The US and Iran exchange attacks while Gov. Mikie Sherrill called out mounted NJ State Police to Delaney Hall to quell anti-ICE protests outside the private prison.
We discuss the 300 detainees inside Delaney Hall who are on a hunger and labor strike to protest inhumane conditions with Larry Hamm, Dr. Joe Wilson and Paula Rogovin.
In the second hour, we hear from Jennifer Coffey, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, about why she is sounding the alarm over Gov. Sherrill delaying the rollout of long awaited regulations designed to reduce catastrophic flooding that’s so common in New Jersey. Coffey says the backtracking is even more perilous because of the federal government’s dismantling of the US EPA and FEMA.
In our D block, we speak with Nora Moore, 1199SEIU and Grace Bogdanove, vice president of 1199SEIU for Western New York about the serious fallout from the closing of Jennie B. Richmond Nursing Home in rural western NewYork near Buffalo where 40 healthcare workers will lose their jobs.
Moore and Bogdanove warn that more closures are likely with cuts from the federal government to programs like Medicaid.
Over the weekend, clashes continued around Delaney Hall, in Newark, with several arrests reported. In a controversial move, Gov. Sherrill called in the New Jersey State Police and Mayor Baraka declared a 9 PM curfew in the industrial section of the Ironbound.
Inside the private for-profit jail, 300 ICE detainees are in their second week of a hunger and labor strike to protest inhumane conditions in the private jail that's owned by the GEO group, major donors to Donald Trump.
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Andy Kim sounded the alarm that his office was being swamped by calls alleging the detainees were being pepper sprayed and roughed up inside GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Kim had himself been pepper sprayed earlier in the week.
On Democracy Now on Friday, Rep. Analilia Mejia, who has been inside the facility, confirmed that four detainees had been hospitalized after guards used pepper spray and physical force inside Delaney Hall. At a Sunday press conference, Gov. Sherrill said Delaney Hall would resume visits for the families of detainees.
The Times quoted Gov. Sherrill as telling reporters that "violent, chaotic clashes hurt everyone and put the lives of both protesters and law enforcement in danger" while taking the focus away from the people inside Delaney Hall.
