Frontrunner hours before the republican candidate squared off at a debate in detroit. Two thirds of the people who will cast of vote have voted against you. They do not want you to be our nominee. And the reason why is because we are not going to turn over the conservative movement or the party of lincoln or reagan, for example, to someone whose positions are not conservative. Dont worry about it, little marco. Amy we will have highlights of the debate and response. Then we remember the life of Berta Caceres. She was assassinated this week just months after winning the goldman environmental prize, the worlds leading environmental award. Our mother earth, militarized, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, demands that we take action. Amy we will speak with her nephew, journalist in san francisco. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman juan gonzalez. Im amy goodman. Four republican pr
Would interview it was always an man and always addressed by the male gender. That really caught our attention. For us since noma county, that just seemed off like something was really missing. During that time everybody, especially on the west coast we felt so helpless. What could we do about this National Tragedy that was happening so far across the country. Here we are offered the opportunity to give blood, donate money, but for so many people it didnt feel like it was enough. For mary and mia felt like we wanted to do something. We just attached to that idea of wanting to draw interest to an attention to, and include women and the National Conversation about 911. We knew American Hero. There is a lot of talk about the new American Hero after 9 11 and women were virtually left out of that conversation. We wanted to bring them back in. We became fired up about this idea and it was ridiculous for us to do this. We worked fulltime we didnt have a budget. We put our credit cards togethe
That you could write entire books about. This is one of the few. And this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. They saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. And it certainly works very well. For a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song and its been conspicuously absent how would you describe the song and its impact . Well, the song was a song about lynching. You know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply werent talking about this kind of thing. You know, it was before jackie robinson. It was before Martin Luther king. It was before the armed forces were integrated. It was before rosa parks. It was really the dark ages in the history of civil rights in this country, and all of a sudden, a 23yearold woman, Billie Holiday, is singing about lynching. And i think that the song had enormous
Are there other books out there about a single song . Im familiar with dave marshs take on louie louie, but this has to be an unusual premise for a new book. I dont think there are very many. I think theres a book about amazing grace, and im told theres a book in the works about we shall overcome. But i think there really arent many songs that you could write entire books about. This is one of the few. And this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. They saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. And it certainly works very well. For a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song and its been conspicuously absent how would you describe the song and its impact . Well, the song was a song about lynching. You know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply werent talking about this kind of thing. You k
This was the rosa parks moment for gay people. It was their neighborhood, it was their bar. It seemed like it was a war zone. There was the Tactical Police force, police cars, sirens. And then somebody started a fire. Stonewall was the spark. The Gay Liberation front was the torch lit by that spark. We carried that torch out of the closet, into the streets. Were america. You cant separate us out. I think its not a civil rights issue, its a moral issue. A 50year battle for equal rights and respect. I could not have guessed that at this age i would be married to a man. I never could have seen that coming. Im here doing what im doing because of all of the generations before me. Stonewall has taught us, you have to fight for what you want. And once your voice is heard, theres no turning back. They call me mayor pete, and i am running for president of the United States. 50 years ago, it would have been unthinkable for an openly gay person to run for any public office. We did capture 73 of t