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\u2014We look at the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. Two long-time peace activists Kathy Kelly and Medea Benjamin talk about the latest from Afghanistan, why the U.S.-backed regime collapsed so quickly and what the future may hold. Kathy Kelly is the co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She visited Afghanistan many times over the past decade and worked with peace activists there. Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of Code Pink Women for Peace. She also visited Afghanistan a number of times during the U.S. occupation.\n\u2014Marika Plater has extensively studied and written about the NYC public park system. She is the lead source in The Indypendent's August cover story, 'Parks for the People.' We look at the history of the class struggle around NYC parks. \n\u2014Reverend Billy Talen talks more about parks and the fight for the planet. He was part of a failed effort in 2015 to get Monsanto's Roundup pesticide out of the NYC parks system. Billy also just came back from Minnesota where there's a huge battle led by indigenous people over a tar-sands pipeline, the "new Standing Rock," he says.