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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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Podcasting & Torrents
Coloradans File Federal Lawsuit Charging White House Staffers with Unlawful Removal During Bush “Town-Hall-Style” Event
Two Denver residents filed a federal lawsuit last week after being forcibly removed in March 2005 from an event with President Bush for their perceived political views. We speak with Alex Young and Leslie Weise about the details of the case. [includes rush transcript]
President Bush is arriving in Denver today where he is scheduled to make an appearance at a fundraising dinner for Colorado Congressmember Marilyn Musgrave and boost her campaign fund for the 2006 mid-term elections. While the guest list for the event is being finalized, two Denver residents are definitely not invited–Leslie Weise and Alex Young.
Last March, they attended a Bush town hall discussion on privatizing Social Security in Denver. Even though they had tickets for the event, they were promptly ejected from the building along with their friend Karen Bauer. This allegedly because of a bumper sticker on their car reading, “No More Blood for Oil.” Eight of the nine members of the Colorado congressional delegation have publicly condemned the incident. Both Democrats and Republicans have called for answers from the White House. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of Weise and Young, charging White House event staffers with unlawfully removing the two from the event.
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- Leslie Weise
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Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: Leslie Weise and Alex Young join us on the phone right now from Denver. We welcome you both. At the time we talked to you, Alex, when Democracy Now! was broadcasting from Denver, you didn’t know who it was who was wearing an earpiece, and you thought he was Social Security, that told you to get out. You know now?
ALEX YOUNG: We thought he was the Secret Service, actually. Amy. But, you know, basically, we’ve learned that this person is Mike Casper, and he’s a federal employee. He’s done security at two [inaudible] before. But most importantly, I think, it’s important to follow the earpiece and find out who was giving orders to the White House event staffers in Denver on that day and how high up in the White House this policy of removing citizens went. Was Karl Rove involved in drafting it? I think that’s an important question.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, you have sued who, Leslie?
LESLIE WEISE: We have sued—we’ve named Mike Casper. And we’ve named Jay Bob Klinkerman, who were two of the people we know were involved in our physical removal from the event that day. We’ve also named five other unnamed defendants, because there were other people involved in our removal that we don’t know who the identities of these people are, but we intend to find out through the discovery process of the litigation.
AMY GOODMAN: Alex, why you saying Karl Rove has some connection here?
ALEX YOUNG: Well, it would just make sense. It’s obviously a policy that’s in place across the nation, from Fargo, North Dakota, where 42 people were removed—or not removed, but not allowed to even get tickets to the event, because they had published letters critical of the President in the newspaper, to the very same day we were removed, there was a student who was removed in Arizona for having a t-shirt on that had a Democratic slogan on it. Then you have all other places across the nation, from Oregon to New Hampshire, people are just not allowed into these events because of their political viewpoints. It’s obviously a policy, and we just want to know how high up in the administration it goes.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I know there’s going to be a protest outside the Brown Palace this morning in protest of the Bush visit. Will you both be there?
ALEX YOUNG: I think I’m going to take break on this one. It would probably be in poor taste to be there, since we’re already suing people inside of the administration to try to disclose this policy. But I definitely think that people need to respect the viewpoints of all Americans, whether or not they’re in line with—
AMY GOODMAN: Alex Young, we have to leave it there. Alex and Leslie Weise, I want to thank you very much for being with us.
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