[indiscernible] i believe and our social presence, as breaker of official silence is, as a voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright. Culture and resistance, 2012 through voices of artists, musicians, poets and writers. We look at the nexus of politics and art, airing highlights of our cultural coverage of the past year. Featuring alice walker, Walter Mosley, randy weston, steve earle, randall robinson, and others. And we pay tribute to the late adrienne rich, Whitney Houston, and mark the centennial the birth of Woody Guthrie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, and a democracy now special, looking back at 2012. We look at art, culture, and resistance. We begin with rattle robinson, founder and past president of transafrica, a law professor at Pennsylvania State university, most recent book makada said at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era following a young man coming of
I believe and our social presence, as breaker of official silence is, as a voice for those whose voices are disregarded, and as a human birthright. Culture and resistance, 2012 through voices of artists, musicians, poets and writers. We look at the nexus of politics and art, airing highlights of our cultural coverage of the past year. Featuring alice walker, Walter Mosley, randy weston, steve earle, randall robinson, and others. And we pay tribute to the late adrienne rich, Whitney Houston, and mark the centennial the birth of Woody Guthrie. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, and a democracy now special, looking back at 2012. We look at art, culture, and resistance. We begin with rattle robinson, founder and past president of transafrica, a law professor at Pennsylvania State university, most recent book makada said at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era following a young man coming of age in segregat
Streamers down. Surprise contraction in gdp. The economy shrinking for the first time in three and a half years. Lori also, betting big on library. Research in motion changing its name and unveiling the highly anticipated blackberry 10 device. Coming up in minutes. The ceo Thorsten Heins. Melissa and it turns out japans two Largest Airlines have had problems with the dreamliner battery long before the issue. Time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes, lets head to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Nicole petallides. Those gdp numbers keeping the dow away from 14,000. Nicole they certainly did throughout the morning. It brings concern when there is no good gdp numbers. There has been less on defense and concerns, lets take a look now, much like we have seen recently where the dow goes over that one change line over and over again. Today seems to be no different as we are back in positive territory. We havent taken out our highs we saw yesterday, five year highs for the s p 500, d