this kind of autopsy racial
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disparities in the country, the profound injustices in the system. in just a few minutes, we will be linking up with congress member cori bush, who has been sleeping on the steps of the capitol with other people protesting the fact that eviction moratorium was allowed to expire, threatening millions of people in this country. this, in the midst of a pandemic that is surging in this country. raj: as we approach this expiration, one of the big ideas we have in the book is particularly the way that capitalism primes bodies for sickness. this expiration will drive more people into despair. but we already have the technologies of oppression that are geared toward sending the
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working class to despair. payday loans, for example. if you take out a payday loan for $300, you may end up paying upwards of $800. we know the stress of needing to repay these loans is causing ill health. if we were to pan things like payday loans, in the united states, the suicide rate would fall by 2.1% in the fatal poisoning rate would drop by 8.9%. that kind of ongoing threat would be a normal feature of the way that capitalism operates in the united states. this moment of triggering the eviction moratorium will drive yet more people to the abyss. rupa has been working in san francisco, protesting with
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physicians around some of the eviction related issues, issues around the unhoused there. amy: dr. rupa marya, if you could talk to that payment then we will go to break and then we will speak to representative cori bush i'm a who's been sleeping on the steps of the u.s. to protest this eviction moratorium. dr. marya: the do no harm coalition has been working with formally unhoused folks, poor people with solutions to the manufactured crisis of homelessness here. while london breed has been celebrated for her response to covid, over a thousand people were left on the streets of san francisco in the midst of wildfires and the pandemic. this is really a health crisis. it is an unnecessary health crisis. it already is jeopardizing the health of so many people. i applaud cori bush and her bill
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of rights for unhoused peoe. we need to look to formally unhoused people for the solutions and follow her lead. amy: we hope that you will both stay by. dr. rupa marya and raj patel, co-authors of "inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice." when we come back, we will go to the u.s. capitol steps to speak with congress member cori bush, where she and others have been sleeping outside on the steps since friday night to protest the house adjourning without passing another extension of the eviction moratorium for renters. this is the democrat-controlled house. stay with us. ♪♪ [music brea
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amy: "i don't want to get arrested" by rupa and the april fishes, whose music was described by the legendary gil scott-heron as "liberation music.” yes, that is the guest we just spoke with dr. rupa marya.
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this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we now turn to congressmember cori bush, who represents missouri's first congressional district and has been sleeping on the steps of the u.s. capitol since friday night to protest her house colleagues adjourning for august recess without passing an extension on the eviction moratorium for renters. nearly 12 million people are behind on rent. congress member bush was formally unhoused with her children. her recent piece for time magazine is headlined "i lived in my car and now i'm in congress. we need to solve america's housing crisis." last week, congress member bush introduced the unhoused bill of rights, which she describes as "the first-ever federal legislation to declare the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, particularly the right to sit, stand, sleep, or eat in public without fear of harassment or criminalization.” earlier today, congressmember bush tweeted "5 am. this morning felt cold, like the wind was blowing straight through my sleeping bag.
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since friday, when some colleagues chose early vacation over voting to prevent evictions, we have been at the capitol. it's an eviction emergency. our people need an eviction moratorium. now." she joins us now for more from the capitol steps. congressmember bush, welcome back to democracy now! talk about why you have been sleeping on the steps for days now. rep. bush: you know, the idea thatawmakers, the only ones -- lawmakersre government. e levels of government that ha some type of jisdiction with this type of situation, this crisis, chose not to do anything to stop this from becoming a crisis, on top of all of the crises we have going on in the country right now. i am out here becae there is no organizatio that can make
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this decision to have this moratorium in place. there are no corporations, there is no big-name families, none of that that can make the decision to make sure that between seven and 11 million people do not end up forced out of their homes. that is solely on the people of congress, or what we have been messaging, the white house and cdc working in collaboration to get this done. because that didn't happen last friday, the house did not get that done. i could notalk away from this situation and go on recess knowing that millions of people could start to end up on the streets. i did what i know to do. amy: talk abt what it is you know to do.
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rep.ush: i am an activist, organizer. i guess i got my official start in activism after michael own's murder in ferguson in 2014. we have protested for years against injustices related to police brutality and more. even the housing crisis. there was no way i could do that wo home in st. louis, and tn to come here and see an atrocity taking place that i have a hand in and just fit by and let it go? so, i asked for the people of st. louis to send me here to represent them, every single one of them. i asked them to send me here to show them the energy that i had in ferguson all of those nights. i know how to go aheadnd say, i will protest this decision, something that i know that if we
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don't do anything, people will be hurt. that is what we did. we brought two chairs and t them on the steps, took a picture and posted it out, and said, we are here, join us. we have been here nce friday night. amy: you were joined by several congress members friday night, they'll hunt omar, ayana pressley, all slept out on the steps. rep. bush: yes, slept on the steps. let me say, it is not comfortable. we cannot lay. there is a law re that you cannot lay down on the capitol steps, so we had to sit up on a chair, so that is how we slept, sitting up. we have done that every night since.
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it is cold at night. it was really cold last night. last night was the coldest night since we have been out here. it is raining back and forth. having other members out here, representative jones was here last night. we need to have more bodies, more congress members show up. this is the thing, we cannot take the glory if we are not willing to go through the grind. there is grind happening right now. go through the grind and do not just start snapping up glory. this is not easy. this is not performative in any way. i would rather be at home but i understand the urgency and the need of this crisis right now. my body, it hurts physically. i am walking slow, i lost my voice, it is starting to come back.
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i have had a lot of honey and tea. i am dizzy, lightheaded. it saps you emotionally and mentally, but it is nothing like whatever unhoused community members go through every day, what would happen if we send seven to 11 million people out on the streets. amy: how did this happen? we are not talking about a republican-lighthouse, this is a democrat-let house. nancy pelosi went home to her house. she is the house speaker. how did this happen? this eviction moratorium was extended several times before, but now, congress went out on recess? what are you saying president biden can do? rep. bush: our message has been clear for the last four days now.
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we are not talking to one particular group or one rticular person saying you need to act. everybody. we need to u all the tools in our toolbox right now. we have been saying to house leadership, reconvene the house. chairman jim mcgovern of the house rules committeeame here to the steps, addressethe crowd, and he said the rules committee are waiting to come backnd do thwork. he said we wou be back in a nanosend if we hear we have 218 votes. so they are ready. we are saying reconvene us, let's do the work to make sure we get t whip count aright and then come back and let us vote. we are also saying to the white house and cdc, give us a moratorium, the eviction moratorium. we are asking the president to
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pen the executive order. if there is a court challenge after that, we can deal with the courts. that challenge can be dealt with. in the meantime, while that is happening, in the house, we can work on getting the bill that chairwoman maxine waters that introduced, which has a moratorium until september 31. amy: what about pelosi calling on t cdc to extend the moratorium? rep. bush: we have to use everything we can. that was the route that she chose. we are saying cdc, white house, even the senate. we were all elected to serve the people. we didn't sign up to say, not people of low income. there was no document that saw. when raised my nd, that is not what i swore.
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my job is to make sure i am speaking upor t or 740,000 pele in my district, toak sure the basic needs are met the same thing for eh and every one of the people that you just named. amy: congress member bush, can you talk about t unhoused bill of rights, this unprecedented bill you have introduced? rep. bush: it is a resolution that lays out what those civil rights protections, what dignity looks like for our unhoused neighbors. because what we have seen is the protections for our community members who are expeencing homelessness, it doesn't sm
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like iis respected at all. is has been going on for such a long time and it is going on everywhere. we decided to build a framework so we could build legislation from this. we want to make sure we are talking about everything that is affecting someone who is unhoused, from the architecture -- i cant think of who would want to come but these things and make a bus stop where you cannot lay down on it. it is unbelievable. i think out when i was unhoused, sleeping in a car, the one thing i had was a par i didn't take my children into a shelter because i felt like, at least i have a car, we have a place where we can lay down. what about people that don't have that? last night, we were subject to
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everything the weather decided to do. we were subject to the rain, the harsh downpours, the cold, the wind, and then the heat right now. making sure that people who are unhoused have access to restrooms. going to the restroom is a huge deal. think about how many times you go to the restroom a day, having a place to go, but when you are unhoused, you go into a store and they want you to buy something before you use the restroom. you cannot walk in and look a particul way and expect them to allow you to use the facilities this bill of rights says the rights of every person living unhoused, experiencing homelessness, their rights should be protected, should have the same dignity of anyone who is living housed. amy: your story alone, congress member bush, as you described in
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your time gazine piece, described now, you were living in your car with your infant, six months old, and your other child, not much older. how did you go from being unhoused, living out of your car, working at the same time, to beating a 10-term congress member, standing on the steps of the capitol where you are sleeping outside and working inside? rep. bush: i was able to basically get off the streets because my family, a family iend helped. they also understood i did not have a place to put down on a rental application to say, call this landlord to see about my rental history, which made it difficult to find a place. on top of the fact that i was
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very low income, trying to raise two children. my family were helping me, but also a family friend heard and said i have a rental property. you can stay here until you can get off the streets. that is how we lived, in one of those extended-stay hotels. it was through that and a few other things. it took somebody to notice what was going on, for somebody to actually act. it is one thing to know, to say this should happen and this should happen, but it is another thing for someone to act and change your situation. i saw that and i pushed that forward. i wanted to extend that to other people because it was extended to me, and it saved my life, the
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lives of my children. before michael brown was murdered, i was on the streets working with the unhoused community, hping to ght against sex trafficking. then michael brown was murdered. i took to the streets, to help the medics, crgy,rying to do the work in my community and didn't like the response coming from those in power that should have been able to help us, help us fix that situation. the community asked me to run, and so i did. amy: what would permanent housing justice look like? even with the housing eviction moratorium, which has now expired, people owe back rent. how can they possibly pay this in this time? we were showing video of people holding up signs, you cannot stay home when you don't have a home.
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we are talking in the midst of a pandemic. if one person gets sick, we are all vulnerable. rep. bush: we are. that is why with our unhoused bill of rights, built in is -- it is a $200 billion bill, but $140 billion goes toward building homes. building ohomes that are affordable for people. the kinds of homes where someone who has experienced homelessness, this is a home that they would be able to acquire. not only that -- because this bill talks about ending holessness by 2025. completely eradicating homelessness. if we could eracate homelessness with the unhoused
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bill of rights, but weave right w is a crisis that should not be a cris. we have over $40 billion that localities can use to make sure some of this back rent is paid. if we need to go backnd try to work on gettinmore funding, we can do that. right now, but we have on the table out there ready to go, that $40illionwe have to move it now. in order for people to stay in the homes, i understand landlord's need to pay a mortgage so that is why we are also stresng to the states and localities to get that money moving, into the hands of the people that are supposed to have it. amy: congress member bush, how much longer do you plan to sleep onhe capitol steps, w many people are you out there with? rep. bush: i am out herentil
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change happens. i have never set a de. one hour before we ce out here, i didn't know i would be out he. each day i didn't know if there uld be another day. we are goingoment by moment. when change happens, we can go home. one thing we cannot do is say we did all that we n do, and not apply the pressure needed to make sure people are not forced out of their homes. amy: you had supreme court justice brett kavanaugh warning last month before the moratorium would expire, that any moratorium would have to go through congress. what has leadership se to you since they wt home? rep. bush: what we are hearing is, yes, that is what the cdc
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and the administration, what they are looking at, to say we cannot do this, congress has to ac we are saying, let's do both. you do sometng that can happen immediately. it could have happened on friday, before friday. it could have happened on saturday. are askg them to do that to at least buy us some time. we know what brett kavanaugh said. as far as what we are concerned, his statement is not a supreme court ruling. his statement, out of his mouth, was not a supreme court ruling. if that is what nes to happen, that is not what we need to worry about. our job is to make sure that we are legislating.
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righnow, there is power of the pen of the president of the united states. amy: thank you so much for joining us, outde of the capitol, outside the house. you have been unhoused yourself, and now a house member. congress member cori bush represents missouri's first district. since friday, she has been sleeping on the steps of the capitol to protest her past colleagues and yearning for break without passing a moratorium for renters. stay safe. when we come back, we continue our conversation with the authors of "inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice." and we will look at the connections between the pandemic and the climate crisis. we will look at a new film, "the ants and the grasshopper." stay with us. ♪♪music break]
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amy: this is democracy now!,
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democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we end today's show with a new groundbreaking documentary on thelimate csis and e global fd system the fi is caed: "thents and the grasshopper." it follows the journey oanita chitaya, a farr and actist in malawi with the soils, food and healthy communitieproject, as she tries tend hunger and nder inequality her village and tackle the climate crisis in the u.s. this is the film's trailer. >> i have this gift. i do rch peopl how cayou alw your ptner to sper wioo much work? >> a mawian activis >> it rain for umaybe the timea year. all the crs dry ou >> is on a msion.
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read. whe thlies sprd fast he. t i still ha fai. ♪ >> from j patel, authorf "stuff and staed: the dden bale for the world's food system >>here are s man antut on if you are lifting the grasshoppers. >> "the ants and the grasshopper ." amy: that's e trailer for "the ants and the grasshopper.” for more we are joined by co-director j patel in austin, texas. we spoke with him earlier about his new book with dr. rupa marya, titled, "inflamed deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice.” your fm is makg its way through film festivals. it is interesting, it comes out at the same time as "inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice."
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talk about the theme of this and why you did it. raj: if there is a connection -- and i think there is a deep one -- if we are to address the climate crisis, we are to address the origins of covid, the pandemic, we need to engage in a kind of decolonization. that is what rupa and i were talking about. and talk about deep medicine, we mean repairing the bonds that have been severed by colonial capitalism, bond between human beings, between human beings and the rest of the web of life. what we are doing is learning certain kinds of agro-ecological techniques to farm the land, but also that you cannot end hunger without addressing gender ineqlity. t just iquality within t ho but ineality beeen cotries. hejourneto the utedtate was onthat reay wantedo put in the front lines the
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wisdom of communities of people of color and the solution they are coming up with. too ofn whent comes how will soe thisroblem either we wi medicaliz it, taken injectn and evything will beine, or weoint to indivial therapies, ore he white saviors going tohe sout inact, somof thees tenologiesnd solutns for addrsing theealth an clime csis arcoming fm fronline cmuniti, whethe inhe unid state-- we ha a sce wh the deoit black foodecurit network, talking about the steps they are taking in detroit. th resonat directlwith the ideas cominfrom movents ound the world. in this film, what we are ting too i the colize the ew of how it is that weix the climatcrisis a food cris, by foregund and e wisdom om psants arnd the world,
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from the unid statesr mala. amy: i wt to turto anoth scene where ani meets wh frt-line cmunitiesn the u.s. fightinclimate crisis an itsmpacts. anita visid the dictor of the black security foetwork in detro. >> if are creating a del of decrac our oanizatio makes capitalis aa terrib way ofefining man lationips,nd priary as we. at the samtime thawe and ny oer peoe are rking dismane these stems, are crting mods of howe might rela to ea other tt are more equable in way that societstarts tshift. we uegenerate rectuss herehat d'tontrute much to globawarming. thiss a rainwar retentn po. we a able toapture ts of thousandof gallo of rainwar here.
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we r it bacdown thrgh the elds usi driprrigation teniques. is is ousolar engy atio many fmersou not like to particaten the instrial yle of fming buthey feel trapd. th don't know h to surve witht the usof petroum a lots o water. we he to shohow thatan be ne so faers can e there a possility ofoing it d stilearning living. >> that true. yocannot ce foromeone without shong >>ust ke we are planti eds in t ground, we are planting seeds in people's consciousness. amy: raj patel, why did anita want to come to the united states with her message from malawi? raj: because she believes we can change. the message of the pandemic and this moment is not only that we must recognize an injury to one is an injury to all, but there is the possibility of change.
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it is never too late. amy: thank you for being with us. we will be doing part two of our discussion with you and dr. rupa marya about the book "inflamed: deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice." thank
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♪ hello there and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm katherine kobayashi in new york. british prime minister boris johnson says iran will face consequences for a deadly drone attack. he accused leaders in tehran of ordering the strike on an oil tanker in the middle east. the attack killed two crew members, one of them a british national. >> this was clearly an unacceptable and outrageous attack on commercial shipping.

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