Africanamerican president , barack obama kicks off the second term on Martin Luther king day. Today and Inauguration Day special. We will air highlights from last ides peace ball including naacp president benjamin jealous. The challenge for our country is never to see the day when a person of color would be president , nor the challenge for our country was to ensure that it would be safe for it to have happen again and again. Well also hear from the legendary poet son the sanchez, ralph nader, sweet honey and the rock, and angela davis. Let me say this time around we cannot subordinate our aspirations and our hopes to president ial agenda. We will look at big money behind the inauguration. Four years ago president obama refused to accept corporate donations, but this year exxonmobil, at t, christoph are among the biggest backers of todays festivities. Microsoft are among the biggest backers of todays festivities. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The teenage gunman is in custody after allegedly killing five members of his family in new mexico on saturday night. Police say the 15yearold killed his parents and three siblings, each suffering multiple gunshot wounds. The suspect was armed with several weapons, including an assault rifle. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the u. S. Since the newtown massacre over a month ago. The shooting came on the same day opponents of gun control held rallies across the country to oppose the white house effort to reform the nations gun laws. At demonstrations in pennsylvania and ohio, gun owners pilloried calls for stricter gun control. No law put on law abiding citizens h crime. Theyre going to take my gun so i can get shot. My thoughts is, tell the leftwing liberal idiots in washington to leave our guns alone. Were not hurting anything. It is the criminals. Deal with the criminals, not the law abiding citizens. The progun rallies also coincided with a series of nationwide gun shows where at least five people were wounded when their firearms accidentally went off. In North Carolina, three people were injured when a shotgun accidentally fired as its owner removed it from its case. Another gun owner accidentally shot himself in indianapolis, while an ohio a gun show attendee was injured by stray bullet. President obama is set to publicly take the oath of office today at his second term inauguration in washington. Obama gathered with his family sunday in the blue room of the white house to privately recite the 35word oath read to him by Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States, so help me god. Congratulations, mr. President. 3 activist groups have received permission to protest president obama along the route of the nrk parade. The antiwar group answers says it expects we will have more on the inauguration after headlines. Alice four people have been killed in u. S. Drone strike inside yemen. Yemeni government says the attack of four militants but the claim has not been independently verified. The attack comes one day after those of anger of the drone attacks blocked a main road linking the targeted town with the capital. The Obama Administration meanwhile reportedly has decided to exclude cia drone strikes in pakist from new legal oversight for targeted killings overseas. The Washington Post reports counterterrorism adviser and cianominee john brennan has signed off on a plan to exempt the drone attacks in pakistan from a list of operations that would be covered under newly enacted rules. Areas covered in the socalled play book include the process for adding names to kill lists, the principles for killing u. S. Citizens abroad, and the command chain for authorizing cia or u. S. Military strikes outside war zones. The exemption of drone strikes in pakistan would allow the cia to continue carrying them without tearing them without a Legal Framework for a to two years. The hostage standoff in a jury of his ended in the deaths of dozens of people, including up to 48 of the captured workers. Algerian forces say they recovered at least 25 bodies after storming the militant held gas complex saturday, bringing the confirmed death toll to least 80. Witnesses say the hostages were brutally executed. The toll could have been worse as hundreds of hostages had earlier managed to escape. A will on islamist fighter has claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the al qaeda. The militants who took the complex claimed there were doing so to seek an end to the French Military intervention in neighboring mali. The french Army Continues to advance on no. Rally in its effort to wrest control from islamist rebels. Earlier today, French Forces into the key town on the ground after a week of air strikes. The rebels apparently fled the town after vowing stiff resistance. At the united nations, a spokesperson for the u. N. Refugee agency said the fighting in mali continues to this place up to 700,000 people. We believe there could be in the near future up to 300,000 people additionally displaced inside mali and over 400,000 additionally displaced in the neighboring countries. Many also fear the strict application of sharia law. Their report having witnessed executions, amputations, and say that large amounts of money are being offered to civilians to fight against the malian army and its supporters. Disturbingly, also, were hearing accounts there are children among the rebel fighters. Fighting erupted in afghanistans capital earlier today after suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of the afghan traffic police. At least eight people were killed, including three officers and five militants. It was the Second Attack on an Afghan Government building in kabul in five days. A new u. N. Report says the torture prisoners in afghanistan is not only continuing, that may be on the rise. Investigators say theyve uncovered ongoing abuses in afghan prisons including the beating of detainees with cables and hanging them by their wrists. More than half of prisoners interviewed said they had been tortured, higher than the previous rate of 24 in 2011. The report also cites an unnamed afghan official confirming prisoners are being held as a pretension sides to avoid international scrutiny. Last week, the u. S. Military said it had halted the transfer detainees to some afghan prisons over ongoing torture. The Israeli Military has forced forcibly removed another palestinian protest encampment in the path of the expanding settlement. Palestinian residents of the village had set up three tents and a mobil building on friday to stop israel from seizing parts of their land. The demonstrators named their site bab alkarama. The activists said they tore up the order in the faces of its release soldiers. The in camera was raided and dismantle by its release soldiers earlier today. Another palestinian encampment was removed earlier this month. Rebels in colombia have announced an end to a twomonth unilateral ceasefire declared peace talks with the government. Revolutionary armed forces, or fork, said they would have extended the truce had the government and willing to sign an accord. A columbia rejected the pact saying farc did its ceasefire pledges multiple times. Military attacks against the far can continue even after rebels and the colombian government began meeting for peace talks in cuba late last year. Back in the u. S. , the interior department has again delayed a regulation that would require the disclosure of chemicals used in the oil drilling process of hydraulic fracturing known as fracking. It is the second time the rules implementation has been delayed since it was first proposed in may. In a bid to draw attention to the Environmental Impact of fracking, the musician and activist yoko ono has joined with her son, musician sean lennon, for a tour of impacted areas in northeastern states. The actor and activist Susan Sarandon joined yoko ono and sean lennon for a part of their trip. Fracking is such a major, major decision because it is forever. You cannot undo the damage. All of that stuff is still emitting even after they leave. Fracking is dirty. There is no way to make it clean. The industry knows it is dirty and that is why theyre spending so much money on the pr campaign to spread the information and tell people it is going to save their economy, when actually it devastates local communities. Hundreds of people gathered in new york city on saturday for a Public Memorial Service honoring and schwartz, the Internet Freedom activist who took his own life earlier this month. He was weeks before trial date for downloading millions of articles provided by the Nonprofit Research service jstor at mit. Swartz was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh. At the memorial, aaron swartzs partner, taren stinebrickner kauffman, called for prosecutors to be held accountable. On last friday he face the prospect of yet another three months of uncertainty of ups and downs of being forced by the government to spend every fiber of his being on this damnable, since this trial. With no guarantee could exonerate himself at the end of it. He was so scared and so frustrated and so desperate and more than anything, just so weary. I think he just could not take it another day. Aarib would have loved to have been here because of the last week, phoenixs are already rising from his ashes. The best possible legacy for him is for all of us to go out from here today and do everything we can to make the world a better place. A thousand flowers are blooming in his name already. Some of the most important and will be fighting, david siegel, and many others, are organizing around u. S. Attorneys office that must be held accountable for its actions. Taren stinebricknerkauffman speaking at the public memorial for aaron swartz. Democracy now livestreamed the memorial. You can go to democracynow. Org to watch it in full as well as our interview with taren. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from washington, d. C. , today, where president barack obama is set to publicly take the oath of office for a second term after becoming the first africanamerican u. S. President four years ago. As many as 800,000 people are expected to attend this years celebration smaller than the nearly 2 Million People who crammed into washington to witness his 2009 inauguration, but still the largest second inauguration in history. President obama first gathered with his family sunday in the blue room of the white house to privately recite the 35word oath that was read to him by Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts. Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, Barack Hussein obama, do solemnly swear 9 i barack obama and do solemnly swear that i will execute the office of the president of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States, so help me god. Congratulations, mr. President. Thank you so much. President obama being sworn in sunday by Supreme CourtJustice John Roberts during a ceremony at the white house. He will repeat those words when he raises his right hand at todays public inauguration, while laying his left hand on two bibles one owned by Abraham Lincoln and the other owned by dr. Martin luther king, jr. Afterward, obama will deliver a speech laying out his plans for the next four years. The nro ceremony will include music from singers james taylor, beyonce, and others which will carry live during our extended fiveour inauguration special. After our regular broadcast ends, we will continue to bring you coverage until 1 00 p. M. Eastern standard time, including the swearing in ceremony. Some stations will run the whole five our special, for others you can go to democracynow. Org. This year, the inauguration also comes on the federal holiday in honor of dr. Martin luther king, jr. , who delivered his i have a dream speech 50 years ago, not far from here at the lincoln memorial. Later in our special coverage, we will air excerpts of some of dr. Kings less often played speeches, including beyond vietnam. Why he opposed the war in vietnam. But first, we turn to some of the voices of hope and resistance from sunday nights piece ball. Not affiliated with any Political Party, the celebration at the mead center for American Theater paid tribute to the continuing struggle for peace and justice here in the United States and throughout the world. We begin with naacp president benjamin jealoin. This is the place to be tonight. The challenge for our country was never to see the day when a person of color would be president , know the challenge for our country was to ensure that it would be safe for it to happen again and again. We knew it could be condoleezza rice. It could be colin powell. But we got barack obama. We got a man who was a product of a progressive movement. As we stand here tonight ever so humble, reminiscing about ancestors who did not see this day, about people like medgar evers who gave their lives so we would see this day, let us walk out of here tonight talking to our children as members of a movement that is triumphant. I want you not to forget what happened last year or two years ago when they said we could never be where we are right now. When they tried to teach our children that the tea party was not a group of people who started the war for democracy against the king, but rather a group of people who started the war against democracy for would be kings. And they said that we organized people would be run over by organized money. They said that we cannot organize people, would never turn out like we did in 2008. They said that they could attack womens rights, lgbt rights, students rights, workers rights, voting rights, and we would vulcanize. And then something funny happened on their way to victory. We came together like we have never come together before. [applause] they said that we could not pass Marriage Equality in one state on the ballot, and we won victories in all four states. [applause] they said that we could never say comprehensive immigration reform, and now sean hannity says that he supports it. They said that they were going to steal our democracy from us, and we took it back. So here is the challenge. The challenge to us is to remember what we learned when we first entered this movement, that you never elect someone to make change happen for you. You elect somebody to make it a little easier for your movement to keep on making change after. And so, brothers and sisters, i implore you tonight, have a good time, party caressed well, then get right back on the battlefield Tuesday Morning because we took our democracy back and we aint giving it up to nobody. Thank you and god bless. Fire it up. Fire it up. Fire it up god bless you all. That was president of the naacp, benjamin jealous, speaking at the peace ball, voices of hope and resistance come here in washington, d. C. On sunday night. We will be back with more from the peace ball couldnt angela davis, Sonia Sanchez and others in a moment. [music break] sweet honey in the rock performing at the peace ball last night. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from washington, d. C. , bringing you special coverage of todays inauguration as hundreds of thousands gathered here in the capital. As many as 800,000 people are expected to attend the celebration smaller than merely to lead people who crammed into washington to witness the 2009 inauguration, but still the largest second inauguration in history. The first, by the way, four years ago was the largest event ever to take place in washington, d. C. After our regular program ends, we will continue to bring you coverage until 1 00 p. M. Eastern time, including the swearing in ceremony. This year the inauguration also comes on january 21, the federal holiday in honor of dr. Martin luther king, jr. Later in our special coverage, we will air excerpts of some of his less often heard speeches. But now we return to some of the voices from the peace ball last night, voices of hope and resistance. At the arena stage of the mead center for American Theater, a Cultural Center here in washington. This is renowned author, educator and political activist angela davis who spoke last night, founder of the Group Critical resistance, a grassroots effort to in the prison industrial complex. Davis voiced support for president obama, the said much work needs to be done. Let me say this time around we cannot subordinate our aspirations and our hopes to president ial the agendas. Our passionate support for president barack obama and it is wonderful that we can say for the second time, president barack obama, and we support him and are passionate about that support. But that support should also be expressed in our determination to raise issues that have largely been ignored or not appropriately addressed by the administration. And let me say that we are aware that we should be celebrating, critically celebrating the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamati