, backfired. Uc president Janet Napolitano has placed the chancellor on administrative leave pending an investigation into a number of infractions. We will speak to two student protesters who just finished a five week sitin. They were calling for her resignation. We will also go to arizona, where we are right now, to speak of student activists at nau, Northern Arizona university, who were arrested this week calling for the school to divest from fossil fuel. Then sunday is may day. There are two stories about may day that everyone should know. On this may day in particular. This may day, people all over the United States finally are thinking about what is a Political Revolution . And theyre thinking about, what is socialism . May day can help us. Amy historian Peter Linebaugh on, the incomplete, true, authentic, and wonderful history of may day. The two longtime immigrants right defender Isabel Garcia and one of her clients who was arrested after being assaulted at a donald trump rally. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around 20 people we arrested in costa mesa, california, after demonstrators took to the streets to protest a donald trump rally thursday night. Protesters blocked traffic, including the onramp to the freeway. The demonstrations involved both clashes between Trump Supporters and protesters, as well as between protesters and the police clad in riot gear. Several thousand people attended the trump rally. The california primary is june 7. Former House Speaker john boehner launched a verbal attack against republican president ial candidate ted cruz, calling him lucifer in the flesh and a miserable son of a [bleep]. Boehner was speaking during a forum at stanford university. The comments were recorded by journalists from the campus paper, the stanford daily. This is john boehner responding to stanford history professor david kennedy, asking what he thinks about ted cruz. Lucifer in the flesh. [indiscernible] i have never worked with a more miserable son of a [blee[. Amy meanwhile, prochoice groups are calling on ted cruz to fire antichoice activist troy newman from his campaign. Newman is the head of the militant antiabortion Group Operation rescue, which is known for its targeted harassment of Abortion Clinic workers. Newman himself has implied that abortion providers should be executed, writing the u. S. Is bloodguilty for its failure to kill abortionists. Newman currently serves as one of the cochairs of ted cruzs prolibbers for cruz coalition. The u. S. State department has condemned wednesds airstrike on a Doctors Without Borderssupported hospital in syria. The Organization Says the airstrike killed at least 50 people, including doctors, sources and patients. , on thursday, state Department Spokesman john kirby said the airstrike was likely carried out by the syrian regime. Finding thisiously attack reprehensible in every possible way. Were looking at dozens, if not several dozens, of casualties in this strike on what was clear it was a medical facility. The details and the circumstances of the attack are still coming in, but it sure bears all the hallmarks of the kinds of strikes the regime has done in the past on treatment facilities. Frankly, on first responders. Amy this comes as the pentagon is slated to release a full report today on its internal investigation into the u. S. Militarys bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in kunduz, afghanistan, last year. The attack killed 42 people, including patients and staff. The pentagon says 16 people have 16 u. S. Military members have received some form of administrative discipline, but no one has been court martialed. In response, Amnesty International called for an independent investigation, writing these reports demonstrate the need for an independent investigation, outside of the chain of command, to determine what happened in kunduz and to assess potential criminal wrongdoing. In california, the brother of one of the suspected shooters in the San Bernardino massacre was arrested thursday, along with his wife and sisterinlaw, on charges unrelated to the december shooting, which killed 14 people. Prosecutors say syed raheel farook, tatiana farook, and Mariya Chernykh have been charged with conspiring to make a false statement to immigration officials while under oath. Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to iraq on where he met with iraqi prime thursday minister Haider Alabadi and other top officials. It was bidens first visit to iraq since 2011. This comes as Prime Minister alabadi continues to face massive popular protests against his administration. Earlier this week, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in baghdad to demand the appointment of new officials to parliament. The Obama Administration has proposed an unprecedented military aid package to israel that could top 40 billion over 10 years. It is the Largest Military aid package the u. S. Has ever offered to any nation. Israeli officials are reportedly demanding even more funding. The u. S. Currently gives israel 3 billion a year in military funding under a deal slated to expire in 2018. Meanwhile, Israeli Police have shot and killed a Palestinian Woman and her teenage brother near a checkpoint in the Israelioccupied West Bank on wednesday. Israeli police say the two were armed with knives. Palestinian authorities said the victims, 23yearold Maram Abu Ismail and 16yearold brother, ibrahim taha, were en route to jerusalem for a doctors appointment. Amnesty International Says police in brazil have killed at least 11 people this month in rio de janeiro, where the Olympic Games are set to begin in less than 100 days. Amnesty says the majority of the victims are young black men from the citys poorer neighborhoods, known as favelas. 307 people were killed by police in rio in 2015, which accounted for 1 in every 5 homicides. Atlantic city could become the first new jersey city to go into default since the Great Depression if it misses a 1. 8 million bond payment due sunday. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has proposed taking over the citys operations, a move which would give the state power to sell off city assets and break union contracts. Atlantic city mayor don guardian has pushed back against the state plan, calling it a fascist dictatorship. The verizon workers strike has entered its second week, with tens of thousands of workers on strike up and down the east coast. It is one of the largest u. S. Strikes in years. Verizon has sought to cut pensions and ease the outsourcing of work. At a picket line in brooklyn on wednesday, the chief steward of communication workers of america local 1109 spoke out. I am a Field Technician out of verizon wireline. We are fighting for middleclass jobs. Most of us are going to be retiring in a few years. We want to make sure the communities we serve have good middleclass jobs to pass on to the m people coming up. And we think that should be a positive thing for the community and for the government as a whole, because you have good paying jobs, you pay taxes, then more services can be rendered to the community through that process. Amy in washington, d. C. , geneva reedveal, the mother of sandra bland, spoke at the newly formed congressional caucus on black women and girls first symposium about the death of her daughter, who was found hanged in a texas jail cell three days after she july 2015, was arrested over an alleged traffic violation. Reedveal maintains her daughter did not commit suicide. During her testimony at the library of congress on thursday, she highlighted the high number of women who die in u. S. Jails. Can anybody in the room tell me the other six women who died in jail july 2015 along with sandra bland . That is a problem. You all are among the walking dead. And im so glad i have come out from among you. Amy and Yale University has announced it will not rename the residential dorm calhoun college, named after former Vice President john c. Calhoun, one of the most prominent proslavery figures in history. This comes despite a recent wave of student protests demanding the dorm name be changed. Yale also announced it will name one of the two new residential dorms after African American alumnus and legal scholar anna pauline murray. It will be the first time a yale dorm bears the name of either an African American or a woman. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are on the road in tucson, arizona, as part of our 100 city 20th anniversary tour. We begin todays show looking at student protests here in arizona and california. Earlier this spring students at , the university of california davis occupied the office of School Chancellor linda katehi for five weeks calling for her , resignation over her mishandling of students protests and allegations of conflicts of interest. Well, this week the students won a victory of sorts as university of california president Janet Napolitano placed katehi on administrative leave pending an investigation into a number of infractions, including allegations of nepotism and her decision to spend at least 175,000 to try to scrub the internet of criticism following ing of11 pepper spray an student protesters by campus police. The school made National Headlines after this video showed police spraying seated students directly in the face at pointblank range. Dont shoot students dont shoot students dont shoot students dont shoot students amy in 2012, the university of california reached a 1 million settlement with 21 protesters who were peppersprayed. Earlier this month, the Sacramento Bee reports uc davis paid consultants 175,000 to improve its online image, in part by scrubbing negative search results related to the pepper spray incident. That news came to light while students were occupying the office of linda katehi. Well, i was recently on the campus of uc davis and spoke to two of the students involved in the fiveweek sitin. A name is teresa, im a fourth year uc davis student. I was a part of the 36 day sustained sitin where the Chancellors Office is. We left on friday. I was there because there are serious concerns that not just as, but many students have but never feel empowered to voice on our campus. We pay a hefty tuition to be at this school. Were supposed to be the voices and the faces of the university. It has become an institution of moneymaking. And lack of accountability. And we want our voices to be on the front. It has become we are tired. We are tired of wondering why that is not happening and the privatization of the University Campaign tired of the the university runs. I am a fifthyear environment all science and management student at uc davis. Were calling for the resignation for katehi and the process to be changed so that students and workers have an active say in who runs the university. Were calling for katehi to resign. Recently, there was a moonlighting scandal that came out with her working for devry and a textbook company and a different university. It is not only that, theres a long history of katehi messing up, going back to 2011 in the pepper spray incident. Personally, i thought she should have resigned and. Since then, i have watched a pattern of administration messing up and not being held accountable, and we wanted to change that and to be involved. Amy can you talk about the latest issue that was uncovered . Y the Sacramento Bee the university had spent 175,000 to try to wipe references to the pepper spray and katehi off the internet. It shows how concerned whether concerns are with detecting administration and maintaining good pr and not actually holding anyone accountable for making the changes after that kind of incident. Amy can you explain what happened in november 2011 . Students were peacefully protesting tuition hikes in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. They were in the quad. The university decided they wanted to remove them, so officer pike pepper spray students at pointblank range. Amy a Police Officer . What happened to him . He received more compensation than the students that were pepper spray for Emotional Distress from the incident. Yeah, i believe he got amy how much did the students get . I think between 11,000 to 20,000 each. Got andstudents he got 38,000. We had been in the sit in for five weeks and we had reached the point where we thought it was time to do something new. We had done a lot by that point it was like an in depth activist training. Everyone who was in there, we created a community in solidarity and learned a lot about how to organize and how to work together. We brought a lot of national attention. I doubt the sacrament of be would have been putting in those record request and finding out that information if there wasnt a sit in to go on to bring in a cut of immediate attention. Without it was a good point to try to continue our protest in new ways. We dont see so much as an end by the beginning of a new phase. Now we need to build our relationship to the rest of the student body. Most students do not know what is happening. Amy how many of you were there . About 100i was students involved in about 40 students who were sleeping the regularly. Im not great with guessing numbers. Those are people that showed up physically. But on facebook and social media, there were over 1000 students from davis who were in support of us. Amy the conflict of interests. There are three moonlighting events. The first was with devry. She did not get prior approval. On the board of devry university. Devry university is also being investigated by the federal government for unethical practices and essentially lying to their students. Amy a for Profit University . A for Profit University. So there was that. Making the choice to be involved with that company being investigated for unethical practices. She broke policy and did not do what she was supposed to do and just did what she wanted to. There was wiley and cents textbook. What did she do . She was on the board. It is a textbook company, an obvious conflict of interest. Uc is one of their biggest customers and prices went up while she worked for them. Sons, see john wiley and uc is a biggest client. Is ai plus husband professor and they use those textbooks. That is a pretty clear there was another university, Saudi Arabian university that was essentially buying citations. They were paying, University Professors to include the on their paper so they would show up as working there. It went from a university that had never been heard of two ranked above m. I. T. And one year. In ago what did chancellor katehi have to do with that . She was on the board. She said to bring diversity to the school but we could not figure out exactly what that meant. Amy that was parisa and kyla two students at uc davis who , took part in a recent 36day sitin calling for uc davis chancellor linda katehi to resign. On wednesday, uc president Janet Napolitano placed her on investigatory administrative leave. In a Statement Released earlier today, student protesters said those again, the words of uc president janet the palatine of, the former governor of arizona. In a Statement Released earlier today, student protesters said the collective efforts of uc davis students, faculty, staff, and Community Members are responsible for yielding this result. It is crucial to note that it was not Janet Napolitano, or university of California Office of the president , who led us to this moment of justice, but our uncollapsing spirit and belief in political protest. The letter goes on to say katehi is but a cog in the uc machine. We are aiming to scrap the prototype and create a new system that both works for and is run by students, faculty, workers, and the community at large. Until systemwide change takes place, our demonstrations will continue. Well, we turn now to another student protest. This one taking place on the campus of Northern Arizona university or nau in flagstaff where we broadcasted from on thursday. So far this week, at least eight students have been arrested after they refused to leave a University Building at closing time while staging a sitin to call on the school to divest from fossil fuels. The protest at Northern Arizona university began earlier this week when some 150 students spent over 12 hours occupying the student and Academic Services building. The sitin comes amid