truck in texas. all in the families, courting the country, but getting the cash from just a few, how a very small group is playing a big part in electing the next president. plus, rouge nun. what it is saying is that you are a woman in a man s shirt, and that this is this is an institution that belongs to the men. sister s powerful message to the pope. we begin in turkey, a key ally of the united states, the government says it is near figuring out who is responsible for saturday s twin suicide bombings. still many people in turkey are angry. they protested against the government, blamed their leaders for failing to protect them, as more victims were buried today. the government says it believes isil may have been responsible for the blast who killed 97. mohammed jamjoom reports. reporter: you can see it in their faces. you can hear it in their sighs. with each passing hour, sadness deep ens. with every passing day resentment grows. translator: in heart of th
5-year-old black girl in florida handcuffed a handcuffed and sent to jail for throwing a tantrum. five years old. imagine that being your child. this is happening in communities all over our country. as mr. b has told us, the river of blood that flows through the streets of our nation flows most from the bodies of our black men and children. as we stand here today, we can commit to stopping that river. two years ago, i coco-founded justice league, nyc. i called on my black brothers and sister. i called on my latino allies. i called on my muslim sisters and brothers to the table. we built a multi-racial movement that will not rest until justice is served. we are the ones we have been waiting for. i come here today as a mexican-american woman, proud chicana to raise our voice loud and clear. 50 years since selma, 20 years since million man march and we are still fighting. twenty years from now, we will stand here again, we will stand in victory celebrating with our heads up h
greater than the one. and so, we are here today. truths to say. i want you to bear with me. to show you why there is no government on this one, that can give the people what the people justicef freedom, of and equity. look around you, brothers and sisters. look at the trees, look at the flowers, look at the bushes. all of it starts with a seed. a simple seed. seeds come in colors, different colors and shapes and sizes. but a seed hides what god has put within it. the cb isunless the seedthe seed is placed in the proper environment. all of these lovely living things around us, all of them start from a seed and that seed is planted in the earth. it is nourished by water and that magnificent son. sun. decedent swells and bursts, sending the roots down. a shoot comes up and what was within manifests itself and it is then a glory of god, its creator. started, we all started seed. sperm, a god is not wasteful. may belion sperm released at one time. some even say a billion. on
wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. we wanted to get home. we just wanted to survive. and yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that we should have known better. we should have been sitting where you are. that we should have been more active, more informed, and more in opposition to that war. amy: all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. as the nation celebrates memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 3500 u.s. marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u.s. ground war in vietnam. that same day, in alabama, state troopers beat back civil rights protesters in selma trying to walk over the edmund pettus bridge. weeks later, the first teach-in against the vietnam war was held at the university of michigan. by 1968, the u.s. had half a million troops in vietnam. the war continu
challenge all forms of injustice. amy: memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 40 years after it ended. vietnam: the power of protest. that was the number of a conference held in washington d.c.. we will hear from ron dellums pat schroeder, tom hayden and wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. we wanted to get home. we just wanted to survive. and yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that we should have known better. we should have been sitting where you are. that we should have been more active, more informed, and more in opposition to that war. amy: all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. as the nation celebrates memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 3500 u.s. marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u.s. ground war in vietnam.