Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t
Meeting with putin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes yowill. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after his successor president Dilma Rousseff, also , of the workers party, was impeached by the Brazilian Senate in a move many have denounced as a coup. Lula has been accused
Winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. Plus we speakak with an greenwad about the latest allegations of russia meddling in the 2016 election a and trumps recentnt memeeting with putinin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes you will. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the e Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula a da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after
Put your hands together. They will continue to perform throughout the night. Im going to be your host throughout the evening thank you for coming out. Its an incredibly important piece of work. [applause] [cheering] it is incredibly important work when you think the president is setting up policies, targeted assassination, terrorist watch lists and violating peoples civil liberties. So thats why its so important that we do see this kind of work into College Policies because of for the most part i think that when people are uninformed, then they cant necessarily push back. Then things like drum strikes and targeted assassinations or killings as the government likes to call them to come the butt of jokes. I dont know if you watch any of the speeches given by the president and larry will mark this past weekend but they make jokes about raining down bombs on people so thats why its so important that this work is really out there. Thats one thing that i would like to say. [applause] also, i
Targeted assassination of terrorist watch list and really violating peoples Civil Liberties and so thats why its so important that we do see this kind of work and really acknowledge those policies because for the most part they are happening in secret and under secrecy and so when people are uninformed, then they cant necessarily push back when they are far removed from these types of policy they become detentize. They make jokes about raining down bombs on people and thats why its important that this work is out there. Thats one thing i would like to say. [cheers and applause] also its so important that we have these journalists that are doing what they do. A job that puts journalists at risk and thats because aggressive policies and the freedom of speech should be very clear and its a rarity. I was in washington, d. C. This weekend surrounding the events of the white house Correspondence Dinner and its not the same people that you see there winning and dining here in brooklyn. I didn