Greek Voters Overwhelmingly Reject More Austerity in Bailout Referendum and Bree Newsome: As SC Lawmakers Debate Removing Confederate Flag, Meet the Activist Who Took It Down
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Democracy Now – July 3, 2015
“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’ Historic Speech;”This Flag Comes Down Today”: Bree Newsome Scales SC Capitol Flagpole, Takes Down Confederate Flag;”We Shall Overcome”: Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger in His Own Words & Songs
“A New Chapter”: After Half a Century, U.S. and Cuba Unveil Reopening of Embassies & Restored Ties; As France Suspends Soldiers for Child Sexual Abuse, Will UN Tackle Impunity for Western Peacekeepers? As Black Churches Burn Across the South, Are White Supremacist Attacks Continuing After Charleston?
Is Puerto Rico America’s Greece? U.S. Commonwealth Seeks Bankruptcy Help in Face of Crushing Debt; Rep. Nydia Velázquez: Freedom for Oscar López Rivera Unites Puerto Ricans Across Political Lines; After Marriage Equality & Obamacare, Mixed Results from SCOTUS on Abortion, Pollution, Executions; NJ Gov. Chris Christie Faces Economic Turmoil at Home as He Seeks GOP … Continued
As Greece Heads for Default, Voters Prepare to Vote in Pivotal Referendum on More Austerity; Historic Iran Nuclear Deal Hangs in the Balance as Talks Enter Final Round; Egypt’s Power Struggle Intensifies with Killing of Prosecutor Behind Mass Jailings of Islamists; Amid Warnings of Famine, Yemeni Civilians Trapped Inside Conflict with No End in Sight; … Continued
Love Wins: After Decades of Struggle, Marriage Equality Now the Law of the Land; With Marriage Equality Won, LGBTQ Activism Continues for Bias Protections & Overlooked Trans Issues; “This Flag Comes Down Today”: Bree Newsome Scales SC Capitol Flagpole, Removing Confederate Flag.
“The 9/11 of the Black Church”: Mourners Flock to SC as Funerals Begin for Emanuel Massacre Victims; “Slavery Deeply Embedded” in South Carolina: Emanuel AME Church on Street Named for Racist Lawmaker; Rev. Al Sharpton: Removing the Confederate Flag is Welcome–But 150 Years Too Late; 4 Decades After Burning Confederate Flag, SC Activist Brett Bursey … Continued
The Death Penalty is Revenge, Not Healing: Father of OKC Victim on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Sentencing; Does U.S. Ignore Right-Wing Terror? More Killed by White Extremists Than Jihadists Since 9/11; Did Chris Christie Send Entrapped Innocents to Jail? Re-examining the Case of the Fort Dix 5; Undocumented Trans Activist Jennicet Gutiérrez Challenges Obama on Deportations at … Continued
Celebration Day at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? A Debate on Who Benefits from the TPP; “I Am Not Nonviolent”: New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist’s Uncompromising Voice.
Democracy Now – June 23, 2015
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.