Rights by marching from selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965, 50 years ago. While the film has been nominated for an oscar, to the shock of many, ava duvernay was not. She wouldve made history as the first africanamerican woman nominated for best director. We have to work without permission, especially women in this industry. Who are we asking for permission to do what we want to do . That should be eradicated. You need to set a path and start walking. Ava duvernay for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Alexis tsipras, the head of the leftist, antiausterity syriza party, has been sworn in as greeces new Prime Minister. Syriza won a decisive victory in sundays election becoming the first antiausterity party to lead one of the 19 nations in the euro zone since the economic crisis began. Syriza spokesperson Panos Skourletis said europe should not be worried about the new governments policies. Europe
Ava duvernay, the director of the acclaimed new film selma. It tells the story of dr. Martin luther king juniors campaign to draw the nations attention to the struggle for equal Voting Rights by marching from selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965, 50 years ago. While the film has been nominated for an oscar, to the shock of many, ava duvernay was not. She wouldve made history as the first africanamerican woman nominated for best director. We have to work without permission, especially women in this industry. Who are we asking for permission to do what we want to do . That should be eradicated. You need to set a path and start walking. Ava duvernay for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Alexis tsipras, the head of the leftist, antiausterity syriza party, has been sworn in as greeces new Prime Minister. Syriza won a decisive victory in sundays election becoming the first antiausterity party to lead o
Ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] good afternoon and welcome to the United States gavel. The congress is celebrating the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. A time that proves Frederick Douglass was right when he said if there is no struggle, there is no progress. It was three weeks in a day after the march on washington, Martin Luther king jr. Was in birmingham, alabama. He was not there to sermonize, he was there to eulogize, to make sense of the sunday morning murder of young addie mae collins, denise mcnair, carole robertson, and cynthia wesley. The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force. What may have been discomfort turned out to be prophecy. Birmingham had to go through hell, but found its way back and pushed itself forward and pushed the whole country forward as well. This is one of the true american stories. Two representatives from alabama have joined toge
Gwen, what a wild 24 hours it has been from where the administration was yesterday to where it is right now. Ifill the administration has a very clear goal tonight. The president has to answer what it is he wants the American People to support, why he needs to sipt it and how he does it. Its unclear how. Woodruff and this fine like hes walking for making the case for military action at the same time hes saying we need to leave the window open for a diplomatic solution if that is doable. Ifill he has a lot of audiences out there, the American People who are very skeptical about it as well as the International Community to want to take those weapons and isolate them. Its really very tough. Were waiting to see whether its possible for him to do all those things, judy. Woodruff thats right. I believe this is the first time in several years the president has made a speech from the white house, and here he is now. My fellow americans, tonight i want to talk to you about syria. Why it matters
It was extremely broad in its escape and there was no language in it about, first, trying to pursue a diplomatic solution. Senator susan collins, republican of maine, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Woodruff next, to the nuts and bolts of how to make a diplomatic deal work and put syrias chemical weapons under international control. For that we turn to jeffrey brown. Brown its a stockpile thats believed to be the largest in the world, a prewar map compiled by the Monterey Institute shows where syrias chemical weapons and production facilities were thought to be, spread through the western half of the country. Definitive information on the Current Situation is much harder to come by. To walk us through we turn to charles duelfer, a top u. N. Weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s, after the u. S. Invasion in 2003, he led the c. I. A. s Iraq Survey Group which continued to look for weapons of mass destruction. Hes author of hide and seek the search for truth in hes author of hid