Now it turns out the schools chancellor spent 175,000 to try to scrub the internet of criticism of the schools actions but that move has , backfired. Uc president Janet Napolitano has placed the chancellor on administrative leave pending an investigation into a number of infractions. We will speak to two student protesters who just finished a five week sitin. They were calling for her resignation. We will also go to arizona, where we are right now, to speak of student activists at nau, Northern Arizona university, who were arrested this week calling for the school to divest from fossil fuel. Then sunday is may day. There are two stories about may day that everyone should know. On this may day in particular. This may day, people all over the United States finally are thinking about what is a Political Revolution . And theyre thinking about, what is socialism . May day can help us. Amy historian Peter Linebaugh on, the incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of may day. The tw
Deepens. Civil servants told they cannot be paid because of government oversight. Meanwhile, looting continues, as well as opposition efforts to remove president Nicolas Maduro. Thanks for joining us. At least 24 Police Officers have been injured, three of them seriously, in a day of protests and violence around france that has brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets. Demonstrations against labor law reform plans boiling over in paris, marseille, toulouse, lyon, and more. Organizers say over half a out in people turned total. Police put that figure at 170,000. The interior minister has announced 124 arrests have been made nationwide. 24s politically aurore dupuis. Aurore cleaning agents are taking away the trash, rubbish, broken bottles left behind by protesters. Most of the protesters have gone home. About an hour ago, police started closing in on them to try to disperse the crowd. There were dozens of police vans, dozens of Police Officers who had been blocking every str
Us today as the white house calls for greece to continue to continue with crippling austerity measures. We will speak with Yanis Varoufakis about his new book as well as and the weak suffer what they must . europes crisis and americas economic future. He resigned as the greek finance minister last year saying, i shall wear the creditors loathing with pride. But noam chomsky weighs in on first, Bernie Sanders run for the white house. Bernie sanders is an extremely interesting phenomenon. He has mobilized a large number of young people. These and people who are saying, look, were not going to consent anymore. If that turns into a continuing organized, mobilized force, that could change the country. Maybe not for this election, but longerterm. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders says hes cutting hundreds of Campaign Staffers as he concentrates his efforts
Now it turns out the schools chancellor spent 175,000 to try to scrub the internet of criticism of the schools actions but that move has , backfired. Uc president Janet Napolitano has placed the chancellor on administrative leave pending an investigation into a number of infractions. We will speak to two student protesters who just finished a five week sitin. They were calling for her resignation. We will also go to arizona, where we are right now, to speak of student activists at nau, Northern Arizona university, who were arrested this week calling for the school to divest from fossil fuel. Then sunday is may day. There are two stories about may day that everyone should know. On this may day in particular. This may day, people all over the United States finally are thinking about what is a Political Revolution . And theyre thinking about, what is socialism . May day can help us. Amy historian Peter Linebaugh on, the incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of may day. The tw
Us today as the white house calls for greece to continue to continue with crippling austerity measures. We will speak with Yanis Varoufakis about his new book as well as and the weak suffer what they must . europes crisis and americas economic future. He resigned as the greek finance minister last year saying, i shall wear the creditors loathing with pride. But noam chomsky weighs in on first, Bernie Sanders run for the white house. Bernie sanders is an extremely interesting phenomenon. He has mobilized a large number of young people. These and people who are saying, look, were not going to consent anymore. If that turns into a continuing organized, mobilized force, that could change the country. Maybe not for this election, but longerterm. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders says hes cutting hundreds of Campaign Staffers as he concentrates his efforts