prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney general s immigration task force. when i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. and i was freed. so now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. amy: and recent spike in casualties in u.s. airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. in syria with the u.s. struck a mosque and iraq u.s. air sex continue in mosul. often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u.s. apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, president trump s pick to replace the late antonin scalia on the supreme court. if confirmed by the senate, gorsuch would give conservatives a narrow 5-4 conservative majority on the court. as a judge on the tenth circuit, gorsuch ruled in f
criticized anti-apartheid protesters at columbia university. then we go to vermont where the immigrant community has been shaken after ice detained three prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney general s immigration task force. when i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. and i was freed. so now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. amy: and recent spike in casualties in u.s. airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. in syria with the u.s. struck a mosque and iraq u.s. air sex continue in mosul. often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u.s. apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, president trump s pick to replace the late antonin scalia on the supreme court. if conf
criticized anti-apartheid protesters at columbia university. then we go to vermont where the immigrant community has been shaken after ice detained three prominent immigrant rights activists, including a member of the state attorney general s immigration task force. when i was detained, they stood up for me in the mobilized the community to fight for my freedom. and i was freed. so now i am here to fight for of these men because they deserve their freedom, too. amy: and recent spike in casualties in u.s. airstrikes abroad and nearly 49. in syria with the u.s. struck a mosque and iraq u.s. air sex continue in mosul. often coast of yemen, saudi arabia is accused of using a u.s. apache helicopter to kill refugees on a boat. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. confirmation hearings begin today for neil gorsuch, president trump s pick to replace the late antonin scalia on the supreme court. if conf
now. this comes after two of the nurses who helped care for duncan were diagnosed with ebola. one of those nurses took a round trip commercial flight from texas to ohio in the days before she was diagnosed, triggering concerns about anyone who may have come into contact with her. it is a lot. i mean between the new cases, the growing criticism of the response from federal health officials and now a new ebola czar, it s a lot. but, everyone, take a breath for a moment. because the next few days may be critical, not just in terms of how we handle the ebola cases, but in how we handle another contagious threat. hysteria. yes, ebola is scary and often deadly. yes, there are more than 9,000 cases around the world. but only three of those have been diagnosed here in the u.s. and getting ebola is not easy. as the cdc points out, ebola is spread through direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of an ebola patient, which is why health care workers are particularly vulnerable. it is