Right to vote. Amy fifty years after the Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act, efforts to role back Voting Rights continue across the country. As president ial candidates proliferate, who gets to vote. Well speak with ari berman author of the new book on the modern struggle for Voting Rights in america. Then to venezuela. We should be proud. I dont know if there were someone proud about 11. Emiko we will look at the the making of Leopoldo Lopez venezuelas leading opposition figure. We will speak with Roberto Lovato, author of a new investigation into his rise to prominence. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Fox news has chosen the top ten republican candidates to participate thursday in the first debate of the 2016 president ial election. The candidates include frontrunner donald trump, jeb bush, scott walker, marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, ben carson, mike huckabee, Chris Christie and john kasi
We will go to florida to get the latest. We will look at how the sick, the elderly, the vulnerable are protected around the country. Then the u. S. , which were devastated by irma. Survivors say nearly everything was lost. Water, ice, electricity, close for children, diapers, food, all of that is using insulin because there is nothing. Amy we will speak with awardwinning Virgin Islands writer tiphanie yanique. Then to south asia, where more than 1300 people have died and more than 40 million have been impacted in some of the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. If our demands are not fulfilled, what should we do gekko we have to speak in the side of the road, die on the side of the road, we have nothing. We dont have a house. Nothing to you. We dont have food to eat. Everything was swept away by the floods. Amy we will go to kathmandu, nepal. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , demoacynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. North korea fired
Militants killed 135 people, 132 of them children at a school in , the city of peshawar. We will go to pakistan for the latest and speak to tariq ali. Then as protests continue over the killing of Michael Brown, we look at the strange case of witness 40. The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction. After a full, impartial examination of all of the evidence in the law, and deciding the smoking gun website has revealed the witness who claimed Michael Brown charged at Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson like a Football Player suffers from Mental Illness and has a history of posting racist messages online. Did she lie to the grand jury about seeing the shooting . About even being in the neighborhood . We will get an update on one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. On tuesday New York Times reporter james risen learned he will be subpoenaed to answer questions ahead of the trial of a former c. I. A. Officer accused of leaking classified information. Al
Yes, pakistan is in mourning a day after after taliban militants killed 135 people, 132 of them children at a school in , the city of peshawar. We will go to pakistan for the latest and speak to tariq ali. Then as protests continue over the killing of Michael Brown, we look at the strange case of witness 40. The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction. After a full, impartial examination of all of the evidence in the law, and deciding the smoking gun website has revealed the witness who claimed Michael Brown charged at Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson like a Football Player suffers from Mental Illness and has a history of posting racist messages online. Did she lie to the grand jury about seeing the shooting . About even being in the neighborhood . We will get an update on one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. On tuesday New York Times reporter james risen learned he will be subpoenaed to answer questions ahead of the trial of a former c. I. A
Yes, pakistan is in mourning a day after after taliban militants killed 135 people, 132 of them children at a school in , the city of peshawar. We will go to pakistan for the latest and speak to tariq ali. Then as protests continue over the killing of Michael Brown, we look at the strange case of witness 40. The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction. After a full, impartial examination of all of the evidence in the law, and deciding the smoking gun website has revealed the witness who claimed Michael Brown charged at Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson like a Football Player suffers from Mental Illness and has a history of posting racist messages online. Did she lie to the grand jury about seeing the shooting . About even being in the neighborhood . We will get an update on one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. On tuesday New York Times reporter james risen learned he will be subpoenaed to answer questions ahead of the trial of a former c. I. A