Year ago this month, the young Internet Freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer took his own life. He was just 26 years old. He died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at mit. He was facing up to 35 years in prison and a 1 million fine. We will play excerpts of the film and speak with aarons brother noah, his lawyer elliot peters, and the filmmaker brian knappenberger. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from park city tv in utah. President obama has unveiled his longawaited review of the nsas surveillance programs over six months since Edward Snowden exposed them to global scrutiny. In a move denounced by privacy advocates, obama refused to end the bulk collection of telephone metadata, saying only he will modify it from how it currently exists. I am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bul
Capacity magazines. Many of the actions he plans to take including addressing mental health, education and training. Those actions dont require the support of congress. In washington, danielle lee, nbc news. Just as president obama announces his plans to curb gun violence a new ad is released from the National Rifle association and the white house isnt happy. The ad makes reference to the security of president obamas daughters by asking, quote, are the president s kids more important than yours . White House Press Secretary jay carney calls it repugnant and cowardly saying most americans agree that a president s children should not be used as pawns in a political fight. The nra is fighting back with its own statement saying, quote, whoever thinks this ad is about preside president obamas daughters are missing the subject. This ad is about keeping our children safe. Police in marin county collected more than 800 guns during buyback programs yesterday. People surrendered 827 guns. Organi
male announer live from the bay areas news station, kron 4 news starts now. New at eight. Its that time of year again. As many as one Million People are expected to welcome in the year of the snake at tomorrows Chinese New Years parade. Organizers give kron four an inside look at what to expect. More silly serpents than you can shake a stick at. Pam the dragons. The floats and we will show you this years new parade route. Been a 300 lbs. Of glitter, and 2 million lbs. Of paper. One of one the creaters these are the creaters baby pictures. It started off as a joke but i guess that they left them on their. [laughter] with 1 Million People expected to attend. It is estimated that 40 million will watch it on television and china. Here is one of the many reasons. We build these things for rain, shine, torrential rain. We are ready to go. Reporter a lot of those workers will be out tomorrow with long line of outthrustfloats on. 54 certainly,pier 54 it goes until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Right no