again, brought in purely because of that list drawn up by swanson. warren billings, who you can see second from the left there, was arrested. he was 22 years old. very young. very active in the shoemakers union, so he was an active union guy. you had edward noland on the far right there, also active in the machinists union, so he was a labor organizers as well. israel weinberg on the far left who was a bus driver and involved in some of those earlier strikes for jitney car drivers and so on, you can see here, the bus operators union. these were all young and active labor organizers. but of most interest to swanson and thicker were in the center here, tom moony and rena moony as you see pictured here. particularly the young tom mooney. i don't know, he was 33. that still seems kind of young to me. tom mooney was a noted radical agitator in san francisco. had been involved in a number of strikes, lots of organizing in the previous altercations and so on. he had been a socialist. depends on how you -- you might define that, but he had traveled with euge

he was working in cahoots with another guy by the name of martin swanson. who was a former pinkerton detective. if you know anything about the pinkertons, right, they were this kind of before we had large bureaus of investigation and so on, but they were this kind of auxiliary hired police force that lots of companies and others if you know the story the molly mcguires, for example, you kind of know the pinkertons and their story. swanson was a former pinkerton man who had worked against san francisco labor elements during earlier strikes. he's brought in by the district attorney, the district attorney asks him, i need a list of all the labor agitators who were in town on july 22nd, 1916, right, the day of the bombing, and that will be our list. so swanson draws up his kind of list of all the people that had given him trouble in the past and of the list there were five people who were former labor organizers or still labor organizers or deemed radicals who were in town on july 22nd, 1916. and that's who they arrested. the group is as pictured here. they're

but i'm now joined by david swanson of the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs mr swanson thank you for joining us on aussie international now twenty five thousand people lost their will start to be trucked in rocca how bad is the situation inside the city thank you very much and the humanitarian situation or the up to twenty five thousand civilian and still trapped in iraq a city is nothing short of dire access to safe drinking water food and other basic services are at an all time low with many residents rely one food they had stored up earlier on to survive on equally disturbing is the fact that health access is very very or there are very few doctors on the ground there is currently only one functioning ospital and her unit in the ice of control art of the city now the battle for control of the city is raging throughout the day and throughout the night says it even possible to get the necessary aid into the city it's particularly difficult as you know that it is pretty much impossible for humanitarian partn

and, again, brought in purely because of that list drawn up by swanson. warren billings who you can see second from the left there was arrested. he was 22 years old. very young. very active in the shoe makers union. he was an active union guy. edward nolan on the are far right, active in the machinist union. he was a labor organizer as well. israel wine berg on the far left, an bus driver, involved in the strikes for car drivers. you can see in the bus operators union. these were all young and active labor organizers. but of most interest to swanson and fikkert were in the center, tom moony and rena moony as you see pictured here, particularly the young tom moony. young -- i don't know he was 33. that still seems young to me. but moony was a noted adderall agitate ner san francisco, had been involved in a number of strikes, lots of organizing in the previous altercations and so on. he had been a socialist -- depends on how you might define that. but he had traveled with eugene dense at one point the famous perennial socialist candidate for president ppt m

our last speaker is david swanson. he is the author of several books on war, the director of the world the on war organization. in addition, he is a campaign coordinator. .org. swanson: thank you, norman. i won't have time to list all of the reasons why i want u.s. lanes and runs out of skies over's area [cheers] -- over syria. these planes kill a lot of people. people all of equal value regardless of their religion or ethnicity. -- have a record of such counsel generally turn out to be many times under the counts that comprehensive postwar studies arrive at. on top of which we have the problem of all of the people killed who are not counted by virtue of not being labeled --ilians, always empirically in the labeling process. then the injuries almost always outnumber the deaths, the homelessness, the extremely long-term effects of the uranium by some of the planes we want out of the skies, the starvation that could have been prevented for a fraction of the cost of , and of course the top killer of u.s. troops, suicide.

is involvement is a legal and swanson talked about the horrible impact this war is having on the syrian people take a look there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually see it's called diplomacy. whether trump likes politics or not the only way to save that country from becoming a failed state or an ice a state is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders including the syrians the russians and whether we like it or not the iranians we're going to have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere nor should he whether we like it or not his is the internationally recognized government of syria no one has given the us legal authority to decide the fate of other nations by any means and since world war two the united states has interfered as we know in at least eighty two foreign elections though not in the bad russian way presumably and bombed over thirty countries. this is no one appointed to us to this role this is not a legal this is not enforcing law this is violating law and so i

david swanson is an author and the director of the organization's world beyond war. we will start with john. he was a ciaofficial and had responsibilities with the agency. he went on to serve two years in prison as a cia whistleblower. back in december of 2014, a headline over an article really summed it up. it said, the one man jailed for cia torture tried to expose it. >> thank you. president trump, just like president obama before him seems intent on getting the united states involved in something that is an unwinnable war in syria. watching 59 cruise missiles, for example against rundown syrian airbases in the middle of the night is easy enough to do, but there are consequences to the these actions, and republican conservative celebration at the use of fourth notwithstanding, trump has put serious christians in jeopardy. just as president obama and president george w. bush did in iraq. conservatives and ideologies took root many years ago. both parties tried to outdo each other to prove and was quicker to use military force. the never seems to be any discussion a

doesn't make anybody safer in fact all too often we see something like this tragedy play out david swanson activist thank you so much for coming on and talking about this again i'm sorry to have to see you in person here in charlottesville under these circumstances thank you. well now into new york where thousands are lining the streets anticipating the arrival of president trump this after a series of protests broke out around the country following developments in charlottesville this weekend here's trinity chavez with more. in the wake of the deadly weekend violence in charlottesville hundreds are taking to the streets to protest what is being called a domestic act of terror this is only the latest demonstration to occur following the incident over the weekend hundreds of rallies erupted all across the country to speak out against hate and racism. protesters filled the streets of new york over the weekend marching through midtown manhattan times square and you can square demanding for the president to a few white nationalist groups including the k.k.k. and neo nazis who clashed with the

and david swanson is an author and director of the organization world beyond war. so we will start with john. he was a cia official. he had major responsibilities with the agency. he went on to serve two years in prison as a cia whistleblower. back in december of 2014, headline over an article by the "huffington post" really summed it up, a very apt summary. it said the one man jailed for cia torture tried to expose it. john kiriakou. >> thank you, norman. president trump, just like present obama before him, seems intent on getting the united states involved in what h is an unwinnable civil war in syria. launching 59 cruise missiles, for example, against rundown syrian air bases in the middle of the night is easy enough to do. but there are consequences to these actions. and republican and conservative celebration of this use of force notwithstanding, trump has put serious patient and those christians in neighboring countries in jeopardy. just as president obama and president george w. bush did in iraq. neoconservatives and neoliberal ideologies took root in washin

is involvement is a legal and swanson talked about the horrible impact this war is having on the syrian people take a look there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually see it's called diplomacy. whether trump likes politics or not the only way to save that country from becoming a failed state or an ice a state is to sit at the table with all of the stakeholders including the syrians the russians and whether we like it or not the iranians we're going to have to accept the fact that assad is not going anywhere nor should he whether we like it or not his is the internationally recognized government of syria no one has given the us legal authority to decide the fate of other nations by any means and since world war two the united states has interfered as we know in at least eighty two foreign elections though not in the bad russian way presumably and bombed over thirty countries you know this is no one appointed to us to this role this is not a legal this is not enforcing law this is violating law

natssotthe conditions are dry because we have had some hot summer days.john swanson is the interim fire chief for east bay regional parks. thursday afternoon, we drove along grizzly peak boulevard and john pointed out some of the spots where regional parks has been working to trim back brush and clean up fire prone eucalyptus treessotregional parks has been clearing away dry brush under the trees and removing dry bark. the goal is to keep a wildfire from climbing up the trees and reaching the canopy.sotthe problem there is that when the crowns burn the burning embers are thrown up into the air and the wind takes them ahead of where the original fire is burning.but even though this kind of clean up work has been happening in the east bay hills for decades swanson points out that they will never be able to prevent all wildfires. that's not the point.sotwe are not trying to prevent fires we are trying to prevent disasters.sotthere are going to be fires. this is a mediterranean environment. one of the elements of that environment is fire. frequent fires. sotit's when the fires get so intens

natssotthe conditions are dry because we have had some hot summer days.john swanson is the interim firer east bay regional parks. thursday afternoon, we drove along grizzly peak boulevard and john pointed out some of the spots where regional parks has been working to trim back brush and clean up fire prone eucalyptus treessotregional parks has been clearing away dry brush under the trees and removing dry bark. the goal is to keep a wildfire from climbing up the trees and reaching the canopy.sotthe problem there is that when the crowns burn the burning embers are thrown up into the air and the wind takes them ahead of where the original fire is burning.but even though this kind of clean up work has been happening in the east bay hills for decades swanson points out that they will never be able to prevent all wildfires. that's not the point.sotwe are not trying to prevent fires we are trying to prevent disasters.sotthere are going to be fires. this is a mediterranean environment. one of the elements of that environment is fire. frequent fires. sotit's when the fires get so intense they ge

the aircraft made special landing at the schneider plaza off swanson street.ple were kind of climbing inside and going to take pictures with it all part of national night out. meant to strengthen police and community relations. one of many events across the area and across the country. >>> first responders are on scene in darby after a fire broke out in row home tonight. fresco user shows us the scene on the 600 block of main street. flames broke out just after 10:00 and crews were able to get it all under control quickly. thankfully no one was hurt. when you see news happening take out that phone and shoot it and use the fresco app to send it to our newsroom. luce glee thank you much, iain. new jersey senator corey booker introduced a landmark bill to legalize marijuana on facebook live booker announced what he calls the marijuana justice act. it would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances making it legal on the federal level. the bill would inn sent advise states through federal funds to change their marijuana laws if those laws have a disp

pat swanson from clifton, virginia, asked us to verify whether retailers are selling fake solar eclipse glasses that falsely claim three been approved by an iso certified lab. to get to the bottom of this we spoke with ralph chu, the optometrist who wrote the globally recognized standard that anyone who makes eclipse glasses have to follow it. he says fake glasses are nothing new. >> pretty much just buyer beware and you have to be knowledgeable. it's very much on you as a purchaser. >> but should be it up to the customer? professor chu tips us off a couple weeks ago amazon was doing a nuclear crackdown on their site to weed out glasses with fake certifications. our verify researchers e-ed asking whether this was true. we never got a response, but over the weekend amazon did send notices to customers saying that some eclipse glasses were recalled. the online superstore issued a statement saying safety is among our highest priorities. out of an abundance of caution we have proactively reached out to customers and provided refunds for eclipse glasses that may not comply with industry stan

and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians we discussed the dire situation with david swanson from the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. the humanitarian situation for the up to twenty five thousand civilian and still trapped in iraq a city is nothing short of dire access to safe drinking water food and other basic services are at an all time low with many residents relying on food they had stored up earlier on to survive on equally disturbing is the fact that health access is very very or there are very few doctors on the ground there is currently only one functioning hospital and in the ice a controlled arctic city so it is extremely difficult the only way we can provide assistance to those people who fled and as you are well aware more than seventy five thousand people have fled the city since the offensive began in june of this year is when they reach the outside in the areas in which they are just place to that is the only way we can reach people at the moment. now amid growing concern over the security situation the e.u. parliament president now w

it's one of the program i'm going to be delving deeper into the story and discussing it with david swanson from the united nations office for coordination of humanitarian affairs so do stay tuned for that. pakistan has hit back at trump's claim that it supports terrorists islamic back responded that the country is being singled out as a scapegoat that's off the trump announced his new afghan plan in a major u. turn but it seems that other countries are also being caught up in the president's criticism or let's find out more about this and discuss it with our correspondents americain samir a good to see you so how is trump's new strategy playing out in practice. well trumps new strategy for afghanistan raises a lot of questions of what exactly is new about it more troops and not setting a timeframe for withdrawal sounds very similar to the policies of past administrations but it also seems like washington is actively actively looking around to find someone else in the region to fight the taliban or just someone to blame for the failed campaign. trump seems to have chosen pakistan let's take

philly police landing one of the helds in the middle of swanson street as part of national night out. neighbors also got the chance to see it up close and personal. >>> similar events were held all over the country. we spotted the fanatic in south philly and flag football and a obstacle course in center hill. the goal is to build relationships between police and community. >>> and a traffic stop takes a scary turn and hear from the officer who survived this roadside crash. >>> plus, making it legal. a local congressman pushed for new laws on marijuana. we ask you to weigh in. >>> and what a steal. why this house in new jersey is on sale for only $10. i need the phone that's where i happen to be... to be the one that rings. i need not to be missed phone calls... to not be missed. i need seamless handoff... canyon software. from reception, to landline, to mobile. i need one number... not two. i'm always moving forward... because i can't afford to get stuck in the past. comcast business. built for business. >>> fans of lincoln park gathered tonight to honor the band's late lead singer. t

. >> dale swanson, the first person to chair the spotsylvania republican committee says she believes the voters here did make the right choice. >> i see america starting to prosper and people are starting to have hope again. >> a long time aid of trump stepping in the communications director. hope hicks takes over for anthony scaramucci who left after 11 days on the job and is the fourth perso t since president trump took office seven months ago. alison: a fire at the smithsonian castle deemed an accident. d.c. fire officials say it started on the fourth floor in an area that is under construction. >> get ready for the cycle of the afternoon storms. doug hill in the stormwatch7 weather center tracking chances. >> not much out there today. >> what we find around the area is not only do the higher temperatures return but the higher humidity levels so this creates the feels like temperature. what it feels like outside now. it's 94 in leesburg. 92 in culpeper. 96 in annapolis. i will stay muggy through the evening. stay partly cloudy and partly sunny for the next few h temperatures cool

dale swanson the republican committee chairman had so many request for campaign signs they couldn't keepe, ten months later trump support are more critical of the media and other republican leaders than the man himself. some are clearly unhappy with party. then the horrific events in charlottesville. even today a memorial service for heather heyer and the state mourns the loss of two state troopers. folks here say they are not concerned as mr. trump blaming all sides as to what happened, what led to the terrible events in charlottesville. >> i don't fault president trump for what he did or said. i fault the people responsible for allowing that to take place to begin with. obviously no thought was put into what sort of repercussions there would be or thought what security was required before the event took place. >> every person we spoke with that said they voted for trump in november said they would do it again. coming up we hear from a woman who made history getting out the vote for mr. trump last november. reporting live, richard we will follow the developments from charlottesville. we

we answer questions regarding the pardon and maria swanson tweeted this, if the law doesn't apply toaio, should it apply to anyone else? how do you answer maria? what you think of the pardoning as a legal proposition in the politics? >> the president is entitled under the constitution to have an unlimited power pardon. sheriff was found by guilty of violating a court order for over year that said to stop racially profiling people and he openly defied and said he was going to continue the current policy that the federal court told him to stop. this did not go through the normal routine that normal pardons go through. it was drafted in the white house, did not go through the regular process reviewed by outside lawyers. i think the president was making a political statement. and allies of his was going to go to jail for six months or so and he stepped in. he had the right to do it, think it was a bad mistake for the cut him in the country. >> the president said he actually talk before hand to the attorney general, jeff sessions about not doing the case in the first place. some critics a

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natssotthe conditions are dry because we have had some hot summer days.john swanson is the interim fire chief for east bay regional parks. thursday afternoon, we drove along grizzly peak boulevard and john pointed out some of the spots where regional parks has been working to trim back brush and clean up fire prone eucalyptus treessotregional parks has been clearing away dry brush under the trees and removing dry bark. the goal is to keep a wildfire from climbing up the trees and reaching the canopy.sotthe problem there is that when the crowns burn the burning embers are thrown up into the air and the wind takes them ahead of where the original fire is burning.but even though this kind of clean up work has been happening in the east bay hills for decades swanson points out that they will never be able to prevent all wildfires. that's not the point.sotwe are not trying to prevent fires we are trying to prevent disasters.sotthere are going to be fires. this is a mediterranean environment. one of the elements of that environment is fire. frequent fires. sotit's when the fires get so intens

we asked if her questions about the parts of his parking and maria swanson tweeted this.ply to arpaio, should it apply to anyone else? how do you answer mar, you think of the pardoning as a legal proposition and also if the politics of a? >> the president is entitled under the constitution to have an unlimited power of pardon. i think he exercised it in this instance. sheriff arpaio was found guilty of violating a federal order for over a year that's a to stop racially profiling people, but for driving with teen or walking with tina when he openly defied it. this did not go through the normal routine of pardon applications, because the department of justice, drafted into the white house, didn't go through the regular process, review by outside lawyers, i think the president is making a political statement, an ally of his was about ready to go to jail for six months or so and he stepped in. he had the right to do it, i think it was a bad mistake and a bad signal. >> chris: and there's also a report of "the washington post" today that the president has actually talks before