On the couch of the tonight show, to his decades long commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1960 three, he was jailed a d bebeaten by birminingham policer parading without a permit. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, i was frightened. They got i went anyway. At that time, i do not understand that fear and god do not occupy the same space. Nonfear that the the king and that Nonviolent Movement have, i was able to lose mine. Amy dick gregory also ran for president against richard nixon. He engaged in countless hunger strikes over the past five decades. Today, on democracy now , dick gregory over the decades in his own words. All that and more, coming up. Wewelcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Massive protests against White Supremacy spread across the United States over the weekend, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets from coast to coast to condemn violent White Nationalist groups and to call for the removal
Telethon. And millions are heading to the path of totality to view the total eclipse, the first total eclipse seen in america since 1 1979. Well have more on this cosmic event on this monday, august21st. From achbc news, this is world news now. We want to get started with the breaking news from southeast asia. Ten american sailors missing after their vessel collided with a tanker. Injures are not believed to be life threatening. The damaged warship is heading back to port on its own power as search and rescue efforts continue. President trump initially responded by saying thats too bad. A couple hours later he tweeted thoughts and prayers were with the sailors. And john mccain followed with a tweet. This follows a collision of the uss fitzgerald. President trump is set to unveil his longawaited plan for afghanistan from ft. Meyer, virginia. The backlash continues over his response to the violence in charlottesville. We get more from abcs david wright. Reporter President Trump returns t
Action this morning. This off the back of a day where we saw slight gains for the dow and s p. Fractional decline for the nasdaq that was a better performance than we saw around the rest of the world yesterday. You could frame it as resilient as opposed to lackluster futures pointing nicely higher taking their lead from around the world where its a risk on mood today nasdaq up about 27 the dow jones up 65. The treasury note, we are back above 2. 2 on the tenyear yield. Yields just rising a bit equities rising a little bit, too. Stocks mostly higher around the world. In asia it was a bit more of a mixed picture. We saw the nikkei fall again that makes five straight losing sessions for the nikkei, something that has not happened since april of 2016. Marginally lower but it counts as a drop. As you can see, Mainland China shares mostly higher for the major sessions all eyes pointing to jackson hole, towards the end of the week where we will hear from janet yellen and mario draghi. Somewha
Washington worries the manager of the Biggest Hedge Fund wrote a post saying im watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, im not encouraged the bridgewater founder was initially confident that President Trump could stimulate growth tru throuhrough tax refo dered deregulation well hear more from ray dalio next month when he joins the delivering alpha conference. A los angeles jury ordering Johnson Johnson to pay 417 million to a woman who claimed that the talc in the baby powder caused ovarian cancer. J j says it will appeal the ruling its the largest yet in lawsuits saying the company failed toed a quickly warn consumers about the cancer risk of its talcbased products Johnson Johnson faces 5,000 cases nationwide long long ago, the ceo of i think it was after ralph larsen i had read about this probably ten years ago. 5, 10 years ago. Sometimes the shape of a carcinogen im not slaying talc is a carcinogen there was scuttlebutt about this, at least ten years ago i have not touche
Parading without a permit. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, i was frightened. They got i went anyway. At that time, i do not understand that fear and god do not occupy the same space. Nonfear that the the king and that Nonviolent Movement have, i was able to lose mine. Amy dick gregory also ran for president against richard nixon. He engaged in countless hunger strikes over the past five decades. Today, on democracy now , dick gregory over the decades in his own words. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Massive protests against White Supremacy spread across the United States over the weekend, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets from coast to coast to condemn violent White Nationalist groups and to call for the removal of Confederate Monuments and other statues memorializing slavery and racism. In downtown boston, 40,000 people poured into the streets around the Boston Common to