heather jackson runs realm of caring. zachai is her son.he says he has been seizure-free for the two years he has been on charlotte's web. >> people, they hear these stories, they see these children, they still find it hard to believe. >> i know. i mean, i would find it hard to believe if i wasn't living it. hopefully, what we will be able to do with the realm of caring foundation is to establish the research and collect it in a way that the science community can say that it's valid, because you're right, right now, his story is just anecdotal evidence. it is just a good story. it's a darn good story though. >> reporter: and yet, as encouraging as the anecdotal evidence may be, there's been no clinical research on the safety or efficacy of charlotte's web. clinical research on the safety or efficacy of charlotte's we clinical research on the safety or efficacy of charlotte's wel clinical research on the safety or efficacy of charlotte's wei clinical research on the safety or efficacy of charlotte's weli clinical research on the safety or ef

heather ann thompson after break. ♪ [music break] amy: "george jackson" by bob dylan.rge jackson, 47 years ago, he was killed by guards at san quentin when he attempted to escape. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. prisoners across the country are set to go on strike today in a mass mobilization demanding improved living conditions, andter access to resources, the end of what they call modern-day slavery. prisoners in at least 17 states arare expected to o participaten the strike, coordinating sit-ins, hunger strikes, work stoppages, and commissary boycotts from today until september 9, the 47th anniversary of the deadly attica uprising. in addition to our guests cole dorsey and amani sawari, who are both mr. strike organizers, i want to bring in heather ann thompson, american historian, author, and activist. she just wrote the pulitzer prize-winning book "blood in the water: the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." professor thompson, can you talk about the timing of this strike? soon after lee, the prison u

jackson monument from being removed. of course as doctor robertson has already laid out this was voted on by the city council in february. the unthinkable of course happened, the murder of heather higher and in the days and weeks that followed, confederate monuments in baltimore, durham and elsewhere in the country were toppled by crowds. or relocated by city governments. all of these debates have served as a reminder to the nation of the deep, intense, and sometimes violent nature of the civil war. or perhaps more precisely of confederate memory. it continues to permeate our country. today what i want to do, is place these debates within the historical context. by examining the way in which the generation that survived the war and their children sought to remember it. how did they explain to their children and grandchildren what it was that they had fought for? how did they consciously and just as importantly unconsciously exaggerate, minimize, contradict, and or email it -- omit issues from the retelling? what were the implications? social, political or otherwise of the ways in which they remembered their civil war? i want to begin with some images. you have one here before y