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Flag comes down today. So said bree newsome as she took down the flag on the South Carolina state capital. Now, she joins us in studio. Bree my ancestors came through charleston by slave market. The Confederate Flag is a symbol of folks trying to hold us into the place of bondage that we have been before. Our struggle the past one hundred 50 years of trying to come out of that place. Amy we will also speak with jimmy tyson, who spotted bree newsome on the ground while she scaled the pole. Racism...

Psychologist who participated in the 2005 apa task force that condone psychologists involvement enhanced interrogations, later blew the whistle. Then to vienna, austria, where negotiators are close to reaching a Historic Deal between iran and six world powers that would limit tehrans nuclear ability for more than a decade in exchange for sanctions relief. The world should know the nation of iran is an artful nation that could solve the greatest issues and political history through logic and disc...

Peace prize in oslo, dr. King gave a major address in london on segregation, the fight for civil rights, and his support for Nelson Mandela and the antiapartheid struggle in south africa. The united kingdom, the United States decided tomorrow morning not to buy South African goods or to buy South African gold, investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for the racial tyranny that we find their, then apartheid would be brought to. Today, dr. Kings city temple address, december 7, 1964...

Administrations use of waterboarding. Ive come to believe firmly that torture is wrong under any circumstances. It is not something that a Civilized Society should sanction. It is something that we as americans should oppose. John kiriakou is the only official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program. If we are going to make prosecution or initiate prosecution, those prosecutions cant just be against the people who blew the whistle on the torture or who opposed the torture. We...

Killing of unarmed African American teens, we look at a film premiering at sundance called 3 1 2 minutes. It tells the story of how on november 23, 2012, four teenagers pulled into a jacksonville gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. They were soon confronted by michael dunn, a middleaged white man who pulled in next to them in the parking lot. Dunn demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. He pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their...

We will also speak to leading european muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. Then as the fbi probes the killing of three Muslim Students in North Carolina and an Islamic Center in houston burns down, we look at a new report fear, inc. 2. 0. the Islamophobia Networks efforts to manufacture hate in america. This is how the Islamophobia Network operates. A Group Provides the money. Today, more than 57 lane dollars. That money is given to tightly net organizations that rely heavily on a handful of socalled ...

Reached a fever pitch in chicago ahead of tuesdays mayoral election. We will speak with Rick Perlstein chicagobased reporter, author of how to sell off a city. Then this weekend memorials are the 50th anniversary of the assassination of malcolm x. We will speak with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. The history of unpunished violence against our people indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent racist mob. ...

Years ago, when hundreds of people led by, among them, a young john lewis, 25 years old now a congressman and one of the leaders of the student nonviolence coordinating committee, marched in nonviolence over the bridge. This city gave birth to the movement that changed this nation forever. Our country will never, ever be the same because of what amy all that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from ala...

Estimates california has about one year of water left. And how the United Nations body responsible for Global Climate change negotiations is backing the campaign to persuade investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets. Then, as wikileaks founder Julian Assange marks is 1000th day seeking silent a salem swedish prosecutors have agreed for the first time to come to london to question him. We see this as a victory for Julian Assange and as an evidence that we were right all the time, that the pr...

Republicans from the United States to undermine any possibility of a negotiated settleme with iran that neither israel nor u. S. Hawks want to tolerate a deterrent in the region to their violence. Amy , and much a professor of linguistics, today, for the hour on israel, iran, palestine isis, and ukraine. Ukraine could turn into an exterior is extremely serious crisis, the famous Doomsday Clock has just been moved from midnight, the highest it has been for 30 years, for russia this is a strategic...