100 years later the distinct ladies and gentlemen, the questions are the same. What are the women doing in the horrific violence is encountering . When we started in Northern Ireland, mostly women, but also with men, to say very clearly, no to all violence. We have got to stop killing each other here. We reject the use of the bomb and bullets and all the techniques of violence. We can solve our problems through peace and dialogue. We women know what a security. It is food on the table. It is a house to live in. It is access to medical care. It is enough i jobs so you can raise your children. It is take all that money that is put to the weapons of war and death and use it for a better world. That is security. That is human security. Amy today we will speak to , three Nobel Peace Prize laureates Leymah Gbowee from liberia, Mairead Maguire from ireland and Jody Williams from the United States. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Systemic changes for generations to come. You are at the forefront of this cause. And as young people, our time is now. Amn any major city in the United States. We wl play excerpts of her announcement and go to the streets of baltimore for reaction. Then from protests over Police Violence in baltimore to mexico where demonstrations are the seven month anniversary of the disappearances of 43 students in the mexican state of guerrero. We feel our children are alive because it was police that took them. And they didnt take any more because no more fit in the police car. And the public feels our pain as parents. We will speak with parents of the disappeared students and with intercept reporter Ryan Devereaux about his explosive new Investigation Called ghosts of iguala. Our investigation, based on dozens of interviews of students that survived the attack that night reveals how the federal authorities in mexico sought to connect crimes that happened that night when the evidence indicates a
Day as the Justice Department announced yet another investigation into Baltimore Police. The first, to immigrants fleeing libya. [indiscernible] will magically stop. We ask there is an action that puts the human being in the center and stop labeling them as illegal. Amy expected to ask the wood secured a counsel to permit military action against human traffickers out of libya, we will look at a new report by mr. Turner national called libya is , full of cruelty stories of abduction, Sexual Violence and abuse from migrants and refugees. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A new report says the Obama Administration gave a false account of the hunting and killing of osama bin laden. Bin laden was shot dead four years ago this month in a u. S. Raid on his hideout in the city of abbottabad. The white house claimed at the time the u. S. Operatives entered from afghanistan without pakistans knowledge. But Inve
Wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. We wanted to get home. We just wanted to survive. And yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that we should have known better. We should have been sitting where you are. That we should have been more active, more informed, and more in opposition to that war. Amy all of that and more coming up. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As the nation celebrates memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. Fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 3500 u. S. Marines landed in south vietnam, marking the start of the u. S. Ground war in vietnam. That same day, in alabama, state troopers beat back civil rights protesters in selma trying to walk over the Edmund Pettus bridge. Weeks later, the first teachin against the vietnam war was held at the university of michigan. By 1968, the u. S. Had half a million troops in vietnam. The war continued until apr
Than 260. The sentence was issued in massachusetts, a state which has banned the Death Penalty since 1987 and has not carried out an execution since 1947. Polls show 85 of bostonians oppose the Death Penalty for zorn avenue as well as 80 of massachusetts residents. We will host a roundtable discussion with Denny Lebouef Eric Freedman and go to boston to speak with james rooney president of massachusetts citizens against the Death Penalty. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The selfproclaimed Islamic State has captured ramadi, capital of iraqs anbar province. The last of the iraqi forces fled on sunday as isil forces swept the city, killing government loyalists and seizing military equipment, including u. S. Supplied weapons. Local Officials Say around 500 civilians and soldiers were killed in just two days of fighting. And thousands have fled their homes. The fall of ramadi comes despite weeks of u. S. A