well the what's the robot and i have a well it's. to get me to remember it for fifteen and that's the thing there's a couple things that one is it is a sort of idea that me too was this movement started by a bunch of hollywood white hollywood actresses which it wasn't it sort of got co-opted by hollywood no way but in a way that i would not a terrible reason but it was co-opted in a way by a lot of white actresses and so it was but it was actually started by women of color and seeing this moving into the labor movement is so important and i wish me to had had moved a little further into the you know the food service industry and everything else because any of us who ever worked i worked in the food for service industry for ten fifteen plus years and i will tell you it is a cesspool it's a cesspool i was sexually assaulted while i was a waitress and my boss says well you know he's someone vaguely say

a mess for doing something and so we don't want to ruin that and so that's when you go down it happens at the top levels but it's happening in places like mcdonald's where they do this and it's not the first time they've heard that we've even heard about there were planes back in two thousand and sixteen there was a survey found that forty percent of women forty percent of women in the fast food industry had experienced and want to sexual behavior at work including sexual remarks touching and even rape and that's not a wish i could say i was shocked by the number but it's about right it is very much everyone i know that's worked in there those kind of things happen so back in may just before their annual shareholders' meeting ten women who were backed by the fight for fifteen people and the time's up legal team which was part of that offshoot of everything came up they're paying for legal fees to. file complaints to the u.s. equal opportunity commission but as with most things when you say hey i was raped at work. the it's four months later and nobody has responded nobody at any equal

opportunity administration is doing anything to even talk about it. and you know look these are these are these like you know it's one thing when people you know see actresses and things like that on screen saying this is bad but when you when it's your friends and neighbors that's that's even worse and i'm so happy that this is joined with the labor movement we need more governments to join together. and that's it it's not just you know we got a lot we'll talk a lot about intersectional feminism but we need intersection and everything because the truth is this isn't just about one side there is no one size fits all. mcdonald's employee an organizer with fired for fifteen she actually said quote the motivation is anger we're not going to stay quiet any more we need to have a path forward so that no one experiences sexual sexual harassment on the job not just in fast food but everybody and i get it like when you when they're in there

say that because it's like look servers especially women you know they're going to get it from both beds not only other employees and bosses but customers to learn c. i know it happens on both sides of the kitchen. it really does and it's it's a thing it's just having basic respect for people and understanding that mcdonald's actually responded in what they said was that quote there is no place for harassment or discrimination of any kind of mcdonald's since our founding we've been committed to a culture that fosters the respect as a fosters the respectful treatment of everyone we have policies procedures and trading in place that are specifically designed to prevent sexual harassment at our company and company owned restaurants and we firmly believe that our franchises share this commitment now that sounds really nice from from on corporate you know ivory tower but i can tell you all the the sexual harassment training videos in the world aren't going to change the. things and less there are real there's

a real discipline when these things happen. people respectful wage. hurricane florence is estimated to have caused between seventeen and twenty billion dollars in damages but no amount of money will be able to clean up the mess or fix the damage the north carolina department of agriculture and veterinary services divisions report that around fifty five hundred pigs died as a result of the hurricane the poultry industry lost at least three point four million chickens and turkeys and the nation's largest poultry producer sanderson farms told reporters on monday that out of eight hundred eighty broiler houses in north carolina sixty have flooded another six houses experience damage it will be unable to house boilers until repairs are made but rising cost of chicken wings is the least of concerns for residents of these farm communities because at least thirteen hauled manure loons are overflowing due to flooding the lagoons are large

pits farmers used to house some of the ten billion pounds of pig waste produced in the state each year and in south carolina two patients from a nearby hospital died tuesday night when deputies from the orange county sheriff's department stephen floyd and joshua bishop were transporting these women to a nearby facility the van was overcome by floodwaters from the little p.t. river and while officers were able to get themselves out they were able to save the two women when do you went in forty five of north carolina and nicolette green forty three of myrtle beach but many are asking why the deputies were traveling on a road highway seventy six when rather reports were already saying the road was under most likely under water but more importantly according to a source from w.c. i.v. a.b.c. news four out of charleston the patients were chained in the back of the van or a county sheriff philip thompson released a statement in which he said tonight's incident is a tragedy just like you we have questions we want answered. we are fully

cooperating with the state law enforcement division to support their investigation of this event watching the hawks reach out to the orange county sheriff's department to clarify reports of inmates being chained but as of this broadcast they have not returned our requests for comment. whoa whoa i mean i don't even know where to go as we i mean. we said at last or whenever that was happening it was a get people out before the floodwaters come because it's what comes after the hurricane that's the worst everybody said that everybody you know and here's two instances it's this it whether we're talking about the pig farms or these women the pig farms this has happened before it's happened every single time and when you talk about feces and that kind of thing that's treated like the floods that's going to have that's how epidemics start that's what diseases are you know i mean that's that is you know it's horrible and then we talk about these officers who you know oh my god it's really hard because i think what's what's really upsetting about

this story for me is that when it first sort of came out and we started looking at it you know they were last night and today these these women were being described by the news as inmates and detainees they were neither they were literally patients of a hospital who were being moved to an inpatient treatment facility it's not a high max you know for the criminally insane this is just literally these people were being moved as a courtesy by the sheriff's department. but the sheriff's department originally described them as detainees and the first press release and according to the sheriff's department where he's going to sheriff's department the women had been ordered moved to a different hospital last week but it hadn't been done so by law by a court or by an attorney these women were to be moved before the flood happened or before the hurricane and everything and before things got bad. and it wasn't

getting moved till today neither woman had an arrest record at least in north carolina there's no indication that these women had any print all pastor had anything these were just mental health patients and the south carolina department transportation said the driver of the van would had to have gone on a realm the barrier that was it was blocking off the street to drive onto an already partially flooded road but. i read all this does is brings up more and more questions right and that's the big question is why why was this allowed. justin barrett who is also an attorney who has represented family members of people killed by law enforcement officers he told the associated press if the road isn't in the area where it is a flood risk why are they driving on that road anyway people need to know exactly how it happened it seeing it makes it seem like someone took a very very risk and now you have two. people correct

when you look at this someone else took a risk this is the same problem with the farms in north carolina per council said the issue of the lagoons is all under control there are saying they don't have anybody any of these things flooding mark so say you his environmental sciences professor at the university of north carolina at chapel hill actually said if farmland is completely submerged it's a good chance wind farms are completely submerged i'd like to see some evidence to show that some us wind farms on the goons have been magically spared as everything else fell under water it's a little bit hard to believe and that's where you have these two things now the two officers are on leave while this is being investigated in the one and the e.p.a. says you know the e.p.a. says they're down there keeping an eye on these on these floods and on these lagoons but again we've talked about this before this is where industrial farming. this is where you're going to have epidemics as you said and sickness and it's going to make all of this worse because people than i do you know it's truly tragic we don't know yet but what's truly. object to me is that you know the two officers

could be held accountable for negligence in terms of these women if they're found guilty and if they know what kind of thing they could be held accountable credibility could be out there you're probably not going to see any accountability you know come to the factory farms i think when the you know with these things overflowing and people getting sick from pig submit getting into the water supply you're going to see accountability to the corporation no we have to move on to look forward to our corporate cock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics of government facebook and twitter shows at our t v dot com coming up journalist ben swung joins us to discuss press freedom in the age of social media so stay tuned to watch the whole. all of these innovations like a like button is a way to turn one on nearly be productive workers creating wealth for themselves

into slave labor creating wealth for mark zuckerberg this is all about me and this is all about the robots who are taking all the productivity and passing that on through labor arbitrage to the pockets of the tackling. begin strike they say things like serial misinform or to have a platform without those companies facing robert actions which is an interesting phrase the other thing they say is that they have access to twitter and facebook.

analytics to be able to determine who's actually getting the traffic through the sites who they want to shut down and to have that want to go back to what you said they were terrance anti-war activists up folks who are against g m o's folks who believe in vaccine freedoms if you were on the edge of what is considered correct stance in terms of mainstream topics if you're not right dead in the center with where the establishment left and right it's all the same beast with what establishment left and right agree yes those voices are be perched the would think that all these people who have been common is that they're dissenters but in fact they dissent from each other it's not like one name of people they're all being be urged and that's what that's what really you know that like we were talking about really bothers me not just because yes you know we work in that area so yeah you know it could be you next week it could be me and that kind of old saying it's just i think we all care about people should have information to make choices for

themselves it shouldn't be up to a facebook or a government body to say this is what is correct and this is what is about it people should be supplied information and then make those decisions and form decisions themselves but one of the big questions is yes how do you combat whether it's coming from mainstream outlets or alternative media outlets how do you combat bad information how do we keep that from getting into the public spirited people make bad decisions you know how best can journalists on social media and online journalism how do they police themselves but what's the best way for them to police themselves and for people to kind of tell the good from the bat. right so it's a great question and first of all obviously you don't even process so anyone who's watching your show as i've been listening and i watch you guys all the time you know you're not just coming up with some concept and saying well here's what we believe is happening out there everything you're you're giving me a source here's the source of it here's where this information to be reported is where it's coming from and it's not always first hand when you're on the ground but at least you're sourcing where the information is coming from so that there is at

least a trail of accountability that right and so i think that's one thing that journalists need to do a better job of but i think there's also a misnomer next to your right which is the idea that the public must be protected from bad information and i don't know that that's necessarily true and what i would say that it's there's always bad information there's bad information coming out at c.n.n. that while i'm speaking on this network there is bad information coming from over there or there's bad information coming from fox news right now with us and we see how do you protect the public from it is to counter that by allowing more voices because the more police there are the more arguments there are the more that people have a chance to say what is the debate and are there other ideas not just one or two the idea that we're going to create accountability by limiting voices to only a few who let's face it we all know are not legitimate voices those mainstream mainstream networks are not presenting the truth we all know that but they have

kind of created in crap that this idea that the biggest danger to a free republic is the danger of misinformation and i just don't believe that's true i believe that misinformation is always out there but don't want more information we have the smarter people could agree with you more of the group the more yeah and i would say it's interesting because one of the reasons i got into journalism or got back into journalism after seeing how mansard media works in my twenty's and going over this is terrible and i got back into it is because i didn't see it getting any better you know we kind of say like i want you want me to go off the air fine but you got to start doing your day. i'll do that so i don't have to as all of us don't have to and what other things that scares me and one of the reasons i keep doing this is because of this fight is a court that my came out this week the freedom of print press foundation discover that two twenty fifteen memos laying out quote procedures for processing foreign intelligence surveillance act applications targeting known media entities are now members of the media. now while these rules are said to only apply to foreign media

and their journalists i mean obviously bradley you know obviously we all know where that's going but then just it can you explain to us why that's so dangerous explain why this kind of government surveillance of journalists is so dangerous and has tagged on american your writing so it american and it is dangerous but i would even go again a step further so let me just answer to hast by saying as as a journalist there's certainly a chilling effect rights whenever government is saying we we're going to spy on you we're going to get your phone records we're going to know exactly where you are at all times we're going to be looking into all these other issues there's a chilling effect when you're a journalist as i don't want you to get everything into your back and certain stories. a great example of that that i think most people understand is what's going on with the trumpet ministration but now when you see a huge abuse of the lights the system you don't have to be a fan of trouble or an enemy of time to recognize that the fights the system and how it was used. how it was used up throughout this hour russia investigation is

a complete abuse of power so the problem i think there's and this was the second half of the answer is is there's a much bigger issue here than just journalists right the issue and we've been talking about this for a long time is a major issue and i think what's happened is with journalists the issue with what's been happening with the truck with ministration it's a great opportunity for the public to see that spice is a form unconstitutional court system that allows for all the spiny gathering information and they say well it's constitutional. because we're not doing it to american citizens and then they do it to american citizens so it remains completely unconstitutional journalists are not should not be and they're not but they should not be a protected class in this country i'm sure you guys would agree with that because of the public as a whole it will problem with this place this is the way the problems with the warning system and the spying issue it's all been set up to protect the country and

it doesn't attack it's political in the senate and i think we have a great opportunity to recognize that as a country right now but i'm not sure we will you know and what sort of i grew through and once of interesting is that jim dempsey a professor at berkeley lot of former member of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board he was actually arguing in the intercept article on this that because there is a recognition that monitoring journalists pose a special concerns and requires higher approval but he then looks at this whole visor thing as a positive and something the media should welcome you know but i got to ask you what why or why has so much of america released the learn a view kind of gone to sleep on our civil rick liberties the just because they've been worn away over all these years now i think it's because of exactly what goes back to the other conversation because the mainstream media in this country will tell you every day that it is a privilege to be a slick god it is a privilege to be bound up that is a privilege to have an overlord to control your every action because it makes us all safer and makes life better and they tell us that they've been telling us that

now for eighteen years since nine eleven for nine dollars seventy years i guess this past anniversary they've been telling us this over and over and over again and i think the public believes them for the most part because they're constantly told it's ok this will just make your life safer and make your life better and i'm reminded people like that really something on nine eleven to remind people that you can have an argument about whether or not we are more safe in this country but there is no question that today we are not more free than we were before and freedom that is becoming a something that is a memory in the statute something we want. we have the generation of people who know growing up not even looking nice and freedom that we all knew were there if that's a better story. it's a very scary thought and that's why we have good journalists like yourself are there but also they're working hard thank you so much for coming over there but. the transiting exoplanet survey satellite also known as tazz

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