. >> when i i go there i'm always eaeager to go to my peoplple, t neighborhohood. i want to o have the least interaction with the israelis as possibible. >> manany israraelis don't't wa know about ppalestinis.s. they don't wantt to reach out. they don'n't wantt to cross in strereets and neigighborhoods w the palestiniaians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire fa

like alice fisher, and after that meeting, there was a chill on the case will stop basicacally, peoplple likee john brownlee were told, we're not going to give you the resources to support this prosecution. you're on your own if you want to do it. had no resources. he had a small group of people that spent four years, 24 hours a day investigating this company. they were facing a company of unlimited financial and legal firepower. they really had no choice but to settle the case at that point. amy: the story of west virginia is astounding. as you write in your "new york times" piece, starting in 2007, the year of the settlement, just routers sent enough painful still west virginia over five years to supply every man, woman, and child with 433 of them. this is according to a report in the charleston gazette. we will talk about was virginia as ground zero and exactly what happened to these communities with barry meier, author of "pain killer: an empire of deceit and the origin of america's opioid epidemic." it is just out this week. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "puppet charm" by two t

the reality which israel is holding finally peoplple with no -- tical and in pennsylvania, move member debbie africa has been granted parole and was released from prison after a decades-long campaign to win her freedom. debbie africa was imprisoned for nearly 40 years after being arrested during a massive police raid on philadelphia move house in 1978, during which one police officer was killed. at the time of her arrest, she was 22 years old and was 8.5 months pregnant with her son mike jr. after her release saturday, debbie africa reunited with her son mike for the first time outside prison walls i in their entire lives. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to protests that have erupted nationwide against the trump administration's new policy of separating children from their parents at the u.s.-mexico border. most of the parents apprehended by customs and border patrol are now charged with criminal entry, and in many cases, criminal re-entry, then taken to a jail or prison to serve their