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- As UC Berkeley Investigates Police Brutality Against Students Protesting Fee Hikes, a Report From Inside the Takeover of Wheeler Hall
- Portland’s Cannabis Cafe is the First Marijuana Coffee Shop of Its Kind in the Country
- Two Former Bagram Detainees Held Without Charge Describe Torture and Wrongful Imprisonment
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- By 60-39 Vote, Senate Agrees to Open Debate on Healthcare Bill
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Friday, November 20, 2009
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- As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
- On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest “School of the Assassins” at Ft. Benning
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Mail Tribune of Southern Oregon news story on Amy Goodman’s stop in Ashland, OR
The Mail Tribune newspaper of Southern Oregon published a story on Amy Goodman’s tour stop in Ashland, Oregon.
Reporter Paris Achen wrote, "Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, told a crowd of about 300 people at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University Sunday night that print and TV media have failed to provide balanced and contextual coverage of the most critical issues facing Americans, including health care reform and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Next stops on the tour: Portland, Astoria, OR, Olympia, WA, Bellingham, WA, Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Port Angeles WA, Bainbridge Island WA, Seattle, Everett, Boulder CO, Minneapolis, Wash. DC, Philadelphia, NYC See the tour site:
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Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
“Over 1 billion people are chronically hungry,” says the U.N., yet it would take only $44 billion per year to end hunger globally.
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Lou Dobbs Resigns From CNN
The controversial TV anchor has resigned from CNN amid a campaign to force him off the air due to his reporting on Latinos and immigrants. Past Democracy Now! Coverage of Lou Dobbs:
- Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez’s 2007 interview with Lou Dobbs
- Amy Goodman’s column ‘The Dubious Mr. Dobbs’
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The Man Who Put the Rainbow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during the Great Depression by Oscar-winning lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg.
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The Tortured Logic Continues
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
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Trick or Treat for Climate Change
Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country
Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
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May 2001 Archive
Thursday, May 31, 2001
- Headlines for May 31, 2001
- Indonesian Parliament Demands the Impeachment of President Wahid As Thousands of Wahid Supporters Battle Police
- Warden and 3 Corrections Officers Are Fired After Middle School Students Visiting a Jail Are Strip-Searched
- Privatizing Public Health: Washington, D.C. Shuts Down Its Only Public Hospital After 200 Years
- “Compassionate Conservatism” for the Rich? Legislators Scrap Provisions in the $1.3 Trillion Tax Cut Which Would Have Increased Donations to Charities
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
- Headlines for May 30, 2001
- Saving Private Ryan, Or Serving Private Power? Corporate Money and Public History at the Smithsonian
- Pearl Harbor: The Corporatization of History, Part II
- Rupert Murdoch Closes in On a Deal to Buy Direct TV; More Layoffs As Abc and CNN Struggle to Compete with Murdoch’s Fox News Service for Ratings
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
- Headlines for May 29, 2001
- Massachusetts Congressperson Joe Moakley, Dies of Leukemia at Age 74
- A Leading African-American Abortion Doctor Is Sentenced to Almost 5 Years in Prison in Analleged Extortion Case
- An Interview with the Late Great Cuban Photographer Alberto Korda, Famous for His Pictures of Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution; He Died Last Week
- White Supremacist Groups Spark Britain’s Worst Racial Violence in Years
Monday, May 28, 2001
- Headlines for May 28, 2001
- Brazilian Photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado and Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano On Theintersection of Art and Politics
Friday, May 25, 2001
- Headlines for May 25, 2001
- Death of 14 Immigrants in Arizona Desert Spotlights Human Costs of the Militarization Ofu.S.-Mexico Border
- Vermont Senator James Jeffords Defects From Republican Party; Democrats, Now in Control of US Senate for First Time Since 1994, Have Already Compromised On Controversial Bush Nominee Ted Olsen and Bus
- Jailing of Puerto Rican Leaders and Civil Rights Activists Outrages Opponents of US Bombingof Vieques
Thursday, May 24, 2001
- Headlines for May 24, 2001
- Al Sharpton and Puerto Rican Leaders Sentenced to 40-90 Days for Protesting the Navy’sbombing of Vieques; 24 People Sentenced Prison for Trespassing On the School of the Americas
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Announces That Israel Will Not Halt Construction Ofillegal Settlements in Occupied Territories. A Discussion On the Role of the US in the Mideast Peaceprocess with
- Citigroup Buys Mexico’s Strongest Bank; It’s the Biggest Corporate Deal in Mexican History
Wednesday, May 23, 2001
- Headlines for May 23, 2001
- Sen. James M. Jeffords May Leave Republican Party, Effectively Transferring Control of the Senate to the Democrats
- Clinton Administration Knew Joint Aerial Patrols and Intelligence Sharing with Colombia and Peru Risked Killing Civilians, Violating International Law
- Privatizing the Drug War; How the CIA Enlists Private Companies to Evade Congressional Scrutiny of Growing US Military Involvement in Colombia and Peru
- Outraged Members of Congress Move to Halt US Funding of Secret Armies in the Andes
- Indigenous Leaders Speak Out Against U.S. War in Latin America
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
- Headlines for May 22, 2001
- Federal Death Row Inmate Juan Raul Garza, Set for Execution On June 19th, Asks President Bush for Clemency
- Confidential Bush Administration Review Urges Scrapping Protocol Enforcing Ban of Biologicalweapons: A Look at the Role of the Biotech and Drug Industries, and the Pentagon
- San Francisco Judge Dismisses Harassment Charges Against a Union Activist Who Says He Wasexercising Free Speech
- South Carolina Jury Convicts Drug Addicted Mother for Murder in Stillbirth
Monday, May 21, 2001
- Headlines for May 21, 2001
- Israel Bombs the Occupied Territories with U.S. Fighter Jets for First Time Since 1967 War; Hanan Ashrawi, Member of Palestinian Legislative Council and Terry Greenblatt, Director of Israeli Women’s P
- A British University Accepts $6 Million From British American Tobacco to Establish An"International Center for Corporate Responsibility"; Editor of British Medical Journal Resigns Inprotest
Friday, May 18, 2001
- Headlines for May 18, 2001
- Does Knight Fear the Light of Day? A New Report On Nike Exposes CEO Phil Knight’s Failedpromises
- Mayor of York, Pa Surrenders On Murder Charges for the Killing of a Young Black Woman 30years Ago; the Former Police Officer Is Accused of Handing Bullets to White Gang Members and Saying,"Kill As Man
- Eighty-Eight Year Old Nun, New York School Teacher Among 26 Facing Prison Time for Protesting U.S. Army School of the Americas
Thursday, May 17, 2001
- Headlines for May 17, 2001
- Student Journalists in Illinois Battle Censorship: The Principal Says No the Newspapers, Sothey Go Online
- Bush Unveils His Much Anticipated National Energy Policy: Today, a Debate Between the Formerdirector of Oil, Economic and Energy Tax Policy in the D.O.E. Under Presidents Reagan and Bush Whomdick Chen
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
- Headlines for May 16, 2001
- 27 People Arrested Outside of U.N., Protesting Bombing of Vieques
- Italy Elects Its Richest Man As Prime Minister, Who Now Owns Or Controls the Country’s 5 Largest TV Stations
- The Embattled Studios of Czech TV
- FBI Withholds Documents and Campaigns Against the Release of Leonard Peltier
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
- Headlines for May 15, 2001
- What Do Monsanto, Exxon-Mobil, Dow Chemical and Pfizer Have in Common? They Fund the Research for a Man Bush Has Nominated to Oversee Government Regulations
- Did Timothy Mcveigh Act Alone? Country’s Leading Forensic Sketch Artist Asks Why FBI Neverlooked for Other Suspects in the Oklahoma City Bombing
- The World Reacts to the FBI’s Withholding of Thousands of Pages of Documents in Timothymcveigh’s Case, Lawyers for Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Ask Why FBI Has Notreleased Docum
Monday, May 14, 2001
- Headlines for May 14, 2001
- “The Oklahoma Conspiracy”: Was Mcveigh the Lone Bomber? A Conversation with Investigativereporter Andrew Gumbel
- National Labor Committee Exposes a Suppressed Salvadoran Government Report Detailing Workingconditions in Factories Making Clothes for Nike, Walmart, the Gap and Others; Anti-Sweatshop Movementtargets
Friday, May 11, 2001
- Headlines for May 11, 2001
- Six Days Before the Scheduled Execution of Timothy Mcveigh, FBI Hands Mcveigh’s Lawyersthousands of Formerly Withheld Documents: A Conversation with Mcveigh’s Attorney
- Thousands Protest Asian Development Bank Meeting in Hawaii
- Art and Revolution, Puppets and Protest
- Zapatista Muralist and Painter Antonio Ramirez Discusses His Illustrations of Subcomandantemarcos’ Folktales, and the Politics of Art and Censorship
Thursday, May 10, 2001
- Headlines for May 10, 2001
- Bob Kerrey, American War Crimes, and the International Criminal Court: A Debate
- My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage: Anti-Vietnam War Activist Speaks About Bob Kerrey, Henrykissinger, and Everyone’s Responsibility
- Should Henry Kissinger Be Tried As a War Criminal? A Debate Between Author Christopherhitchens and Former State Department Official Michael Scharf
Wednesday, May 09, 2001
- Headlines for May 09, 2001
- As More States Adopt Mandatory High-Stakes Testing for All Public School Students, a Debateon Whether Testing Is Good for Kids and Schools
- Harvard Students End 19 Day Sit-in, Winning Wage Concessions for Workers From the Wealthiestuniversity in the Country; a Look at the Board of Harvard and the Corporatization of Universitiesacross the
Tuesday, May 08, 2001
- Headlines for May 08, 2001
- Lawyers for Lori Berenson Call for Judge in Case to Step Down, Charging Bias and Links Toperu’s Fugitive Ex-Spy Chief Vladimiro Montesinos
- Thousands Strike Against the Private Nursing Home Industry in Connecticut
- “Harlem Ain’t Nothin’ But a Third World Country”: As Harlem Gentrifies, Large Corporationsteam Up with Giuliani Administration to Prevent Activists From Annual Malcolm X March
Monday, May 07, 2001
- Headlines for May 07, 2001
- Reporter Speaks About How Witnessing a Botched Execution Changed His Life
- As Trial Over the Killing of Bishop Gerardi Continues, An American Nun Is Slain in Guatemala
- Media Attacks Democracy Now! Questions for Former Senator Bob Kerrey About War Crimes
- Ani Difranco, Part II: Radical Musician Ani Difranco Discusses Anti-Vietnam War Activism,Ralph Nader and the Green Party, and Music and Social Change
Friday, May 04, 2001
- Headlines for May 04, 2001
- U.S. Kicked Off of U.N. Human Rights Commission
- Judge Again Blocks Efforts By Private Citizens to Post Bail for a Man Charged with Selling a$10 Bag of Heroin
- Radical Musician Ani Difranco Talks and Sings About Politics, Feminism, Sexuality, Marriage,and Racism, Following the Release of Her 14th Independently Produced Album, Revelling/Reckoning
Thursday, May 03, 2001
- Headlines for May 03, 2001
- Independent Radio Producer David Isay Releases the Only Recordings of Executions Ever Made in the United States
- Recordings of An Execution: The Electrocution of a Mentally Retarded Man
- Democracy Now! Broadcasts for the First Time a Complete Recording of a Botched Execution;and, the Final Statements of Three Condemned Men
Wednesday, May 02, 2001
- Headlines for May 02, 2001
- President Bush Calls for National Missile Defense System, Ignoring Warnings From Around the World of a Newglobal Arms Race
- Copper and Gold Mining Giant Freeport Mcmoran Receives Council From the Former Head of Theinternational Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia; a Democracy Now! Exclusive with a West Papuanenvironmental Act
Tuesday, May 01, 2001
- Headlines for May 01, 2001
- Harvard Students Enter Day 13 of a Sit-in Demanding a Living Wage for Harvard Workers
- Day 1 of a Series On Art and Revolution: Artist Hulbert Waldroupe Paints a Mural in Honor Ofamadou Diallo, and Is Threatened with Arrest
- Radical Hip-Hop Artist and Activist Michael Franti Discusses the Politics of Music
