Issue through comedy and satire. It is called dear white people. A group of black students at a fictional, predominantly white, Ivy League School. We will speak with actor Marque Richardson, an awardwinning firsttime director Justin Simien. I say to all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all of the black people in the world, you have the right to left. You get a free honorary lacquered with the two sundance ticket. It is meant to be a satire. I think if you start with the title for you get the kneejerk reaction it is going to be an hourlong indictment, you miss the point. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is holding an emergency meeting with g7 leaders in the netherlands today following russias annexation of crimea. The session comes as the russian government continues to strengthen its control of crimea , seizing more bases and attaining detaining ukrainian commanders. The cr
Armed wing of the African National congress with mandela. As a youngvolved student. Revulsioner shock and for what had happened in the general revulsion against the apartheid system. The anc had been banned. One had friends and contacts. I got deeply involved very quickly. After decades living underground, Ronnie Kasrils went on to become a top military official and the South African government under president mandela and later served as south africas intelligence minister. We will talk with him about his years with mandela, the apartheid struggle to president zuma, in the future of south africa. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The white house says enrollment in obamacare insurance plans continues to improve after a problem plagued first month. People signed up in november, double the month before. More than 800,000 people have also signed up for medicaid eligibility. Health and Human Services secretar
Armed wing of the African National congress with mandela. As a youngvolved student. Revulsioner shock and for what had happened in the general revulsion against the apartheid system. The anc had been banned. One had friends and contacts. I got deeply involved very quickly. After decades living underground, Ronnie Kasrils went on to become a top military official and the South African government under president mandela and later served as south africas intelligence minister. We will talk with him about his years with mandela, the apartheid struggle to president zuma, in the future of south africa. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The white house says enrollment in obamacare insurance plans continues to improve after a problem plagued first month. People signed up in november, double the month before. More than 800,000 people have also signed up for medicaid eligibility. Health and Human Services secretar
Nuclear power station. Today we speak to the man who was Prime Minister of japan at the time. Rare sitting leader changes his position, but that kan did. Aoto it is impossible to totally prevent any accident or disaster happening at the Nuclear Power plant. The one way to prevent it from happening, to prevent the risk getting risk of having to evacuate huge amount of people and for the purpose of the benefit of the lives of our people and even the economy of japan, i can to change the position that the only way to do this, was necessary was to totally get rid of the Nuclear Power plant. The world what now political dissident, lynn was an author noam chomsky. Literally horrifying this is happening that japan with its unique, her and this experiences with the effect of nuclear explosions, well have to discuss and this particularly horrifying happening to children who are defenseless, innocent, but unfortunately, this is what happens all of the time. All of that and more coming up. This i
There were lots of people on sight with signs and banners supporting people doing this civil disobedience, particularly supporting the people who got arrested. So that happened yesterday in phoenix. It went as planned, a successful protest. But then Something Else happened. A bus showed up. And a bus started to pull out of that facility that they had chained themselves to the gates of. And it was a bus that was loaded up with immigrants, who were being forcibly deported out of the country. The protest at the fence, at the gates where the people had chained themselves to the fence there, that had been a protest for Immigration Reform. The protesters were saying, stop splitting up our families, stop breaking parents and children and brothers and sisters and husbands and wives apart from each other, when their only crime is wanting to live here peacefully, together. 1. 7 Million People have been deported under president obama alone. These protesters say they want a moratorium on the depor