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- As Obama Considers Napolitano For Homeland Security Chief, A Look at Her Immigration Policies as Arizona Governor
- A Conversation With South African Poet and Anti-Apartheid Activist Breyten Breytenbach on His Own Imprisonment, South Africa’s “Failed Revolution,” Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama
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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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June 2002 Archive
Friday, June 28, 2002
- Headlines for June 28, 2002
- Filmmaker Chris Eyre and Marquetta Sheilds, Daughter of Leonard Peltier: A Discussion of Eyre’s Newest Film, “Skins,” Life On the Pine Ridge Reservation, and Justice for Peltier
- A New York State Appeals Court Rules the State Is Only Obliged to Provide An Eighth-Grade Education and Prepare Students for Nothing More Than the Lowest Level Jobs
Thursday, June 27, 2002
- Headlines for June 27, 2002
- The G8 Hides From Protesters in Canada ­ and Decides Africa’s Future
- Federal Court of Appeals Declares Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional, Rules “One Nation Under God” Violates Separation of Church and State
- The History of the Pledge: How It Changed From a Socialist Peace Pledge to a Patriotic Tool to Root Out Communists in the Mccarthy Era
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
- Headlines for June 26, 2002
- Lawmakers, Activists, Health Activists Announce a New Coalition to Put Universal Healthcare Back On the Legislative Agenda
- Hooked Ondrug Companies: As the Pharmaceutical Industry Spends Billions On Gifts for Doctors to Persuade Them to Prescribe Their Medicines, a Debate On Industry Influence in Medicine
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
- Headlines for June 25, 2002
- Supreme Court Rules Judges Can’t Impose Death Penalty, Invalidating the Laws of 5 States and Possibly Freeing Hundreds From Death Row
- The FBI Is Monitoring Our Reading Habits ­ with Or Without Evidence of Terrorism Or Spying
- A San Francisco Chronicle Expose Reveals the FBI Campaigned to Fire the University of California President, Conspired with the CIA to “Eliminate” Liberal Professors, and Helped Ronald Reagan Wi
- Latino Gang Member Turned Peace-Maker Battles “Death Sentence” Deportation
Monday, June 24, 2002
- Headlines for June 24, 2002
- An American Filmmaker Captures Israeli Tanks Opening Fire On a Crowded Jenin Market On Friday: His Eyewitness Account Helps Force the Israeli Military to Admit It Attacked Innocent Civilians
- Filming the Occupation: A Roundtable Discussion with Three Filmmakers
Friday, June 21, 2002
- Headlines for June 21, 2002
- The People’s Historian: Howard Zinn
- The Supreme Court Rules Executing Mentally Retarded Is “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”
Thursday, June 20, 2002
- Headlines for June 20, 2002
- Juan Gonzalez Is Elected President–of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, That Is
- Israeli Forces Bomb Gaza City and Invade West Bank Cities After Latest Suicide Bombing Kills Seven
- Drug Firms Pay $250,000 to Sit at a Gop Fundraiser–Just Two Days After Republicans Unveil An Industry-Backed Prescription Drug Plan
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
- Headlines for June 19, 2002
- On This Juneteenth, the Oldest Known Celebration of the End of Slavery, We Celebrate the Legacy of Activist and Poet June Jordan
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
- Headlines for June 18, 2002
- “The Trials of Henry Kissinger”: As the Former Secretary of State Faces Possible Extradition to Chile for His Role in the 1973 Coup, a New Film Provides Fresh Evidence of War Crimes
- US Marines Come Under Fire in the Philippines and Fire Back, As Bush Decides Whether to Expand Operations There
Monday, June 17, 2002
- Headlines for June 17, 2002
- On the Thirtieth Anniversary of Watergate, One of the Greatest Whistleblowers in US History Recalls
- Bolivia: Proposed Constitutional Reforms Spark a Nationwide March for “Popular Sovereignty, Territory and Natural Resources”
- Poet and Activist June Jordan Dies
- After the Brutal Murder of Maria Teresa Macias By Her Husband, Her Groundbreaking Case Challenges Law Enforcement’s Right to Ignore Domestic Violence with Impunity
Friday, June 14, 2002
- Headlines for June 14, 2002
- As Hamid Karzai Is Elected Head of State and the Loya Jirga Comes to a Close, Afghan Women Seek a Voice
- The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Opens in New York: The Filmmaker of “Missing Young Woman” Discusses the Terrible Secret of a Small Mexican Town
- “Justifiable Homicide:” a Conversation with Filmmaker Jon Osman About the Face of Police Brutality
Thursday, June 13, 2002
- Headlines for June 13, 2002
- Wealthy Nations Feast On Developing Countries at the World Food Summit
- Bringing the Law to Bear On Corporate Power
- Congressman Dennis Kucinich Challenges the “Imperial Presidency”
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
- Headlines for June 12, 2002
- Justice Delayed But Not Denied: Renowned Environmental Leaders Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney Win a Multi-Million Dollar Verdict in Civil Rights Suit Against the FBI
- The Latest U.S. “Terrorist” Suspect, Abdullah Al Muhajir, Is Designated An “Enemy Combatant” and Held Without Charges in a Legal Twilight Zone
- As Bush Re-Focuses National Attention On Homeland Security, Schools Across the Country Face Budget Cuts, High-Stakes Testing, and Privatization
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
- Headlines for June 11, 2002
- Tribal Leaders Pour Into Kabulto Begin the Loya Jirga Process That Will Determine Afghanistan’s Future
- New York’s Westchester County Dispenses “Radiation Pills” As a Precaution Against a Nuclear Disaster at Indian Point Power Plant
- Nuclearizing the World/Breaking the Nuclear Taboo in Japan
Monday, June 10, 2002
- Headlines for June 10, 2002
- Marking 35 Years of Occupation: Israeli Troops Surround Arafat’s Compound As President Bush Meets with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Discuss a New Peace Plan
- As the Venezuelan Media Sows Rumors of Another Coup, a Conversation with Investigative Reporter Greg Palast
Friday, June 07, 2002
- Headlines for June 07, 2002
- As Bush Calls On Congress to Create a New Department of Homeland Security, a Look at Some of the Real Reasons the Government May Have Ignored Clues Leading Up to September 11th
- Artists and Musicians Resist the Israeli Occupation and Bush’s “War On Terror”
- Jewish Musicians Against the Israeli Occupation
Thursday, June 06, 2002
- Headlines for June 06, 2002
- Beyond Ground Zero
- As a Wave of Corporate Crime Sweeps the Country, a Law Professor Proposes Using a Civil War-Era Law to Empower Whistle-Blowers, and Debates a Leading White Collar Criminal Defense Attorney
- Attorney General John Ashcroft Requires Tens of Thousands of Muslim and Middle Eastern Visa Holders to Be Fingerprinted, Photographed, and Registered Before Entering the Country: A Look at Racial Prof
- “Me and My Shadow”: A History of the FBI’s Covert Operations and COINTELPRO
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
- Headlines for June 05, 2002
- Snoops, Snitches, and Provocateurs: As Congress Launches An Investigation Into the Response to September 11th, a Look at the Tactics of the FBI and CIA
- “Me and My Shadow”: A History of the FBI’s Covert Operations and COINTELPRO
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
- Headlines for June 04, 2002
- Under the Nuclear Shadow: As India and Pakistan Falter On the Brink of War, a Conversation with Indian Writer Arundhati Roy
- As Afghans Prepare to Select Their Future Government, a Look at U.S. Operations in Afghanistan
- Posing As An Environmentalist: Bush’s Plan to Buy Back Florida Oil Drilling Leases Angers Californians
Monday, June 03, 2002
- Headlines for June 03, 2002
- The Sum of All Fears: As India and Pakistan Poise for War, a Look at the Level of Destruction a Nuclear Blast Could Cause
- As Israel Sweeps Across the West Bank, the U.S. Begins to Take Tips From Israel On Tightening Security
- Fighting for a Free Media in Palestine: An Interview with Palestinian Journalist Daoud Kuttab
