Whistleblowers and with a reporter who documented their ordeal in a Major Investigation for the intercept called the code of silence. New york police have fatally shot a 66 euros africanamerican woman who suffered from schizophrenia. In her own home in the bronx after a neighbor called 911. Mayor de blasio has condemned the shooting. 66 years old, known to the nypd as someone who srerereuffed from Mental Illness. In the of Deborah Danner is tragic and it is unacceptable. Amy we will get reaction on this and a number of other issues from shaun king, a black lives matter activist and senior justice writer for the daily news. We always get a lot of talk about holies brutality. In this most recent shooting, the mayor and the Police Commissioner acknowledge it is wrong, even apologize. That is just talk. We need to get to the point where we have justice and accountability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman
Studios, along with cnn, tnt, hbo, and many other brands. We will get reaction from craig aaron from free press and Electronic Frontier foundation. Then to the standoff at Standing Rock. What we saw today is basically just another part of 500 years of colonization and aggressive and aggression. Amy hundreds of police with military equipment have raided a resistance camp established by native American Water protectors in the path of the Dakota Access pipeline. We will go to Standing Rock for a life of dave. In venezuela, opposition leaders have called for National Strike unless the election board allows for a stalled referendum recall president maduro. I am still asking, if not dialogue, what . What is the alternative to dialogue . War, confrontation between venezuela men and women . Amy we will speak with mark weisbrot. His new article. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In north dakota, hundreds of he
Surprise new movie, filmed before a Live Audience at the Murphy Theatre in wilmington, ohio, where there are 25,000 registered voters in the county and only 500 of them are registered democrats. This is not a film that is an hour and a half bashing trump. You already know everything about him. I do want to say what im going to vote for her. I have huge political disagreements with her. The obvious ones, the war, too cozy with wall street, etc. , etc. But there are also these things about her that i think are pretty decent and good. They never get talked about. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In turkey, the two leaders and at least 10 other lawmakers of the leftist prokurdish People Democratic party, known as the hdp. Its the Third Largest party in the turkish parliament. Social media was also reportedly shut down across the largely kurdish Southeast Region of turkey. This comes amid a widening cra
Cities around the country, voicing fears of trumps political triumph will deal a blow to civil rights and civil liberties. I think a lot of people out fear are expressing their that some of what president elect trump has a good negatively affect their lives in the familys lives. I think theyre doing the right thing to make your voices heard early on. Amy we will look at the movement that is building against trump with becky bond, former Senior Advisor on volunteer mobilization for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Her new book, rules for revolutionaries how big organizing can change everything. Conference go to the in atlanta to speak with a chicano feminist and social Movement Strategist at the most who helped organize protests here in new york outside trump tower. Saturday amago this a indonesian soldiers armed with weapons opened fire on timorese civilians, killing more than 270 of them. Lost one sister and two brothers. It was 10 days. The army was shooting people. People would die at o
Becometrump who may soon the only world leader who does not believe in Climate Change. We will get the latest on the u. N. Climate summit and look at an issue that has barely received coverage here the Moroccan Occupation of the Western Sahara which many consider to be africas last colony. That areimate talks this month, is an excellent king and theor the Community Around him to whitewash the decline, the oppression, authoritarianism, and also make people forget about the occupation that has been ongoing for more than four decades in Western Sahara. Amy we will speak to a britishalgerian activist who was blocked from entering Western Sahara during the u. N. Climate summit and we will go to , the streets of marrake to speak with Syrian Refugeesho have fled here to escape war. I want to ask him why and they want to close the borders first. Syrias have suffered very much. Why should they close the border in our faces . They should help us because we have gone through a lot of suffering an