her lessons from winning a legal battle against pacific gas & electric in california when they polluted her city s water supply. millions of americans are on the edge of a hunger cliff as republicans push for cuts to food stamps and unemployment benefits. politics? what s that? example.ve you an ronald reagan campaigning in 1980 and complaining about welfare queens. race on doesn t mention its surface. we will speak with professor ian haney lopez, author of the new book, dog whistle politics: how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism & wrecked the middle class. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. more than 200 south sudanese civilians have drowned in the white now river while attending to flee violence. an army spokesperson told afp as many as 300 people died in the accident on an overloaded ferry including children. hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the conflict in south s