greetings and salutations here in the united states as we get deeper and deeper into the fight against coded 19 we are seeing more and more news stories and expertly crafted publicity campaigns calling attention to the hundreds of thousands of doctors nurses and other medical workers and support staff who are quite literally on the front lines fighting to treat and save the lives of the more than 800000 u.s. citizens or infected by this virus. they deserve our thanks our praise and our support new york governor andrew cuomo aptly referred to these workers as quote the troops fighting this battle for us. but while the praise and heartfelt thanks are

unquestionably appreciated many in the field are starting to wonder if our poll politicians thanks i'm sure leaving will amount to nothing more than the just words and pageantry much in the same way that those politicians treat our military veterans all parade and no real help or substance new york position elizabeth may recently pointed out a very sobering problem for healthcare workers writing for the intercept that she observed public health public expressions of support for help professionals are meaningful but they are also insufficient to drown out the deafening silence from capitol hill in response to mounting cries for relief measures cheap among them educational debt forgiveness you see because we here in the u.s. do not consider their good work as vital to the infrastructure of our country unlike they do and say the united kingdom and other nations around the world quite

frankly it costs an arm and a leg to become a doctor or nurse here in the united states of america and shar goes on to point out almost 70 percent of all nurses who hoose to staff the truest front line in this pandemic graduate from training with 4250000 dollars in debt in fact according to shaw's estimations every coated 1000 patient in the hospital today here in the us is more than likely being cared for by a group of workers carrying over $1000000.00 in student debt to their names that is that that that is simply unconscionable and my friends that means we had better start watching the hawks. on a city street you want to see. the pursuit which. rises you always state. graves see this least systemic deception is

complete show which. brings us to this. we're going to watch it harks i am tired old winter and i don't have a meter this is a good we've seen kind of covert 19 this pandemic strip away and expose a lot of the problems that we have in our culture and i think this is another one of those things that bother to expose to the us is the fact that you've got doctors and nurses people who are putting their lives on the line their expertise so proud to fight this thing and they're doing it saddled under you know 4250000 and upwards of that in debt they're not even get out and i think this is an extremely important thing to highlight because your average your average citizen isn't really thinking about when they think of doctors may think about nurses they see these as highly professional careers these aren't for the most part hourly positions they don't think of them as low wage jobs they think of this is something that people are getting back from even though they they paid heavily into their education i think

that articles like the one you mentioned showcase and we're seeing a lot more of those come out and nurses and doctors speaking out themselves about why the not only why the industry is losing a lot of people but also why you have fewer people actually coming down the pipeline because if you know that you're going to be saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt you're going to be facing something that could could be another pandemic who knows and you're putting your own life on the line every single day what do you do when. your parents your children everyone is going to get saddled with this debt when you can't pay it back that's very true those were true and we talked about for a line the c.d.c. . right now estimates to ripley 10000 u.s. healthcare workers reported having a cold with 1927 of died from as of mid april just in the united states but they strongly say that the actual figures to that number may actually be even higher than that of those are just the low end estimates it's really i mean it blows my mind when you think about it like other countries around the world they actually

some of them even pay people to go to nursing school they actually you know pay they cover that cause you go to the u.k. you can go to nursing school you can go to they cover the cost you know why it to me and it just irks me so much that we are such a. we just don't care about people in this country that sort of says to me it's like we we don't know what will you get aren't you going to go out and become a doctor on your own you know even though you're going to do a job that's going to help people it's just it's not don't think people recognize the amount of attention that needs to be paid to this because i know when i was in undergrad there were i went with nursing students students who would eventually become doctors they worked 2 jobs on top of their externship swithin nursing facilities across the country so they were people who knew the debt load when they got out the majority of them don't come from middle class or even wealthy families so they know that this is going to be a task for them but they're still willing to jump into this profession right now over 60 percent of the nurses that we're seeing in new york city and other cities across the country that have been called and are retired nurse and those retired

nurses are still paying back the debt that they had 2030 plus years ago when they actually got their degree and i think you broke the good point too is that it's not saying that not all doctors are a lot of doctors there's a lot of doctors down the line especially in plastic surgery who are swimming and swimming in money you know but that's when you look at the health care system as a whole you can't just focus on like the one small subject of like surgeons and people like that who make money and make money because of the expertise of what they do. you know that they're able to pay off that debt real quick i mean the average debt doctors are saddled with after medical school this is doctors in 200-120-0000 dollars now imagine your student loan that you're trying to pay off it's $3040.00 maybe $50000.00 a magine $200000.00 hanging over your head that's brutal with the interest rates going up if. it's blue it's also really painstaking process because these are the people who they expect to go in this next generation of nurses and doctors and it's

not going to happen in the majority of places across this country there are and will areas clinicians where you might only have 3 to serve an entire city or to serve an entire county and one of those reasons is because they simply cannot afford the debt load to be able to you know save their communities from potentially deadly things i mean i. think that we should start truthfully if we can give you know universal lifting of public school university you know higher education to the people at least start focusing on key groups at least start there and a lot of people are there was actually 500000 people signed to move our petition to include forgiving student loan debt for health care providers and even the american medical association the country's largest association of physicians they actually wrote a letter to congress april 7th asking for federal student loan debt forgiveness specifically to health care workers and things like that so hopefully they see in that letter they said for those residents in early graduate medical students with

that average is $200000.00 we urge congress to provide at least $20000.00 a bible student loan forgiveness or $20000.00 jewish and we will see if that holds . desperate times call for desperate measures who would have guessed a police union known for its brutality racism and human rights violations would team up with the nation's largest civil liberties advocacy organization the american civil liberties union a.c.l.u. with the support of the paternal order of police as. calling on chicago mayor louis likely to end the city wide checkpoints put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic chicago police set up checkpoints across the city to him for statewide stay at home waters officers stationed in multiple districts would stop drivers and hand out flyers to people reminding them to not make a necessary trips outside of their homes according to the chicago tribune though this public health p.s.a. in action was well intentioned it didn't take long before community and civil rights groups surrounded and sounded the alarm while c.p.t.

spokespeople argue that the increased police presence is part of a public health agenda civil rights groups say checkpoints put black and brown people at risk for increased exposure to cope with 19 right now in chicago 70 percent of the bridge of the virus are black according to american civil liberties spokesperson during this pandemic law enforcement should be looking to reduce contacts not increase them in forcing 2 dozen checkpoints each day across the city creates a risk of further spreading the coronavirus to members of the c.p.d. and to residents he went on to express his concerns over public health being used as a cover for race based policing tactics the return order of police agreed with the a.c.l.u. reinforcing the importance of needlessly exposing officers to covert 90. funny how the fop an organization that just a few months ago argued not only in support of police brutality but against payouts to the families of those murdered by the cops now cares about human life. mere life

but has some tough decisions to make will she listen to the a.c.l.u. and c.p.d. or keep moving forward with heavy handed public health policies. that's a tough question put across her desk and honestly i look at it like this like i understand you shouldn't don't put the police and danger nor put other people in danger look if people are stupid enough they want to get in a big big old group and stand in their neighborhood and hold hands and cough on each other or whatever you know. they're going to do that you know you can't stop that same thing where protests have been want to meet out in front of the governor's mansion they want to go to the capitol and drive their cars around in a circle they're going to do that these stand home orders rip remember this isn't martial law. they can't arrest you for leaving your home least they shouldn't be however it's kind of the uniform thing of the government saying no please stay at home to keep safe you don't need to be putting cops in harm's way and exacerbating the tensions that are already existing in society through his coat check point exactly and the funny thing about this is for anybody who's been on social media

over the past few weeks there been means upon means of lori light light laurie light put the mayor of chicago popping up in your fridge telling you don't go there new there in parks and other recreational places soon as you you know open your door and people thought it was funny it was a lighthearted way to show that she's really trying to make sure that the city is safe specifically african-american communities within the city because they have such a large proportion of people who are actually getting sick and dying for corona from coronavirus but the bigger question for me happens to be just looking at these checkpoints across the city where the checkpoints are in many cases these are places that had elevated by less levels already so you have individuals who are saying ok well this is just added policing that is just unnecessary but you're also having police argue that we want to protect ourselves we don't want to get sick however these are the same police who will stop you for nonsensical things that have nothing to do with stay at home boarders at all you know they're still in forcing various regulations for petty crime. and things like that and they somehow

don't think kobe 19 is an issue they will they've got to keep they've got to keep the money machine go and they've got to keep ticket to ticketing you and all that and getting that like an extra layer a hidden tax of just being a poor person in this country especially poor person the colors of the hey you know what we're going to get you for that money that we normally get now that you have to stay indoors will that lou that's our loss of income for us you know him it's sad to see that it's sad too that it's like look at you're going to do checkpoints do them universally across the board if you're going to go to that extent like then make it universal don't just focus on the neighborhoods that you want to call bad neighborhoods or those neighborhoods that you already have a magnifying glass on and you know crushing those people spirit because they do feel like they live in a police state that didn't do that and the other piece is that the. better off the fraternal order of police and the a.c.l.u. in chicago specifically don't have the best relationship i don't know they have a long history of back and forth wrangling and wrangling they feel you have multiple lawsuits and one against the city of chicago and the chicago police

department specifically around police brutality but also around illegal surveillance and several other things and as of just last year so it's interesting to see them now come together on this that is the oddest couple of couples it's amazing i mean that's so you know that it's got to be like when you see the a.c.l.u. and the paternal or police actually say you know what we're going to hold hands on this one then you know like ok then maybe as a city you cross the line you know and i think it's important for other cities around the country and around the world to kind of look at this and say ok at what point is us telling pretty people to stay home and be safe when does it cross the line and when does it then justify the protests that we saw earlier this week and there's abuse of those classic things that we as a society have to be talking about and have to be looking at at what point does staying safe cross the line i will always side on the right of human life i would say you know what staying safe number one priority same time is still going to keep people credible so they do not abuse your rights in that process absolutely you know it is that but yeah i've never. and i would see that and what does that line

look like because we talked about that i think that's a very important things to know between liberty and public health because that's something that is something that is mean grapple with right now even outside of chicago chicago is in the spotlight because of some what many would consider overzealous but what is that line that is that is the biggest important question of the day good question good question art as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand to the brand new portable t.v. app available on smartphones through google play on the apple web store by searching simply portable t.v. or stream us to your t.v. by downloading the affordable t.v. app guessed it apple t.v. or online at portable t.v. this app will be available on more devices coming soon and speaking of coming soon coming up we will be joined by freelance journalist david carr so am a software developer eli seo about their project code bit 1000 behind bars. which helps track the spread of a coronavirus in prisons and jails across the united states really good work

they're doing you don't want to miss the state to watch. when else shows seem wrong. why don't we just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because that's ok and in detroit equals betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40

hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the way of opportunity the reality of it isn't it we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice. that's been a problem with the city and all those turn the rich and told me stay away i've always. considered that there is no answer because yes the records resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cops. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay sober man at a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless.

it. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is 2nd eldest we don't even. understand that it's going in. the american criminal justice system combines almost 2300000 people one in 2 adults in the us has had a family member in jail or prison and incarceration nation doesn't show any signs of slowing down. desperate pleas from cruel justice reform advocates families community members and activists are ramping up as kobe 19th sweeps through jails

and prisons with nowhere to turn and time running out there are many questions. how can you stop the spread in prisons and jails where do prisoners go once they are released can they be quarantined piecemeal responsiveness from state leaders at least prisoners and their families hopeless and time is running out america's homeless population and its incarcerated one face similar constraints mental health needs unemployment lack of housing and in many cases addiction ed being black or brown to the mix and the endless web of despair it's even more complicated ways of tracking covert $1000.00 communities are steadily emerging but not much headway is being touted on tracking metrics for the incarcerated joining us now to discuss a new project designed to track over its impact on prisoners and more is journalist and reporter. and software developer. thank you both for coming on the shoulder

there was a lot to talk about in releasing prisoners but the bigger question is what happens if and when they are released you know i think it's group but they're being released but it doesn't know it's kind of a lot of foreign crime in the prior potentially because where do these prisoners go and now that they're released to start with the word room. thanks jesse thanks for having me on i think it's incredibly important that we make the connections between incarceration. and also the housing movement lots of people who are reentering society may not have a stable place to go. and it brings up the question of how do homeless people who are in scene and stay at home when they don't have a home and how do we have her van and the virus that's being spread behind bars from entering communities and further exacerbating it. so people who return to her will obviously face the traditional barriers to free entry in the ways that the

state has not been able to support them in reentering society but on top of that you are not able to go to the welfare office to apply for welfare if you don't have a printer doesn't matter if you're not able to access the community resources that you're able to and you're also not having that added layer of protection whether you have health care even if you are positive you don't have health care you don't have a doctor what do you do in that situation so if you're lucky enough to go into a shelter. and say that you have addictions and are able to be sober how do we know if shelters are practicing. how to how do we know if shelters are practicing what is recommended when we know by the truth of the cards this is the spreading within prisons so there's a real absence of need on behalf of the state to. prevent this from being spread by . people who are being recently released and it just reveals the truth that we

already know that reentry support services is pretty not existant for people and especially if you are a drug user if you're. black or brown if you're just able to any of those things can be straw men despair is on top of living post incarceration. and adrian you touched on this a little bit but what types of reentry services specific to this pandemic do you think are necessary and do you think that they're actually going to come about in terms of having tools once these individuals do get out of jail or prison. yeah i mean it's something to mention is that a lot of these services were inadequate from the beginning because people have been on the street there's a high correlation so even the support that is available to people is not accessible so in particular with affordable housing accessible housing a lot of that is not available to people but it requires

a lot of people where you're apart is a lot of bureaucracy a lot of recovery services and programs that would otherwise be available to folks who are interested in recovery do have substance issues they are not i. as open as they would be a lot of workers are at home so they're physically you're not able to lay go in. and have your health care as you would if you're relying on telemedicine that's great and all but what happens if you don't have a phone if you don't have a computer if you don't have reliable wife. so i think it really raises a lot of questions about the lack of support we already knew to be true but on top of it you know how many workers like what is deemed essential in supporting people who are reentering and you know what are the barriers that already existed. i want to move over to you know the the coping 19 behind bars i think is a project is

a much needed true community service what you're doing there tell us a little bit about what inspired it what it is and what inspired everyone to do this and how does it actually work. sure the project is actually less by a. developer of the project from the get go i just helped develop a lot of the tech stock around it but the inspiration for the project essentially was that there is not really any good centralized tracking mechanism for tracking the cases of over 90 in prisons and jails in this country. partially because of how. how many different layers there are of incarceration between state federal and county and city levels and also just that even once you get to like all of those different layers not many of the necessarily

publish information particularly readily so the idea of the project was to have a website to report on this information and also to be able to collect this information and part of the reason why is because a fair number of these agencies are incarcerated people are not releasing information on this so the only real way to get accurate information is to. have people. report or have people report. cases that they know of in. facilities was not hard for you to put together as a programmer i mean how difficult was it getting that information is there sort of since you know these people are really forthcoming a lot of times where the disease years in prison and things like that was it hard getting that information and then trying to program a system that was easily readable for people to kind of look at at home and say oh wow ok this person that mark calls and or my brother or my sisters and it's it's run. rampage america. so mostly for this we we really for should it

google apps as a pretty nice interface that we were to assure that but there were definitely additional things that we kind of do on the side. one of the other things is we've had like an anonymous form that allows people to submit information. is nice because. at anybody when you're dealing with people who are incarcerated is generally good provides for that ability to have more accurate information. because there's less of an ability for interest to be traced back to people that you fear of retribution or anything along those lines you know i think we're having a mission i can both agree that you guys are doing some great work up there and thank you for coming on today and telling us a little bit about what you're working on there and i think it's a good community service that you're doing thank you so much and to go where it is to bring all this up. and software developer you are set up but if you very much for coming on today. thank you for having us. if all the

images of wildlife emerging flowers in bloom in clear skies don't warm your heart i don't know what will nature is a beautiful landscape an eco system a wonder that we are entrusted with protecting the green new deal and global climate protests reinvigorated and breathe new life into the environmental movement but as much as democrats and progressives have been on the front lines of this in recent years it was republicans they got it started birthday was celebrated for the 1st time in 1970 by president richard nixon over 20000000 people from across the u.s. plane and attended earth may have been biting pollution and pledging to make our world sustainable for years to come it was also rickson who created the environmental protection agency and signed the clean water and clean air act though this year earth day may look different without its traditional large gatherings you can still do your part. protest and action campaigns protecting our environment

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near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. who are out.

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