there is alvarez pleading with congress to reauthorize the 911 victims fund just 3 weeks before his death that take a listen. to. your say that you would never forget. well i'm here to make sure that you dumped. him a me come down here the day before my 69th round of chemo and go in make sure you never forget to take care of the 911 responders. thank you she had to. thank all rosa will be 53 years old maybe about speech when he passed away so today let's celebrate the true patriots. and start watching the whole.

story. the. real that is what. lies at the bottom. of. what they like you know i got. the complete. with. the. welcome on the watching the hawks i am i robot and have. a little over as a very well known to anyone who lives in new york during that time and is there. he's always been a part of that sort of struggle to get the fire to firemen and 1st responders and police that were down there during those specially during those 1st few days when it was the worst making sure they were never forgotten and i think it's you know he says it in and he said it in his congress you know he keeps saying you always said

never forget they slapped on t. shirts they sold us. and and to me it should me even be an issue now the house judiciary committee unanimously voted to pass the never forget heroes act which will extend the fund through $29.00 d. and madge mcconnell said he would agree to let it go to the floor that's the the bill that he was speaking on. you know it's time i think all of this you know when you look at the numbers the other people that have died were afflicted with diseases from 911 because let's not forget the bush administration says it was safe for everyone to be down there. you know you're talking there was tens of thousands the 1st responders a ground 0 more than 70000 have actually been rolled in that program for help. but look 32000 of them have developed respiratory or digestive tract diseases 705 of them have died from those diseases 9001st responders are affected by cancer 600 have died at this rate experts are saying there's going to be more deaths from the

diseases from ground 0 and from inhaling all of that garbage. than the actual people who were killed on the day that is truly tragic and truly breaks my heart because again our government that everybody rushed in there let everybody to have that happen despite without actually testing to see if it was safe and then lying and letting them go in there. and you have to remember it is not just the 1st responders and everyday i think there's a lot of people who live. in manhattan and beyond in the areas that we have been told for many years and are doctors if they know you are there and they know where you lived and they know you were exposed to that at all during that time i am told my mind doctor every year we chat we have certain there's certain blood tests and certain things that i have to be careful of because i'm at risk of getting a version of any of these cancers that these firemen have got just from breathing and every day because nobody told us and nobody was handing out masks to people or

anything on the street but i think the question of patriotism that you brought up this is this is what makes a patriot. when you look at this guy's life he rushed into the scene to save people and to help people stay there long after he fought for his fellow 1st responders and for all americans who are sick from this that's a patriot patriotism is by action and i think it's. far too easy to say whether a politician repugnant or whatever everyone wants to claim they know pitchers and they get the market or everyone most of everyone you know is so supportive or so american and you know you're going to stand for the sanctity of a nike shoe but when it comes to the you don't think it's ridiculous. the fact that these guys have to come in every year and ask for this money you know the fund runs out of money very soon at the end of next year if they don't get to the v.a. is still in the situation is that to me that's how you judge your country's

patriotism so the people that set up on capitol hill i'm the lobbyist and everyone who makes money from veterans while walking across their back to the lincoln memorial and making speeches or doing whatever you're going to do and slapping it on a t. shirt or a bumper sticker or using it to. and this is everyone this is i'm not being partisan this pretty much goes. across the aisle that if you're a politician using vets to get votes you better deliver on it you better take care of it because to me that's a patriot i mean you can fight in a war you can do these things but it's the people you know it's people who take care of them and put them 1st. that's to me it's more than a flag your patriotism is more than just a flag and saying it's great. we often ponder the possibility of curing some of humanity's scariest disease that no diseases now it seems the reality of the cure is closer than we think a group of scientists came across promising new so fully bringing us one step

closer to curing hiv our t. correspondent that asha suite has more about this fascinating study from los angeles. according to a new study scientists cured 9 mice of hiv for the 1st time in history and now researchers are testing the same technology on primates globally more than 36000000 people are infected with hiv and about 5000 become infected daily here in the u.s. roughly 1100000 are living with the virus hiv attacks the body's immune system and can turn it into aids on average those infected with aids died within 3 years but now there may be hope for a cure published in the journal nature communications this week researchers from the louis cats school of medicine at temple university and the university of nebraska medical center show the results from their study researchers used a combination of crisper technology and anti-retroviral therapy called laser ards

crisper technology allows genetic material to be edited laser arts or presses the virus from replicating however laser does not eliminate hiv from the body if treatment stops cells will continue to replicate scientists say they 1st use lasers are to reduce hiv growth then crisper acts as chemical scissors to rid integrated hiv aids. d.n.a. from the body researchers say it may be more difficult to treat in humans being that humans are much larger than mice and will likely have much more hiv to destroy well scientists are looking to have the food and drug administration approved their clinical trials for humans in 2020 as for now they say they are aggressively using this technology on primates 40 years after the aids epidemic began in los angeles and has just sweet. this is one of those things that sort of gets me when it's 40 years since. now and i realize i sort of live in my whole life

knowing about that having been born sort of into that into that time and time period and i think what's really interesting is that this announcement comes almost 38 years to the day that the new york times famously have a headline that read where cancer seen at 41 homosexuals it's one of the things that really set it out to be this that it wasn't something that anybody although it's only if you were a gay man only if you were this in fact at least we called grids they related immunodeficiency syndrome and and how far we've come from there to here and that we're on the verge of a cure the c.d.c. says 1100000 people united states have hiv but what's really scary about that is one in 7 don't know they are. able to this day yeah people are still afraid people are so afraid even like surgery that they figure it's gone or whatever you know it's interesting we talk about timing because we june 27th is was national hiv

testing and speaking of people you know you have to get tested you should always get tested you should always check because you don't know when this is you know until this cure you know is this is real but even so even so for instance so make sure you don't have. the centers for disease control recommends that everyone between the ages 13 and 64 get tested for hiv least once as part of the. routine health care which to me is pretty obvious i mean globally the numbers are still big 36900000 people are living with hiv 2017 i'm praying that this technology comes through it would be nice to see a disease cured in our time yet used to happen i would be nice to see what happened to yes i mean we do it was funny because you know you watch you know our parents our grandparents saw things like polio eradication cured but eradicated are these things that i think you know with hiv we've come so far to a place where you know now we have hey we might be able to take these genes on like you look at it it's this video it's amazing when you see what they're doing it's

gene editing with you know blood transfusions all of this together and this laser technology it would between that and at things that are vaccines for it that they're also developing i think we're looking at a really important future and part of that is because of education and a really big person who was at one point about education of the struggle of h i.v. and aids was elizabeth taylor the late great and i think what she said about the issue one thing she said that was so important and it says what it is it's bad enough that people are dying of aids but no one should die of ignorance. you know that's what this says if we look at if we work together if we don't make it a social disease if we and that's with any distro that when we get together and we work on it we can find a cure or we can find a way of growing quote unquote all right as we go to break clock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the proper tree cover the facebook you tube and twitter be sure to check out watching the hawks the pod cast which is now

available on spotify apple music and everywhere you can find yourself listening to podcasts and also see our poll shows of our team dot com coming up with the summer heat rising racial tensions and major protests planned this weekend here in the nation's capital we're joined by black lives matter after this mckubre that it will go over to discuss how protesters and their message of peace will standing up to face states to watch in the. georgian public especially the younger generation got fed up with all sort of just because. they failed to whiz in a democratic reforms they are fairly recent economic reforms as well and when so russia cohen is sitting in a chair all day with parliament german parliament of georgia it's made people

simply mad to know because then everyone realizes that this government has failed with everything and now they allow some russian combest to take a seat of the chair of the gordon public parliament where they're going to put independence was actually declared. magic mushrooms use down some contacts used in the wrong way carry carry potential like any any psychoactive substances. but used in the right way they seem to have quite a. profound therapy to potential and quite a good safety life on this while. my 7 years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse which is sort of going after the users in the prison

population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i can see. the war on drugs. 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 in issue and wave and say by day as you're walking out of this it's just it doesn't get easier. on june 6th it's just a few short days following washington d.c. celebration of independence and u.s. president on a salute to america's celebration 2 political rallies will be converging on the

nation's capital on one side you have the demand free speech freedom rally featuring controversial speakers and activists like me will you novelists and laura loom or along with all right activist groups like the proud boys on the side of the political spectrum the all out d.c. rally will feature speakers and activists from black eyes matter occupy wall street and other progressive groups after witnessing the deadly white nationalist violence that took place last year in charlottesville and end of his recent attack on an all right journalist in portland many are legitimately worried about the potential for another round of tragedy as these 2 opposite ideologies confront each other on the streets of washington joining us today to discuss this weekend's rallies the convergence of those 2 rallies and how to keep the peace in a sea of tensions is black lives matter activist macare gray and you're both ends thank you so much for joining us and things having us here i want to i want to 1st start out by asking you guys what it was 1st what is the goal of all of d.c. and then secondly you know in light of the violence we've seen you know in the past

few years at these rallies you know when you see these 2 sides kind of converge. you know can these 2 always be the big piece for us we can things be be peaceful from this week i'd say like that's where the discussion literally begins right i think this idea of violence that it's always like this the. question is one that actually has to be unpacked because it's not who brings the violence as people of color of people in marginalized communities we are always under the threat of violence is the police that bring the guns that bring the baton and the authority to use force and it's historically most recently and you know all throughout history it's it's the right that brings the weapons and the intent to actually cause harm also is really important so that the problem is are directly related to videos of violence right now in new york you have the right is directly related to

violence and so a lot of people we talk about saying that we're not trying to start a race where we're actually trying to end one. and we're trying to stop the violence that they have been supporting and raising awareness and that's a lot of what all of d.c. is trying to do that's really the goal of. what it means for. our goals are one we want to make sure that we out shine them right that we overpower than when it comes to how many people are going to be out there we want to make sure that folks know that we are going to withdraw our consent from this the rise of white supremacy this white nationalists ideology that has happened throughout this country but the rise of elected is not ok and we know that it has direct impact and direct relations to the state of the country one of the things that's hard is trying to figure out how everyone i suppose that in that situation when you come into this because as you said certainly you know blacks as not are these they

are coming into anything with this idea of we're here to cause hurt we're here to have acts of violence unfortunately then you're stuck in the middle between you have these far right and sort of far left groups both are coming with you know weapons and police who may be on either side of that debate and let somebody commit acts of violence or get involved in it how how. does one navigate that what do you do and how would should activists and allies and people who want to go to these things but. our understanding of the environment what how do you walk into that well it's also i want to say that there's an assumption that the far left comes with violence like i was mad right like not dealing with weapons or anything just a little bit of that and i were talking about it sort of there's specific people are coming there for violence and there is what are the political section which doesn't really matter there about people who are coming and they don't care about their politics or their cars and i think that some of their their violence has

already reached you see a lot of that is building up this cycle fake narrative about who is coming and that we're targeting this march. for activists and those who show up like from d.c. and to to counter protest for say i say we walk in our power that's how you walk into that situation we're going to be there we're going to throw basically a joyous party a joy of a party that's about you cannot take liberated space from us right you you can do whatever you want but the fact of the matter is that we're going to be bothered we're going to be on bothered because we're powerful we're whole people with what you know with or without you and i think you walk in that space and just say hey like. fear is is an action out of some lack. there's a lot it reminds me of there was the march last year when nazis came to d.c. i mean that was the only way to describe people who self described as nazis got

a permit to march in our city you know who live here and when you went to that it was the fear of something's going to go wrong and we all had like exit strategies and i told my friend run down here if anything happens don't get in the middle of the and it end up being you said there was more joy of the people there so that was that was our intention we held a blackly rally at the unite the right to protest as well and they were. about 2000 people to there 30 folks there are they it's hard for people to feel like they have to choose a side but at the end of the day you are going to have to choose the side of life you're going to have to choose the side of supporting marginalized people and the side of liberation and when they did it was victorious you know it's interesting because a lot of times when you when you see people who kind of only get their information through the screen or they only see the pictures and they're not there they're not on the ground seeing how dominoes fall into each other and what causes a lot of these things you know they always i hear

a lot of times like well maybe if you just let the nazis are coming to town there's 20 of them or you know guys with tiki torches white power if we just let them walk don't bother them don't counter protest don't do these things maybe the cameras won't show up maybe they'll be ignored maybe it goes away what do you how do you respond to that kind of like critique or that kind of criticism saying like look at you ignore this it disappears or it won't get emboldened by all the media attention and things like that and i definitely think the fact that we're even talking about whether or not you can ignore them i mean you can't write i think that what you're choosing to do by ignoring them is really just the tension away from having to actually talk and think about it because the fact of the matter is that that kind of rhetoric is not new number one it's always been there it's always been there with the same people or people there are days into. it so it's been growing and it will continue to grow whether we are. right and this is

a tactic. when you look about 2 years ago before she was to happen when you had 9 nooses being dropped around do you see richard collins being murdered on. campus by someone who is affiliated with the white nationalist facebook group these things recruitment stickers like you're diverting your attention they are recruiting they have been recruiting and it has a real impact on our lives. as with the rise in hate crimes so this rally is a recruitment tactic and it seems that that's what it is there's this idea of sort of branding. and i'm seeing more of them in fact in the last couple of days there was a gentleman who was involved with the one of the groups there are so many horrible groups and they are ok i was going to say there are so many horrible groups of horrible ideas that want to march you know straight pride whatever but one of them has pretty much said we're going to seattle and we're doing one in august and we're coming at them and we're bringing guns in this is war and everything else and. i

don't even know like how do you even like how do we process that when you have people who are straight up saying we're going to go there and cause violence. they're clear about it. what do we do to get our lawmakers to do something because that just seems riddick that to me just seems like that is a threat of violence you have no business in the streets of that city you should be in jail and i yeah and i think that's another good question to unpack is that it's not the elected officials i wouldn't be looking at like we like to say we keep us safe we're actually going to talk about what keeps us safe knowing that that kind of ideology has always been there especially for black folks in this country it doesn't surprise us that someone would come out and say hey this is what i'm harming and i'm going to cause so that what is saying is that we need to redefine what safety looks like and how do we keep each other safe and knowing that especially here in d.c. last year it was the metropolitan police department and the metro transit police

who protected them i mean the whole cars of metro trains and you know countless officers around them and then knowing how they cheated 20 prefer protesters who were just in the area of dissent of the president of the moderation i think the answer to that is that i think if you want to do an inside and an outside strategy right inside strategy is like you need to get your lawmakers to start regulating it and the institutions that support white supremacy right like there's a reason why you have so many white you have white nationalists and white supremacists and races were attracted to being police or being an ice age or i was being more control right like these institutions that were built within white supremacy and continue to perpetuate it so in the inside strategy yes you need to regulate those positions and one of the things we were talking about earlier was this idea that this shouldn't be

a surprise to anyone who's paid attention because. as 10 years ago 15 years ago there were studies from the government saying the white supremacists were infiltrating the police local state federal level prison guards everything most of the people if you look at statistics that are involved in. police car police guards who are dealing drugs a lot of the revolver almost all of them you find it all connects to a system of white suppress this white supremacists which just seem to be a criminal organization but we have to sort of live with them as we try to break down the system so why are these marches so important that a lot of people say oh ok you're going to march what's it going to do why are these sort of gathering so important because of the same side we're trying to recruit more people who are not afraid right lisa even if you are afraid you're willing to act anyway right so every time we do one of these marches we get better at coming together and then you can connect with us because we're not just doing marches we're organizing you know i want to say thank you guys so much for being on today

be safe out there this week and speak your mind practice love we always lovely to have you on and great discussion as always thank you so much and we'll have all the information for the march on our social media pages twitter and i'll read everything i got or thank you thank you so much. the great southern american solar eclipse gave our southern neighbors quite a show this week when a solar eclipse took over their skies starting at the chilean coast at about 4 40 pm the umbrella or moon shadow swept across the andes mountains then into r. and argentina it was visible from peru bolivia ecuador paraglider year ago and various areas within colombia brazil venezuela and panama but if the view from the ground is an impressive enough for you maybe this turns out using the goes west weather satellite operated cooperation between the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and nasa the images captured show not only an impressive eclipse but

a category 5 hurricane as well. in that little circle right there is hurricane barbara she's just about 1000 miles southwest of baja california and is sporting 140 mile an hour winds but don't stress there is no indication shelby and you are near a land mass and the times they are and as for the total solar eclipse you're gonna have to wait until december of 2020 to see the next one and that laser was our show for you today remember everyone in this world we're not told your love the nothing but tell you all i love you i am tired rover and i have a lot of people i'm watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night. when i i don't want to talk to a communist news agency forgive me you'll have to find someone to.

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