i got to attica, i was transferred to attica in january 1971 from sing sing.i got to attica, i seem -- i mean, from the time i got off the bus, the and about 40 other people that were transferred seen this was the roughest place i had en in myife. the only time prison guards spe to us was to give us description of the instution to tel us they banged on the wall oncand that means go and when they bang on the wall with her stictwice, it means to stop. and that basically was the extent of the conversation. you can feel the abruptness and the tightness of the facility in the air. after coming from sing sing which was relatively, i would not stay open, but a little more humane. when i finally got settled into the facility, at my cell, i was given a roll of toilet paper, a bar of soap, and was told that this roll of toilet paper would have to last me for one month and that i would possibly get second bar of soap in two weeks time. d that was it. i should say at this juncture that attica, prior to the disturbance itself -- and i use the word "disturbance" loosely bec

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. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "remember rockefeller at attica" by charles mingus. attica prison uprising began on september 13, then-new york governor nelson rockefeller ordered armed state troopers to raid the prison. they killed 39 people. on monday, we will look at the attica uprising. this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. this week marks 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. on the morning of september 11, 2001, democracy now! was on the air in our downtown firehouse studios when the world trade center was attacked. we were the closest national broadcast to ground zero. the latest news we have is there have been widespread attacks that clued at least three commerci jet crashes. we now believe perhaps four step three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings. in the first attack on a plane hit the north tower of the world trade center in manhattan shortly before 9:00, followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. a hours later collapsed. about an hour later, a plane crashed into the pentagon, part of which collapsed. amy: that was

some of those cases are people are getting sick and although most of them are mild and a symptom atticais partly what has been worrying the biden administration, that although these cases are mild, they do get sick, they run high fevers. they have to be at work. this is evidence that the good vaccines are great job, that made critics boosters that are protecting us. >> it doesn't sound like there is a lot of urgency around general boosters but the panel also heard data from israeli officials. >> israel in some ways is a look into the future for us. they started their vaccination project for weeded, so we can sort of look at what their experience has been and imagine that could be a soon. what is really data that was presented today said was there is even more distinct waning of the vaccine. they were showing that the longer it has been since her shot, the more likely that you are to get infected. the older you wear, the chances grew as well. so israel launched a big booster camping back in july based on this data and their same the results were incredibly strong, a 10 full boosting prot