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
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
From time to time. Who knows . Amy the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern American Folk Music movement. Now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. The surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japaneseamericans during world war ii. It continued until the early 1970s as he wrote some of the most famous antiwar songs of the 20th century. Dont be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy we will speak to peter seegers biographer, David King Dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The number of refugees that have entered europe this year has topped one million. International organization for migration says the tally marks fourfold
Dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she committed suicide, a claim her family rejects. The family has filed a wrongful death suit and wants charges against the officer who arrested her. The whole process from the secretive nature of it to the evidence presented to the lack of involvement of the family screams of a coverup. We feel like we have been shut out of this process from the very beginning. We are at the door knocking, waiting for the door to open, for the answers that we have asked for regardless of what they are. Amy will anyone be held to account for Sandra Blands death . Well speak to Sandra Blands mother, her sister, and the family attorney. Then, is freedom of speech welcome at the mall of america . The nations Largest Shopping Center tries to stop a black lives matter protest and force organizers to post on social media that its canceled. That is what the mall wanted. The judge rejected those demands tuesday. The mall of america did manage, however, to ban three black
Anyone over her jail cell death. Bland, an africanamerican woman, was arrested in july after she allegedly failed to signal a lane change. She was jailed with bond set at 5000. Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Authorities say she committed suicide, a claim her family rejects. The family has filed a wrongful death suit and wants charges against the officer who arrested her. The whole process from the secretive nature of it to the evidence presented to the lack of involvement of the family screams of a coverup. We feel like we have been shut out of this process from the very beginning. We are at the door knocking, waiting for the door to open, for the answers that we have asked for regardless of what they are. Amy will anyone be held to account for Sandra Blands death . Well speak to Sandra Blands mother, her sister, and the family attorney. Then, is freedom of speech welcome at the mall of america . The nations Largest Shopping Center tries to stop a black lives ma