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Shows featuring Cindy Sheehan
Founder of Peace of the Action
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Cindy Sheehan Sets Up "Camp OUT NOW " in Antiwar Protest
We go to Washington, DC to speak with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, founder of the group Peace of the Action, who has set up a camp near the Washington Monument calling on President Obama to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sheehan’s son Casey was killed while serving in Iraq on April 4, 2004. [includes rush transcript]March 19, 2010 | Story -
Los Angeles Judge throws out conviction of Jeronimo Pratt 27 years after his jailing.
Amy is joined by Julian Drous, an attorney for Pratt. Judge Everett Dickey has found that the prosecutions key witness in 1972, Julius Butler, was a convicted criminal and was working as an informant for the police. There will have to be a retrial or the case will be thrown away and Pratt will go free.June 02, 1997 | Story
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McLibel
In 1990, McDonald’s filed a libel suit against two activists
involved with London Greenpeace in England for allegedly
distributing a six-sided fact sheet entitled "What’s Wrong With
McDonald’s?" The pamphlet criticized McDonald’s
environmental record and questioned the nutritional value of
burger and fries.McLibel — as the case is known — is now the...
March 26, 1997 | Story
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Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
