The initiative. We are indebted to them in ways that none have not been fully a. Allant or are reticulated we have i think one or two other members also part of the struggle. Joan. This has been the critical and the principal incidents behind the recordings made on the web say on the webpage, and youtube channels. Lunch time at halftime a Sports Metaphor comes in losing. At lunchtime, as we say in the out on, you can check the back monitor some of those interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not already done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead interviewers to be the moderator for the final session. He will end the proceedings as he began them in february with glenn piercey. It is the organizing principle of having these people articulate what they went through in this symposium, so without further ado, let me introduce you to betsy peterson, director of the american folklife center. [applause] as he mentioned, the name of the
It. Decorated war hero and black panther leader pratt on being incourse rated while his children grew up. Ive been through pain. All ahead on a second look. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Tonight wrongful convictions how men who were accused tried and convicted of a crime did time behind bars in many cases for many years. According to a 2012uc berkeley study since january 1989, 214 californians have been exonerated or had their convictions overturned or dismissed. Those 214 former inmates had spent a total of 1,113 years behind bars. Tonight we start with a story of one man, a victim of mistaken identity. His coworkers rallied around him after he was accused of a crime they said he could have never committed. Bob mackenzie first brought us their story in 1992. James jones walked out of a martinez jail in afternoon a free man. A some what hurt and bewildered man. He had been arrested on drug sales. They were going to let me out that night. That next followin
The longtime civil rights activist has been described as americas most revolutionary mayor. He died of Heart Failure tuesday, less than a year after taking office. He was 66 years old. We will hear lumumba in his own words and speak to several of his close associates. Then as japan pushes to restart its dormant nuclear program, the crisis that fukushima continues. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration is ramping up pressure on afghan president karzai to sign a deal to keep u. S. Troops in afghanistan beyond this year. In a phone call with karzai tuesday, obama said he has ordered the pentagon to launch new Contingency Planning for total withdrawal of u. S. Troops by the end of 2014. White House Press Secretary jay carney said karzais replacement after april elections might still sign the deal, known as the bilateral Security Agreement or bsa. The fact that president karzai has indica
Having Seth Rosenfeld here whos an alum of the Journalism School as well as the daily cal and went on to enjoy a long career as an Investigative Reporter at the San Francisco chronicle. And all that time and i stayed in touch with seth all those years, ive known him for at least 30 year, going on 40 years and for all that time almost seth was involved in his own personal quest for the question of what was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960s when all those events were taking place. And the result is this book, subversives the fbis war on student radicals and reagans rise to power. Its an extraordinary book, and when i read it finally and, by the way, i was waiting for years to read it and hearing about it its an extraordinary book because its written primarily from the perspective of the fbi, a voice that we rarely hear in public and one that when we hear it, were not sure what to think until we see their documents. And this book is based, as i understand it, on 250,000 do
For that matter they couldnt even hand out a leaflet for goldwater for president. Who was the candidate that year and had been nominated in San Francisco. So the students tried to negotiate with the university. The university refused, and then in defiance, some of the students set up a card table right in front of the plaza and handed out leaflets. In short order, a Police Cruiser pulled into the middle of the plaza and arrested somebody named Jack Weinberg who was behind the table. But before they could go anywhere, students begin to sit down around the police car and soon the entire plaza was filled with students sitting round a police car. They held captive for the next 33 hours. And that was the beginning of the Free Speech Movement. [applause] and the fsm went on to stage a number of protests, tried to negotiate with the university. Ultimately, put on what was the biggest city in in the nations history, roughly 800 people were arrested for sitting in overnight at the hall. And in