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He resigns from office. We will go to Guatemala City for the latest and speak to nobel peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu and journalist allan nairn. Then to chicago. A group of Chicago Public school parents, grandmothers, and education activists are entering the 19th day of a Hunger Strike. We will go to chicago to find out why. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In guatemala, expresident Otto Perez Molina has been ...

Benefits the people. Amy guatemalans celebrate in the street as the president Otto Perez Molina is jailed on corruption charges one day after he resigns from office. We will go to Guatemala City for the latest and speak to nobel peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu and journalist allan nairn. Then to chicago. A group of Chicago Public school parents, grandmothers, and education activists are entering the 19th day of a Hunger Strike. We will go to chicago to find out why. All that and more, coming up....

Benefits the people. Amy guatemalans celebrate in the street as the president Otto Perez Molina is jailed on corruption charges one day after he resigns from office. We will go to Guatemala City for the latest and speak to nobel peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu and journalist allan nairn. Then to chicago. A group of Chicago Public school parents, grandmothers, and education activists are entering the 19th day of a Hunger Strike. We will go to chicago to find out why. All that and more, coming up....

That she said would risk the lives of countless innocent individuals. And the Metro Police Department has identified a man as a person of interest in the shooting death of 23yearold matthew shlonsky. We want to show you 19yearold andre dudley considered armed and dangerous. He is wanted for a burglary in northeast just three days before shlonsky, a recent graduate of american university, was killed and remember police are offering a 25,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of any h...

Heritage month. This is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do...

Has two ends and the churchs teachings on this and clear for many years. But the flourishing of the person here and now as a citizen of this world and their eternal and as a citizen of the world to come and so the mission and the vision of our schools we try to keep that very much within our minds because it matters to the children in front of us. That is what makes our schools different. [applause] im going to assume that is the same mission as the Charter Schools. What makes the Charter School...

Country capital, preparatory Magnet School in hartford connecticut. It is for the mostly lowincome families graduates 100 of its children and has done so every year since 2006. The contributor for cnn and msnbc about the bestselling author and host of his own documentary, and as soon as you will hear him talk youll you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for the education reform and change in the country. The president and ceo of the National Alliance for the public Charter Schools...

Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman...

25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that ...

Thinking of as ron was asking you to imagine some of the challenges is the fact that this executive action does not do a lot of things. One of the things it doesnt do is provide eligibility for health care, for example, for people who are eligible overall. When you have people who are still going without Health Insurance, that becomes more of a challenge and an issue for your communities. Im wondering what the possible ways of addressing that might be and whether that does, indeed, pose a challe...