One closely watched race is colorados citizeninitiated amendment 69, which would finance universal health care , other states are set to vote on marijuana legalization, guns, Public Education, taxes, and the Death Penalty. Then to the Battle Ground state of ohio, where Investigative Reporter greg palast. Today on election day, they are not going to use white sheets to keep away black voters. Today, they are using amy Media Coverage for who will be president that is, who will win the Electoral College. We will speak with rob richie, director of fairvote, who wants to establish a National Popular vote so all states count. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. And across the United States voters are preparing to go to , the polls to cast thr president , senator, governor, a attorneys general, and a slew of other elected officials. On monday, both Hillary Clinton and donald trump finished
Will make. No, not the president ial, senate or congressional races, but more than 150 measures in 35 states, more thahan in any electction ie last decade. They are Ballot Initiatives. Onone closely watched race is colorados citizeninitiated amendment 69, which would finance universal health care , other states are set to vote on marijuana legalization, guns, Public Education, taxes, and the Death Penalty. Then to the Battle Ground state of ohio, w where investigative repoporter greg palast. Today on n election day, they are not going to use white sheets to keep away black voters. Today, they are using amy Media Coverage for who will be president that is, who will win the Electoral College. We will speak with rob richie, director of fairvote, who wants to establish a National Popular vote so all states count. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. And across the United States voters are
Will make. No, not the president ial, senate or congressional races, but more than 150 measures in 35 states, more thahan in any electction ie last decade. They are Ballot Initiatives. Onone closely watched race is colorados citizeninitiated amendment 69, which would finance universal health care , other states are set to vote on marijuana legalization, guns, Public Education, taxes, and the Death Penalty. Then to the Battle Ground state of ohio, w where investigative repoporter greg palast. Today on n election day, they are not going to use white sheets to keep away black voters. Today, they are using amy Media Coverage for who will be president that is, who will win the Electoral College. We will speak with rob richie, director of fairvote, who wants to establish a National Popular vote so all states count. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. And across the United States voters are
You would be sent to mccarthys committee and blacklisted, deported somewhere. They decided to adhere to nonviolence when they were marching. The people we associate most with nonviolence like dr. King, he often had armed bodyguards surrounding his home. Its a fellowship of reconciliation, went to visit Martin Luther king in the early days of the montgomery bus boycott. He had decided on being gandhian. He wrote back and said, this place is an arsenal. You had so many guns around the house, and they convinced him not to do it great its a mess, i think. It. Its a mess, i think. Questions . Thank you all so much for coming. [applause] coming up next on American History tv, historian and author Douglas Charles discusses his book, hoovers more on days, war on gays. Thanbi accumulated more sex000 pages on socalled deviants. These files were destroyed in 1977 and 1978. Professor charles discusses his research into the history of the program and the public and official perception of gays durin
His files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. Mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington,. C. With his lover one of those is verifiable. Based on historical evidence. He other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. It captured the two major hoover era of sessions. Ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. We cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a persons character or nature. Having no convincing evidence sexuality isovers a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. Let me take you on a whirlwin