That is the headline of a new article about escalating crashes clashes on syrian soil. We will speak with the author, New York Times Beirut Bureau chief and with canadian a canadian researcher. As the deadly flu sweeps across the United States, will go to austin, texas, to speak with austin city Councilmember Gregorio Casar where the council is set to vote on an historic ordinance for mandated paid sick leave. The infection rate has decreased by 6 or 7 . Getare twice as likely to everybody else sick. Workers fromnt having six sick leave. Amy can they overcome the opposition of a Koch Brothers based lobbying group . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump unveiled his 4. 4 trillion budget plan monday, proposing deep cuts to education, healthcare, and social safety net programs, while massively increasing the pentagons budget. Trumps plan would slash the department of educations budget by more th
From the plant is incredibly dangerous. We will go to houston to speak with Houston Chronicle reporter matt dempsey, who question the arkema ceo about what is in his facility that has caused a mile and a half evacuation. We will also touch reporter david sirota. His article is headlined Texas Republicans helped Chemical Plant that exploded lobby against safety rules. We end todays show looking at the corporate crackdown on environmental activists challenging the fossil fuel industry and human driven Climate Change. The company that owns the Dakota Access pipeline, Energy Transfer partners, has sued Greenpeace International and other groups, accusing them of inciting ecoterrorism. We will speak with greenpeace usa Annie Leonard and tara houska, National Campaigns director for honor the earth. She is the ojibwe the coaching first nation. They are calling us the terrorists. They are the ones who are armed. These are unarmed men, women, and children who want nothing more than two protect t
Date and here from the state attorney general suing exxon mobil as well as u. S. Senators pushing for a fossil free future. The Koch Brothers must be sent a message that their science, which donald trump has adopted, is just as bogus as a jury agreed from trump in diversity. Amy we will also hear from Indigenous Leaders fighting to protect the planet. Maybe we as original people of the United States and people in canada, alaska, maybe it is time to exercise our sovereignty and our selfdetermination and serve papers on this president to deport him from this country because the laws that he is representing are not the natural laws that we are taught as native people. Amy from the street of the peoples climate march and washington, d. C. , all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of thousands, if not more than a Million People poured into the streets around , the world on saturday for a global peoples cl
Mounts a new fight to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagging. I shut my hog operation down. I got out of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as International Workers day. This year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant work
Part in the peoples climate march in washington and in solidarity rallies across the country. The protest marked Donald Trumps 100th day in office. We will air highlights from the date and here from the state attorney general suing exxon mobil as well as u. S. Senators pushing for a fossil free future. The Koch Brothers must be sent a message that their science, which donald trump has adopted, is just as bogus as a jury agreed from trump in diversity. Amy we will also hear from Indigenous Leaders fighting to protect the planet. Maybe we as original people of the United States and peoeope in canada, alaska, maybe it is time to exercise our sovereignty and our selfdetermination and serve papers on this president to deport him from this country because the laws that he is representing are not the natural laws that we are taught as native people. Amy from the street of the peoples climate march and washington, d. C. , all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. O