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bodies. how afraid we are for our children. how afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. amy: between the world and me. that s the title of the explosive new book i ta-nehisi coates written to his teenage son. it is released after nine churchgoers are killed in south carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28-year-old african-american woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. in video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. he welcomed the nation s marking the first anniversary of the police killings of eric garner in michael brown and michael brown. after baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of t ....
young children of either gender so in the all voluntary military, this is a new thing where we have these children at home where these parents are doing multiple lengthy deployments. when i finish talking, desma took the microphone and said i just want to add something to that. she said, i am earned a lot of money during my deployment. i got combat pay and i chose to enlist and i chose to fulfill those orders. i appreciated having that opportunity to earn that money. i earned a lot more money doing this than i was making as a waitress at a truck stop, and i wouldn t want my experience used in a way that would deny anybody else the same economic opportunity. and so, she was essentially saying, you how in thorpe the author of this book might think it s not a great thing deploy a single mom, but that s easy for you to say because you weren t trying to raise my children on what i was earning. she told me later that she thought i was uppity, i think she meant upper class. [l ....
women in combat, but it s also their changing roles in war and the ever present danger of sexual assault and harassment and the stress on daily lives, families and relationships, when they come back home. but the overall take away from the book is much greater than that. i was wondering what you hope to address through telling these three stories of these three women? you know, i think what i was hoping to address and what i wound up addressing might be two different things. at the outset, really, outset, really, i think what i was hoping to address was may be, there was this huge division in our society and i just saw two authors walk-in who have written books who are both veterans and novelists and their books are really amazing and i hope you have a chance to check them out. i think they are speaking later this afternoon. at 330. i think i was hoping to address a really big question between civilians and military mindsets. i put myself in the camp that ignorant ....
security council staffer gary sick on what he calls the danger of a failed iran deal. then leading islamic scholars release a broad declaration on climate change. hashe prophet said, allah made the earth green and beautiful and he has appointed you as his stewards. join with him around the world as we call on world leaders to do more and to make firm commitments. amy: we will speak to bangladeshi scientist saleemul huq who helped draft the islamic declaration on global climate change. and then to the beat up squad. a group of prison guards in new york are accused of brutally killing an inmate and then trying to cover up his death. we will speak with reporter michael schwirtz about the attack at fishkill as well as what happened after judah prisoners escaped from another new york jail, the clinton correctional facility. though it was risen employees who are implicated in the escape, it was prisoners who were beaten. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now! ....
the iran nuclear deal. next month s senate vote has been described as the most consequential foreign policy vote since the 2002 decision to invade iraq. we ll speak to former national security council staffer gary sick on what he calls the danger of a failed iran deal. then leading islamic scholars release a broad declaration on climate change. hashe prophet said, allah made the earth green and beautiful and he has appointed you as his stewards. join with him around the world as we call on world leaders to do more and to make firm commitments. amy: we will speak to bangladeshi scientist saleemul huq who helped draft the islamic declaration on global climate change. and then to the beat up squad. a group of prison guards in new york are accused of brutally killing an inmate and then trying to cover up his death. we will speak with reporter michael schwirtz about the attack at fishkill as well as what happened after judah prisoners escaped from another new york jail, the ....