and the pulitzer prize winning historian heather ann thompson, author of "blood in the water: the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." all that and more, coming up. welcome to dememocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. for the first time in the history of the roman catholic church, the pope has addressed a letter to the entire population of 1.2 billion catholics on the topic of sex abuse by clergy. in the scathing 2000-word letter pope francis wrote -- "we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them." last week in pennsylvania, a grand jury report revealed how more than 300 catholic priests sexually abused 1000 children anand possibly thousandsds morer more than seven decades, and that the church leadership covered up the abuse. more than catholic theologians, 1000 educators, and parishioners have called on all catholic -- u.s. catholic bishops to resign. we'll have more on pope francis' letter and the catholic church abuse scandal after headadlines. president trump is heading to chcharleston, west virginia, toy toto hold a campaig

i have lived in an rv and new jersey, attica someone's house in connecticut and all in pursuit of what i think was an unbelievable passion, which is in my case republican politics. i love to be in the game. i love cracked strategies and figure out how to create a factory series of tactics be put together and then i served at the last three years in the bush and ministration promoting free trade. [laughter] everyone in this room gets that one. there like five means a just started on twitter. then, i was recalled to active duty to the navy and served 18 months and when i got off active duty i sort of such myself-- my wife, rebecca, who is here somewhere tonight, the real unsung hero said low-- look i got a call from ed gillespie and he said there's a new guy from wisconsin that will run the rnc, would you like to meet him and i was like fine. we hit it off and he took a chance on me and i think we made a great team. we had a great group of folks there. when the rnc within tremendous debt and work together and found a way in one cycle became another and another and i like to joke with fol

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and during prison uprisings, such as those at attica politically conscious inmates , saluted malcolm x and george jackson. after each rebellion, new life power organizations flowered. after the 1964 harlem rebellion, malcolm concentrated on establishing his organization for afro-american unity. and amini baracka envisioned the black arts movement. after the august 1965 watts rebellion, he and his circle established the los angeles "us" organization and proclaimed kwanzaa as a national holiday. after the september 1966 san francisco street fighting against killer cops, bobby seal fashioned then oakland black panther party for self-defense. but 1967 and 1968, those uprisings propelled the black power generation towards a national crescendo. especially the july 1967 newark and detroit rebellions. it looks like i won't be able to go into too much detail on those. but anyway. on the one hand, the newark and detroit rebellions were the fruit of the black revolt to self-determination and self-emancipation and self-worth. however, on the other hand, the police and political repression were t