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Open up space for Political Action on Climate Change. Amy students, professors and alumni are continuing to blockade key Administrative Offices at harvard. Well get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers in the United States have staged their largest action to date, with some 60,000 workers walking off the job in over 200 cities to demand a 15anhour minimum wage. The actions got together fast food workers, childcare providers walmart clerks , adjunct professors and airport workers to dema...

Today he joins us while under house arrest in florida. Then to earth day. After some test we discovered he had high blood lead levels, and that is the first time i decided to confront the issue. Amy we will speak with Phyllis Omido and an antidam campaigner, both winning prestigious 2015 goldman prize for environmental activism, one activism. And then how many more . A new report by Global Witness finds killings of environmental activists on the rise with indigenous communities hardest hit. At least 116 environmentalists were killed last year more than two a week. All that and more, coming up....

Enforcement. But you should do it in a consistent, predictable way, and those that are violating our trade laws, those that are being required of enforcement, that it only helps the businesses that are in fact playing by the rules and that have that level playing field. So we need to do a better job in that. I heard from congressional leaders about the importance of enforcement also. And the Critical Role that we play in protecting our markets. We have made some strides. For example, cbp and immigration and customs enforcement, we have a new director, as many of you know, sara saldana. She was...

Palestinian state, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus likud party wins a surprise victory, putting him on course for a fourth term in office. We will speak to the israeli journalist amira hass and Jamal Zahalka, and arab member of the Israeli Knesset and chair of the political block of arab parties known as the joint arab list which took third place in tuesdays election. Then to life after guantanamo. We will look at the story of a father and son who were both imprisoned at guantanamo and held for eight years. They were never charged. One was resettled in portugal, the other two kate t...

Fast track authority to negotiate the tpp, the Trans Pacific partnership . We will speak to florida congressman alan grayson and lori wallach of public citizen. Then to heat week at harvard. We are divest harvard. Students, faculty alumni on hover to divest from fossil fuel companies. Open up space for Political Action on Climate Change. Amy students, professors and alumni are continuing to blockade key Administrative Offices at harvard. Well get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Lowwage workers in ...