insidehe f fog arare caug in the hohoneycb sort onettin and tn with grvity, th descendnto a tttter, d thenen we gather emem. [abbar speining frch]] derhem saking french] [abbar speaking enench] [indistit t conrsasatin] [houssn sousae e speingng tive language] [abar speang french] [tzrzroutepeakakin nate e langge]] oousanspeaeaki naivive lauagege] [rhem speing fren] announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by the orange county community foundation and the farvue foundation. 09/23/19 09/23/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> for twice as long as i have been alive on this planet, we have known about the crisis. for just as long, the wealthy and the powerful have profited off of pollution, have lied to him of people about the science withhave choked democracy their dollars instill in our future. amy: as many as formerly people around the

insidehe f fog arare caug in the hohoneycb sort onettin and tn with grvity, th descendnto a tttter, d thenen we gather emem. [abbar speining frch]] derhem saking french] [abbarpepeakinfrenench [indistit t conrsasatin] [houssn sousae e speingng tive language] [abar speang french] [tzrzroutepeakakin nate e langge]] oousanspeaeaki naivive lauagege] [rhem speakg french announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by the orange county community foundation and the farvue foundation. [birds chirping] simons: when i first encountered john powell, without having any idea who he was, he was ambling across the bioneers' campus. there was something so riveting to me about his presence. i think it was a combination of the calm intentionality of his gait; the sense of serenity that just surrounded him; and a warmth, openness, and curiosity that captivated me. i promised myself then that i would find ways to learn from

hannnnah: and thenen i discovd the work o of hans rosliling, really realized all of the conceptions i'dad about how the woworld was chananging were really wrongng. i had spent all these years in education,n, i kept up to o de with the daily news, and i just had no idea. reporter: so why does news tend to be dominated by misery and suffering, while positive stories barely have an impact? media critic peter littger says the imbalance in coverage is no accident. peter: negative stories are just part o of the media product meu that we are served. reporter: and that menu, littger says, is determineby intenen cocompetition inin the media w. whetether print, o online, or td radio, the desire to court exaggeration and sensationalism, in the process turning human hardship into a spectator sport. and that is precisely what readaders and viewewers want, s littger.r. peter: people are limited in their process of selection, limited to things that deviate from what they themselves see as normal. it might be unpleasant to accept, but we tend to define our own happiness via the misfortune of others. me

thenen you've also brought somee else into hold you accountable to the process. it is incredibly important. >> the follow-up to that is getting that person's contact. it isn't a selectivity, it is a team sport you are not doing it by yourself. as you are telling that family member i think you should run for office at some point, writing down who you told them getting their e-mail and phone number, when you do decide to kick start a campaign, you have a voter list and people yo of pn contact and go to for the first chapter. when i think of a politician i think of someone with thick skin and a someone like hillary who could withstand anything. that isn't me and i know a lot of people probably relate to that. what is your story as far as someone running for office lacks >> i think it's i okay. i think having emotion is really powerful. i think that for women, part of running for office that makes us unique is that we have that ability to kind of connect on this level and when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, that brings people in. so yes, your opponents might sa

we can't continue thinking like we are today within our current system and we need t t -- and thenen people toto thin outside the box and who can see this from a different perspective. and, of course, it's not always ly a gift and a superpower that many people suffer from, suffer from it because they cannot get the right adjustments they need. and they are not living under the riright circumstances, whici didn't, asas well, for a long time. but n now i do. amy: so talk about how you've decided to live your life. yes, you do this climate strike at least once a week and we'll talk about what you're doing here as well in the united states. but the personal decisions you've made that are also political decisions. flks, what you eat what, you -- for example, what you eat, what you wear, how you travel. greta: yes. i think it was two or three, maybe four years ago, i stopped flying. and because that seemed like a big thing to do because the impact, the climate impact of aviation on a global scale, i mean, individually, it is such a big carbon such a footprint. so i just decidided i'm not g

thenen striking gm workers have entered their third day on the picket lines. >> i want to be clear about something. this strike is about us, is about standing up for fair wages, affordable quality health care, for our share of profits come and for our job security. amy: we will speak to longtime labor reporter steven greenhouse co-author of the new book "beaten down, worked up, the past, present, future of american labor." all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace rereport. i'm amy goodman. israel is facing political turmoil as tuesday's election remains too close to call with 92% of the vote counted. benjamin netanyahu's iran party and'benny gantzs blue party appeared to be about type. the election was called after netanyahu failed to build a coalition government following an april election. it also came as netanyahu is facing posossible indictments sr multiple corruption cases. he promised to annex nearly one third of the occupied west bank in violation of international law if elected. earlier this year, gantz threatened to bomb gaz

and thenen to project different things and all kinds of stories and some of them might be true but i'mually really looking forward to seeing that because this argument would be fascinating. >> what do we know about his life? and why was he born there? his mother was named and then to do some research at that point then with that document in the morning hours i was researching thech archives and with that nirvana. and then the first sign inherits and then to make it get rich quick so apparently has parents did not mary and born illegitimately and then add a certain point his father leaves and does not come back and they are not particularly well-off and doesn't have much money or connections and on this island and then gets off and then that's what becomes the american revolutionn and then they put together a charitable fund to get an education and that's how he ends up in new york he ends up in new york way described his relationship with george washington ? >> . . . . so that is what hamilton means in that memo which he says we might be okay. it was because of the war by winning the r