Is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the republican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning and puerto rican independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera as part of more than 200 commutations he issued tu
Will rank and how confident are you that this will continue under the president elect . Obama i could not be prouder of the transformation that has taken place in our society just in the last decade. , i thinke said before we made some useful , but theions to it ofmary heroes in this stage our growth as a democracy and as a society, all the individual daughtersand sons and and couples who courageously said this is who i am, and im proud of it. That opened peoples minds and opened their hearts, and , the laws caught up. But i dont think any of that wouldve happened without the activism, in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal. And i think that what we did as helpministration was to to move in a better in a way, but to do so that did not create an enormous systematic ands respectful of the fact that in some cases, these issues were controversial. I think the way we handled, or ,xample, dont ask dont tell being methodical about it, working with the joi
But obama took no action on longtime imprisoned native american leader Leonard Peltier. The only thing i am guilty of is struggling for my people. I did not kill those agents. Amy we will speak to the attorneys of Chelsea Manning and Leonard Peltier, as well as Oscar Lopez Riveras brother. He is preparing for him to come home. Then we look at betsy devos, Donald Trumps pick to be come education secretary. Do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dlars in contributions to threpublican party, that you would be sitting here today . As a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. Amy we will speak to Jeremy Scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has commuted the sentences of Army Whistleblower Chelsea Ma
Will rank and how confident are you that this will continue under the president elect . Obama i could not be prouder of the transformation that has taken place in our society just in the last decade. , i thinke said before we made some useful , but theions to it ofmary heroes in this stage our growth as a democracy and as a society, all the individual daughtersand sons and and couples who courageously said this is who i am, and im proud of it. That opened peoples minds and opened their hearts, and , the laws caught up. But i dont think any of that wouldve happened without the activism, in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal. And i think that what we did as helpministration was to to move in a better in a way, but to do so that did not create an enormous systematic ands respectful of the fact that in some cases, these issues were controversial. I think the way we handled, or ,xample, dont ask dont tell being methodical about it, working with the joi
That they would not be able to come here because of the credentialing process had not been fulfilled. It was catch 22 double and triple over and because we are not kurt seeing i wont say other things but when you think about it, that they tried to ban the media and then we still have 10,000 people who havent gotten here today because they are behind checkpoints, the trump people are being brought in, we can say with complete sincerity that the government has not lived up to its legal obligations. It is not functioning as a neutral stuart over public lands. These are public lands. They do not have the right to privatize public lands. They do not have a right to ban the people or the media covering the people in public lands. The fact that this has happened the way it has happened is an indication that there is a tremendous contraction of democracy going on and if we dont fight for our rights, if we dont militantly defend those rights, those rights will just be words on a paper and they