let it be told from the rooftops it was breen newsome that took down who took down the symbol of the confederacy in columbia south carolina yes modern day rosa parks and even the story of rosa parks the media gets wrong how did they get it wrong we all learned about rosa parks that great woman who stood up for all of us by sitting down on a bus and refusing to get up for a white passenger and then was arrested no we all know that story but when rosa parks died a few years ago i was watching c n n and they said rosa parks was a tired seamstress she was no trouble me for that's where they got it wrong rosa parks was a first class troublemaker she knew exactly what she was doing rosa parks sat on the bus december hundred fifty five among my refuses to get up for a white passenger she's arrested four days later she goes to court and among them are improvement association has a meeting and they chooses their leader to lead the bus boycott that would bring down the segregated transportation system of monk amerie they choose as their leader a young minister who just moved into town his name was dr martin luther king rosa parks helped along dr martin luther  sleeping car porters thousands of black conductors on the trains all called george i mean they weren't named george by their mothers but they were called george because of the pullman trains owned by george pullman you know pullman washington and that sort of gives you an indication of why they need to be organized but a philip randolph would then later go on to organize the one nine hundred sixty three march on washington with the black roosevelt to meet her husband president f d r franklin delano roosevelt and he sat with roosevelt describe the condition of black people in this country of working people in this country f d r sat silently and when he was done he said i don't disagree with anything you've said but you'll have to make me do it and interestingly when senator obama was first running for president he was campaigning in the backyard of the new jersey home and about one hundred r s response make me do it make me do it that's just an interesting little side note but this is the tradition that rosa parks came out of  she was an activist the media denigrates activists but what can be more noble than dedicating your life to making the world a better place you know she had also trained at the highlander center and i just heard about your event tomorrow where everyone's going to be singing we shall overcome so pete seeger right before he died he came on democracy now and talked about being at highlander perfecting the song we shall overcome it was sort of an old folk song and i was just in sarasota and someone asked me to sign their book to frank hamilton you know the guy they said who work with pete seeger to  you know put the finishing touches on this song and he's still alive in florida but pete talked about you know finishing up the song and then who walks in but dr king who asked him to sing it for him so pete sang we shall overcome to  dr king and he said dr king walked out of the room and said that's a catchy tune and of course it becomes the end of the civil rights movement this is where rosa parks comes from i mean rosa parks had sat down on the bus before like many other young women and refused to get up you never know when the magic moment will come you know i think about the chi activists here the people oh dang go from the bridge and the breakaway most movement that's going to be digging gaging and all sorts of actions next weekend and you know you did everything you could to stop oil drilling in the arctic but that ship got away from you went to the arctic and then shell announces they will be withdrawing from the arctic now the way the corporate media tells it is a no show changed their mind but i think we know who changed shell's mind i hesitate to say the word mind i don't exactly think corporations are people but you never know when that magic moment will come but if you engage in social change you will hope to build a foundation that will determine the future that will make history and that's just what rosa parks did and to show how brave she was just go back a few months to the summer of fifty five the summer of  summer of a fourteen year old african american boy his mother mamie till and chicago wanted him out of the city for the summer so sent him to be with his cousins and money in mississippi he was asleep with this cousins and bed when a white mob came and ripped him out of bed they said he had wolf whistled at a white woman and it was a starter his mother taught him whenever you feel that stutter coming on whistle and that ended up in the bottom of the tallahatchie river when his body was dredged up and sent back to chicago for the funeral mamie till so did something incredibly brave she said she wanted the casket open for the wake in the funeral she wanted the world to see the ravages of racism the talent to be of bigotry thousands of people stream by and saw his distended mutilated head and then jet magazine and other black publications actually photographed his head and that those photographs were published and they were seared into the history and consciousness of this country mamie till had something very important to teach the press of today show the pictures show the images can you imagine if for just one week we saw the images of war you know above the fold of every surviving newspaper you see a photograph of a baby dead on the ground  afghanistan and there was an article about her and you actually learn turn name a name dignifies a life and you learned where parents were and what they had hoped for for their child if the top of every radio and t v news cast talked about a woman who died in a drone strike in yemen who was attending a wedding party and you learned about the young couple who've fallen in love and why this party and where this party was if everyone's facebook wall on everyone's facebook ball every tweet every e mail for a week referred to a soldier dead and dying for just one week americans are a compassionate people they would say no war is not the answer to conflict in the twenty first century you know i originally come from pacifica radio which was founded sixty seven years ago we were just celebrating the sixty seventh birthday of the first station k p f a in berkeley california it was founded by a war resister named lou hill who was a conscientious objector came out of the detention camps after world war two said there's got to be a media outlet not run by corporations that profit from war but run by journalists and artists and that's how pacifica was born the first station and berkeley and forty nine george gervin are the late dean of the annenberg school of communications at the university of pennsylvania would say not run by corporations that have i in its first years it would broadcast a debate between the great writer james baldwin and malcolm x over the effectiveness of nonviolent civil disobedience the lunch counter sit ins in the south the forestation k houston went on the air and nineteen seventy and the fifth station w p f w in washington seventy seven that's the fab five that's the pacifica family and all of the affiliates like a b c s and chaos and  in the station we're going to tomorrow celebrating in mt vernon and then we're moving on to oregon and portland all this this wonderful family that is the pacifica extended family i want to just talk about the one station k p f t in houston that went on the air in one nine hundred seventy spring one nine hundred seventy it goes on the air and within a few weeks it's blown off the air at the only radio station in the country the ku klux klan strap dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blew it to smithereens right in the middle of arlo guthrie singing alice's restaurant and i thought that was a good song but  actually just a few days ago sunday night we were in new orleans jazz fest was rained out at least a good part of it stevie wonder didn't sing but arlo guthrie did sing the full alice's restaurant t s to rebuild you know the station in the middle of the petrol metro and i mean it's not like pacific ad money for advertising i guess the silver lining was that well the klan certainly blew it into the consciousness of the potential listening audience of the people of houston i don't recommend that as an advertising strategy and they got back on their feet they rebuilt the transmitter and they went back on the air and the klan blew them up again this time with fifteen times the dynamite so now it's going to take months right and in january of one nine hundred seventy once a big story p b s comes into you know broadcast the moment this phoenix rises from the ashes arlo guthrie comes and to finish singing alice's restaurant live on the air and it goes back on the air now i can't remember if it was the exalted cyclops or the grand dragon because i often confuse their titles but he said it was his proudest act i think that's because he understood how dangerous pacifica is how dangerous independent media is dangerous because it allows people to speak for themselves and when you hear someone speaking from their own experience whether it is a palestinian child or an israeli grandmother whether it's a nun coal in afghanistan or a kid in the south valley we were just speaking at our of k high school in the south valley in albuquerque overwhelmingly undocumented student population and this high school or kid from the south bronx you know when you hear someone speaking from their own experience it breaks down the caricature and the stereotypes that fuel the hate groups you know you might say it sounds like my baby my book my uncle my aunt and i'm not saying you're going to agree with them how often do we agree with our family members but you begin to understand where they're coming from and makes it much harder to want to destroy them you begin to understand where they're coming from and that understanding is the beginning of peace i think the media can be the greatest force for peace on earth instead all too often it's wielded as a weapon of war which is why we have to take it back now i hope i'm not wearing you guys out i definitely could not do what you do now i just told you a story about history like what forty six years ago right the ku klux klan blew up  believe that we are talking about the ku klux klan in this two thousand and sixteen presidential election year how could it be that the  nominee of one of the navy major party the front runner of the republican party donald trump when asked on one of the networks on c n n if he would disavow support of a known klan leader and of the out klan leader david duke and the ku klux klan he was told he said you know he would have to look more deeply into this when was the last time you heard donald trump say he had to look more deeply into anything before he spoke what exactly is it that he had to investigate further which klan chapter it was because he he would want to generalize to all the klan chapters in the united states and i mean when you think about this it's also why we need independent media yes this was reported widely but we have to talk about what the klan was i speak at a lot of universities and colleges and you know young people have heard of the klan but we have to be very serious about this i mean i come from new york democracy now was the closest national broadcast to ground zero september eleventh two thousand and one that horror when three thousand people were in center aided in an instant we'll never know actually how many people died on that day because those who go and counted and life go and counted in death the undocumented workers and immigrants who might have been here we'll never actually know but the harbor of that moment however wasn't the first time that terror came to us soil ask any african american about slavery any native american about what happened in this country but it was horrific the klan the ku klux klan was a homegrown american terrorist organization it terrorized whole populations it brutalized murdered lynched thousands of people we have to understand this so that it is not repeated and this is why we need independent media to dig into the past and also to look forward i was recently asked  come into a j plus in san francisco to do a quick interview about the elections now on this hundred city tour we have no time for anything i mean spokane to seattle we decided well we could save time or dentist did by taking the two o'clock two am train from spokane to seattle so we could arrive in the morning and start you know the day running  but i have to say that was gorgeous what a beautiful ride it was and i absolutely love trains so we're always in a massive rush so we're getting this call as we were leaving a san it's just your on line and you know it's based in the offices of the old current t v which was owned by vice president al gore so you go there you see its offices and everything him al jazeera bought it from him for a half a billion dollars  and so they called up they said would you come in and do an interview and i said i'm so sorry i'm racing to the airport in san francisco we won't be able to make and they said oh no but we're right on the way i said you're right on the way i mean like three minutes you could do it yes they said fine three minutes really ok we'll do it for three minutes so we drove by dennis hardly move the luggage in the in the car didn't even come inside i went and sat down didn't interview for like three minutes  said hello to the staff got out and we made our plane so that interview the two thousand and sixteen elections they finally posted online this past week i didn't check it today i think early this morning or last night it was eleven point seven million views now how many of you is actually saying yes i always wonder how virtual you know translates into the real world i didn't say anything that i think most of you don't already think it just so rarely hits the corporate media radar screen you know they asked me what i thought of the coverage of donald trump you know he is piped into everyone's home all the time the other candidates have to trudge from state to state i mean the tyndall report looked at the coverage in two thousand and fifteen donald trump got twenty three times the coverage of bernie sanders i think a b c world news tonight gave donald sanders got twenty seconds and really like to know what bernie sanders did that was so newsworthy that he should get twenty seconds but i want to look at one of the primaries one of the primary nights super tuesday three you know what they dubbed it this year that was march fifteenth five primaries it was important it was ohio florida north carolina missouri and illinois illinois was the home state of hillary clinton so all the media networks coverage wall to wall coverage that night that was the night that senator marco rubio remembers and rubio he did not win his home state florida so he pulled out and they played his concession speech as they should of that was the night that john k sick of ohio remember governor k sick he won his first primary and and they played his victory speech hellary clinton had won three at that point ohio florida and north carolina she was very smart to speak then because they didn't know what happened the next two states and the media was saying this sanders clinton sender's clinton missouri illinois too close to call illinois was significant because it was her home state so she spoke was she was a hit then they waited for donald trump and all of them you know as i said i was been asked to be on c n n a few times to critique their coverage well i don't know if they meant for me to critique their coverage but what i thought of the election's on brian stelter show which is the media show called reliable sources on sunday morning he's formerly with the new york times and you know i i said i'm not going to single out c n n because i can't tell the difference between c fox i mean because you know donald trump sounds the same on all three networks when they are broadcasting him with that lower third breaking news all the time unless one of the networks has a little static so they're now waiting for donald trump and they've all got that upper right hand box of an empty podium in one of his florida mansions and they're waiting for him to speak and all the pundits and all the networks are chattering away you know the pundits the small circle of pundits on all the networks you know so little about so much explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong and finally he speaks right finally he speaks and they play the whole half hour they said it was going to be a news conference he pioneered this thing at the of a primary and night of a news comes to member what he done a few weeks before an hour news conference where he trumpeted trump water trump magazine's trump steaks it was this kind of bizarre or bizarre and they played the whole thing hillary clinton it spoken in the middle of that they recorded her speech and played it later that was weeks before but march fifteenth they play as whole half hour and that that pretty much did it right they played clinton cruz they played ok sick they played rubio they played trumpet and that was it that there wasn't anyone else was there that night oh who were some of those t shirts bernie oh bernie sanders see there's something worse than negative coverage and it is the vanishing they did not mention except to say it was neck and neck with hillary clinton where he was or what he was doing that now i mean had he phone sleep and that would have made arianna huffington very happy you know she just wrote this book the slave revolution and i just was on bill maher with her and  i really wanted to debate with her i told her the merits of sleeplessness this and this is annoying to her and i so i promised her i will take a long nap in june so but where was bernie sanders right had he taken the night off in fact and we were just in arizona in flagstaff tucson and phoenix phoenix so i know this is true because i met many people there who attended his rally that night he spoke before thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people i think he started even before donald trump so by that you know donald trump gets twenty three times the coverage of bernie sanders he could have played one minute of bernie sanders saying hello to everybody and then gone to the half hour of donald trump and everything would have been as it's been for the last year but they didn't even do that and none of the anchors on any of these networks speculated like where ascenders so we did something we didn't plan to do but in response to that night the next morning we actually played an excerpt of bernie sanders speech i mean who  know you shouldn't be clapping who would have thunk it who would have thought it's a revolutionary act to play an excerpt of a speech of a major party candidate on the night of a major primary or the morning after this is unacceptable i mean the guy has broken so many records and he's done it with out any echoes in the media imagine if sometimes he had the microphone i mean think about it in march he raised forty four million dollars hillary twenty nine million dollars bernie sanders does it on the campaign trail just says please give in people give three and nine and seven and twenty seven dollars i think is the average so they never max out they can keep on giving and giving now for hillary clinton she in his like well over six million donors this hasn't happened before she has this much smaller number of donors but they give a lot and name max out we were in laurel canyon recently and so was she but we were in at the same party and she she was at the party of george animal cluny and they had a fundraiser for her and i think the going rate for the head table was something like three hundred fifty thousand dollars i mean that was for a couple so but even george clooney when asked about it on the network said he thought it was obscene i mean it was his party but but now this goes to another issue where it's not just clinton these candidates are raising scene amounts of money where does this money go i mean you know the coverage in the last few weeks what happened in washington there is very little coverage of over a thousand people protesting money in politics right democracy spring and democracy awakening if twelve hundred people were arrested in central havana if we major american news anchor would head down there now on a direct flight to cover this repressive country but it was happening right there in our nation's capital hardly got any attention now the reason to tune in to democracy now but but think about it the money they raise where does it go the money they raise overwhelmingly goes two networks so they are hardly going to raise this that money goes to paying for campaign advertising so why would the networks question this you might then counter and say no i saw a piece on campaign finance reform on one of the networks it's not about a single piece it's about the routine daily drumbeat coverage that sinks into people's consciousness you know like the coverage they give to donald trump what about say spending that same amount of time questioning the corrupting influence of money in politics now the other thing i raised on c n n was i said what about an electoral season without polls i mean you tune into these networks it is constant you know you tune in and you see she's up twenty points twenty points minute he's moving up on the right she's moving up on the left she's moving forward he's moving back and i mean it is mesmerizing but at the end of the day do you learn anything these polls constant morning noon and night that they are pouring their millions of dollars into and then you get t caucus or you get to a primary and the polish wrong like indiana rate the poll is wrong so they spend the next period of time from that primary or caucus to the next i'm talking about how they got it sarong now think about it why do we need these polls when you're trying to make up your own mind you really care what your barber thinks your librarian your doctor your you know whoever your family thinks what you need is the networks to spend that millions of dollars in energy and investigation into the records of these politicians and businessmen  comparing their promises with their records that is a media serving a democratic society now you might be going in the sort of back of your mind no you know i think polls can be helpful well i actually do too and we have them every single week they are called primaries and caucuses at the end of the day those are fact based polls at the end of the day you learn who voted who didn't racial breakdown age breakdown the disparity in income all the different very important issues then it's interesting you know who voted in indiana who didn't who voted here who didn't and you know one of the big numbers is who doesn't vote more than eighty percent of people aren't voting  these primaries and caucuses it's truly astounding even with a galvanised population and then there are the impediments to voting i mean what happened in phoenix arizona is insane two hundred polling places which was down from four hundred in the last election two hundred polling places for this primary they closed one hundred forty of them this is with a galvanized electorate they only had sixty polling places open now could it be it has to do with the growing latino population in phoenix well not that's not what the authorities said they said they were trying to save money so i thought well by that same token why open any polling place at all you know think how much you could save i mean of course you're threatening democracy but and then of course there's the issue of i d s in the evisceration of the voting rights act in texas you can't present a student id but you can present a gun license and then the millions of people who have served time in prison or been charged with a felony who have had any brush with the criminal justice system in some cases you can never again you can come out of prison but you can never vote again in other places if you're on parole or probation it's very hard to figure out in some places like vermont or maine you can vote from person so you know it runs the gamut but we need to be able to match what most of the industrialized world has done get most of the population out to vote it is palling how few people vote in the united states you need holidays for election days or weekend voting you need and these are all issues that we have to deal with now i can see people are getting a little restless and i have to go through an entire year of activism and i'm going to do this superfast but i want to look at the year two thousand and eleven movements matter movements make a difference and that was the year that the bottom rocked the top so i want to start ok in december of two thousand and ten that was the tunisian revolution that was when a young man named mohammed was easy came out of university there's no opportunity you know corrupt dictator so he ends up having to sell fruits and vegetables in a marketplace and the authorities harass him they take a scales mohammed can't take it anymore and he sets himself on fire and that sparked the tunisian revolution other things did too i mean like wiki leaks right wiki leaks released the afghan war logs the iraq war logs and the state department cables it's not as if the tunisian people didn't know their dictator was corrupt but what they learned the american government knew it but still short him up to the tune of millions of dollars it just increased their fury and then of course the tunisian revolution well throughout the despot and then inspired the egyptian revolution and what happened there was historic a million people and talk we are not to mention every other city in egypt and they threw out mubarak after decades i won't go more into that it is an unfinished revolution the turn it's taken now is is frightening it is a very difficult time in egypt but i do think the arab spring then inspired wisconsin right this mass protest of one hundred fifty thousand people ok i think the governor governor scott walker had something to do with it but what did he do he gets elected and he says he's going to bust the public in unions well the teachers and the nurses he's going to go after not the firefighters and the cops he assures them not you governor walker's problem is that the police and the firefighters were married to the teachers and the nurses and i saw some scenes in the state in the state capitol you know they occupied the whole place people across the political spectrum we raced into wisconsin i saw some of the biggest guys i'd ever seen the osh kosh prison guards i mean i went up to them and i said you know who did you vote for and they said governor walker and i said what are you doing here and they said protesting governor walker of course and then outside you know in the freezing cold over one hundred thousand people older gentleman glasses white hair is marching with a homemade placard that said i r s auditor's against walker and i said are you a democrat or republican republican i said isn't the governor republican he said yes but didn't say he was going to do this to us and he just kept marching and i looked out at this vista of protest wisconsin such an interesting state right it's the home of the john birch society the racist segregationist anti civil rights anti king organization that was co founded by fred koch the father of the oil barons david and state labor history museum and if you think well you know what difference in that protest me you know the governor was reelected well all protest matters i mean he did run for president had to pull out pretty fast and i think this ha something to do with it but as margaret mead said never doubt for a moment that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world indeed it's the only thing that ever has and this was more than a small group of thoughtful committed people  i mean go back to april fourth one nine hundred sixty eight the day dr king was assassinated in memphis tennessee what was he doing there he was simply going to stand with senators who are organizing a local about me and go back a year before that to the day april fourth sixty seven dr king at riverside church in new york decides to speak out against the war in vietnam inner circle says don't do it martin they say you've got the most powerful person on earth the president of the united states wrapped around your finger right lyndon johnson you got him to sign the voting rights act the civil rights act this is not your war don't do this and he said no he said he was going to speak out he saw the triple threat of materialism racism and militarism and he addressed the thousands of people who packed the church and said my country the united states is the greatest purveyor of violence on earth the corporate press excoriated him blasted him they said his speech sounded like a script from radio hanoi they said  had done a disservice to his cause his country his people and so he just doubled down spoke louder spoke more often and a year later he would be killed but action matters and then let's jump forward to the summer of two thousand and eleven that was the keystone x l protests around the white house ring around the rose garden thousands of people marched twelve hundred people got arrested among them i mean it was naomi  first arrest who wrote the most amazing books right she wrote this changes everything capitalism versus the climate everyone should read it she wrote the shock doctrine rise of disaster capitalism everyone should read it she wrote no logo taking aim at bra is everyone should read it bill mckibben got arrested founder of three fifty dot org and then you move forward three weeks and it was september seventeenth two thousand and eleven occupy right thousands of people zuccotti park and they occupy wall street and they set up these encampments the media hardly covered it for the first week than issuing and then when it was just ridiculous and they had to they mocked them and they said things like i mean i remember erin burnett had just started c n n the show she does out front her first piece was called an occupy was called seriously and you know this is what they did they said what do these people want they can't decide they're gets the death penalty they're against racism they're against war they're against injustice inequality they're concerned about climate change i thought oh my god they're listening yes all those things like king they saw it all as a seamless web it was their strength it wasn't their weakness and then they'd say they can't even choose a spokesperson right no it's a encampments were eviscerated by the police we went to so many of them in oakland and loyola in new york but for those who say you know what happened to that movement a chair fizzled out didn't amount to a hill of beans oh i beg to differ i mean they occupy the language i think occupy was a word most looked up or used in two thousand and eleven you say the word one percent ninety nine percent absolutely everyone knows what you mean you change the language you change the world and among the signs held on that day was a sign that said i am troy davis and too much doubt many people held  sign and so we went from occupy four days later to jackson georgia where georgia's death row prison is we went to see what would happen to this man troy anthony davis and very quickly for those of you who don't know his story just a few moments to talk about what would happen on september twenty first two thousand and eleven troy anthony davis was scheduled to die we were reporting live from the grounds outside georgia's death row in the town of jackson awaiting news about whether the u s supreme court would spare his life i am troy davis had become a rallying cry of people all over the world there were protests this day september twenty first two thousand and eleven in japan in iceland in germany and france and britain the effort had grown growing international movement including not just the traditional anti death penalty activists but also prosecutors prison wardens a former u s president and the pope this is a story of a struggle against death that refuses to die troy anthony davis was eighteen years old it was august eighteenth one thousand nine hundred nine african american teenager he went with a friend to charlie brown's pool hall in savannah georgia where he grew up in the parking lot outside red coals a neighborhood tough was arguing loudly with a homeless man named larry young several witnesses testified cole's pistol whipped young pool hall patrons came out to see whats going on troy davis tried to intervene in the fight but fled when coles threatened him with a gun at a quarter after one in the morning mark macphail a white off duty savannah police officer who was working as a security guard at a greyhound bus station next door came outside to break up the fight gunshots pierced his summer night moments lay dying with a bullet wound to the head and another to the heart he never drew his gun he was a hero he tried to save a homeless man red coals immediately went to the police station with a lawyer and pointed the finger at troy davis the next day his face troy davis face was plastered all over the newscasts everywhere his family was desperately trying to reach troy he was in atlanta with a cousin looking for a job his sister martina correia who is a heroin martin a was a persian gulf army nurse i have interviewed her so many times she came back from the persian gulf war she was diagnosed with breast cancer and then she didn't just try to save her own life but her face  throughout savannah to try to get black women and poor women to get mammograms she was honored as a leading light in washington with nancy pelosi a remarkable woman but now she would try to save her brother's life she call you have to get back here to savannah she picked him up in atlanta they came back and eighteen year old troy turns himself in to the chatham county sheriff's office thinking it was a case of mistaken identity and he just clear up the confusion he was charged with first degree murder he was held in jail for two years he'd be tried in one nine hundred ninety one a jury deliberated for two hours and returned to go to verdict on aug thirtieth one thousand nine hundred ninety one troy davis age twenty was sentenced to die davis spend the next twenty years on death row during that time seven of the nine non police witnesses recanted or change their testimony many saying that the police intimidated them and that's why they gave their original false statements one who refused to recant was red coals the one who so many said was the actual killer no physical evidence linked davis to the killing so let me turn now to that day that and we were there we didn't know what would happen that day there were three other death warrants against troy each one of them had been vacated who knew if the same thing wouldn't happen with this fourth death warrant so we got to the grounds of the prison if we could have broadcast from the execution chamber we would have a really think it's critical to show the images people in this country don't realize how alone we are in the industrialized world in instituting the death penalty so on that day we couldn't obviously broadcast from the death chamber but we hired a satellite truck like the big boys you know we were going to go into a studio and we saw on the prison from around the world martina in a wheelchair she would die weeks later of breast cancer so she was over here and all of them packed into this pen i mean we had come to this place to go to where the silences we weren't going to go to the periphery and just speak ourselves now the other networks why weren't they complaining and what were they can report for twenty or thirty seconds what real difference did it make but for us and i was really annoyed because our satellite truck that fox would use and n would use that we hired that day was late we didn't know who this team was but suddenly they came up on the grounds with the satellite truck and they said roll down the window man where do you want the satellite truck and i said oh of the guards are saying we have to put it over there  you want the satellite truck i said oh i'm warming up to these guys i said well i was thinking right over there by the protest they barrel this truck over to the protest fun and then the prison guards come running over and these guys get out of the satellite truck they were bigger than the prison guards and they get out there are huge cameras and the guards back and they handed me the microphone and they formed a kind of protective semicircle around me and they said where do you want to stand i said right up against the rope so i can reach over an interview people they  mike and said start the show and so we did now we had with us the press packet from the department of corrections was very thin it did say what troy schedule would be that day that he would meet with family  three that he had to they had to clear out so he could get his routine physical routine physical they're going to execute him in four hours and they want to know if he you know has high cholesterol no really i mean there had been a texas prisoner before that who was on death row attempted suicide they raced him to hospital they got him better and then they executed him so then the next page talked about what he would be served for dinner see he had turned down the special meal like the you know death row prisoner could get ice cream and steak and stuff and so they talked about what he would be offered the standard fare in detail grilled cheese burgers of and brown potatoes baked beans cole slaw cookies and a great beverage and the next page was just four lines it listed the lethal the potassium chloride stops the heart troy refused the sedative and the last supper we started broadcasting at six o'clock by seven o'clock the u s supreme court was reportedly reviewing davis  stay the case was referred to supreme court justice clarence thomas who hails from ten point ga a community founded by freed slaves that's near savannah the supreme court denied the play davis execution began at ten fifty three pm a person spokes person delivered the news to the reporters outside time of death eleven o eight pm the eyewitnesses to the execution stepped out according to an associated press reporter who was there these were troy davis final words he said i'd like to address the macphail family let you know i'm not the one who killed your son your father your brother i didn't have a gun i am innocent i did he said all i can ask is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth that he then said i asked my family and friends to continue to fight this fight and then he looked at his executioners and said for those about to take my life god have mercy on your souls and may god bless your soul the state of georgia took davis body to atlanta for an autopsy charging his spam lee for the transportation on troy davis death certificate the cause of death is listed simply as homicide as we stood on the grounds of the prison just after troy davis was executed the georgia department of corrections threatened to pull the plug on our broadcast the show was over i was reminded of what mahatma gandhi reportedly answered when asked what he thought of western civilization he said i think it would be a good idea and i want to end in the durban summit of two thousand and eleven you know you went that new democracy now goes to every climate summit from copenhagen to doha to poland to peru and then to paris you might say given what happens in these summits why waste the fuel it's because of what happens outside the thousands of uninvited guest people from the most desperate places on earth desperate because their countries will perhaps be no more like the fifteen year old boy from the maldives who said my country will be submerged the people of sub saharan africa who are talking about the desert if a cation of a continent the cooking of a continent and they look to us the historically greatest greenhouse gas and mentor and also the largest now china they look to us and they demand change and it's critical that we be there with our microphones not only covering their demands their descriptions of what's happening and the debates they debate climate change what to do about it in our country we debate whether human beings have anything to do with climate change it is a standing the science is settled it's as if every time we talked about the planet earth we brought on someone from the flat earth society for balance so let me end with on julie a powdery she was a young woman who was a college of the atlantic in maine where we'll be speaking in two weeks and i'm julie for this year young people an unusual moment from the outside were invited in for the end of the summit and so on julie patter addressed the summit and this is a part of what really had to say i speak for more than half the world's population we are the silent majority you've given us a seat in this hall but our interests are not on the table what does it take to get a stake in this game lobbyist corporate influence money you've negotiating all of my life you failed to meet pledges you've missed targets you've broken promises but you've heard the salt before we're in africa home to communities on the front line of climate change the science tells us we have five years max you say give us ten the starkest betrayal of your generation's responsibility to ours as you call this ambition where is the courage in these rooms now is not the time for incremental action in the long run these will be seen as the defining moments of an era in which narrow self interest prevailed over science reason and common compassion she said there is real ambition in this room but it's been dismissed as radical deemed not politically possible stand with africa long term thinking is not radical what's radical is to completely alter the planet's climate to betray the future of my generation to condemn millions to death by climate change what's radical is to write off the fact that changes within our reach two thousand and eleven was  year in which the silent majority found their voice the year when the bottom shook the top two thousand and eleven was the year when the radical became reality and then she quoted nelson mandela who said it always seems impossible until it's done and she looked out on the crowd of a thousand people the delegates the government leaders the bureaucrats the scientists and said so distinguished elegance and governments around the world governments of the developed world deep cuts now get it done she dared to go to where the silence was in a land where i began back in world war two with a white rose collective a brother and sister named hands and sophie schol in germany nazi germany together with their professor they said what can we do in the face of the nazi atrocities they weren't jewish they were german christians and they decided to form the white rose collective with students professors and workers and they'd get information out so the germans would never be able to say they didn't know and they made this series of six pamphlets and on one of them were written the words we will not be silent they distributed these pamphlets everywhere under cover of night and now he weighs marketplaces schoolyards and then hans and sophie and their professor were caught they were charge they were try they were convicted and they were beheaded but that the philosophy that motto should be the hippocratic oath of the media today should be the hippocratic oath of us all today we will not be silent democracy