strongly support major league baseball players if they decide to move the upcoming all-star game from atlanta to protest georgia's new voter suppression laws. meanwhile the ceos for delta airlines and coca-cola finally came out in opposition to georgia's clampdown on voting rights, nearly a week after the legislation was signed and amid mounting public scrutiny and threats to boycott the companies over their inaction. and in texas, the criminal appeals court has agreed to review the case of crystal mason, a black resident and mother who was sentenced to five years in prison for filling out a provisional ballot in 2016. mason had no idea she was not allowed to vote due to her criminal record and her ballot was never counted. she spoke with democracy now! in 2018. >> i just feel right now that the system failed me. you get out and rehabilitate yourself, you get a job and you graduate. you are doing everything right. why would i go and vote to go back? why would i do something like that to lose my kids again and do it all over? amy: you can see the full interview at democracynow.org. those are s

we go now to atlanta where we are joined by cliff albright, cofounder and executive director of black voters matter. talk about the significance of this building movement after the bill was signed. talk about what you are calling for. >> thanks for having me. we are still calling for corporate accountability from these georgia's companies that as you said came out too late to oppose the bill here in georgia. but we always say there is never too late to do the right thing. what can these companies do and what are we demanding they still do first of all, in georgia it is not too late to still do with this bill. we are calling for vote repeal. we're calling for a of this voter suppression law. and we're calling for these companies to divest future support they've given to the people. part othe reason we call these companieout. we talk about coca-cola and delta and ups, because not only are they grgia-based but they have previously given significant resources to the very sponsors of the voter suppression bill. not just to republican party in general, not just to republican legislators in

already president biden has pointed in asian-american liaison after the atlanta murders. talk about my specifically you want it to be a does she want in addition, a sikh american liaison and why you want president biden to go to sikh beauties to educate the public. >> i appreciate that question. why is it in morton for president biden to go to indianapolis? we have called on him to do so. i hope he does. part of the reason is in this country, there are messages that are sent from the top down that really impact how we see one another. we saw that during donald trump's psidency and we are saying it again in president biden's presidency. we know that leadership and gestures matter. we're not asking him to come to indianapolis because we need him to validate our pain or extence. we know we matter. we know we have inherent human dignity like everyone else. but we also believe it is importt for him to show that in a moment like this, our community's are part of the american family. if our leadership is going to other sites in situations like this to express our condolences and

major league baseball announced it will move its all-star game and draft out of atlanta to protest georgia's recently passed voter suppression law. the highly contested legislation adds new voter id requirements, shortens the window for absentee voting, severely limits ballot drop boxes, and grants the state power to intervene in elections in democratic counties. and in labor news, over 1300 steelworkers in pennsylvania, ohio, new york, massachusetts, and connecticut are entering their second week on strike. united steelworkers says allegheny technologies has refused to bargain in good faith with workers who are demanding fair wages, job security, and better healthcare. meanwhile, in alabama, over 1000 mineworkers are on strike at warrior met coal. amazon workers from bessemer, about 30 minutes away from the mines, have been joining strikers on the picket line. votes are still being tallied in bessemer in what could become amazon's first ever union. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show wit

but as an asian-american reporter, when you saw the attack that took place in atlanta, the murders, victoria, immediately you had ople like mayor de blasio -- your response? " we rely on police and prisons to keep us safer, we end up being complicit in with the doant of the relaxed -- garmin did. it shrinks our ability to imagine ourselves as bystanders. the same time, the man who assaulted the 65-year-old had a history of arrest. he also had a prior prison sentence for killing his mother when he was 19 years old. records show a few monthbefore he killed his mother, police were called to his house because he was experiencing a mental health crisis. clearly, the police did not address them until health crisis because they are not mental health workers. prison did not address his violent behavior because he came out and assaulted a 65-year-old woman. it did not address and perhaps exacerbated his racism because he was yelling anti-asian slurs. what we need to remember is prisons are not actually addressing any of the root causes. they do not help people get at her and they often make people wo

amy: in related news, atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms issued an executive order tuesday designed to mitigate the impact of georgia's new voting restrictions. the actions will center on educating voters, helping them obtain identification, and training city staff on how to assist voters. virginia has become the 16th state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first in the south. adults 21 and over will be allowed to possess an ounce or less starting july 1. the bill also includes pro-labor measures and efforts to benefit communities of color that have been disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. this is virginia democratic delegate charniele herring of alexandria. >> other states such as colorado, vermont, new jersey in the past few days new york, it the same choice. this is because there is a straightforward been justice punishing people for something we have already agreed should be legal, especially when we know the punishments e given out and equitably. amy: in chicago, amazon over-night workers walked off the job wednesday to protest what'known as the megacycle. th

police identified the killer as phillip adams, a 33-year-old former nfl star who played for the atlanta falcons and san francisco 49ers. adams had a history of head injuries, including two concussions in a span of three games during the 2012 season. adams' father said his son had no history of violence, telling reporters -- "i can say he's a good kid. i think thfootball messed him up." president biden ordered a series of executive actions on gun control thursday, calling gun violence in the u.s. an epidemic and an international embarrassment. biden's orders will crack down on so- called ghost guns -- easily-assembled firearms bought over the internet without serial numbers, which account for about a third of guns recovered at crime scenes. biden called for an expansion of red flag laws that allow family members or law enforcement to temporarily block people from obtaining firearms if they present a danger. he also called on congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and said gun manufacturers should be held liable for deaths and injuries resulting from their products.