Trial of four former blackwater operatives accused of killing 14 iraqi civilians in Nisoor Square blackwaters youngest victim, a documentary by the oscarnominated filmmaker s. Then we go to hong kong, china, or thousands protested over the weekend, 19 members of occupied arrested calling for greater political freedom. First, two federal judges issue major rulings to prevent most of the Abortion Clinics in texas and all of them in louisiana from closing. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fighting continues to rage in Eastern Ukraine amidst a worsening standoff between kiev and moscow. Separatist rebels have taken from ukrainianas forces. Ukraine says Russian Forces are directly involved, with president poroshenko accusing moscow of direct and open aggression. On monday, russian renewed calls for ceasefire between the Ukrainian Government and the separatist, but ukraine has vowed to continue the fight sayi
Politically correct term of latinos as hispanics. Id like you to dig into that and tell me why you refer to come are supposed put it this way. How dare you refer to break out of the politically correct bubble of latinos and refer to hispanics. What are the roots of that . Guest thank you for that question. I think both terms are in a way false in their own way. I think the term hispanic, for example, is the product of the bureaucracy. Bureaucrats working in the Nixon Administration in the 1970s were all of a sudden faced with this big influx of new immigrants. Because of the laws were changed in the 1960s, a lot of home were immigrants from latin america including me and my family by the way. We came here in 1974, and it was almost like they did know how to handle this multitude of people. More important than that, this is the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act which was created for africanamericans and then all of a sudden the bureaucracy and many of the leaders, the activists of these
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