dave isay, you had shot the spotlight on his case when he did the documentary in angola.talk about the significance of maurice bickham who just died at the age of 98. >> i remember that day well. i just watched this video well last that that the tv viewers saw. e momentn incredibl with all of us sitting there. wbai have been fighting for his lease -- release for i think a year. amy: is maurice bickham gotten out of jail yet? i think even the louisiana attorney general or the governor talked about the significance of this radio station. >> i think every day you would play the nina simone song "i wish i knew how it feels to be free." sitting in that room with maurice 48 hours after getting out, listening to that song with his kids and his grandkids, crying, it was one of the most remarkable moments i think of my life. insanean absolutely case. these two sheriff deputies had come to his house -- amy: in the 1950's. >> in the 1950's. they had come to kill him. they shot him right above the heart and he rolled over on a gun and killed two of them. he talks in that interview, b

so angola had a really small section.happened to be right next to them and while talking to them, we decided, you know, we should send some uniforms over to them after--when we come back home. when we came back home, we talked with some o of our--my bestst friends andnd we were kid of naÏve but we said, "if they don't have soccer fields, it doesn't matter if they have uniforms. they're not playing soccer how we play it, so let's build soccer fields." and it really happened like that. it built up from there but at that point on, we said, "hey, we're going to build fields in africa," and that's how it began. walter: i wanna give equal rights to you as well. kira is here. you started out as a dit, which most people don't know what that means, so tell us about that and you've clearly climbed the laladder within the dit organization, haven't you? kira: yeah. well, a dit is a director in training. we have--my two brothers, they were the co-founders and then we had all the managers and the directors. and i was a lot younger. i w

espera de poder ingresar a los estados unidos para pedir asilo polÍtico, los nacionales de haitÍ, angolar persona. algunos vienen con sus hijos y esposas. >>nosotros llegamos por la frontera de guatemala, y nos dio permiso precursor paraca. jorge: la mayorÍa huyendo de la violencia de sus paÍses en donde las condiciones de supervivencia son cada vez mÁs difÍciles. >> cada uno debe presentar su caso y los requisitos para asilos son bien especÍficos, tienen que presentar una presentaciÓn confiable o verificables de temor de persecuciÓn. >> algunos de los inmigrantes ya se encuentran dentro de las internacionales del puerto fronterizo, otros esperan en la fila para intentar esclusas pero muchos y ambulante por los comercios donde son apoyados con alimentos y agua. >> estÁn quedado sin dinero, para su alimento, el agua, anoche le obsequian cobijas y que han estado quedando al interferir. >> nos llegaron a comprar cobijas, pero la verdad no se la vendiÓ el patrón, se las dio porque venÍan con frío, niÑos y mujeres y hombres que tienen familias haya. jorge: la tez morena y bajo parciales los d

zambia and angola are in the same situation. >> we attended a trade union meeting. everyone here is worried about their job. the meeting is emotionally charged. the responses vary from anger to despair. >> we are left in the dark. we just want to know. >> please be patient. i know it is hard and i understand your emotions. we are all in the same boat. take a deep breath and we will keep you informed. >> we live in fear of spending any money. you have to think, what if i don't have a job tomorrow? living in a state of fear. >> she has little hope to offer. >> i don't know what the options are. i don't know where these people are going to go if they get retrenched. all of commodity prices are under pressure. i can't tell them to go to platinum or gold or some other commodity. >> in her trade union most of the members are white. he works for another trade union is fights for the rights of the black workers. the unions meet regularly and work together closely. all union members are worried about their jobs and their families. >> one employee in the mine represents a hug

said,give a speech and there is black blood in every cuban vein and we are going into angola.'m telling you, i still cry over it. any code that was michael ratner speaking to lie 22nd, 2015 -- july 22, 2015, the opening of the cuban embassy in washington, d.c., after it had been closed for more than 50 years. michael ratner died on wednesday, died yesterday, at the age of 72 of complications related to cancer. this is democracy now! we will be back remembering his life and legacy in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: "he was a friend of mine." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we remember the life and legacy of michael ratner, who died at the age of 72 wednesday of complications related to cancer. we have a round table of people .emembering michael's life he was a longtime president of the center for constitutional rights. in a moment, we will go to jules lobel in pittsburgh who took over for michael. julian assange, remembering him from inside the ecuadorian embassy in london where michael went scores and sc

so angola had a really small section.e happened to be right next to them and while talking to them, we decided, you know, we should send some uniforms over to them after--when we come back home. when we came back home, we talked with some o of our--my bestst friends andnd we were kid of naÏve but we said, "if they don't have soccer fields, it doesn't matter if they have uniforms. they're not playing soccer how we play it, so let's build soccer fields." and it really happened like that. it built up from there but at that point on, we said, "hey, we're going to build fields in africa," and that's how it began. walter: i wanna give equal rights to you as well. kira is here. you started out as a dit, which most people don't know what that means, so tell us about that and you've clearly climbed the laladder within the dit organization, haven't you? kira: yeah. well, a dit is a director in training. we have--my two brothers, they were the co-founders and then we had all the managers and the directors. and i was a lot younger. i

gave a speech, and he said, "there is black blood in every c cuban vein, and we are going into o angola you, i stilill cry over it. amy: michael ratner speaking at the cuban embassy in washington, d c, at its reopepening after more than half of l last july. michael was diagnosed with cancer just weeks later. we end today's program with a speech michaeael ratner gave in 2007 when he was awarded the puffffin/nation prprize for creative citizenship. >> over the last few years, i've become acquainted with a manan named henri alle. henri alleleg is a french alalgn in his 80's who was water-tortured --- or as this administration says, waterboarded -- by the french. here is how henri alleg described his water torture,e, a practice that goes back to the inquisition -- "the rag was soaked rapidly. water flowed everywhere -- in my mouth, in my nose, all over my face. i tried, by contracting my throat, to take in as little water as possible and to resist suffocation by keeping air in my lungs as long as i could. but i couldn't hold on for more than a few minutes. i had the impression of drowning,

opponents, then the cuban troops might not be satisfied with just kicking their butts out of southern angola and forcibly eject these racists from power. that helped to induce sweet reason into the negotiating team into the apartheid authority. once again, back to north america you cannot begin to understand how jim crowe, the system was able to be forced from its hold on north america without understanding international situations, the reliance and alliances alliances with the left--wing forces, et cetera, paul robeson was the exemplar of that kind of movement and paid a very heavy price. the united states yielded to the global pressure, returned paul robeson's passport. he immediately left and returned to london. paul robeson always said that if you want to understand attraction of socialism, rather than look to moscow, you should look to london, that is to say he was very close to left-wing sources in london, even though he reportedly told the investigating authorities in the united states that he was not a member of the u.s. communist party, i speculate that he may have been a member of

you think about apartheid in south africa and the key single event took place in angola when 25,000 cubanlsed the south african military and gave it its first defeat, which was the beginning of the end of apartheid. it had an internationalism that's just unbelievable. and i remember standing in front of -- in the 100,000 people in front of a square in havana in 1976. i was on a venceremos brigade. and fidel gave a speech, and he said, "there is black blood in every cuban vein, and we are going into angola." i'm telling you, i still cry over it. amy: michael ratner speaking at the cuban embassy in washington, d c, at its reopening after more than half of last july. michael was diagnosed with cancer just weeks later. we end today's program with a speech michael ratner gave in 2007 when he was awarded the puffin/nation prize for creative citizenship. >> over the last few years, i've become acquainted with a man named henri alleg. henri alleg is a french algerian in his 80's who was water-tortured -- or as this administration says, waterboarded -- by the french. here is how henri alleg descri

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we have seen some producers taking steps to address this like angola. there are a number of countries that have done this. this is key to make sure that we are ready for the next reform. also, this to put in place now systems.venue don't want to does have ad hoc measures right now without putting in place these changes in the revenue system. >> i have no idea how opec works. sorry, can't help. i know the abbreviation. of opec, andmember has been lobbying fairly hard for the obvious solutions. but nothing really has happened with that so far. it doesn't have the clout to make that happen. in terms of when the price goes up, for nigeria, during that question, the question that it raises in my mind is when. if prices went up in six months, there might still be a ofbination of a backlog difficult this and monetary conditions and political will even though i detest that phrase . to sort of continue with a limited program of reforms. worst case scenario that i can imagine is if prices went up a year or 18 months before are the next presidential elections. ele

in louisiana, gary tyler has walked free from the angola prison after serving 41 years for a murder many believe he did not commit. tyler, who is african-american has been jailed since he was 16 , years old after an all-white jury convicted him based entirely on the statements of four witnesses who later recanted their testimony. his case has been called one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the modern history of the united states. sunday was may day, and workers took to the streets in dozens of cities across the world, including in havana, paris, santiago, istanbul, seoul, and across the united states. in los angeles, organizers marked the 10 year anniversary of the historic 2006 may day, when 1.5 million people marched for immigrant rights by demonstrating against donald trump. this is organizer juan jose gutierrez. >> he is threatened, should he become president of the united states, in his first 18 months in office, he intends to support all 11 million undocumented persons in the united states. we don't take that lightly. we don't think he is the clown that everybody said he

the first covert operation of the reagan a administration, before angola, before the contras in a progressas an effort to bring this warlord hissene habre to power. even though at the time yard had a record of brutality and chats civil war, a mass grave discovered behind his residence. he had kidnapped a french anthropologist and executed the negotiator who would come to seek rescue. the united states supported hissene habre. 1982,e was in power in france and the united states gave huge military, political support to the habre government. -- we are no knowledge of a direct implication or in particular crimes by the united states, but from the dds, from the documents of habre's political police that we uncovered 15 years ago, we see a man who was considered by the political police to be the liaison to the political police. the former head of the political police. once again, the political police was the main instrument of repression under the habre administration. secretan archipelago of prisons in chad. the documents of these political i happened to stumble upon 15 years ago in 1208 provid

angola merkel and the people at the top of germany -- angela merkel and the people at the top the u.kt theya few areas could get progress on, though. tom: john, you have a wonderful prism on this. are the brexit people organized? do they have a plan? john: their basic answer to it there is a brexit is that then there will be two years of negotiation and in those two years of negotiation, it will go very well for britain and we will be a will to stitch up trade deals. we in the sense of britain rather than bloomberg. we will be able to stitch up trade deals with the rest of the world, we won't be left behind, that the europeans will want to let us in. i think what has happened a lot thanks to what is largely dubbed there remainhere, camp, putting out the message that you can't believe in this thing. british voters are rather skeptical about that and understandably so. if you go to paris or berlin, you get the message repeatedly. why should we be nice to the british if they leave? these people have just left the club we wanted them to stay in and we have to be horrible to them for the s

nejra: starting with the g-7, angola merkel does not have much support when it comes to austerity. the debate over stimulus versus belt-tightening has shifted. canada's new prime minister had shifted his country's focus to infrastructure spending and cash. david cameron joins markel as a champion of fiscal restraint. just a few minutes from now, president obama holds a news conference at the summit. in france, strikes at oil refineries may spread today. workers at six of eight refineries have walked out. the strike is protesting the president's proposed labor reforms that makes it easier to fire employees. the european union is escalating a spat with turkey. its say turkey must toughen anti-terror law. turkish president air to one said he would scrap iran mark -- egyptent are to one -- crash is calling for change on how flights get airplane data. experts say the technology should allow the plane to strain the information in real-time via satellite. a warning for hedge funds from tony james, billionaire president of blackstone group. he says the hedge fund industry may learn a court

unable to meet its obligations without some outside program of support like is happening in ghana or angola. but at the same time the oil prices are placing a lot of pressure on nigeria's external and fiscal accounts, as we have heard already for some of these other countries. oil and gas accounts regularly for around 90% of the country's export revenues and foreign exchange earnings. crude oil sales alone gave government 60% to 70% of its total revenues during the boom years. total reported revenues for 2015 were about half of 2014. and this has led to depleted oil savings, declining foreign reserves and a multibillion dollar backlog of debt at the national oil company and npc and this is debt mainly to npc's private oil company's partners. now i like to be able to say that the low oil prices are the only cause of these problems will be particularly unenviable about nigeria's position on the continent is that this is not the case. there were other less savory factors in play here. so at the same time the oil price fell, nigeria was also waking up to deal with the morning after headache us

quickly and were and able to do whole genome sequencing and rapidly realized it's not related to the angolautbreak. we're in a new world of being able to find and stop threats where they first emerge and the better we do that, the safer we'll be at home. and that's another part of the ebola supplemental dollars that need to be protected. we can't be letting down our guard in one place to fight another battle. we also need to make sure that there is enough money in the supplemental so we can do the projects that are going to be hard but have to start now. understanding all of the effects of zika on women and the infants who are born. developing better diagnostic tests so we can figure out if someone has been infected in the past. we don't currently have the ability to do that. using our current mosquito control tools in a mix and match way to figure out how we can knock down the mosquito enough to protect women and infants. and developing new vector controls as well as a new vaccine. none of these are easy, none of them will be quick. but the sooner we start the sooner we can have an answer.

angola -- has long been considered a moderate muslim country and in resisting islamic radicalism. .. >> the government has sometimes claimed these attacks were the work of opposition in one fashion or another, but what we've seen based on the evidence to date is, in fact, extremist groups whether they're indigenous or whether they really are affiliated with isil or daish are responsible, and this gives us concern about the potential for isil, for daish, to take root in bangladesh which, as you rightly pointed out, has been an important country in terms of having a moderate, muslim-majority country with a moderate orientation that can be a player in dealing with the problem of violent extremism. so as a result of that, we have both been engaging with the government on this problem, but also, for example, with india, given the relationship between india and bangladesh, to raise the concern and to try to work together with them on countering violent extremism before it takes root in bangladesh. that's the last thing we want. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chabot. and now we'll turn to

quickly and were able to do whole gee noem sequencing and rapidly realized it's not related to the angola outbreak. we're in a new world of being able to find and stop threats where they first emerge and the better we do that, the safer we'll be at home. and that's another part of the ebola supplemental dollars that need to be protected. we can't be letting down our guard in one place to fight another battle. we also need to make sure that there is enough money in the supplemental so we can do the projects that are going to be hard but have to start now. understanding all of the effects of zika on women and the infants who are born. developing better diagnostic tests so we can figure out if someone has been infected in the past. we don't currently have the ability to do that. using our current mosquito control tools in a mix and match way to figure out how we can knock down the mosquito enough to protect women and infants. and developing new vector controls as well as a new vaccine. none of these are easy, none of them will be quick. but the sooner we start the sooner we can have an answe