Gasland. We will speak to Tim Dechristopher of the Climate Disobedience Center and aria doe who played a key role in relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy in fared her home rockaway, queens. Then to Robert Redford on playing dan rather in his film truth. Three things that used to be separate came together. I felt that was a story worth telling. We will speak with the oscarwinning filmmaker and actor Robert Redford about the call for an oscars boycott, the future of the Sundance Film Festival, Climate Change and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprising reversal, a grand jury tasked with investigating planned parenthood has instead indicted two antiabortion activists who filmed undercover and highly edited videos of planned parenthood officials. The grand jury had been set up to investigate allegations that planned parenthood sells fetal tissue, a claim the organization has repeatedly denied. But on monday in texas, Harris CountyDistrict AttorneyDevon Anderson instead announced antiabortion activist David Daleiden had been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a government record and a misdemeanor charge related to the purchase of human organs. Daleiden is the director of the antichoice group the center for medical progress. He pretended to be a biotechnology representative to covertly record the videos of planned parenthood officials explaining how they share fetal tissue with researchers. The videos were then highly edited to falsely suggest the tissue is sold for profit, not shared. Sandra merritt, another employee of the center for medical progress, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record. Planned parenthood executive Vice President dawn laguens spoke about the indictments. At planned parenthood, we were always very confident the grand jury would find no wrongdoing by planned parenthood, but the indictment today begins to unravel the criminal links that david aladdin and the socalled center for medical progress went to to perpetrate this fraud. And i think there will be more charges to come in the future. Amy president obama says he is banning the use of solitary confinement for juveniles and lowlevel offenders in federal prisons. Obama outlined the new measures in a Washington Post oped, writing how can we subject prisoners to unnecessary solitary confinement, knowing its effects, and then expect them to return to our communities as whole people . It doesnt make us safer. Its an affront to our common humanity. This comes as the Supreme Court has ruled that prisoners convicted of muder as juveniles will have a chance at parole. In 2012, the Supreme Court struck down mandatory life sentences for juveniles, but left open to interpretation whether this would be applied retroactively to people convicted of murder. In a 63 decision monday, the Supreme Court ruled the new law does apply retroactively, offering more than 1000 people currently serving such life sentences the opportunity for parole. A new Study Suggests warmer water temperatures are causing the seas to expand twice as fast as previously thought, leading to greater Sea Level Rise. The study analyzed more than a decade of satellite data. It was published in the peerreviewed proceedings of the National Academy of sciences. The study also found Sea Level Rise varied by location, with the philippines experiencing Sea Level Rise at five times the average global rate. Denmarks parliament is scheduled to vote tuesday on a series of controversial measures curbing refugee rights, including a proposal to confiscate money and valuables to pay for their stay in asylum centers. Many have compared the measure to the confiscation of property from jews during the nazi holocaust. The plan also includes a proposal to delay family reunification for three years. The measures are expected to pass. A survivor of the first drone strike ever launched by president obama is speaking out. In an interview with the guardian, Faheem Qureshi said if there is a list of tyrants in the world, to me, obama will be put on that list by his drone program. The strike hit then 14yearold qureshis familys home in North Waziristan on 23 january 2009. It was president obamas third day in office. The strike permanently blinded qureshi in his left eye. He spent 40 days in the hospital recovering from burns and lacerations from shrapnel. Two of his uncles and his 21yearold cousin were killed in the attack. The strike reportedly targeted top taliban and al qaeda commanders, but Available Evidence suggests it instead hit the wrong target. Members of qureshis family were part of a progovernment peace committee. The former president of the maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has called on the u. S. And european nations to levy sanctions against maldivian officials for human rights abuses in the maldives. Nasheed was the maldives first democratically elected president , known internationally for his work on Climate Change. He was ousted in 2012 in what he called an armed coup by supporters of his predecessor, Maumoon Abdul gayoom. He is now serving a 13year sentence under antiterrorism laws. He has been permitted to travel to london for back surgery, where he spoke. It easy to topple a dictator, but not so easy to uproot a dictatorship. [indiscernible] countrys in societies far longer than we think we know. Amy that was Mohamed Nasheed speaking alongside his lawyer, amal clooney. In flint, michigan, undocumented residents say they have been blocked from accessing free bottled water and filters as flints Drinking Water remains poisoned with lead. The water poisoning began when the unelected, stateappointed emergency manager of flint switched the source of the flints Drinking Water to the highly corrosive flint river. The National Guard has been mobilized to distribute water, but some officials have required residents to show identification. Undocumented people in michigan are barred from receiving drivers licenses or state i. D. s. The National Guard has also been going door to door distributing water, but many undocumented immigrants are afraid to open the door for fear of deportation. In detroit, dozens of students have staged a walkout in solidarity with teachers who have been protesting underfunding, black mold, rat infestations, crumbling buildings and inadequate , staffing. Detroit Public Schools are under the control of unelected emergency manager Darnell Earley none other than the unelected emergency manager who presided over the water contamination in flint. This comes as a judge has again denied the School Districts request for a temporary restraining order to force the teachers to end their sickout protests. A North CarolinaDistrict Court has begun hearing a challenge to North Carolinas voter i. D. Laws, which are among the thp and the justiceon. Dertme argue n carolinas 2013 laws e the Voting Rights act and discriminate against people of color by requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls. The lawyers say the law was implemented to curb the increasing political power of voters of color in North Carolina. The case could have legal ramifications for Voting Rights laws across the country headed into the 2016 president ial race. In iowa, democratic president ial candidates bernie sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin Omalley faced off at a cnnhosted town hall monday. The most recent poll cnn shows sanders leading clinton by 2 points with the iowa caucus less than a week away, although clinton retains her lead in national polls. At the town hall, sanders drew applause when he said he had opposed to the keystone xl pipeline since day one. In terms of Climate Change, which everybody here knows and apparently everyone in the world knows except republican candidates for president , is one of the great and terminal crises facing this nation. On day one, i said the Keystone Pipeline is a dumb idea. [applause] senator i think the balkan pipeline of pipelines in vermont in a hamsher are dumb. We have to break our dependence on fossil fuel. Why did it take Hillary Clinton such a long time before she came into our position to the Keystone Pipeline . Amy sanders also attacked clinton for voting for the iraq war and for being absent on the fight against wall street deregulation. The criminal trial has begun for the new York City Police officer accused in the november 2014 killing of unarmed African American akai gurley. Gurley was in the dimly lit stairwell of a brooklyn Housing Project when officer peter liang opened fire. Liang faces charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and official misconduct. Defense attorneys say the shooting was accidental. At mondays opening hearing, prosecutors said liang was more concerned with protecting his job than he was about saving gurleys life as he lay dying. Liang reportedly did not call for help or respond to police radio contact for several minutes after opening fire. Akai gurley was in the stairwell with his girlfriend because the elevator was out of order. And peace activist and antinuclear protester Concepcion Picciotto has died. She is known for camping outside the white house continuously since 1981 to protest Nuclear Weapons and war. Her peace vigil is widely believed to have been the longest running protest in u. S. History. This is picciotto speaking in 2014. I am in front of the white maintaining a Nuclear Peace vigil since 1981. We used to 1981, [indiscernible] my colleagues, who is very committed by facing beating up by marines, police, arrested many times amy that was peace activist Concepcion Picciotto. She died monday at a housing facility for homeless women in washington, d. C. She was believed to be 80 years old. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in park city, utah. The death toll from a recordbreaking snowstorm that pummeled the eastern seaboard has risen to more than 40. In washington, d. C. , federal government offices remain closed again today. The house of representatives has postponed all votes this week. Snowstorm jonas was the single biggest snowstorm on record for at least six locations across the east coast, including baltimore, maryland and , harrisburg, pennsylvania. The highest total snowfall recorded was 42 inches or 3. 5 feet in glengary, west virginia. The weather channels lead meteorologist Michael Palmer said, its likely to go down as one of the most impressive blizzards weve seen on the eastern seaboard in recorded history. The record snowstorm in the United States came as parts of asia also experienced recordcold weather. Hong kong experienced its coldest day in 60 years sunday. Islands across japan also experienced their coldest days in decades, with one island, amami oshima, receiving snow for the first time in 115 years. In vietnam, farmers are grappling with the coldest winter in more than 40 years. Meanwhile, a new Study Suggests that warmer water temperatures are causing the seas to expand twice as fast as previously thought, leading to greater Sea Level Rise. The study in the peerreviewed proceedings of the National Academy of sciences also found Sea Level Rise varied by location, with the philippines experiencing Sea Level Rise at five times the average global rate. We turn to a new film on Climate Change that just premiered here at the Sundance Film Festival from josh fox, director of the Academy Awardnominated film , gasland, which exposed the dangers of fracking. This new film is called, how to let go of the world and love all the things climate cant change. Can a person stop a wave . Could you stand on the shore and stop a wave from crashing . What are the things that Climate Change cant destroy . What are those parts of us that are so deep that no storm can take them away . Amy that is the trailer for josh foxs new film, how to let go of the world and love all the things climate cant change. Josh fox joins us now here in park city, utah. We welcome you to democracy now great to be with you. Talk about your travels around the world for the last three years. This film starts with me and my own backyard having won against the fracking industry welcome and not just me, but the movement and realizing amy how did you win . Throw whole lot of creative protest, civil disobedience, educating the commission about how dangerous and contaminated the fracking process is. Finally after years and years of campaigning, they relented and took the river basin off the table. That was a huge victory as many people watched gasland the fear was the watershed would start to get drilled. But realizing as i saw the ecosystem collapse under the weight of, change, the hemlock force being eaten by parasite in advance and because its images are warming, that we can lose everything in our region to Climate Change. Just a few months later, new york city getting the same wakeup call with Hurricane Sandy, that these extreme weather events will continue to get worse as your sigma this incredible, crazy snowstorm only a few weeks after we and 60 degree temperatures on christmas. Amy the hottest christmas on record. And the effect of the snowstorm . The extreme weather change with climate, right . That led me to a real discovery that we are so late in this game, we have already warmed the earth by one degree, another. 5 degrees already in the pipeline. At two degrees warming, were talking about five to nine meters of Sea Level Rise being engendered. That is lethal for new york city. In philadelphia and washington, d. C. , boston, florida, san francisco. It is already so late in the game, many would say too late to avoid some of the most destructive aspects of Climate Change. That sent me out on the road from this place a really deep despair to find all of the things climate cant change. And what those are our suit the resilience,tues, creativity, innovation. That led me all across the world to six continents, two countries, places like the amazon with indigenous environmental monitors or the pacific climate warriors who are blockading the cold ports in australia to stop their islands from being submerged by Sea Level Rise. People speaking out in china for human rights and against Climate Change at peril of being imprisoned. These are the things that are incredibly emotional, in some cases spiritual, ethical examples of people who never say die, the most inspiring individuals i have met. A couple of them sitting next to me on this show, which am so excited to hear what they have the say. As late as it is, we have to inspire within ourselves the sense of generosity, community, the civic virtues that we are going to need if were going to win in of these climate battles, but we are one of the them even more if we start losing. Amy before we go to the other guests, climate activists from around this country, i want to turn to a clip from how to let go of the world and love all the things climate cant change. Pacificat group of islanders you described from nations including the marshall islands, fiji, the solomon islands, set out in handcarved canoes to blockade one of the Worlds Largest cold ports in newcastle, australia. This clip is narrated by josh fox. It begins with the pacific climate warriors chanting, we are not drowning, we are fighting. We are not drowning, we are fighting. Were not drowning, we are fighting. We are not drowning, we are fighting. Before us anything else about this sequence, you should probably know t