to pay the price so today my friends let's kick things off by looking into the world of workplace injury and corporate malfeasance by doing our jobs and watching the hawks. like you that i got. sick. welcome everybody to watch the hawks i am tyrrel ventura. and dangerous place to work a lot of that there's your watch out and. i mean fave to a worker why is that such a big. right is this about socialism is that. it is sad when you see

those numbers that let you know you get workers being injured every seven seconds on the job like that that's tragic numbers and i'm sorry when you get when you get a job and you go to work you should expect some safety you know at the end of the day when you go to work and earn a living you should expect that your employee employer has elements set up for your health your own safety on the job so you're not putting yourself or anyone else at risk. call me crazy right anyone lineal. what what's even great do is that i was you know they have this list the list of all charges thirty doesn't the top of this group and amazon spokesperson fired back when asked by the choir about being on this list and the spokesperson said quote the dirty dozen press release issued today should be taken with a grain of salt the national council of occupational safety and health is not a government entity kosh is in fact a co. union organizations and parties with

a business cause to undermine amazon's reputation through a clear campaign. a coalition of parties with a business cause to undermine. literally cause. they don't profit the union doesn't profit. exactly and to advocate for work exactly. blows my mind when i see stuff like this where you see amazon reacting like oh. the same conditions are not even listen to you. and i think they're trying to bring out the idea that this organization is not a government agency and it's like they're not even listening. they're not even left

them either and all they do is fight. the occupation safety and health administration called. basically sort of the federal authority in the united states preventing workers from. getting. or. kind of. like a pretty good government agency that would step in and look for workers this way i mean. they are having troubles. coming. it's interesting from two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and seventeen federal. issues on the workplace where they've been called out take a look at this forty two thousand nine hundred forty one thousand eight hundred twenty nine twenty. years only forty one thousand times. they actually cited companies you messed up. worker safety your home things like

that so you're seeing this decline inspections of workplace hazards including the top category of work related illness the one illness most people complain of which is like you know ergonomics you know my back or something of that nature fell by two thirds inspections on heat conditions in climate change have been two years you know oceans inspection of your love this is a dangerous pesticides fell by two thirds wow yeah you know and you know what do you get a day when you don't have enough people i guess that's really the thing i mean one of the thing. yeah i mean one of part of it is that there is a staffing a share and there's a lot of these little issues but mostly it just has to be you know we have to we have to actually fund things and actually do so. most definitely right we have to actually get those structures up would be a little bit. another

chapter in the chilean isaan saga was written on wednesday as the founder of wiki leaks was sentenced to fifty weeks in prison by a judge and britain for breaching his bail conditions and taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy back in two thousand and twelve a sound now awaits an extradition hearing set for thursday which will decide whether his is a whether he is shipped to the united states to face u.s. federal conspiracy charges are to america san cohen has the story. julian assange had requested leniency after being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy for seven years but the judge rejected his plea sentencing him to fifty weeks in jail songe took refuge in the embassy in two thousand and twelve fearing extradition to sweden on rape charges but the woman who accused of songe said she quote did not want to put any charges on ga but the police were keen on getting a grip on him and that she quote did not want to accuse j. a for anything and quote it was the police who made up the charges i was songe said

he also feared extradition to the united states were officials were calling for his arrest and even assassination but found no sympathy in court and said receiving the maximum sentence possible outside the court we can leaks editor in chief said the sentence was vindictive in nature to get a sentence only two weeks short of the much of a sentence is an outrage. it's almost doubling the sentencing guidelines. and they have pointed out it's just a comparison. that the so-called speedboat killer. got six months for not showing up in court to hear his sentencing for manslaughter a songes lawyer encouraged observers to review evidence about why he sought asylum in the first place his case isn't has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states. we've been saying since two thousand and ten that risk is real

and we now have a provisional extradition request from united states. the focus of our energies will now be on fighting that extradition request and not fight starts to my son just an extradition hearing begins thursday in the united states he is charged with aiding and abetting disclosure of classified information and could even face charges of treason a conviction that carries a possible death penalty in washington dan cohen or t.v. . so the latest chapter in julian the sun is now we're taking a look at this and you know in the him being sentenced and what's going to happen to america and everyone's worried about what's interesting is his in court today he offered an apology julian and apologized and he said he told the court quote i apologize unreservedly that those who consider that i have disrespected them by the way i pursued my case this is not what i wanted or intended he went on to say i did what i thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be

done i regret the course that this took the difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many others. what we make of jewelry stores approach or what we would be apologizing for sorry i sat in the ecuadorian embassy to not have to deal with this swedish rape case and also i mean yes i understand yes he would have clearly as they will eventually want to extradite him to the united states and the asli discussed but even the judge brought up this idea of i don't think it sounded that you were going to be swept away to a basement at the pentagon and be tortured with batteries. and rusty needles these two high profile thing like at some point you have to realize that as being innocent you were too high profile to have been in that much danger so i think part of it is. this and this is why i feel this way chelsea chelsea did her

time. you know yes she did a patrol so you know and that's you know like chelsea did her time chelsea stood up and went to court and everything she's even gone and still standing up for him and so part of me is like look at some point you can apologize and say sorry i made such a big kerfuffle out of everything but at the end of the day yeah answer for yourself that if that is what it is because there is i feel like this is making it worse it's making it harder and his personal issues are his personal way of dealing with this stuff and sort of brushing it aside making everything into a conspiracy theory i feel like that's a little hard on people because it makes it harder for anybody to trust him and then at the end wiki leaks is julian assange and wiki leaks is this things so yeah and you know i think and i agree i think it's one of those things words like no one wants to see whistleblowers get mistreated no most of the journalists get

mistreated and i think the right bible is very clear he's not a whistleblower he's a publisher right exactly you know and i think that i think that between that and i think i think he has right on his side he can stand up and say don't treat me like this i have more than a leg to stand instead of like you're saying instead of saying like you know again that idea of like you know he could have stood up and face this seven years ago and said hey let's go let's go nose to nose let's do this because i have i have the freedom of the press and i have all this on one side you don't you know when people are coming out of the room and i think you have to make a great great point there i mean you would if i was a lover of privilege then you got to sit for seven years being protected so all right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the property of government place broken twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up iconic character and director from such films as predator and commando bill duke joins us to discuss the history present and future of black filmmaking. working in hollywood films most of show and his incredible career stay

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it all you want the stuff to go to the brim and then it just it's a reversal it was studying. it up well let's go away there's a. lot of what you're doing which. is only done. here do you leave your money you know did you storm let me see them i looked at the mood sure those are doing the blue trickle of. there isn't just one particular force that shapes the lives of african-american artists in the united states whether it's history or politics people of color have

been paving the way for american art all the way back since the release of the one nine hundred fifteen silent film the birth of a nation and which one can witness the worst that racial stereotypes have to offer since then art especially in the form of film has become something much more than entertainment it's become a cultural necessity recently we saw black panther a superhero movie focused on the importance of family and identity in a community of color make over a billion dollars and at a time when hollywood executives are still claiming that films focused on the black experience just don't sell however before black panther such innovators as the recently passed john singleton were setting the bar for representation and expression and giving voice to the truly voiceless filmmakers like singleton spike lee and robert townsend helped pioneer a way of storytelling that is as much in the fabric of the a black american experience as our next guest since taking the. stage in the

seventy's american actor bill duke has appeared in some of the greatest movies ever made such as the action movie classic predator american general and menace to society and when he hasn't wasn't gracing the screen he was behind the camera directing shows like dallas and falcon crest just to name a few but in the forty years he's been in the business of show bill duke has brought more than just a handsome face to cellulite his wisdom and mentorship makes him a cut above joining us now from los angeles is the author of bill duke my forty year career on screen and behind the camera the founder of the dick media foundation which helps young people prepare for the future through media education and one of the stars of the series black lightning about a retired superhero and the netflix film high flying bird that takes on professional sports welcome to the hawk's nest actor mentor and legend bill to. thank you so much for having me much appreciated thank you bill and bill it truly

is an honor to have you on and i want to start by asking you you know over the course of your forty year career what do you feel has been the biggest changes you've seen for artists and filmmakers of color working in hollywood today. well i think there are more opportunities and i hope there are going to be more coming. i hope the ratio of the number of films that are made per year represented in our community and our stories increase in so that's my prayer also the fact that. online content can be distributed globally but the push will but i think it's very very important for everybody including filmmakers that are serious about creating content and getting it distributed globally so i'm hopeful that there are some good things that are here and more is coming. now hollywood the

entertainment industry has thankfully come a long way since the birth of a nation but that doesn't mean that its problems with the quality and representation are no longer at issue as if you know black panther has the things and everything is gone everything's great it's perfect what have you found are still the biggest hurdles for black filmmakers and today's hollywood and what are the things that they need to be done to change that. i think the. one of the biggest hurdles you mentioned so eloquently in your introduction is that there's still a belief to a certain extent that black films don't. translate globally so therefore their earning potential is limited i think black panther proved that to be false but in terms of independent filmmakers i think that many of us still face that stigma. i hope and the future that that can be

a racist but right now that's one of the things we're facing the second thing we're facing i think is. i directed a number of years ago. a film called cemetery club for disney and we went on the national tour with the film and it's about three jewish women that lost their husbands and that they formed a club morning. and transition into their future lives and ellen burstyn will be to caucus and diane matt started and the question i was asked by the press wherever i went is. you know this is a film about three white women. you know why are you directing this and i said well because i can relate to their humanity their loss i had a death in my family's cetera. and so i can understand their you know what pat compassion

what they've gone through and and i said also steven spielberg just you know directed the color purple. and what was amazing was the response when they said that when i talked about steven spielberg and i'm quoting now they said but that's different while. that's the part you're not first to say oh wow wow right i mean about that are read like me on the folk in reality. do you think that people are much more of a. i i think now there is some more openness i hope there's a greater openness because you know. a lot of white directors are allowed to direct black films and i hope that more and more black directors male and female and minorities will be allowed to direct all kinds of films that

transcend the color of their skin we're not limited by. the color of our skin but as dr king said by the content of our character and our skills so that's my prayer for the future brilliant and you know i want to ask you that this prolific career of war many different hats you mentioned the director and actor and i was curious what do you look for in choosing projects today that may have was different than you know when you first started in the business some forty years ago. well i've always looked for this i call it edutainment and what i mean by that is it's a definitely important to entertain people. to protect your investor and make sure they've cooked the dollars that they've trusted you with and that's a priority but also. i think that there are things that you can put

in your films and i always want to do this. that make people feel and think so i don't think that there are pursuit things i think you can do both and i think there's a craft to directing in a craft to to writing and i think that it's possible to entertain at the same time give some nuggets of things that make people feel and think. now your duke media foundation focuses on and when he says boteach ing new media arts and and financial literacy as the civility in our city in south los angeles california why is it so important for those specific voices and voices like those in smaller less privileged communities why is the sound for it is that we get those kids to learn how to use their voice and become a storyteller. was a good shamelessly wearing the new york film academy logo on my sweater i'm sorry in promoting because they've been so kind to us they provide

a space computers teachers a lot of things from my foundation have been doing it for a few years. our community to a certain extent has neglected and i really want to be part of a giving our young people the skills and understanding and consciousness of what they're going to be facing in the future there is a very insightful and frightening things from fifteen to seventeen minutes. video on you tube called humans need not apply and i hope one or two seen it or not but it talks about the future how robotics are going to be taking over a lot of the jobs that we're taking for granted right now one of the first center jobs are going to be driving because they're all automated trucks and cars that can drive across country they don't take naps they don't get sick they don't eat and

they drive back and they drop off things. so that's just one of the things i want our young people to be prepared for in our industry for how the industry is changing what jobs are going to be available and what may not in the jobs that they can create invent whether it's virtual reality augmented reality cell phone apps on line content webisodes whatever it is that they can begin to think differently. because like you know the survey started off with. the dark girls thing on webisodes now she has a deal with h.b.o. and it's always sunny in philadelphia has been on for years and start off with webisodes so instead of waiting to be discovered she's got discovering herself that's what i tell these kids number two financial literacy. there's a distinction i mean we're taught how to spend a dollar but now how to use our dollar very few minorities know what the

stock market is what the federal reserve the f.d.i.c savings bonds and you know stocks the distinction between those we teach them these things because spending money is one thing but the use of money is something we need to understand so that we can be not only profitable in terms of today but we can begin to look out for the future for our great great great grandchildren i couldn't agree more i'm a member of thank you for doing that and for the good work you do and i got it we got about a minute left and i want to finish up with a bill i've got to ask you actually acted with my father jesse ventura predator many many years ago he's one of the great great really great man one of the fun things i love avignon today we only got about a minute left but what what are you what's your favorite memories of that film and working with jesse. well jesse was my buddy man he was great.

just great great people but he'll tell you our first. two weeks in the air you know we were in the jungles up in puerto by out of mexico surround and the food tent was surrounded. with netting but every day we ate there were bugs in the food and so for the first week we say take this garbage back because there are bugs in it but there was no more food to eat but the end of the second week was called protein. man. i made a good movie i mean. you know i got to say thank you so much for coming on today and thank you for such a great career and look forward to what you have in the future and keep up the great work sir. and rest god bless you both and please tell folks to check my book out on amazon and i hope that they like have a thank you so much will do. all right everybody about is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are love them enough so i

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states is drug abuse is sort of the. it was in a prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and saved by daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. on cheese how they don't how to put international memorial towards twenty nine see the now open for entries all media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for all terms of media or part of a global news conference to participate send us your published works and video all written for. go to award dot com and then to now.

they can come and blow our brains out at any given time and we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people outside war and legally get away with. all the fire crawls still beriah all the troubled history failed the point is it's hollow flying to k.k.k. exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse off than the people who destroyed the world trade centers are those growth why.

during the great depression which old must remember there was. most of my family were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed much worse objectively to day but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo do no engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to. one set of rules for the rich officer said. that's what happens when you put her into the. sector of will switch rule is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of

america. to never surrender to the u.s. as a british courts whether or not to extradite the jailed whistleblower. also this hour democrats accuse the u.s. attorney general of running scared and call for its head after william barr refuses to subject himself to more scrutiny over his handling of the miller port. and a large anti-government protest rock the venezuelan capital a day after what appears to have been a failed coup attempt and that as opposition leader one wideout and his u.s. backers deny trying to stage a military overthrow our guest debate what's really happening in the country. as they get into power.