Thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of climate activists from the around the country are converging in washington, d. C. , for the peoples climate march on saturday. Trump has already begun dismantling president obamas , legacy and revived the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines. He has also put Climate Change deniers in charge of several key agencies, including the Environmental Protection agency and threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the paris, the court. All this as scientists have confirmed 2016 was the warmest year on record. We will speak with 350. Org founder bill mckiobben. Physics is our enemy and it poses a different dish difficult time wit time limit. We have to have to work around trump one degree or another. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The state of arkansas on thursday carried out its fourth execution in eight days, injecting 38yearold Kenneth Williams with a t
The suffering still continues. Now that i know it is not a civil matter anymore, it is a human matter. Alton is no longer here, but his voice will still be heard through us. We love alton and we do not want this to end. Remember his name. Family ofis the alton sterling who was killed by police in 2016, calling for louisianas states attorney general to bring criminal killersagainst his after the Trump Justice Department declined to bring federal charges against them. We will also go to france where voters head to the polls sunday to pick between former investment banker Emmanuel Macron and farright politician Marine Le Pen. And him repress or Carol Anderson and emory professor Carol Anderson. Part of what happens when africanamericans advance, when they gain access to the citizenship rights, you see a out of policies emanate congress, out of the white house to knock back those advancements. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace
Prison. The Barrett Brown case is probably one of the most significant threats to suppress freedom that is happening in the u. S. In the last two decades at least. Amy in a democracy now exclusive, we speak with the journalist when greenwald and Barrett Brown himself, still under house arrest in dallas. Then we look at black mamas bail out day, an efforto raise money jeffrey as many africanamerican women from jail as possible before mothers day. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump has once again changed his story about why he fired fbi director james comey. Now admitting on nbc he made the decision in part due to comeys probe russias meddling in the 2016 election. Pres. Trump regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. Just do it him i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. It is
Business. If you want to clect a drug debt, you cannot follow lawsuit in court. You collect it with the barrel of a gun. Amy as attorney general Jeff Sessions vows a major revival of the war on drugs, well spend speak with susan burton. She spent 15 years cycling in of prison after her fiveyearold son was run over and killed. She has written a book about her life experience, becoming ms. Burton from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women. I believe in rehabilitation, not only for drug addiction, but for other areas. And we cannot continue to warehouse people and not provide ,evels of rehabilitation reentry services, training, jobs, and allow them to be an economy indd to this america. Amy we will also speak with Michelle Alexander, author of, the new jim crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Is has described susan burton as a modernday Harriet Tubman. We have got to build an underground railroad for people returning home from prison. In undergrou
Exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would also place on your head these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousseffs ouster, including her successor, president michel temer. He said troops into the streets of the capital brasilia this