Scandal that led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman schultz, thehe partys chair. We will get the latest on the leaked dnc emails and why Bernie Sanders supporters oppose the selection of tim kaine as her running mate. And we will go to the streets of philadelphia, where thousands marched sunday calling for democrats to embrace clean energy solutions. Pennsylvanians against fracking. It represents the things fracking has taken from us, clean air and clean water. It has taken people, our friends, that we can never get back. It has takaken our bush andnd or wildlife. It has taken justice away from us. Amy we will hear from two of the founding members of the newly formed group, National Puerto rican agenda, which held an allllday summit in new jers, and we will speak with a longtime Philadelphia Community activist who recently became part of the Philadelphia City council. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, were breaking with convention war,
250, a longawaited british inquiry slams former Prime Minister tony blair for backing the 2003 u. S. Invasion that destroyed iraq and desestabilizd the region. We will speak to tariq ali and exile Sami Ramadani in london. Into bangladesh and saudi arabia, whicich both suffered is attacks this week during the final days of the holy month of ramadan. We will spspeak to islamic schor Tariq Ramadan in oxford and go to bangladesh. The militant groups are taking our innocent young people and in the name of religion, their misguiding them and sending them too the deathtrap. Isislam is a religion of peace. It does not support killing innocent people. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The federal bureau of investigation is not recommending charges against democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of multiple private email servers while she was secretary of state. This comes despite fbi
Outdoor set is harvard prefer Randall Kennedy. A frequent guest on booktv and an cspan and his most recent book which came out last year, which he is talking about down here in miami for discrimination race affirmative action and the law. Has affirmative action been successful in this country. Verse successful. Helped with the desegregation of American Life, particularly in Higher Education and employment and i think that it has done a very good job in a variety of ways. It has helped to rectify past injustice. It has helped to bring into important discussions people who had here to for been excluded and, therefore, enriched our public debate and our learning in various schools. So i think it has been a success. That certainly is what i argue in my book. Host where did you come um with the title . Guest the last thing that was part of this project. I did not have a working title. Book had to be published and i needed a title. The man who came up with the title is my editor. I had come
Government as separate is a real mistake. Threequarters of people who work for federal government are actually private contractors. And you see this blended government on all levels. So i just would peek to that point. Yeah speak to that point. Yeah. And i appreciate you including me, that was nice. [laughter] i feel strongly about this. I feel strongly, first, i agree with zephyr. This is one of those things that rallies people, and thats exciting and powerful. And second, the corporate personhood issue is a problem in a bunch of areas of law. Its not so much a problem in the Campaign Finance area of law. For example, its a problem if you want to force a corporation to label a product in a certain way. The Supreme Court has a series of stupid decisions which restrict the ability to have that kind of labeling requirement thats not directly tied to Campaign Finance but is a problem that it would be great to solve too. But the thing that i worry about when we focus on corporations are no
Investigations but ultimately those recommendations are referred back to the commission for a final decision. So what you are suggesting, or what this amendment will do is that procedure will no longer be followed, but, what would the complainant be told to do . Well, whoever, and either the complainant in a direct complaint, will be given advice on other entities that will be appropriate to investigate a complaint against the commission or its task and referrals from another agency specifically the Sunshine Task force would be sent back to them to refer it to another agency, and specifically the District Attorney or the attorney general. Which are, you know, notated in the ordinance, as appropriate places to refer complaints. This to me is a difficult amendment. I understand why, we should, or why the staff wants to do it and what the logic is for it, but the problem here is that there is no good solution. And if we adjudicate it, there is an appearance of inpropriety and we dont, i t