Criticized the clinton support for the 1994 crime bill and Hillary Clintons use of the term super predators. As prosecutors in los angeles are determining whether to retry six black lives matter activists who faced charges for barricading the 101 freeway while protesting the nonindictment of former Ferguson Police officer darren. Darren wilson. Then john kerry becomes ththe first sitting u. S. Secretary of state to ever visit hiroshima, u. S. , site of the 1945 attack that killed 145,000 people. The United States is the only country in the world to drop an atomic bomb. Today we will l look at another decision thehe u. S. Made against japan in world warar ii the decision to imprison 120,000 japaneseamericans i in internmt camps. As republilican president ial candidates call for patrols a muslim neighborhoods, we will look at whether internment could happen again. The fact is, they could round up the muslims tomorrow and the round them upld and for them in concentration camps. The walls s are there. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. Amy well speak with professor richard reeves, author of the new book, infamy the shocking story of the japanese american internment in world war ii, and with karen ishizuka, a curator of the nationwide exhibit called americas concentration camps remembering the japaneseamerican experience. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds of refugees were injured sunday when Macedonian Police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades at crowds of peopople on e e greek side of the border. More than 10,000 migrants and refugees have been stranded at the greek border outpost of since february after a series of border shutdowns across the balkans closed off their route to central and western europe. One syrian migrant named mahmoud , who was treated for broken arm described what happened. Surprised that even before we reach the fence and before we did anything on our part, they fired tear gas immediately, so we were just first, but there was a reaction. The tear gas was fall followed by stun grenades and rubber bullets. It was not gradual. They used it immediately and this caused a negative reaction from the protesters and anger them and enraged them. Amy greece condemned the use of force by macedonian authorities , describing it as dangerous and deplorable. According to Doctors Without Borders at least three children , had been treated with head injuries caused by rubber bullets. Many Syrian Refugees say theyy are stuck in the greek camp with nowhere to go. We feel like we are in prison. I feel like diane in prison. I am banned from moving anywhere were applying anywhere. Two months in europe and we experienced more injustice than five years of war under bashar alassad. Theres no humidity here. Amy in Campaign News vermont , senator Bernie Sanders won the wyoming caucus on saturday winning nearly 56 of the vote. He has now won eightht of the lt nine caucuses and primaries. Despite his recent victory streak, Hillary Clinton remains ahead by about 220 pledged delegates. On april 19, the candidates will square off in new york, the state where sanders was born and where clinton served as a u. S. Senator. Just before the new york vote, sanders will head to the vatican where he has been invited to give a speech about the economy. And i must tell you that i am a very great fan of the role that pope francis has been playing in talking about inequality in this world. [applause] it goes without saying that i have my strong disagreements with certain aspects of what the Church Stands for, but he has been out there talking about the need for moral economy. A moral economy. [applause] an economy in which we have the moral responsibility to pay attetention to what he calls the dispossessed. Amy that was Bernie Sanders speaking in new york saturday. Hillary clinton also spent much of the weekend campaigning in new york. I not only love new york and them incredibly grateful every day that i had the honor of being your senator [cheers] but i actually think new yorks values are really good for america. Amy in other Campaign News, former president jimmy carter has publicly criticized Hillary Clintons tenure as secretary of state. He told Time Magazine when secretary clinton was secretary of state, she took very little action to bring about peace. It was only john kerrys coming into office that reinitiated all these very important and crucial issues. Meanwhile, john kerry has become the first secretary of state to visit hiroshima the city , destroyed by a u. S. Nuclear bomb on august 6, 1945. Three days later, the u. S. Dropped another nuclear bomb on the city of nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands were killed. The United States is the only country to ever a drop an atomic tom. Kerry toured the hiroshima Peace Memorial and museum but offered no apology for the u. S. Nuclear attack. He said hiroshima was a gutwrenching reminder the world should abandon nuclear weapons. Despite kerrys remarks, the United States has been quietly upgrading its Nuclear Arsenal to create smaller, more precise Nuclear Bombs as part of a massive effort that will cost up to 1 trillion over three decades. Meanwhile, president obama appeared on fox news sunday. He was asked what t was the wort mistake of his presidency. Plan forly failing to the day after what i think was the right thing to do in intervening in libya. Amy the political fallout from the release of the Panama Papers continues to grow. The papers revealed how a Panamanian Firm had set up a Global Network of Shell Companies for heads of state, politicians and others to store their money offshore to avoid taxes and oversight. Britain british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron has taken the unusual step of publishing his tax records after he admitted he owned shares in a bahamasbased trust up until 2010. Details about his late fathers offshore investments were leaked as part of the Panama Papers. Labourur party l leader Jereremy Corbyn said cameron must d do me to address t the scandal. What panama has shown war than anything, there is one role for the rich and one for the rest. If you have a lot of money, you put it in n the tax haven. You get a big income as a result. You u pay no tax on it. If you are street cleaner or a nurse, you dont have those things. You dont have those options, you pay your tax. Amy meanwhile in malta, several thousand people protested sunday to demand the resignation of Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat after the leaked Panama Papers said two of his political allies had offshore accounts. And in el salvador authorities , have r raided the lolocal offs of msack f fonseca, ththe Panamanian Law Firm atat the center of the worldwide scandal. Meanwhile, nightly labor protests are continuing in france to protest a new law that would weaken worker protections. The movement is dubbed nuit debout rise up at night. I came here to protest against the everincreasing downgrade of working conditions, against this liberal economy which wants to get full powers to companies and heads of companies. And that is the reason why i am here. Amy since march 31, protesters have been gathering each night in paris and other cities in a movement some have compared to occupy wall street or spains indignados. Critics of the new french labor law say it will lead to worse working conditions and more layoffs. Federal prosecutors are saying former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert molested at least five boys, as young as 14 years old, while he was a wrestling coach in illinois decades ago. In october, haster pleaded guilty to violating Bank Reporting rules for giving 1. 7 million in cash to one of his victims to buy that persons silence. Hastert faces up to five years in prison on that charge but he will not face any sexual abuse charges because the statute of limitations has run out. Hastert served as House Speaker from 1999 to 2007, making him the longestserving republican speaker in history. He played a lead role in the impeachment of president clinton. On saturday, hasterts attorney said mr. Hastert acknowledges that as a young man, he committed transgressions for which he is profoundly sorry. In columbia colombibia mars , were held over thehe weekend o rk the natational day of memory and solidarity w with the victis to remember victims s of human rights abubuses in the country. Yamileth vasasco helped organiza march commemorating the over 300 people that were murdered and disappeared by Paramilitary Forces in the town trujillo in the 1990s. S. This i is a way to remind the state and colombia about the families who were evicteted from theirr land and who o were forcd to leave their farms. Alsoso those who had f family memembers who were murdered and those who are direct victims. Amy a federal judge in oregon has rejected an attempt by the u. S. Government to dismiss a landmark lawsuit over the governments failure to take necessary action to curtaiail fossil fuel emissions. The lawsuit was filed by our Childrens Trust on behalf of 21 young people all under the age of 19. They argue that the federal government is violating their Constitutional Rights to life, liberty and property by enabling , continued exploitation, production, and combustion of fossil fuels. Judge Thomas Coffin wrote if the allegations in the complaint are to be believed, the failure to regulate the emissions has resulted in a danger of constitutional proportions to the public health. In entertainment news, rock legend Bruce Springsteen canceled a concert in greensboro, North Carolina to protest a sweeping antilgbt law. In a statement he said some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry which is happening as i write is one of them. More 3000 0 people have pledgedo risk arrest in washington, d. C. , as part of a massive sitin calling for an end to the corruption of big money in politics. The action is known as democracy spring. Over the past week activists , have marched from philadelphia to washington, d. C. And the boston globe included a satirical front page in their sunday edition to highlight how the country could change if donald trump is elected president. The banner headline reads, deportations begin President Trump calls for tripling of ice force; riots continue. Another headline reads, markets sink as trade war looms. 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 los angeles as our 100city tour gets underway. The black lives mamatter movemet continues to shake up the race to the white house after former president bill clinton said friday that he regretted his comments to black protesters at a rally in philadelphia the day before. Black lives matter activists had interrupted clinton during a speech in support of his wife, democratic president ial candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. , they challenged the clintons on their support for the 1994 crime bill, which led to a massive expansion of incarceration in the United States. Activists shouted, black youth are not super predators, a reference to Hillary Clintons 1996 comments about some youth. They also held signs reading, clinton crime bill destroyed our communities. In response, bill clinton defended Hillary Clintons use of the term super predators and accused the activists of defending criminals. I dont know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13 year old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the streets to murder other africanamerican children. Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didnt. She didnt. You are defending the people who killed the live you say matter. Tell the truth. Youre defending the people who caused young people to go out and take guns there was a 13yearold girl in washington, d. C. , who was i spoke to a lot of africanamerican groups. They thought black lives matter. They said, take this bill because our kids are being shot in the streets by gangs. We have 13yearold kids planning her own funerals. She dont want to hear any of that. You know at else . Because of that bill, we had a 25yearold in crime, a 30yearold murder rate. In the background check law, we in the deathslow of people by gun violence. And who do you think those lives were that matter . Whose lives were saved that mattered . Amy after his comments ignited a storm of controversy thursday, bill clinton spoke friday and elaborated on what he said. But he stopped short of apologizing. G. So i did something yesterday wantiladelphia, i almost to apologize for, bubut i want o use it as an examplele of the danger threatening our country. Because the founders said set this country up so that we could kekeep growing and being bigger and including more peoeople, but we would always have to come together to make a decision n tt would move us forward. We got a 25 year low in the crime rate. Wewe got a 33 year low in ththe murder rate will stop we got a 46 year low in the ilillegal deh by homicidee rate. I think we showed that lives mamatter to us. I think k it was good, but thats not how people see it 30 years later when thehey just see all f these young people who need to be out of jail. I get that. But we have toto get the show on the road. We got enough trouble with the people who arent for us. Amy president clintons comments come as prosecutors here in los angeles are determining whether to retry six black lives matter activists who s trial recently hung in and ended ended in a hung jury. The six face misdemeanor charges for barricading the 101 freeway in los angeles in november 2014. That action was in response to the nonindictment of former ferguson, missouri, Police OfficerDarren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown three months earlier. Activist Rosa Clemente was also tried but was acquitted. , supporters say the prosecution is part of a larger effort by the lapd a and City Attorneys Office targeting black l lives mamatter activists i in los ang. For more we are joined here in , los angeles by two guests. Nana gyamfi is a criminal defense and human rights attorney whoho represents blackk lives matterer los angeles. She is a professor of panafrican studies at California State University los angeles. Also with this is Melina Abdullah an organizer with black , lives matter. She is also a professor and chair of panafrican studies at California State University, los angeles. We welcome you both to democracy now Melina Abdullah, before we talk about the trial, respond to this what happened with president clinton last week when black lives matter activists interrupted his s speech, what e said. Right. I think what were seeing with president Clinton Former president clinton, and what were seeing in los angeles are actually linked. This idea of neoliberal politics kind of blaming the folks who it assailed for their own oppression. When we think about the initial comments by president clinton around black youth and those that got them hopped up on crack, i think what he is really neglecting is the policies that bring crack cocaine into inner cities in the first place, the policies that create unemployment and underemployment in the first place, and the policies that he initiates that then go ahead and further oppress and repress communities. That is one of the things that we are so upset about, that he is dehumanizing the communities that are actually the victims, and bear the brunt of neoliberal policies that keep us oppressed. On after calling for unity former president bill clinton friday, continued to defend the 1994 crime bill he passed, which led to a massive expansion of incarceration in the United States. You are living in a country where young africanamericans think they are number one threat now is from Police Officers. When i find that crime bill, they knew of her number r one threat was, it was from gangs making money out of cocaiaine, taking teenaged kids, hopping them up, giving them guns and telling them to go kill other teenagers. Amy your response, Melina Abdullah, as he talks about gangs and why exactly he did what he did in the 1990s. So as one who was comingofage myself in the 90s, as one who lived in oaklkland, a spapace where these kinds of conditions that he describes are really part of my everyday experience, one of the things that he is very good at an neoliberal politicians are very good at is kind of distracting us from the real issues, distracting us from how systems crea