Sachs. In burlington, vermont, we speak to vermont first and today only feel governor madeleine may kunin. Womens issues like child care, equal pay for eagle work, paid family and medical leave those are gut issues for women because we have lived them. So the world still looks different through the eyes of a woman. Amy plus, we go to denver, colorado, where ice agents have detained a mexican immigrant who once sought sanctuary in a church, but left after being told he was no longer a priority for deportation. But now the Trump Administration says there are no priorities. Coming to the United States to work in the future for the families. We are not amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The white house on wednesday outlined a tax plan that would add trillions of dollars to the u. S. Deficit while overwhelmingly benefiting the wealthiest corporations and individuals, including President Trump. The skeleta
And then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Think of the people who are in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probation or to find a job or anything like that. Amy this was around the time that George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. And here in tampa, florida we , will speak to a syrian refugee who just graduated from Saint Leo University near tampa. He gave the graduation address. So we went out to the street we were met by the Regime Se
Socialist city Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant. Then we speak to one of the lawyers leading the charge against trumps muslim ban. If you look at it and say, how in the world can he be trying to tie this to national barring when he is children from coming in to be reunited with their parents . Their parents are already living here, who are United States is distance and lawful permanent residents . Amy we will speak with matt adams. He is fighting an order from the department of justice that instructs his group to cease and desist from assisting unrepresented immigrants facing deportation. And the department of energy has declared a state of emergency at the Hanford Nuclear site here in Washington State. Storingfter a tunnel Radioactive Material collapsed, forcing hundreds of workers to take cover in place to avoid potential exposure. The excavator here that throughout the day will place scoop full after scoop full of soil into the collapsed portion of the tunnel, which is approximat
In the choiceng 16 election. We will get the latest with marcy wheeler. ,hen we remember Javier Valdez who died monday in mexico after he was dragged out of his car and shot 12 times less than a block from the office of the newspaper he founded. Live is dangerous to be a and to do journalism and tread and invisible line trauma the bad guys drawn by the bad guys. This is what most of the country is living through. Amy we will hear Javier Valdez in his own words and speak to anabel hernandez, another mexican journalist who has also faced Death Threats for her reporting on mexicos drug trade. And we will look at how more than 50 farm workers here in california were recently exposed to highly toxic pesticide, whose use was recently greenlighted by the epa in one of the agencys first decisions since donald trump took office. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from los angeles. The depar
Transferred where President Trump says duterte is doing an unbelievable job on the drug program. We will speak also with Glenn Greenwald about how the Media Coverage of the Manchester Bombing victims should be a model for all young victims of war from yemen to afghanistan. Plus, we will speak to toronto activist and journalist desmond cole. I think what was revealed is a certain naivete where we ignore very obvious problems of racial discrimination. We want to tell ourselves that it is not happening here and we especially want to tell ourselves we are not the United States of america. Amy up until recently, desmond cole was a columnist at the toronto star. Its editors told him he had to choose between being a journalist or a black lives matter activist. He decided to stop writing his column. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from toronto, canada. In new revelations about possible