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KCSM Democracy Now January 26, 2015

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 car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. The shots rang out 3 and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. One of boys, 17yearold jordan davis, was killed. Today we will spend the hour with his parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. Trayvon martins father text me, i want to welcome you to a club none of us want to be in. It is time to pick up where dr. King left off. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The leftist, antiausterity syriza party has swept to victory in greece. Syriza won 149 seats in the 300seat parliament, two short of an absolute majority. This marks the First Time Since the economic crisis in 2009 that a member of the 19nation euro zone will be led by a party rejecting germanbacked austerity. The head of Syriza Alexis Tsipras will become greeks new Prime Minister. Greece is turning a page. Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity. It is leaving behind the fear and autocracy. It is leaving behind five years of humiliation and pain. Today, there are no winners and losers. Today, greeces elite and oligarchs were defeated. Our victory is a victory for all people of europe were fighting against the austerity that is destroying our common european furniture future. Supporters of syriza praised the partys willingness to oppose the austerity measures demanded by the European Union and International Monetary fund. I think the alternative at this time in greece, the citizens proposals concerning the debt in the crisis, and of course, [indiscernible] coming in second in the greek election was the conservative new Democracy Party headed by Prime Minister antonis samaras. The greek people have spoken. We all respect their decision. My conscience is clear. I took over a country on edge of catastrophe. I had to handle hot coals. Most people said we would not make it, but we did and we avoided the worst. I hand over a country that is a member of the European Union and europe here in the United States independent senator Bernie Sanders praised the election of syriza. He said the syriza victory in the greek elections tell us that people around the world will no longer accept austerity for working families while the rich continue to get much richer. In egypt, at least 17 people were killed on sunday in egypts bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah Alsisi was elected president as Security Forces fired at protesters marking the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled hosni mubarak. Riot police backed by soldiers in Armored Vehicles sealed off roads, including those leading to Cairos Tahrir square, the riot police with rifles and plain clothed men with pistols were seen chasing protesters through the streets of cairo. The heaviest death toll was in the cairo suburb of matariya, a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold, where eight people, including one policeman, were killed. On saturday, shaimaa alsabbagh, a leading member of the socialist Popular Alliance party, was shot dead at a protest near tahrir square. Video and photos of the shooting went viral across egypt. Meanwhile, two sons of post numeral brick are released from prison today, nearly four years after they were first arrested along with her father. Last week in Egyptian Court ordered the release pending the retrial in a corruption case. The United States and india have reached still to allow u. S. Companies to build a new generation of Nuclear Plants in india without being held legally liable in the event of a Nuclear Power plant catastrophe. India is one of the few nations that dont exempt Nuclear Suppliers from accident liability. It put strict compensation laws on the books after the 1984 catastrophe in bhopal when a factory owned by the u. S. Multinational Union Carbide corp leaked cyanide gas into the air, killing thousands of indians. President obama announced the deal in india during a join press conference with indian Prime Minister narendra modi. The last few years, trade between our countries has increased by some 60 for the record of 100 billion. We want to trade even more, so we walked over the reforms the premised or is pursuing to make it easier to do business here in india. Today, we at treatment we achieved understanding on two issues that were holding up our ability to advance our Nuclear Cooperation and committed to moving towards full implementation. U. S. Firms including General Electric and Westinghouse Electric are expected to benefit from the nuclear deal. Meanwhile, indian Prime Minister modi discussed plans to expand military ties with the United States, including joint production of drone aircraft and equipment for Lockheed Martin s military transport plane. We also decided to take up our growing Defense Corporation to a new level. We have agreed in principle to pursue codevelopment and coproduction of specific defense projects. This will help the Domestic Defense industry and Manufacturing Sector in india. President obama is cutting his trip to india short in order to visit saudi arabia to pay respects following the death of king of doll and to meet new king salman. Over the weekend, many World Leaders traveled to saudi to offer condolences, including russias Prime Minister dmitry medvedev, britains Prime Minister david cameron, french president francois hollande, and egypts president abdelfattah elsisi. Meanwhile, human Rights Groups are urging the new king to pardon dissident blogger raif badawi who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for charges including insulting islam. Christophe deloire is general secretary of reporters without borders. There can be different things. The religious elite, they succeed control, to control information in the country. It is to condemn journalists and put them in jail. We Hope International pressure in that case, raif badawi case will be a success that new king salman will pardon him and things will change in the country. In other news from the arabian peninsula, thousands of yemenis marched saturday in the biggest demonstrations yet against the Houthi Rebels now controlling the country two days after president Abdrabbu Mansour hadi resigned. Up to 10,000 people marched from Sanaa University towards hadis home. Meanwhile, the pentagon says it reportedly carried out its first drone strike. Three people died in attack on a vehicle carrying suspected al qaeda members in an area. In news from syria, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe is calling for the Immediate Release of a japanese journalist held by Islamic State after a video surfaced claiming that a fellow japanese captive had been executed. A video posted online appears to show the decapitated body of japanese captive Haruna Yukawa who went missing in syria last august. Japanese government officials said they had not confirmed the authenticity of the recording yet. Meanwhile, defense secretary chuck hagel has ordered the first group of about 100 u. S. Troops, mostly special operations forces, to head to the middle east to establish training sites for Syrian Opposition fighters. Turkey, qatar and saudi arabia have offered sites to hold the trainings. Ukraine is accusing russianbacked rebels of killing of violating the september ceasefire by killings 30 civilians in an attack on black sea port city of mariupol. Eight civilians were killed when a trolleybus was hit by an artillery shell or mortar in the city of donetsk, which is largely controlled by separatists. At the united nations, Rupert Colville warned of the rising death toll. The significant escalation apostolate hes in ukraine since january 13 has taken the total depth toll in the country to at least 5086 individuals and we fear the real figure they be considerably higher. At least 10,948 people have already been wounded between mid april last year in the 21st of january. In environmental news president obama has announced a plan to designate 12 million acres in Alaskas Arctic National Wildlife refuge as wilderness in an effort to ban oil and gas drilling in the area. Alaskas National Wildlife refuge is an incredible place. Christine, undisturbed. It supports caribou and polar bears, all manner of my life countless pcs and birds and fish. For centuries, supported many alaska native communities. And it is very fragile. Congress needs to approve but the interior department will start managing the area under that level of protection until congressional action is taken. The Washington Post is reporting the interior department is also planning to place part of the arctic ocean off limits to drilling. Google has revealed it secretly gave the u. S. Government all of the email messages and metadata of three top members of the whistleblowing organization wikileaks investigations editor sarah harrison, section editor Joseph Farrell and spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson, a longtime icelandic journalist. The u. S. Government requested the information in 2012 as part of an alleged conspiracy and espionage investigation targeting wikileaks founder julian assange. In the philippines, at least 40 Police Commandos have been killed in a clash with militants from the islamic liberation front. It was the first clash between the police and the militants is the peace accord was signed in march. The americanarab Antidiscrimination Committee is reporting the release of the new hollywood blockbuster american sniper has led to an increase in threats against muslims in the United States. The film is based on a memoir by a u. S. Sniper in iraq named chris kyle who called iraqis savages. The Organization Says it has collected hundreds of violent messages targeting arab and Muslim Americans from moviegoers posted to facebook and twitter. The group has written to film director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper to speak out against what it described as the hateful rhetoric. In economic news, American Workers are losing up to 17 billion a year in Retirement Savings due to abusive trading practices. This according to a new memo by jason furman, chairman of president obamas council of economic advisers. The white house is considering stricter rules on wall street brokers, but industry giants including Morgan Stanley and bank of america, are lobbying against any new regulations. In political news, three potential republican president ial candidates senators marco rubio, rand paul and ted cruz traveled to california sunday to face off in what some dubbed the koch primary, a closed door gathering organized by the billionaire koch brothers. Meanwhile, the wall street journal is reporting republican new Jersey Governor Chris Christie has formed a Political Action committee, a major step to a president ial run. The scientists who maintain the doomsday clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, have moved the clock two minutes closer to midnight in its first shift in three years. Kennette benedit of the bulletin of the atomic scientists said the clock now stands at three minutes to midnight, or doomsday. Nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals was extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. And World Leaders have failed to act with speed or on the skill required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of leadership in danger every person on earth. A blizzard warning has been issued for new york city and other parts of the northeast. New york mayor bill de blasio said the storm could bring up to three feet of snow. Literally, could be one of the top two or three largest storms in history of this city and we need to plan accordingly. So my message to all new yorkers is, prepare for something worse than we have seen before. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting live from park city, utah, where the 31st annual Sundance Film Festival is underway. We begin with the film about a subject growing nationwide protest am killing of unarmed African Americans. The film is called 3 1 2 minutes. It tells the story on 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. He demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. Dunn pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. The shots rang out three and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. One of them, 17yearold jordan davis, was killed. After the shooting, dunn fled the scene, went to a hotel with his girlfriend and ordered pizza. He never called the police. In the murder trial that followed, jordan daviss parents attended every day knowing that , the prior year george zimmerman, the killer of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in florida, had successfully avoided being convicted. Both cases highlighted the states problematic stand your grand law. Today we will spend the hour with jordans parents and hear more about their ongoing fight for justice. But first, this is a clip from the trailer for the brand new film, 3 1 2 minutes. [sirens] 45yearold michael dunn is being charged in the shooting death of 17yearold jordan davis. Was their music and the car . Yes. What type . Rap. Did the defendant say anything about the music . I hate that music. Im not racist. They are racist. Jordan davis i am looking at a barrel. This is about the right of everyone to protect themselves and their family. Under the law, it is justified. Youre not going to kill me, you son of a [bleep] could it have been your imagination . No. Anything is possible, i guess. They think it is a gun when it is in the hands of young africanamerican. Trayvon martins father text me, i just want to welcome you to a club that none of us want to be in. Open season on who . It is time to pick up where dr. King left off. I have never covered a trial with as much international attention. This was the 21st century lynching. Was it all right to kill my son . What happened to jordan . What happened to jordan . The trailer for 3 1 2 minutes, which is premiering at this years Sundance Film Festival. Today we spend the hour with the two people are the heart of the film, jordans parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. We are also joined by marc silver, the films director. We spoke with marc last year at sundance just his film, who is Dayani Cristal won the award for best cinematography. Welcome all of you to democracy now it has been remarkable to see you here actually for the first time, but at this film showing lucia mcbath, if you can talk about what this means. Your son was killed three years ago. And here you are at a festival in the midst of this wave of protests around the killing of young men like jordan, your son. Well, it just speaks to the truth of what is happening in the country. I kind of always believed rings were in divine order, things dont just randomly happen. I think our film, our story is really representative of what we see happening across the country. So this is just so wonderful of an opportunity to be here to really help expand that message and open peoples eyes to the reality of what they may not really understand is happening not just with the minority community, but the gun v

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