Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe
Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe
Introduce you, and this is really a fun one, to the southern avenger. A wild and wacky character who thinks poor John Wilkes Booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a United States senator. That is coming up. First tonight, democrats have said enough and are calling attention to one of the most outrageous acts of gop obstructionism which is, of course, saying a lot given the stiff competition in the cat fwoir of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. By refusing to confirm the president s nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the Supreme Court of labor law in this country. The National Labor relations board. And today 201 house members sent a letter to senator Mitch Mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. Without the nlrb, 80 million private Sector Workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. Hardworking americans deserve better than Mitch Mcconnells political stunts. A pillar of american justice is if you dont have a remed
Category of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. By refusing to confirm the president s nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the Supreme Court of labor law in this country. The National Labor relations board. And today 201 house members sent a letter to senator Mitch Mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. Without the nlrb, 80 million private Sector Workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. Hardworking americans deserve better than Mitch Mcconnells political stunts. A pillar of american justice is if you dont have a remedy then you dont have meaningful rights. Our republican colleagues treat labor rights as toxic. Theyre wrong. If you dont have a remedy, you dont have meaningful rights. Supreme court of labor law, the nlrb has been inoperable for a year and a half. Its really astounding. I mean, think about just turning off the Supreme Court for a year and a half. All those Big Decisions that came down the last few weeks, all
estimates, and 64 protesters who refused to leave the legislative chambers were arrested. that includes janet colm, the president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, seen here being led away with her hands behind her back. and fresh from her arrest, janet colm, president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, joins me now. janet, why did you decide to get arrested last night? i think it was a combination of several things. i think there were three big things for me. first was obviously the attacks against women s health that are coming out of this legislature. more and more we ve got more and more concerned about the extent of these restrictions. and obviously in my belief