Alexis tsipras has to get parliament to approve the plan. Here is more of what he has to say. Alexis tsipras the deal is difficult and we have prevented the pursuit of a transfer of public property abroad. We have prevented the plan of financial asphyxiation, and the collapse of the financial system. A plan that was designed up to its last detail, perfectly, and had started to be implemented. Finally, we achieved in this hard fight in these negotiations, restructuring of the debt, resecure financing for the median term. Genie Nathalie Savaricas joins us from athens. The terms of this deal are tougher when it comes to the austerity part than the deal the greek people rejected before the referendum. How is Alexis Tsipras going to get the deal through parliament . Nathalie it is Pretty Simple in the sense that the Opposition Party leaders are well aware that the alternative is grexit. It became clear during the 17 hours during the summit yesterday. So that is what we have. The leader of t
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
Hernandez was sentenced to life with a parole for nondrug violent for a drug nonviolent offense. His sentence was commuted by president obama in 2013. He was jailed at the federal prison obama visited on thursday. We will also speak to Maya Schenwar, author of locked down, locked out, why prison doesnt work and how we can do better. Then after a twoyear battle federal judge has ordered the release of Police Dashcam footage of a Police Killing of an unarmed man in gardena, california that shows officers ordering Ricardo Diaz Zeferino and two other men to raise their hands in the air, which they do. Three officers then open fire, killing him with eight bullets. We will speak with Sonia Mercado , civil rights attorney representing the family of the victim. Then a gunman opens fire on two separate military sites in chattanooga, tennessee. The rampage left four marines and the gunman dead and at least three people injured. This obviously has been horrible day for chattanooga in a tragic day
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Vuslat, the floor is yours. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. President obama in his latest speech at the United Nations said, until basic questions are answered about how communities coexist, the embers of extremism will continue to person, countless human beings will suffer and the world is too small for us to build a wall and prevent it from affecting our own societies. Yes, he is correct. The world is too small. And the peoples destinies are more interrelated to each other than it has ever been before. A threat here at this place in the world is not only affecting these people, this play, but the entire globe. And weve seen this in global finance. Weve seen this in public health. Weve seen this also in many other cases. But we are rooecently experiencg it in refugee crisis and terrorism. The wall that obama is referring to has appeared in our lives recently when the European Countries started talking about build up a wall to keep the threat of refugees away from them. This is goi