money from being used on the streets of these cities schama and of course city council also issued a statement about iraq in the past criticism of israel as you just mentioned is few and far between among elected officials especially members of congress but still i think a lot of people were shocked to see the most leftist members of congress it was bernie sanders and elizabeth warren sign on to a one sided resolution giving israel carp launch authority to act in self-defense i want to get your comment on that. yes i think that's a very important question to ponder on and i think what it points to is not so much a personality issue if you know who in the democratic party is a nice person are the on our side or not what it demonstrates is that even genuine and well meaning elected officials once they sign on to the democratic party even if money sanders is independent you know you see what we would like is for elected official officials to be genuinely and defiantly independent of the corporate establishment but certainly in elizabeth warren's case you know i admire you know her genui

closure about shipboard in oakland but the strategy has also been employed against corporations to schama like in the case of portland divesting from wal-mart do you think it's a good strategy with corporations and countries alike. i think the boycott and divestment strategy is a new thing can be an effective tool to really bring people people who feel anger and outrage to bring them together on a unified political basis you know that so that you can work on a concrete political demand. in an organized fashion. and i think it has the potential if we can really push on that it has the potential to raise the bar on the political demands we don't want just wipe out and about divestment that's that's a really fantastic starting point but we want to take the movement far far ahead of that we really need to call for an entire system change itself and i think that everything we're talking about should also be colored by the events in ferguson in missouri because what has happened there reveals the utter failure of the capitalist system and of the two party system in the united states to bring an