[ applause ] so, heres the reality. We have seen one of the most dramatic and inspiring upticks in progressive action that i can remember. I mean, right out of the gate, you know, on january 21st, a womens march kicked it off in a fine fashion. Literally millions of people organizing, marching all over the country, and how fitting it was for the womens march to kick off this moment of resistance, given the incalculable sexism and massageny trump ran on during the campaign. The women led us then, are leading us now. But the movement kept going. We saw the science march, we saw the tax day march. Help me out here this is audience participation. Are there any im leaving out . The Public Education march. We saw all kinds of stuff, activity. And i can tell you that in my own district in minnesota, we have a campus that were running where were literally knocking hundreds of doors every day, not every week, every day were knocking literally hundreds of doors, and were doing it all over the co
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
Take to stop the growing violence . We will spend the hour with the acclaimed author Tanehisi Coates in his first major interview since the night duration of inauguration of President Trump. One of the problems around runsm that ive try to had the country, is the notion that the somehow only endangers black people. I muted tell you it endangers all of us. Amy Tanehisi Coates for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Massive protests against White Supremacists and the Trump Administration continued nationwide on monday from the streets of North Carolina, where a crowd of activists toppled a confederate statue in durham, to the halls of washington, where three separate corporate ceos resign from president Trumps American Manufacturing Council over trumps failure to quickly condemn the deadly white supremacist violence in charlottesville, virginia, over the weekend. In durham, the crowd of activists
Open up space for Political Action on Climate Change. Amy students, professors and alumni are continuing to blockade key Administrative Offices at harvard. Well get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers in the United States have staged their largest action to date, with some 60,000 workers walking off the job in over 200 cities to demand a 15anhour minimum wage. The actions got together fast food workers, childcare providers walmart clerks , adjunct professors and airport workers to demand wage increases and the right to unionize. Organizers staged the action on tax day to highlight the cost to taxpayers of supporting workers who are underpaid. A new study says low wages are forcing working families to rely on more than 150 billion in public assistance. Well have more on the historic protests after headlines. In iraq the selfproclaimed , Islamic State has gained new ground claimi
They handcuffed me to the bar and the bench that was there. When it happened, i was are ready pretty shaken up. A kind of pushed me over into my eyes off it was sitting on me. They were playing tugofwar with me. They were kind of throwing fake punches at me so i would hit the back of my head when i flinched. Amy we will speak to guardian reporter Spencer Ackerman as well as flint taylor, attorney and darrell cannon who was tortured by Chicago Police in 1983. 20 people are arrested after forming a human barricade at a Natural Gas Storage facility in upstate new york near seneca lake. It makes no sense for a place in new york to be allowing fracked gas from other states to be stored underneath this incredible 600 foot deep lake source of Drinking Water for 100,000 people. Amy josh fox will talk about his arrest and sure his most recent documentary short on the fight to save seneca lake. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.