wal-mart stores have pleaded guilty this week on federal charges of violating the clean water act in california and waste management missouri company raked in one hundred twenty billion dollars in revenue last year was a grand sum of one hundred ten million dollars as punishment yeah that should teach them a lesson you guys we're talking about the largest retailer in the world most definitely up for it to feel some pain for the damages they inflict but perhaps no one knows this better than the company's own employees to see if the retail giant is infamous for an upgrade over time or benefits to its associates so now the workers are doing something about it always in miami in massachusetts and california has picked up what they're saying only the first prolonging strike in the company's history they're also planning to have more stores join in the strike and organize a high profile walkout on black friday stores busiest day of the year hope of the strike and continue to grow and really hit the store where it hurts because until

then the company will right above the law continue to hold the workers who are the backbone of its profits and utter contempt so i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks walmart and similar corporations should be held to higher standards but until they are i'll be right here in the sec. right now the supreme court of mississippi is debating a case that could lead to charges of manslaughter for women who suffer a miscarriages or stillbirths the case involves thirty three year old nina buckhalter has been standing trial for manslaughter in the loss of her fetus which prosecutors claim was caused by her legal drug use according to a mother jones report buckholtz or was charged based on the action of methamphetamines in her system which led a grand jury in to declare the defendant quote did willfully kill. being by

culpable negligence however medical and policy groups have argued it's scientifically impossible to determine a direct cause between in utero illegal drug exposure and harm to the fetus so if there is a guilty verdict in this case what kind of precedent might it set for pregnant women moving forward talk about all that and more i'm joined by far a hello staff attorney with national advocates for pregnant women who is also part of the legal defense on this case thanks so much for taking the time thanks for having me so what laws exist in mississippi that she's being charged under right now. currently she's being charged under the manslaughter crime and then mississippi has an additional crime that specifies that a fetus actually fertilized eggs embryos and fetuses at every point in gestation can be considered a victim of a homicide crime such as manslaughter or murder or to create heart homicide which is what another young woman named is being charged with in

a nearby county is this unique or are there other laws similar to those across the country. i would say that this particular prosecution. is unique but not as unique as we would like for it to be the state of indiana is currently prosecuting a woman who attempted suicide during her pregnancy other states have attempted to charge women with assault of offenses or child abuse or endangerment offenses because of the circumstances or outcomes of their pregnancy and in fact national advocates for pregnant women recently published a study that looked at four hundred thirteen cases from one nine hundred seventy three until two thousand and five in which women were deprived of their liberty either arrested detained or forced to undergo a medical procedure against their will for the alleged benefit of the fetus and so let's go back to the case of i mean you know medical professionals have said that there's no way to tie. a definitely the tide. drug use to the death of her fetus so

if there's no way to link the death what case is the prosecution have against her. well you know i want to talk a little bit about what the a.m.a. says in their amicus brief that they filed you know they really make it clear that this is not only bad law it's bad medicine and that not only is it scientifically impossible to link the death to the methamphetamine but in addition to what a case like this the message that it sends to pregnant women is that if there is a possibility that you could have a miscarriage if you are a drug using woman if you are struggling with addiction during your pregnancy you could be held liable for murder if you can't guarantee a perfect pregnancy outcome so that's going to drive women away from prenatal care it's going to encourage them to be dishonest with their providers initially it may lead them to terminate pregnancies that they otherwise would have wanted to carry to term that's a really good point i mean if she's determined to be guilty it could mean an extraordinary amount for pregnant women in the state of mississippi i mean could this be used to prosecute women who smoke or drink i mean really where's the line

drawn in a case like this. and that's one of the things that the court acknowledged during oral arguments is that the laws that are being used really provide no guidelines for when the for when a woman should be prosecuted or not so i think it's an easy trap to fall into to say well she used to criminalize drug and therefore she should be held criminally liable but the law really says no such thing so there is no logical place to draw the line and in fact what science has shown is that legal substances such as alcohol or cigarettes actually have a greater impact on a pregnancy and in fact conditions like poverty poor prenatal care poor nutrition any of these things could impact a woman's ability to carry a pregnancy to term there's just no reasonable stopping place for it seems like this is the latest move i mean it's just another example of a larger attack on reproductive rights happening across the country i mean a gallup poll from january interesting enough shows that the pro life positions gaining more support at the same time the climates shift in favor of. toward things

like gay marriage and other social issues i mean what factors you think are causing the shift backwards across the nation. and you know i think one of the important factors in this case that i actually think will be able to turn the tide in the opposite direction is that this case really shows that what we have been told for many many years that pregnant women would not be prosecuted in the event that roe versus wade was overturned that that's really not true and what we're seeing here if this prosecution goes forward it means not only that an unintentional pregnancy loss could be considered a form of homicide but also that if a woman were to engage in self-help and try to induce an abortion on her own whether by pills or by herbs or by implements as used to happen before roe versus wade those women could be held guilty for murder and spend a very long time in prison and this is something that people should take very seriously especially considering that there is only one operating abortion clinic in mississippi and they're constantly under legal attack and are on the verge of

being shut down and it seems very frequently right just i want to take this conversation actually globally because i mean as an advocate for pregnant women i think it's always interesting to look at the global spectrum considering how france just acted a lot to reimburse women one hundred percent not only for contraception but also for abortions what factors you think attribute to this a menorah miss dichotomy between the laws being an active here in the u.s. as opposed to these progressive mandates across europe. that's a good question and it's one that i often ask myself you know i think that there are definite political differences and right now we're in a climate where any sort of progress on issues related to women's health is by a congress that can't seem to agree on very much unfortunately apart from using women's reproductive rights as a political bargaining tokens right it's always kind of use that wedge issue to gain traction politically really unfortunate as you're throwing people in the bud.

constantly but one more global comparison here i can't help but pull up this chart showing the length and pavement turned to leave i mean this is this is quite shocking in sweden number one fifty six weeks eighty percent wages paid mazing and then there's the us at the bottom zero paid leave why is that but molly in china offer better resources for expectant mothers than here in the u.s. . yeah and i think you bring up a really great point you know prosecutions like the prosecution i mean about culture in many gigs in mississippi are done in the name of protecting the unborn but the best way that we can protect the unborn really is to support pregnant women and to support maternity and ensure that women have the resources they need to carry pregnancy to term in a healthy and safe environment including job security and ensuring that they're going to be able to have a job to return to be taken care of during their maternity leave thank you so much for coming on breaking on this very important case i will definitely be following it closely for a diaz telos staff attorney for the national office for pregnant women appreciate

your time thanks a lot. to sort out the real news we're drowning in the noise of the mainstream chatter so join us to give us a quick update on the top stories that should be on your radars b.t.s. producer david. hi abby lots of news for you today first to me and mar a country embroiled in new outrage over its treatment of the rohini muslim minority burmese authorities of announce that they will enforce a two childbirth limit in the muslim populated state of we're keen it's a policy that's technically been in place since one thousand nine hundred four but it wasn't until recently that local officials have begun to implement the rule this o.c.a. to press reports that the order makes me and mark the only country in the world to level such a restriction against a particular religious group it's caused enough story that burmese opposition

leader aung sun suu kyi has finally broken her silence declaring that the tactic is in direct violation of human rights yet it's just the latest human rights issue in a country where just last year a massacre left four thousand rohingya muslims dead eight thousand missing and over one hundred forty thousand displaced last week obama urged me and maurice president to. hall violence against the muslim minority during his visit to the white house but it remains to be seen whether his words will have any influence and now to pakistan where u.s. drone strike is thought to have killed while leader or ramadan a pakistani commander of the taliban now while there are conflicting reports on the exact number of casualties pakistani intelligence officials have said four people were killed and four more injured in the attack on a compound in north waziristan the u.s. has neither confirmed nor denied reports but if it is indeed true that innocent civilians were killed it would add to an alarming death toll of pakistanis who have

fallen victim to these targeted drone killings take a look at this map brought to you by pitch interactive it's a data visualization chart breaking down just how many people have died from joan strikes in the country so far since two thousand and four pakistan has been hit by three hundred and fifty five drone strikes causing the deaths of roughly three thousand ordinary citizens almost two hundred of which have been children and of course these numbers abbi don't include the most recent attack. thanks america yes tragically those numbers are growing by the day today's strike marking the first one carried out since obama's infamous counterterrorism speech last week and here's why that's important to see in a speech obama outlined his grave concern with the number of civilians on intentionally being killed he talked about how he set new guidelines and measures to decrease drone use and increased accountability but apparently has he was busy

talking about better oversight he was also overseen yet another drone strike with more collateral damage innocent lives so for those of you out her hoping his speech was actually a sign that the drone king would rain him self in again. i return i'll talk of economics with richard wolffe stay tuned. wealthy british style. expert on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines

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look where you are seeing anything like. last week chicago's board of education made an unprecedented move to shut down fifty of the city's public schools and massive closures will fecht thirty thousand students ninety percent of which are african-american and latino chicago mayor rahm emanuel pushed for the controversial measure claiming it was necessary to balance city's deficit but many are calling an obvious push for privatization at a volatile time where education is already becoming more and more segregated so here to talk about this and how it could be symptomatic of a much larger issue at hand i'm joined now by richard wolfe professor of economics

and merits of the university of massachusetts and author of the book democracy at work a cure for capitalism richard thanks so much for coming on thank you so do you think that the recent school closures in chicago represent an example of class warfare. absolutely i think that they are a sign that an economy that's in trouble is deciding that the best way to handle its difficulties is to reduce the opportunities and the services provided to poor people to working class people not to go after those with the wealth not to go after those who have made the most money and increased their wealth over the last thirty years it is a definite discriminatory way to cope with the economic problems at the expense of those most vulnerable so as someone who's studied classic class issues for more than forty years i mean explain to my audience right now what does it even mean to

say that we live in a class society. it means that we have a division in our society that after we finish with our patriotic statements about all being americans some of us are in a position to make an enormous amount of money not out of the work we do but out of the stocks and bonds we own out of the businesses we control out of the money manipulations we can make with our banker friends and so on whereas the average american depends on his or her job having a job earning a decent income having a certain number of benefits and when the economy is going well well then everybody gets a piece but when the economy is having trouble of the sort we have had now for the last six years since two thousand and seven then it's kind of everybody for themselves and those at the top are determined in a declining economic system to hold on or even to increase what they have and that

can only happen by taking away from the middle and the bottom and that's what school closings and cutbacks in pensions and layoffs that's what they mean one thing i find really interesting professor is that crises are now created out of over abundance and not scarcity unlike the past i mean you know too many houses being built can cause the housing collapse this bubble exploding i mean explain this new phenomenon that we're seeing and it's just is this just the new normal you're going to see continue. but i think it's a feature of this kind of economic system that's why i referred to capitalism in my speeches and in my writings it is a system that did real well for us for a while but it doesn't work anymore at least not for the majority of people it is not producing the goods it's not the liberating the goods for most people it's delivering the beds whether it's your child who can afford a college education without going into wild levels of debt whether it's

a job that looks more and more insecure. you are with the passage of time whether it's a medical program that doesn't give you the coverage you need and worries you with the debts and the bills you won't be able to pay with the seeing a system that is breaking down that is not working for fall and it's hard to face that our politicians want us to believe it'll all go away they've been telling us that for the last five years it isn't happening the future does not look good the recovery is not affecting most americans they hear about it they just don't experience it this is a system that doesn't work and whether it's a chicago school closing or whether it's a hundred other symptoms we see every day the question is when will the american people recognize that this isn't the problem of this or that rule or this or that law or this or that industry this is a systemic problem it's

a system in which we all do what we have to do to get by but the end result is not good for the majority of people you said that is continue to get worse and you mention the two thousand and seven crises i mean solid recovery but only for that top one to five percent and not for anyone else in fact it was arguably the worst recovery in modern business cycle history in the us why do we see the recovery only for the rich and will this continue to get even more narrow until this inevitably collapses professor. yes i think the so-called recovery is a result of how the government in this country shaped and controlled as i believe it is by the biggest businesses how they handled this crisis they poured tons of money into the biggest banks they bailed out the largest corporations they in turn took this money and speculated in the stock market as they always do driving up the prices of stocks but meanwhile the wages of americans keep shrinking the benefits

they count on keep being cut back the government services they need are shrinking at a time when they need them greater so for the mass of people life is getting harder they have less money to spend that in turn doesn't support the economy look here's the easiest way to understand the absurdity we had twenty to twenty five million americans unemployed or underemployed we have about a fifth of our tools equipment our capacity to produce sitting idle we are an economy that can put tens of millions of people who want a job together with all the tools and equipment and raw materials they need to do a job and if they did it we would have an enormous amount of wealth with which to solve our problems and to take care of our needs and to help the rest of the world but we live in an economy which can't put together the unemployed people the only utilized resources to produce the wealth we all know we didn't want that's

a sign of a system that isn't working except for those at the top who get all the benefits of government programs and as long as we let that happen the inequality will get worse as it has for thirty years and the tensions that follow that particularly in a country like ours which prides itself on being middle class the tensions of a split like that between rich and poor are promising us very serious social difficulties coming down the road. and coming down soon yeah i think it's really fascinating how the the smartest minds are working on death and destruction and we have this perpetual warfare economy and i mean you're talking about all these social services that are being cut i mean it pains me to hear people repeat these myths about the welfare queen and social security as if those are the programs that are really we need to be worrying about siphoning money from the taxpayers and you just wrote a great article about social security and truth out obama in congress recently

agreed to reduce payouts in social security why is that such a bad idea and such a bad austerity measure to cut specifically. well you know put aside the sheer humanity of it we have the top one percent of the country getting wildly richer for thirty years and now we have a difficulty and we're going to cut the payments we make to people over sixty five after they've given us a lifetime of work it is an astonishing thing to do it's even more astonishing when i remind everyone that on january first of this year the payroll tax that all americans who earn wages and salaries pay was raised that's the money that goes into social security to pay for it so january one we asked people to put more in and in march of this year obama and his advisers announced that having gotten us to put more in he's going to cut what we get paid out in benefits but the absurdity

gets even worse because the money given to the older folks that's money that's going to be spent by them buying goods and services that provide jobs for americans if you cut what you give the old they will have less to spend and that will mean fewer jobs for americans working to produce what those old people could have and should have been able to have to spend so at a time of already on the employment it is counterproductive it is the kind of. cutting of spending that makes an economic situation that is already dead even worse on top of the sheer injustice of doing this to the people who deserve it least right. dr wall for what economic changes are needed to not only exit this ongoing global crisis but also prevent future crises because i think when people are looking at what you're saying they say capitalism in its pure form

would work to become crony it's become corrupted what's your response and what's the solution. i appreciate the idea of a pure capitalism but usually whatever noun comes after the word pure is a fantasy nothing is pure life isn't pure nothing ever was pure a pure capitalism is a pure fantasy we have capitalism as we have always had it with its warts and its problems and its blemishes and we now have a capitalism which can't deliver the decent job which it once did the decent income which it once did and so it can't command the respect and it can't command the support that it once did and that's happening around the world and i think we have to face it and the kinds of changes we need are not cosmetic not another law not another regulation we have seen laws and regulations can be evaded avoided weakened and eventually gotten rid of that's what the people at the top do that's

why they control politics that's why they buy the politicians we have to make fundamental changes and the one that i think is the did is to change the way we organize and to prizes if we believe in democracy that it ought to apply to the businesses of this country they should be run democratically by the majority of the people who work there and the majority of the people who are the customers together they should make the decisions if we want the economy to work for everybody everybody has to be in charge if we want the economy to work for the one percent that leave it as it is because they're the ones in charge right i mean kind of at the cooperative level i mean what ron said what a revolutionary concept to have actual democracy from the grass roots. amazin thank you so much richard wall for fessor economic samaritans university of massachusetts and author of democracy at work a cure for capitalism appreciate you breaking all that down. well before i sign off

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