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interviews from the last $365.00 days of the year all of us here watching the hawks 2020 was without a doubt one of the most difficult years of our lives from the financial hardships of the pandemic lockdowns to the cultural hardship for of losing some of our most beloved icons folks like kobe bryant chadwick boseman alex for back and of course supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg but despite the tragic losses of 2020 there there were also an equal number of victories in the face of a daunting adversity and today we will feature 2 interviews that highlight the bravery willpower and hope that at least to this political commentator has actually come to symbolize 2020 more than all of all the news we heard over to the baton rubber bullets and chemical weapon attacks perpetrated by law enforcement the u.s. government upon them to the will power of the nurses doctors and health. care

workers both here in the us and around the world who have been on the front lines of this pandemic caring for and treating the millions upon millions who are suffering from this great disease and let's not forget those independent minded journalists commentators and whistleblowers who through it all have not lost their hope as they continue to speak truth to power despite the brutal repercussions they have faced both personally and professionally for their efforts to hold our leaders and institutions accountable for their many heinous actions and misdeeds over the last year so as we enter the great big unknown that is 2021 let us never lose hope and take inspiration from all those fighting to keep was equal healthy and informed as we end this year watching the hawks. in a city. that is so you. see this as this you always still

see a. great city desolate systemic just says so which . so. welcome everyone watching the hawks 'd tyrone winter and i'm obese across and today let's kick things off with a look at true bravery with this interview from back in early march with the cia whistleblower and american hero jeffrey sterling sterling if you remember help blow the whistle on not only the mysterious operation merlin which involved the united states is dangerous efforts to attack iran's nuclear program but also he blew the whistle on the institutional racism found within the central intelligence agency we started out by asking him about operation merlin and what role did his whistleblowing play in exposing it as one of the cia's all time great blow.

well when i came into operation merlin and it had been going for some time before my involvement i was assured of all these safeguards and that it was approved by the highest levels of government. and background on the operation as had been said it was designed to slow down the iranian program to gain a nuclear weapon well during the process all of the safeguards that i was told about turned out to be false. and so i felt that it was going to be actually something that would inhance or speed up the iranian efforts to gain a nuclear weapon as opposed to hamper them so i made the appropriate reach out to individuals within the organization within the cia and i was basically told to shut up and i did eventually go to actually both the senate and house intelligence committees mr sterling in your book that i wanted spy has everything that tale of

a career civil servant a minority rising through the ranks at a time where it was almost unbelievable that someone who looked like you could be in the position that you were in establishing yourself and really taking control to also shedding light on something that you felt was your duty in a highly controversial and dangerous american foreign policy project can you tell us more about what inspired you to write this book you dealt with a lot in your book there are details of chapters of your life like being a child without a village and a man without a country how these things impacted you. well to me you're writing a book it was just about the journey that i've taken and for me there's always been that racial aspect despite my trying to avoid that or trying to combat it there's been racial aspects and racial hinderances throughout my life just because of the color of my skin so i was facing that growing up in a segregated town in missouri. faced it in social aspects of

just growing up because i chose to do things that were not expected of me because i was black but i was determined to just be myself through everything and i stayed to that mantra through growing up in a small town through college through law school and certainly in absolutely while i was with the cia so the book is about a journey and i think there are some things about it i think there's a lot of things about it that maybe americans don't know about their country and things that go on and particularly with regard to whistleblowers as i've said before whistleblowers are people and citizens just like everybody else and they love and have concern for their country and decide to stand up for their country and take a step that tremendous risk to disclose and uncover wrongdoing by our government officials you know you took huge risks and i think you're going were tragically

really punished harshly harshly when anyone looking at your case at least a mild person would spiel like you know this is this is some place where you know the government and the powers that be really kind of sudden oh we want to punish this man and i think it would not only for boring the whistle but i think also as you mentioned you were also with a few people to bring up some of the issues of race that were taken place at the agency itself what were some of those issues and what advice do you have for whistleblowers in the future whistleblowers in stepping forward you know looking at your old life and giving them the best advice you can. for me i mean there there is certainly the aspect of the marlin operation mirlande point that i will blow against but there is also as you said the racial issues that i was facing at the cia while i was there and trying to and thinking that i'm raising in the rain in my career i didn't realize then that you know i did realize that i was not receiving the same treatment as other officers not the same opportunities the st. jools to do

my job i asked my supervisors why and they point blank told me the cia having no compunction and saying what is on it what's on its mind told me that i kind of stood out as a big black guy speaking farsi. i mean that was a shock to me as an organization that i had established myself as a good a very good best and case officer but as i tried to move up in my career they didn't notice the color of my skin and that's when i my response to that was when when did you notice i was black and why does it matter. i took the step to fight against that discrimination because i had had enough that was not me i wasn't going to stand by and be treated that way i mean i went to law school i know what laws are there in just even the history of this country of equal treatment and i decided to fight knowing that there may be a risk but i felt i had the law in my side and of course my discrimination case was

dismissed because as the court agreed with the prosecution that it posed a threat to the national security of the united states and i still find at just amazing just to say that that an african-american standing up for civil rights in this country is a threat to our national security. but that's all within my character that i'm not going to stand by and see something especially happening to me or something that i'm involved in and say nothing when i can see wrongdoing going on that was the same for me with regard to operation merlin and with regard to any other whistleblowers i think if you stay true to yourself you stay true to the integrity that you have. there may be tremendous risk with regard to whistle blowing but or choosing to stand up but to me as if we're going to trial i knew i wasn't going to plead to something i didn't do i wouldn't be. able to face

myself in the mirror and like who i saw staring back at me if i had pled to something i didn't do and it was the same for me through operation merlin and the racial. discrimination that i was facing at the agency i couldn't stand by in the face of wrongdoing and do nothing i think if you stay true anyone who knows there's wrongdoing going on and is wavering on whether to make the choice to whistle blow i think stay true to yourself stay true to the integrity that got you to where you are and that lets you see that something is wrong there there may be risk and maybe i'm not the poster child for whistleblowers but. at the end of the day you have to be able to look yourself in the mirror and know you at least tried to do the right thing while i would say i would say mr sterling i would say that you are definitely a post trial poster child for strength and in my opinion doing the right thing i want to thank you so much for what you did and also for writing this book

definitely everyone check it out on want to spy the persecution of an american was sublime our jeffrey sterling thank you so much for joining us today thank you for having me on. board you can't you can't find someone more brave in the face of adversity them somewhat like jeffery sterling absolutely not i think that you know he literally risked it all he went through all the processes and procedures and he knew discrimination was happening the whole conversation about it you know being considered a threat to national security as all and dropping as it was we think this throughout history heck the civil rights movement was considered a threat to national security so i'm not necessarily surprised by that but i do think that the lengths to which the government put this man through for telling his troops or covering something that was an offense that he was part of his oath to do that's a problem it's not often your sleep news stories especially like this one you know . crisscrossed so many different flavors of what we're dealing with and. in society

they specialize in 2020 i mean here you have you know government malfeasance and wrongdoing which he blew the whistle on and then combined with what we see in the streets of people asking for equality in civil rights and you're seeing that fight take place now within the cia it's interesting when you see that kind of in you know the intersection of so many different issues that face the country in one protect one man's case it definitely does and it showcases that no matter how highly educated you are even if you're working at the upper echelons of government still not able to escape some of the darkest parts of america and truly truly breaks my heart to know what happened to that man but it up lifts me completely to see where he is today and that he's putting his life back together and he was still speaking out and writing books and keeping the truth alive and fighting for what he believes in really great american hero and jeffery sterling. already has we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the man through the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on all platforms so you have no excuse not to download it at this point coming up we take an in-depth look at

a look at law enforcement's response to the brave activists and citizens who took to the streets as part of the 2020 black lives matter movement you want to miss this interview stay tuned for watching the whole. village in alaska. if another country from the white america. we do everything i. wanted. this is the same. alaska some of us just.

just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast paced the river is 3. closer. than. yours for i think we're part of the 1st for. welcome to the kaiser report 1st of the new year's day so we got an excellent day on these christmas lights adorning the set i mean you know i took the money i save and i bought sets the right time now to turn to peak or is lease the editor over a crack and he's also an advisor that bit clawing back.

few things shook the american consciousness like the killing of an unarmed black man the police involved murder of yet another unarmed black man george floyd launched a worldwide protest movement black lives matter and calls for police reforms rang loudly throughout the us then a man was murdered by an officer with a knee on his neck while the world watched in horror thanks to a courageous teenager who recorded the incident on her cell phone. but that wasn't all rianna taylor an e.m.t. an emergency responder was murdered by police officers while sleeping in her own bed and a mob arbitrary a young black man in georgia was shot and killed by big vigilantes one of them a former police officer his crime jogging while black organizers took to the streets in protest and they wouldn't let up more than 2000 cities and towns and over 60 countries participated. legal observers were deployed to protect the civil

and human rights of protesters as videos of brutal beatings tear gas and other violent acts took over social media. legal observers were arrested and attacked while doing their jobs and here we brought you the story. asia park's legal observer with the national lawyers week was joined by perry read and activists listen to what they have to say about police interactions with protesters in the legal observers trying to protect them. we have been monitoring protests at state 168. for like black panthers in different groups it is our job to ensure their protesters are using their free speech and not be in it and constitutionally police forces or in this case even the national guard and what happened to you in the soros thought of this or come about. i was with another legal observer who was also arrested and we were simply documenting people who had been arrested or people

who may have been arrested we asked for their names and number they so we could see just support later. we knew where target is one of. the girls in green had seen no they took us away and the people we were monitoring were not even arrested they specifically targeted a student and then they arrested him only for poor people who were with him that night they arrested it's holdall more than 50 people in the grandest of the prison bus in the middle of the cold in 1000 pandemic yes but yes it's frightening to even think about in asia we know that there's been a lot of being during this protest the van that we haven't necessarily seen before specifically the treatment of people like yourself police normally don't arrest or pester don with legal observers or medics during protest why do you believe that now who is now being broken and what have the gallery of the attack. i believe has been broken out the same day i was arrested there are some atlanta journal constitution reporters arrested so i believe these are being broken specifically so

that there is nobody to document the brutality of the radical east for specifically of the nation why. what's the reporters and on what's the legal observers on the cops are free to do as a please. and even seeing what they do on camera we see them arrest reports of cameras so what are they doing when the cameras are not there we can be played in disability the irony of the murder what is happening to the street so i believe we have been targeted because they want to continue their actions retaliate with. her you've been a target for your civil rights activism by law enforcement for many years what do you feel is motivating the rise in the violence of these attacks on protestors citizens journalists legal observers and now it seems that as we learned earlier to be old white 75 year old man by law enforcement why is the violence rising amongst police. well here we are this point. where the fear of

losing power is the sole reason why we've seen such early resistance to calls for justice now the idea that america's traditional principles and values are rooted in the. leadership. dumbbells or with the entire court which says. we are getting exactly what we pay for. 2015 say we want someone who's going to run this country like a business well we're in a business right now and then i'm pretty sure all know that it's most certainly isn't and with the arrests of the 4 officers involved and the taking down of computer at statues and monuments across the southern states there are many of the mainstream there now expecting to see these protests and marches in but that's not

exactly going to be the case is it perry what are your thoughts. here my hopes are that because usually what happens and i've been watching the hawks previously would land ok. michael brown was killed when the commandant was killed and we go to easily still. sure police killing and those steps include the shock then we go to the outreach then the call then we have the go to charge which is going to change in this case which average one upgraded number 6 we have the cooling by our moment america as those who are not conservative we hope that we do not get collective and. it's back to business as usual i want to do is we're not going back to business as you measure i want to bring you back into this is what do you feel going forward you know what what is the case can be going forward and where do you see these marches and these protests going next. for our hope that

people continue to demand to defund the police and hope that we push tourist abolition of prisons i've hoped that the reformist policies that are starting to come out now do not get too much energy behind them and been seen celebrities repos talked about and told when many departments are in banjul calls. in a chokehold and the n.y.p.d. deny that he was initial hole even though we saw the video so i do hope that people continue in the streets to demand for d n a police and then surely the abolishment of the police forces but i hope that the reformist policies from the neo liberals who are now on the streets i hope they don't subdue the protests i hope people can see to buy into it substantial change and major what do you think is going to help to bring about that change in terms of we know their protests are great in that they do bring about a lot of attention to issues that otherwise people naturally ignore but protests

typically don't last for months at a time how do we continue to keep the feet to the fire how do we continue to keep people engaged in these issues that matter so much to changing our society. was important here in atlanta we had. a great group of the people's response iran which is a coalition of different races many of them i've let live it and they are trying to promote political education they're trying to integrate the demand the protests with the demand of the pandemic such as the rich strike they want to bring people into organizations people hopefully across the nation their organizations in the streets people ringback who are trying to gain membership that we were supposed to do stuff and still have organize frett it gets the best of them into the country so hopefully i hope that west protests or where people join any organization they're being politically educated so they know what is going on and how to spread the information to their communities and i just hope that we find

a way to direct energy especially outside of simply voting there's other ways to change our community our voting how we need to learn how to hold politicians responsible once they are in office because down here in atlanta we have to balance she's doing a media run right now and the problem is that she was lesser of 2 evils vote and we had to figure out how do we hold that kind of person accountable so we haven't given her demands for years. there is a mantle in atlanta last year he was an organizer is they with us so his family has been trying to balance to start an investigation and eventually get the charts but we hope that all of this injury is put into stuff like that put into organizations put into political education so that we continue the movement even if it is in the street and some of us home it will be in the church it'll be. community meetings

in city hall meetings where everybody can put this in energy and where bush change i hope that we continue to do it and i hope that people grab all. couldn't agree to more age i want to say i want to break you for the good work that you're doing out there in atlanta and put yourself on the. i'm on the front lines of this fight because i do believe it is at the end of the day a fight against oppressive government oppressive fascism and fascism and of course racism at the end of institutional racism thank you so much for coming on today and i also want to thank perry red for coming on thank you both for your fight out there and keep up the great work. for a boy 2 very very passionate activists who perrie the activists and major the legal observer their fight in the streets for justice which we saw so much of this year we did and i think that you know this just underscores one that we were actually able to get them for the for that very important segment but just how important it was to have legal observers and people who were assigned to

essentially protect the protesters and then we watched them get attacked as well so hearing that from her getting attacked and jailed and i think that that was an experience that needed to be told because unless you're on the ground many people don't really understand how intense things were and how much activists and protesters are putting on the line just to be able to say black lives matter a measure do you think that moving forward now that we're moving in the 2021 you know 2020 is going to be behind us now or 2020 more and do you think the those activists and those people out there fighting for racial justice and you know fighting against income inequality and all the all the ills that our country faces they're not going to go away they're not going to leave the streets just because you know biden harris one of the lecture to be or do you think they are going to be inventors enough i definitely don't think so one because we know more black people are dying or being you know heavily beaten by the cops every day that's not something that's indifferent just what is that a few weeks ago we saw what happened in chicago media got released of a police officer who had brutally attacked a woman

a black woman i think that what we're going to see is more call out to the by the administration specifically because he talked a lot on the campaign trail kaamelott talked a lot on the campaign trail about black lives matter and what they were going to do but people want to see that policy in action and i don't think the protesters are going to let up on them at all. well it has been quite the year for watching the hawks i want to thank you for joining me for this year and in 2021 has been a pleasure to doesn't always been a pleasure having you're sitting here at the desk with me so thank you very much maisha and thank all of you out there for watching because this is our last show of 2020 and remember everybody in this world we are definitely not told that we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am tired rope and and i'm a nice across keep on watching all those hawks out there another great day and night everybody.

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