one hundred charlene a caruthers and joining us here in washington d.c. is local community organizer with b. y. p. one hundred cars at hampton thank you both for joining me thank you for having me thanks so at a press conference on monday chicago police superintendent eddie johnson has had a few fingers to point in the direction of his problem take a listen to what he had to say. we need the community and community leaders to work with us we parents to be parents we need neighborhoods to be neighborhoods you all know who these individuals are. so. when i start with you charlene rudy giuliani fights faulds the democrats that's all of this is because of the democrats the mayor blames the governor and the judges and the police blame the people being victimized by gun violence does this. first i want to ask you both when i see this it seems to be a trend that's been happening for many years in chicago where it is historically been to blame and sort of no matter what the numbers are it's the worst and it's all because of certain reasons so limit me ask you fir

we will speak with two activists who have worked with gillum, phillip agnew and charlene carruthers. she is author of the new book "unapologetic: a black, queer and feminist mandate for radical movements." then we go to mississippi where prisoners are dying at the highest rate the state has ever seen. 13 prisoners have died behind bars this month alone. finally, an update on the nationwide prisoson strike as organizers report fasts and work stoppages. it it you imagine what takes for person in prison, they're saying,g, i'm not goingo eat this food you are feeding me because i would rather be sick? i would rather not be what you need me to be that pertain you are treating me well? that is a powerful statement. amy: all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. "a fantastic job." that is how president trump is describing his administration's response t to the catastrophe in puerto rico follllowing hurricae maria a year ago. trump made the comment on wednesday, a day after puerto rico adjusted its official toll f

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she has been driving this along with charlene. on our behalf, i want to thank the mayor process office of workforce development. they have been a driver in the partnership. build inc. has prior to eyed george prioritized open space. they understand the lengths could -- the landscape literally. of the real benefit here is to develop this waterfront for everyone and accessibly. they have taken that responsibility very seriously. at the the end of the day, this is an underserved neighborhood. it is a community that has not had extraordinary open space and we have welcomed hunter's point family. we have welcomed the institute. they have guided us through a lot of community conversations and how we make sure the park serves communities that are there now. we are really proud of this effort. it is a low-key day today as we are looking at this. there are many more steps in the process. yes, we have an enormous lift to fund this project, but i want to make two final points. one is, this is, essentially, a brownfield. environmental justice

. >> repter: charlene whi shows us her most unwelcome and destructe house guest. >> i'm tired of it.t's water everywhere. >> reporter: a hole in the bedroom ceiling where her 18-year-old daughter sleeps. >> it keeps raining. >> reporter: it's where her daughter used to sleep till that section of the ceiling of the house on reynolds place caved in after a particularly rainy period in june. >> how do you sleep with a plastic bag? >> reporte she says the black trash bag was placed on the hole after her first complaint to th landlord. she has seen a mousem drop f the hole and scurry across the floor. >> you can see them. >> reporter: she bought her daughter a n bed after the rst got soaked. >> brand you? >> reporter: the newed got wet after started streaming out of the cleareded out bom during a storm last week. when news4 contacted thees spn for the d.c. housing authority he looked into and dispatched repairmen within an hour. he learned the hole was part of the roof repairs under way but added that the hole remains so longing is being looked into. we sincerelypogizes to ms. white and h

does fall to us to sort of take up that mantle and be those community leaders thank you so much charlene carruthers the national director of the y.p. one hundred and that hampton community organizer with the one hundred thank you both so much for sitting down with us today thank you for having us. as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think for topics we've covered on facebook and twitter sarah full shows at archie dot com coming up tyrell ventura my co-host joins us from new york city where he spoke with award winning journalist not to tell you about the drone war stay tuned to watching the. learn. we have no idea what safe he's doing on vacation but she will be back on air in september first. of all those doubts are moving toward a show's don't go till so document on the first day. past. the student eleven to tell you. the person. who. will vote eight to eighteen to leave it to most bridget does. some of the sheen young girl. was not very. good the weirdo's blitzer. but they were. fortunate in that one of the most bruising us to her. school to thomas was remembering a

. >> reporter: jennifer carol was 18 in 1980 when her father, limon smith, and his wife charlene were murdered in ventura, allegedly by deangelo. >> my heart is pounding right now. i'm feeling it. i'm going to be shaking on my drive home. i can tell. i made it very concrete, very legal, and very tangible. >> reporter: now, one of the issues still to be worked out here is whether deangelo is indigent, and therefore entitled to a public defender or whether he has enough money to hire his own private attorney. he will be back in court here in early december. in sacramento, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> laura, thank you very much. >>> the future of the man who admits to killing kate steinle could hinge on the u.s. supreme court. >> jose innez garcia is being tried on federal gun charges related to the fatal shooting of steinle on san francisco's embarcadero three years ago. >> the attorney asked for a delay in the trial to wait for a decision on the case currently being considered by the supreme court, an issue on whether federal charges on crimes already prosecuted in a state court like

when i start with you charlene rudy giuliani fights faulds the democrats that's all of this is because of the democrats the mayor blames the governor and the judges and the police blame the people being victimized by gun violence does this. first i want to ask you both when i see this it seems to be a trend that's been happening for many years in chicago where it is historically been to blame and sort of no matter what the numbers are it's the worst and it's all because of certain reasons so limit me ask you first why is chicago so historically always this very violent city and it's always in these black and latino neighborhoods like this what what's going on. so that's a great question and i first have to start with it's very difficult to have this conversation coming out of the kind of weekend that we just had in the city and what we know is that chicago is a landing place for hundreds of thousands of black folks during the great migration and immediately during that period of time black folks were segregated they face violence so we're talking decades of that vesna from our communit

here that are trying to call for something exceptional it's you my friend well if i can respond charlene the point is that contrary to what you've just said this is entirely. a muslim related issue sure real law is entirely related to is love and in this instance what we've seen is the one further advance in something which many british people will find objectionable nearly having a second tier of law in the united kingdom recognised by the you like it or not sure real law should have no place in the united kingdom i want to see every will equal under the law my friend if you don't feel comfortable with that then perhaps that's the question you have to answer certainly not me i'm happy with the existing law as it is we already acknowledged the law again you're the one who appears to have an issue. that if you want to talk seriously about it what's that like to talk about it with anyone yourself or any other functionally illiterate person with regards to the sharia but this is not about sharia this is not about some kind of secondary problem or some people trying to get excited about this

does fall to us to sort of take up that mantle and be those community leaders thank you so much charlene carruthers the national director of the y.p. one hundred and that hampton community organizer with the one hundred thank you both so much for sitting down with us today thank you for having us. as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think for topics we've covered on facebook and twitter poll shows at archie dot com coming up tyrell ventura my co-host joins us from new york city where he spoke with award winning journalist not to tell you about the drone war stay tuned to watching the. first. of all there's a little moving toward a show don't get all so diageo journalists as they. come across the much hushed. and still of the likely kooky tell you. that. nearly triple a full blown around eight hundred eighty two there were only it to most bridget does a little but drops some of the sheen young girl. was right. in one must look to. for me that's the truth of. the weirdness but it's a rhythm. that they were in the breast is rooted fortunately that was the most gr

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offer his take on the trip administration paired thursday, we returned to the strand bookstore for charlene cover others thoughts on how to change mainstream ideas on race, gender and class. saturday, september 1, we will be live for the 18th year in a row at the national book festival in washington dc with supreme court justice sonja said mayor. former secretary state madeleine albright and many others. that's a look at some of what book tv will cover this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2. book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i just finished reading "a smile among friends-- a spy among friends. one of the greatest counterespionage spies in the world. he was a double agent for the soviet union and it's a terrific story about the whole world of espionage and intelligence. as a member of the house committee on intelligence i take particular interest in this kind of thing. i am finished reading tellers of the flower moon, the osage martyrs, which is

the resurrection city, i resurrect -- interviewed charlene who covered resurrection city and she talked about it and you can see her face light up when she talked about how amazing this experiment was. one of the things that stood out was the way she talked about the rainbow coalition. everybody was there. we seem to have moved away from that kind of intersection allie although it requires us to go back there. how do we get back to that sense of audacity that seems missing. without talking about the elected officials, maxine waters seems to be one of the very few that has and a fire. where is the fire and how do we get back to that place? >> there is a number of issues there. the reason that the city, resurrection city could even come together to the extent it did was because people were organized. that is what i meant in the beginning of my statement. at the local level, people were organized that does not mean you mobilize because someone calls you on facebook and says go down to city hall and after that there isn't anything. that means you are organized you sleep, eat, together. you

i interviewed years ago charlene hunter goff who covered resurrection city. she talked about it. you could see her face light up in the interview when she talked about how amazing this experiment was. one of the things that stood out in my mind when i talked to her was the way she talked about how it was a rainbow coalition. black folks, native american people, white folks, everybody was there. we seem to have moved away from that kind of intersectionality. although these times almost require us to move back there. how do we get back to that sense of audacity? that seems utterly missing. without talking about our elected officials and talking about them at the same time, maxine waters seems to be the only one, one of very few who has the fire. where is the fire, how do we get back to that place? junius: there's a number of issues wrapped up in your question. the reason that the city , resurrection city could even come together, to the extent that it did was because people were organized. that's what i meant in the beginning of my statement. at the local level people were organize

then on thursday we return to the strand bookstore for activist charlene carothers or thoughts on how to change mainstream ideas on race, gender and class. and on saturday, september 1st, we'll be live for the 18th year in a row at the national book festival in washington washingt, where supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, hamilton biographer ron chernow, former secretary of state madeleine albright and many others. that's a look at some of what booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> i'm reading a lot this summer and kind of following up on last year when i was with you guys. first of all, thanks to are c-span. you guys take the time to go into ideas and books and the newspapers every morning. i appreciate it, my constituents appreciate all the work you do. with that, i'll kind of launch. i finished kissinger on china last year, kind of led me into some of the other books here.

rose, charles whitaker, charlene carruthers will talk about the legacy. just a few thoughts. no revolution, but many positive points of youple replace the journalistic was of god. but now we have this fundamentalist babble. and trump is the ultimate it be ultimate yippie tactician. here we go again. i will bring the panelists to come back up and we will take your questions. thank you very much. [applause] because c-span's taping, we will have to ask you to come up to ask your questions. >> shall i speak here or what? >> yes. >> it was great to hear about "the seed" because that is how i remember the 1960's, the alternative press, all of our alternative spaces. we had a bookstore on armitage avenue. we were surrealists and psychedelic artists. hard to look back and place some of the older artists when we lived in a world of youth. it was our own culture and really quite separate from the other society. i hardly recognized some of the descriptions in chicago, even though i worked in the sds national office. in lincolnxhibition park. the three papers reviewed it. one of them cam

i hope you come, charles whittaker, and a young activist, charlene carrethers, will be here to talk about the legacy. a few thoughts. revolution didn't happen but many positive changes, some of which are now the counter-counterculture is attacking. multiple points of view replaced the journalistic voice of god, but now we have so many voices, it's babble. and then trump is the -- in the odd way is the yippie tactician. he knows how to use spectacle and sensation in pseudo events. here we are and here we go again. i'm going to ask the panelists to come back up and we'll take your questions. thank you very much. [ applause ] because c-span is taping, we have to ask you to come up to take questions. anyone that wants to ask a question, please -- rick, go ahead, please. >> with no longer have a mike here. >> we'll pass it along. >> shut i speak here or what? >> yeah. >> anyway, it was great to hear about "the seed" because that is really how i remember the '60s, the alternative press, all of our alternative spaces. we had a little bookstore on armitage avenue and we were alternative artists.

host: charlene is in roswell, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning.a question about buying products online. i have a toddler, so i am a busy mom. i buy a lot of toys and things for him online. how can i ensure that they are safe? for can i get information about recalls to make sure i am not buying it recalled product? guest: excellent question. e-commerce has really been a challenge and something the agency needs to be paying attention to. the way the consumer buys products today is different than it was just a few years back when everyone went to the store. now they can buy it online, so that product can technically come from the manufacturer, the consumer, without any of the interference we may have along the way. it is very important. the concert -- it is very important the consumer pays attention to our website, cpsc .gov, for a recalls that may occur. we are working very closely and cooperatively with some of the e-commerce platforms. just recently we had a summit at our agency with five companies there to talk about how they can help us promote