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240 years ago our founders wrote words that have echoed through the ages. They declare these truths to be selfevident, that we are each of us and out by our creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 45 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States turned its back on the inalienable right to life but in that moment our movement began. A movement that continues to win hearts and minds. A movement defined by generosity, compassion,...

We will speak to ravi ragbir and look at how federal judges across the country are resisting the Trump Administrations deportation orders. Then we remember asma jahangir, pakistans leading human rights attorney. She died this weekend at the age of 66. Youheres something inside telling you to do it. And it comes because you have heart. Up. The courage to stand amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Tensions across ...

A major ground offensive is next aljazeera other reports. There is no frontline in eastern huta. Oh residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the Syrian Government under to allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission. Look the suburb of damascus is under attack well her car was. Going well we heard a plane overhead the myside landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured what i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself ...

Clay of joy and five days of bombardment they have all the still the agreement at the un on ordering a cease fire to allow the area is facing opposition from russia us as the last go is blocking any meaningful action yesterday russias permanent representative asked that asked what we should do about Eastern Ghouta the people of Eastern Ghouta u. N. Officials humanitarian and human rights leaders and indeed pretty much the entirety of this council have answered stop the bombing of eastern. Allow ...

Diplomatic editor james bays has the details. Old a frantic negotiations here at the United Nations to try and get a Security Council resolution passed a great deal of the pressure on the Russian Ambassador vaseline who has problems with some of the language in the draft resolution drawn up by kuwait and sweden at one point the kuwaiti ambassador the president of the Security Council appeared with the other nonpermanent members of the socalled elected ten and he sounded upbeat were still working...

Adequately supportive of that traditional ally. People look at the arab spring which has developed into something unsparing like. The question is how much did an american president have to do with that . What can an american president do in response to that . Those are legitimate questions and they are questions you can be sure historians will be debating for a very long time to come. But that in a curious way goes back to my point, like him or dislike him, whatever, the fact that barack obama, ...

Lyndon johnson 70 white house and listen to people outside and listened to people outside ask how many kids did you kill today . It doesnt get more divisive than that. It has become unfortunately, the norm. I think we should ask ourselves some tough questions about how we got to this point, and why there is such a bipartisan distrust, not only towards government and People Associated with government, but whoever happens to occupy the presidency. The whole industry of this country, there are netw...

Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists commit smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Th...

Exonerations by five exonerations by dna, every one of those stories would make a great book, the book should be written, every Wrongful Conviction is a story from the point of view about plot, the suffering, the drama, the deceit , the fact that the rapist is still out there raping when someone else is savoring his time. These are fantastic stories but the system is broken i would have written all of him but i cant do that. To answer your question i would love to be able to write another book o...

Commission. We are being recorded live on cspans booktv so if you have not already please silence your cell phones. If you have not purchased the books, the panels have written you will have an opportunity to do that after outside. The authors will also be signing immediately after this panel in the authors attempt. The moderator for todays panel is robbie luckett. Robbie luckett received his ph. D. From the university offr l georgia with a focus on civilve rights history, the native mississippi...