Today’s Show

• Headlines
• Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single Hispanic Women: $120, Single White Women: $41,000
• Part II: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
• Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Funding

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

• Headlines
• Doris “Granny D” Haddock (1910-2010): Remembering Legendary Campaign Finance Reform Activist
• Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich Takes on Democratic Leaders with Insistence on Public Option, Call for Afghan Withdrawal

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• Headlines
• 7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov’t

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

• Headlines
• 105,000 Tattoos: Iraqi Artist Wafaa Bilal Turns His Own Body into a Canvas to Commemorate Dead Iraqis & Americans
• The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World’s Worst Polluters

BLOG

• Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court

  An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer.

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  Filed under Weekly Column

• Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weedkiller

  Sixteen Midwestern towns and cities have sued the manufacturer of a popular weedkiller over drinking water contamination. Atrazine has been banned in the European Union since 2004 but here in the United States about 80 million pounds of Atrazine is used each year. A recent study found that the weedkillers can turn male frogs into females.

  See our earlier segment on Atrazine and the EPA

  Filed under News

• Web Exclusive

  Part II: Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch on "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"

  

  Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interviewed Diane Ravitch in the Democracy Now! studios last week. You can see Part One of their conversation here. After the broadcast, they continued the conversation.

  Filed under Web Exclusive

• WATCH: Is the Medium the Message? Corporatization of the Media

  The Huffington Post’s Kimberly Butler interviewed Amy Goodman and others in this two part online video series.

  Filed under D.N. in the News

• Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?

  March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world.

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  Filed under Weekly Column

• Cracking Down on Fracking

  Mike Markham of Colorado has an explosive problem: His tap water catches fire.

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  Filed under Weekly Column

• Catch Amy Goodman on C-SPAN2’s Book TV this Saturday for Howard Zinn Tribute.

  Tune in to C-SPAN2’s Book TV on Saturday, February 27th at 1pm ET and midnight for a tribute to historian Howard Zinn with Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman, Marian Wright Edelman and Bernice Johnson Reagon and many others.

  Filed under D.N. in the News

• Obama’s Nuclear Option

  President Barack Obama is going nuclear. He announced the initial $8 billion in loan guarantees for construction of the first new nuclear power plants in the United States in close to three decades.

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  Filed under Weekly Column

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