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we neeeed to repeal of the jones act and all over this all other us a place to live.e need help and allow people of puerto rico not just here, but in the united states to be able to share their solidarity and their health in a horizontal, direct way without trying to control at a moment where lives are at stake. we need a commitment to just rebuilding, no displacement, no eviction. where are ready hearing from communities where fema is telling them they cannot reveal their home where it currently is and starting to lift up grave, grave questions about what is the agenda behind telling people who have lived in a place for very longtime in a moment like this that they cannot rebuild their home there. we need debt relief and to end colonialism, which is at the heart, the core of this issue. amy: the army general credited with fixing the response to hurricane katrina said trump should have mobilized 50,000 u.s. troops for puerto rico. what about militarization, both needing help and your concern about the u.s. military moving in even more? -- they're not the people just a

it is a rare chance to explain precisely why we neeeed to act d act now." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show in puerto rico, one month after it was devastated by hurricane maria and before that, hurricane irma. four o ofive prto ririca are ill without electricity anfoodod a watereremain in shorsusupply puerto rico's vevernoricarardo rossel h has s a g goaof reestablishing electrici t to 30% ofofhe island by the end of ththe nth. meananwhe, on n nday, the island secrary y oftate l ls rivera marin n sted a shocking video of hielf ststding in lalarge dumpster whe h he clmed d to have foundooood anwateter at had been disrdrded iteadad o distbubuted. >> look, this is the food that we should be disturbing to people. boxes of food. we will do an inventory of this. this is water. the water that the people need. we will see what explanation t

genentleme, you who are very wealthy and you who run n the big corporations, , not only do i think we neeeed to do this, but you're gonnnna have to pay r it. t the government has no m m. we're in the depression. nobody's paying any taxes. nobody has jobs. so you're gonna have to pay--the rich and the corporations. and here's what you're gonna pay for. i'm gonna take care of the people. i'm gonna help poor people, unemployed people, an american population that's in trouble. i'm gonna help them big-time, and you're gonna pay for it. and you know why? because if you don't, coming down the road are those sococialists and communis, and theyey're gonna cut you u at less a attractive deal." and, you know, something interesting happened. the business community and the rich were split. half of them did not buy that argument. they were not convinceded by mr. roosevelt. but half of them were. and roosevelt was a good politician. with half of the businesses in his pockeet,e knew he could count on the c.i.o.o., the socialists, and the communists to kind of work something out, and here was the deal. "i'm