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Democracy Now! – May 20, 2014

Sen. Al Franken: Media Mega-Mergers and FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality Threaten Democracy; Too Big To Jail? Credit Suisse Bank Pleads Guilty to Decades of Tax Evasion, But Execs Avoid Prison; As Another Major Bank Avoids Jail, Occupy Wall Street Protester Cecily McMillan Gets 3-Month Term; Snowden Docs Reveal NSA, DEA Teamed Up to Record Every Cell Phone Call in Bahamas; Remembering Historian Vincent Harding, Who Drafted Dr. Martin Luther King’s Anti-Vietnam War Speech.

Headlines
May 20, 2014

    Thai Military Imposes Martial Law
    U.S. Charges 5 Chinese Army Members with Economic Spying
    Cleric Convicted of Terrorism in New York
    Execution Stay Denied for Missouri Prisoner with Rare Condition
    Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge in Tax Case
    Abramson Salutes Anita Hill in Wake Forest Commencement Speech
    “Yes Men” Artist Unveils Fossil Fuel Divestment at Reed College in Commencement Prank
    OWS Activist Cecily McMillan Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail
    Utah Told to Honor Same-Marriage Marriages; Ban Lifted in Oregon
    Historian, MLK Speechwriter Vincent Harding Dies at 82

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