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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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“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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23 Arrested at Port of Tacoma In Protest to Stop Shipment of Stryker Armored Vehicles to Iraq
In Tacoma, Washington peace activists are continuing campaign to prevent the military from shipping 300 Stryker armored vehicles to Iraq. On Sunday, 23 protesters were arrested including T.J. Johnson who serves in the City Council of Olympia. He just got out of jail and joins us on the phone. [includes rush transcript]
- T.J. Johnson, Olympia City Councilman.
Rush Transcript
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AMY GOODMAN: We wrap up today’s broadcast in Tacoma, Washington, where peace activists are continuing to campaign to prevent the military from shipping 300 Stryker armored vehicles to Iraq. On Sunday, twenty-three protesters were arrested, including T.J. Johnson, who serves in the City Council of Olympia. He just got out of jail and joins us on the phone.
Welcome to Democracy Now!, T.J. Johnson. We just have two minutes. Explain what happened this weekend. Why did you get arrested?
T.J. JOHNSON: We got arrested while performing nonviolent civil disobedience [inaudible] part of the ongoing campaign to prevent the deployment of the fourth Stryker Brigade as part of President Bush’s escalation of the conflict in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: And what exactly did you do?
T.J. JOHNSON: Well, twenty-three people were arrested yesterday. Eight of those people were arrested for violating a ban on backpacks in the protest zone, and they were arrested [inaudible] First Amendment rights. An additional fifteen people, including myself, were arrested as we attempted to deliver a citizens’ injunction to halt the shipment of military material to Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: And what is happening now?
T.J. JOHNSON: Well, all twenty-three of the people arrested yesterday are now out of jail. We were released approximately two hours ago. The campaign to continue our opposition to the use of our publicly funded ports to support the escalation of the conflict in Iraq will continue for as long as it needs to. We’re into this for eight days now. I believe we have a total of thirty people who have been arrested at this point, and spirits are still high and resistance remains strong.
AMY GOODMAN: What kind of support are you getting in the community?
T.J. JOHNSON: Quite a bit. We put out a call for people to witness the action by the twenty-three individuals yesterday, and we had over a hundred people show up there to witness that action, to videotape the action, to take still photographs and to document what was going on, and we continue to receive positive feedback via the website, email, telephone calls, both from throughout western Washington and around the nation.
AMY GOODMAN: T.J. Johnson, I want to thank for being with us, just out of jail, Olympia city councilman protesting Stryker vehicles being sent to Iraq.
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