actions and that my friends is most certainly the case this week as 2 examples of the united states government's addiction to institutional cruelty and torture are making headlines the 1st comes in a new draft report on the office of inspector general for the u.s. department of justice which reveals that former u.s. attorney general jeff sessions deputy attorney general in russia gate hashtag resistance hero rod rosenstein and other top d.o.j. epistles were dry were the driving force behind and boresome of the trumpet administration's family separation policy and pressured officials who spoke out to go along with prosecuting parents of children as young as infants in fact that 2 year inquiry into the controversial and barbaric tactics of separating undocumented immigrant parents from their children along the u.s. southern border even alleges that jeff sessions directly told u.s. attorneys prosecuting these immigrants that quote we need to take away children.

caitlin dickerson the immigration reporter for the new york times called out the official lies surrounding this story over the years tweeting 1st to the department of homeland security said mass separations weren't happening they said the documents my sources provided were fake then they said separations were an unintended consequence when in fact they were always the point years later the i.g. confirms again the truth. and speaking of barbaric practices let us now jump over to the great state of oklahoma where according to charges filed on monday oklahoma county jail detention officers took a page out of the old one tom obey torture playbook and physically chained incarcerated people to walls and forced them to listen to the popular kids song baby shark audio loop at extremely high volumes over and over and over again for

hours on end. is this the united states we were taught about in schools when we were growing up when then wantonly terrorized as families whose only crime was crossing an imaginary line one who tortures prisoners for what laughs at the end of the day. these are the actions of a just criminal justice system no my friends these are the actions of a system run by cowards and addicts high on cruelty which means it's time to start watching the hawks. she was. on a city the streets you want to. see. this is joyce state. graves see this least systemic deception is late show which. brings up the old.

welcome of wonder watching the hearts i am tired world when times are. so busy i'm sorry but at the end of the day i don't think you can excuse both these actions they're indicative of bigger problems of me in the current criminal justice system and department of justice in general but at the end of the day this is cruelty no one can argue with that it's want moon cruelty whether it be against prisoners or as i said the families crossing into an imaginary line that we said they shouldn't cross and you're absolutely correct when it comes to what we're seeing happen in the centrally concentration camps with a child separations the original argument tried to. make this less than a big deal make it less of something that was actually written into the process as from jump what we now know is that this was the process to begin with this administration from the beginning wanted to make sure that they were being as detrimental as possible as a form of a deterrent and really to stop undocumented immigrants from seeking not only asylum but also from seeking safety in this country in general and to acknowledge that

you're absolutely fine taking children away from their parents regardless of how young those children are and we saw many of those young kids actually have to defend themselves in front of in front of courts if 3 or 4 years old this is just the monster tiddly horrible and it shows us what this nation feels or at least what the trump ministration feels about undocumented immigrants because this was going on long before trial got here he just turned up that he essentially you know no one can say that this is like this particular truck problem this was an obama problem to. me it just goes back to a very simple problem that we're in. founded on immigrants at the end of the day i mean tragically we're nation from immigrants or a nation but on slavery can't get a rope around either those 2 things we're doing our best to try to solve the issues that still exist today from slavery we're not doing good enough now we're attacking immigrants which i again say is absolutely ridiculous that you know. the government spin on this i want to read you this quote alexa vance

a spokeswoman for the justice department disputed the draft report saying quote the draft report relied on for this article contains numerous factual errors and inaccuracies both the timing and misleading content of this leak raise troubling questions about the motivations of those responsible for it i. think it is she has more of an issue with the leak than she does the content so that in and of itself is a problem and showcases its own myriad of issues but more importantly you are right in your previous statements about this isn't well the trial separation is the new work but the fact that we needed to have comprehensive immigration reform decades ago is not a new argument we worked through that tried to bring that to the fold in several administrations it just so happens that there is a particular i or against immigrant specifically undocumented immigrants from latin american and central american countries as well as mexico that president trump has that we have not seen from administrations past and he's in him in his administration are utilizing this to the fullest to really draw down on some of

what i would consider the most disgusting humanitarian crisis we've ever seen and the sad thing is that those people who go home each day after separating these families and all the other orrible things we've heard come out of those those concentration camps where they're putting these these undocumented immigrants they go home to families every day they go home to someone and how do you justify that oh guess what i separated some kids today oh guess what this happened oh i'd be great at this person today and speaking of that we moved to oklahoma where here you have these 2 you know early 20 something. jailers the son surely torturing incarcerated people. and it's sickening. i don't care how cute the song is or what kind of laughs you get from it from the headlines but at the end of the day this is this is disgusting this is what it's if discussing it's fresh rating i would like to say that it is not commonplace but we know that torture exists in our prisons in our jails across this country and in many cases they've never become any type of headline news and a large part because people on the ground people who are outside of the prison

system don't really feel like they need to defend protect people who are prisoners and i think that for that reason you see guards and you see wardens get away with doing things to prisoners who are largely american citizens in this country that you don't see that they would not get away with it these people weren't locked up one quick thing those 2 is the remember when the torture came out initially we went after the whistleblowers who brought tortured. attention that was taking place at guantanamo there on the world and then i do remember that phrase we need to look forward which was an obama phrase which i think comes back to haunt us because if you don't hold people accountable that's when you see it filtering and starting to happen to everyday people not just the terrorists overseas exactly. there are few images characters for iconic figures more prominent than the rodent with a penchant for laughs and good hearted fun making maps but even mickey can't find much to smile about these days with copa 19 wiping out the tourism industry disney

world and the magic kingdom have become a deserted wasteland in florida's highway $192.00 just outside of disney world when the theme park took a major downturn decoded so did the areas around that that rely on the tourism industry to survive the once bustling hotels that burst at the seams with tourists eager to take their kids to see the famous mouse are now home to homeless people who have no place else to turn and many of those homeless people are former disney employees and tourism supports that. disney closed its theme park on march 16th in response to the pandemic though it's since been reopened tourists just aren't coming back the lack of interest in the theme park has created an avalanche of poverty as many workers who relied on disney books no longer have stable jobs motel owners have slashed prices to near nothing in order to rent their rooms out to the newfound homeless population anthony a single father and former chef in the tourist hub of kissimmee florida told daily

mail quote i'm living paycheck to paycheck i can't even save $100.00 we can't get tourist to come in and out so it limits the hours we can work and unfortunately because i was the highest paid at the restaurant where i work i was the 1st to get cut. another hurdle for those in kissimmee in the surrounding area is that there is not a single homeless shelter in the city not one just decrepit hotels. trapped without a sign of hope in sight many residents feel like they're living in 3rd world countries one resident rose just spoke with the washington post saying quote the economy just keeps going up up up and the minimum wage is staying the same so how do they expect people to be able to pay their rent and pay for their car. that's why more people are ending up in these hotels there's not enough resources out there to help us be able to help ourselves. you know i feel like this story is a metaphor for the united states as

a whole in light of everything that we've seen happen in 2020 when you think about it we're the business of the world and because we based all of we put all our eggs in the service industry basket and entertainment basket but now we can't make that because covert comes out marks of 2 or 3 you see the entire country come tumbling down and revealed for what it is something a place that doesn't pay their workers or treat their workers with respect and dignity disneyland the united states you know you can go on and on with that metaphor you know you're exactly correct because i think that there is this is a mirror image a dichotomy that's going on right now with the tourism industry in america writ large because everyone in there momma could have predicted that the tourism industry would be the 1st to fall with pope at $191.00 because the travel industry was going to fall but also because these industries are based off of a lot of crowds being in a place at once that just was not possible due to the spread of the virus so even when disney world in the magic kingdom reopened again nobody was coming back here

they are now less than 10 percent capacity of what they usually see with that being said that population that is served by kissimmee and disney world in its counterparts is largely people who work at the resort but also people who are support staff so the people who own hotels near the resort the people who are chefs at the resort cleaning people people who do have these types of support jobs when the tourism stop so that their hours their companies dried up their businesses ended up going under. now those folks don't really have anywhere to turn and the covert $1000.00 relief package had nothing for them you know and that again shows you that as we know from those covert 19 relief packages you know they bailed out probably companies that business owner were subsidiaries of disney as a whole not just isn't theme parks but it could be a business company but it's incredible when you when you see this amount of suffering and it really chills you to the bone when you hear people say i don't have a job working maybe you know paid to the paycheck don't even have $100.00 mark but at the end of the day i feel like i'm living in

a 3rd world country but that alone should teach in the united states and around the world that something has to be done we have to turn this country around and i don't know if we get that done when i don't think we're good we're not going to get that nor i don't think this is joe biden this we're talking about long term change needed in order flip the ship around now i agree with you i feel like specifically in this case when you have an area that is largely a tourism base and there is no other industry they are highly dependent on this turning back around but in the meantime they are waiting for some type of initiative from the government there is nothing left for them there is no homeless shelter within their area and they are relying solely on hotels and hotels that aren't free by the way so they're paying the little bit of money that they currently have to make sure that there's a roof over their heads for them and their children meanwhile not knowing when or if they will have a job any time and that goes back to a lot of our infrastructure and our medical industry issues and the fact that we have a city without any any form of homeless shelter i mean how cruel is that at no point

city council down there or anybody ngo anyone could step forward and say hey you know what we have major issues with the homeless and borders had issues with the homeless for a long time this isn't something new just with code it's just been double triple exactly and i think that right now there is such a pool and trying to figure out when is the tourism industry going to come back but there is no real way of knowing we can talk about there being a back theme but we also know that you know america has a lot of anti baxter's out there. and they also have people who aren't anti baxter's but are questioning the pace at which this bag legitimately suppose to be coming along and even with the vaccine their parents if i was a parent heck i would not be willing to take a kid anyplace right now and knowing that there may be that risk there we're seeing what president trump is doing in the white house we don't know how many people might be infected at any given point and the rates in florida are going up daily you cannot base an entire economy on entertainment alone you know what i'm saying like about that's got to be the lesson we walk away from this not only for the

united states not metaphors talking earlier but also for you know these times of host these big you can't just be dependent on tourism and entertainment you have to have something else there otherwise it's going to happen over and over again we also have to remember that florida has some of the worst unemployment benefits of any state in the country good point good out on right there all right as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the ground with a brand new portable t.v. which is now available on all platforms you got no excuse to go and pick it up all right coming up despite activists in philadelphia winning a small victory in the fight for public housing the war to protect the poor is far from over you do not want to miss this conversation coming up stay tuned watch from the. we hear about the u.s. we hear about china we hear about brazil you know but we don't really care much

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housing that's once again in the spotlight across america from calls to present in mortgage payments in the wake of 19 to substantive changes in public housing where we lay our heads is the top agenda item just in time for the us presidential election philadelphia pennsylvania just might be ground 0 in the housing movement with protest over police brutality civil rights and economic conditions reaching their boiling point activists aren't reducing the pressure in may 100 people in camp but a lot of the fight of a new $52000000.00 development project they distributed food and supplies while calling for racial justice particularly focusing on the permanent and pervasive need for housing of the city's more than $5000.00 homeless residents and it looks

like the pressure campaign worked organizers recently announced that they reached a tentative agreement with the city and philadelphia housing authority the $371000000.00 agency that controls the city's public housing. the agreement would turn 50 properties over to a community land trust created by some of the groups that let the housing protests like the philadelphia housing action. should the reforms be implemented and the agreement adopted this could be a massive win for housing advocates but the philadelphia housing authority is already moving to quell expectations stating quote announcement of a deal is entirely premature the encampment leaders continuing to negotiate in the media and in the room a public opinion demonstrates their lack of sincerity although we remain hopeful about reaching an amicable resolution on the encampment this puts any deal in serious jeopardy. there are still why the bit of infighting and low income residents are hanging in the balance joining us now is jennifer binik founder of

occupy p.h.a. and co-founder of philadelphia housing action welcome jennifer. area great jennifer there is a lot packed here in philadelphia as you know has a very long and sordid history of housing and security and a public housing arm that hasn't exactly always worked with the best interest of low income residents could you briefly explain the history and what brought housing advocates to the streets in the 1st place. yes so that i wasn't already in philadelphia as what are gathered by unit what are regular units outside of the traditional 1000. and over decades a lot a lot of these units in the last but it was able to go out they don't really have them and move people in. created. neighborhood particularly park where we are camped out on the lot with the taliban a lot of their high high concentrations of the standard by units are just blighted

by these units and they just sit with boards and then after they be elaborated enough for them to say they're not viable they sell them off private developers and that kind of the profit of a student at the same time they the 13 are going to vary the property to eminent domain right here in north south by condemning the neighborhood is blighted but they were the ones that all know the blight though here in philadelphia is different than other places where like people are homeless in the public housing waiting list isn't really long because they don't have places to put people it's just because they left the public housing empty so we started like compiling a list of all the vacant units is like over my list of over 500. right now which is what kind of led to the housing save over is in a lot of protests around the housing authority a war skewed because i mean the biggest question going right now and good for you

guys for really standing up and trying to try to make some changes there in philadelphia but do you believe the philadelphia housing authority is actually going to implement the type of they were agreement the you've reached i mean they seem quite agitated by the way housing advocates in organizers have now put them in the spotlight especially a national spotlight and. yes i mean i think that they will follow through with the agreement because it is like a legally binding agreement so we came to a separate agreement for the smaller because there are actually 2 encampment here and but out there one is across. and then the other one is under the $45.00 a dotted borders where the if you see laid out development is going to be i think that the housing authority out that statement because they like to be the 1st one to put things out there in that kind of a they bombarded us. throughout the course of the protests the way prematurely going through the media and working labor party with all the diaries about something so i had think if they were to make it up back then like we got there and

we put out the press release further they didn't get the frame of the way that they wanted suffering. through. years of fire. and do you think that there are any aspects of the agreement that are controversial or you know are going to be sticklers points for the housing authority or will be things will be difficult for them to reach consensus on considering how fast this is moving at this point. yeah i mean i think that i think the thing is that what we're asking that do make sense for them and i mean their public housing authority. and if they're not going to take care of the units this bed of telling them that developers are just letting them sit is then it makes sense to allow community groups to be able to utilize those spaces of low income housing and go with the housing crisis in the city and i think that really says that they're able to make a lot of money off of those now and there's

a lot of relationships that are kind of foreign with developer that. our over the community is just it's a lot of stuff with the electoral politics here in the city but i had i think that there's nothing there there's nothing in what we're asking for they have to like the travel distance that they rather sell the properties and make money. i want to ask you and the other important thing is to follow up you know who manager who's going to manage and check that the employer the implementation arm of this agreement as you know the devil lies in the employer implementation and in agreement with our quality controls and in a party that monitors its execution rarely achieves what is agreed to an agreement so what will you guys be doing to make sure that this agreement that you've made isn't here to go on in the future. yeah i mean i am pretty sure they know they're we're going to be really on top of it and where now i would have no problem bringing the if they fall back on the agreement that's why we required it to be.

legal these that legally binding signed the written agreement that's why we made it public so they're going to have like a lot of my spanking a lot of the popular on the agreement one of the organizers in attorney well i mean we're we're just going to be on them we're going to be really on them every minute of every day you need me or they ate a lot of their party and if they don't there will be only x. is there will be able to i am in the corner so we kind of have it in a place where my baby have to own up on the agreement and i don't they know that we have the capacity and we will do the same thing again we don't have a problem for people to their homes or wherever we have. let me ask you this is a lot of people out there across this country there are fighting for housing and fighting for public housing got a little bit about a minute left what do you recommend you know that you saw work were in philadelphia that could work for other activists around the country in terms of you know fighting to keep people in their homes or get public housing in their city. and

a sleeve is really really sublett in people but is this there like you can come out on the 3rd tuesday of every month and to our action no matter how big it is how much attention it drowns bedad best to make piece of it that everybody sees but it is a person. at the light we've been doing this for years before anything and even came up that we were you know ignored it overlooked but the 1st district to revel in it is always being there always being that being the everybody you meet it if i'd only like a dog over it and people say like oh you guys are crazy a human bill an issue i remind you of late nobody cares but when you look at it like why are luther king jr great example with a book or bulb or some a thing or even to be the hand that you have written by even when you're not seeing the result most definitely jennifer i want to thank you for the hard work you're putting out there in philadelphia and thank you for coming on the show and

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