To campaign with Hillary Clinton at a joint rally in New Hampshire, we speak to congressman Keith Ellison who was appointed by sanders to serve on the drafting committee of the Democratic Party platform. Sanders has called it the most progressive platform in the partys history but not all of his supporters are happy. Then the awardwinning actress Shailene Woodley launches the up to u. S. Caravan to the dnc. No amount of pressure wiwill susuppress our belief in politil reform andndocial justice and create a nation that represents the 99 , not just the upper 1 . Amy Shailene Woodley will join us along with oscarnominated josh fox who fouought to push te Democratic Party to adopt a ban on fracking in the partys platform. Then president obama heads to dallas for the memorial for the five Police Officers slain last week. Pres. Obama part of what is creating tensions between communities and the police is the fact that police have a really difficult time in communities where they know guns ar
William barber of the naacp in North Carolina just before he takes part in another act of mass civil disobedience. Then, was your seafood caught by slaves . Today, a shocking expose. Men who were on boats are captive on an island as we found. The goal from the beginning was to find people who were actually captive slaves, to trace that fish back to the american dinner table, and most important, to name names. Amico we will speak to two of the Associated Press reporters. Today, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. Will they win . All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brazils lower house of congress has voted to start impeachment proceedings against president dilma rousseff. 367 to 37 for was impeachment. Jose guimaroes, the congressional leader of roussefs workers party, accused opposition lawmakers of waging a coup. The coup has won in the lower house, but the fight has not ended. No matter if it is in
Over the past week on capitol hill in a series of unprecedented protests against the influence of big money and the curtailing of Voting Rights. We will speak to the reverend William Barber of the naacp in North Carolina just before he takes part in another act of mass civil disobedience. Then, was your seafood caught by slaves . Today, a shocking expose. Men who were on boats are captive on an island as we found. The goal from the beginning was to find people who were actually captive slaves, to trace that fish back to the american dinner table, and most important, to name names. Amico we will speak to two of the Associated Press reporters. Today, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. Will they win . All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brazils lower house of congress has voted to start impeachment proceedings against president dilma rousseff. 367 to 37 for was impeachment. Jose guimaroes, the congress
Over the past week on capitol hill in a series of unprecedented protests against the influence of big money and the curtailing of Voting Rights. We will speak to the reverend William Barber of the naacp in North Carolina just before he takes part in another act of mass civil disobedience. Then, was your seafood caught by slaves . Today, a shocking expose. Men who were on boats are captive on an island as we found. The goal from the beginning was to find people who were actually captive slaves, to trace that fish back to the american dinner table, and most important, to name names. Amico we will speak to two of the Associated Press reporters. Today, the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced. Will they win . All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Brazils lower house of congress has voted to start impeachment proceedings against president dilma rousseff. 367 to 37 for was impeachment. Jose guimaroes, the congress
Host well, martin, im very pleased to be with you to talk to you about your new book. Guest thank you. Host now, youve written a number of biographies other the course of your career, and i wanted to ask if you felt this was a different sort of project than the other ones or whether you approached it differently . What were the reasons that you decided to write this book . Guest i knew howard somewhat. We were never close friends, but i did know him. And when he died, i had the thought that i might well be the right person, because we shared a lot of of political values in common. And i always liked him very much as a human being. So i talked to the family, and the archives were all unprocessed, but they were willing to let me in to rumble around. And i did that for a couple of years. [laughter] and i think the real surprise in terms of the archives was that howard who seemed to be always a very open man had, in fact, vetted his archives quite considerably, omitting much of his corresp