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And poet, one of the founders of the Plowshares Movement against Nuclear Weapons. He became the first Catholic Priest to land on the fbis most wanted list. Then we remember the pioneering human rights attorney Michael Ratner. From attica to assange, the longtime head of the center for Constitutional Rights defended and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world from haiti and guatemala to iraq and the palestinian territories. This is no time for compromise, no time for political calcululation. As howard zinn admonishes us, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the sid...

Author programs throughout the country. Heres a look at some events this week. On monday, were in michigan at Hillsdale College to talk with several of the schools professors about recent books. On tuesday, at politics and prose book store in washington, dc, nadia lopez will cause her work as a principal at a school in brooklyn, new york. On westerns, Joseph Stiglitz will look at the future of the euro at barnes noble in new york city. On thursday, at the Hampton History Museum in hampton, virginia, four africanamerican women whose compute additions were integral to americas victory in the spa...

Rrigan has dieat the a of 94 along with his late brother phil, he played in his terminal role in inspiring the antiwar and antidraft movement during the late 1960s. He became the first Catholic Priest to land on the fbis most wanted list. Father berrigan once said he a been arrested more times than he remembers, but if your times than he should have. , and sixdan, phil others broke into the ge nuclear theile plant, launching plowshares movement. Cracked the weapon. It was very fragile. It was made to withstand the heat of reentry into the atmosphere from outer space, so it was like eggshell. W...

Drone warfare, today we look at the stunning new book, the assassination complex written by Jeremy Scahill and the staff at the intercept. On this issue, when obama has been the drone president and his me, iis sort of, trust know it im doing. But time and again, we see incidents where large numbers of civilians are being killed and there seems to be no public accounting. Amy today Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald for the hour on the governments secret drone warfare program, the death of font father Daniel Berrigan, and more. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracyn...

Canadian border, traffic was shut down on the way to the rally when activist locked themselves to ladders to brawl block the highway. Democracy now was there. Farmworkers led an International Day of action boycotting driscolls, the largest berry distributor in the world. The demand is that they sign a Union Contract with us and give us good conditions for housing and work, better salaries, medical plans, pensions. And that they remove our children from the fields. We dont want our children working in agriculture, picking fruit and vegetables for this country. Lst 16 yesare at old. Amy ove800 p...