DEMONSTRATIONS & RIOTS

  • Democracy Now! February 18 2003

    A respected Greek professor is detained, shackled and asked if he is anti-American: a Democracy Now! exclusive; They evidently believe that the means of violence in their hands are so extraordinary that they can dismiss with contempt anyone who stands in their way : professor Noam Chomsky on U.S. empire and the global movement against…

  • Democracy Now! March 5, 2003

    Networks ignore explosive story revealing U.S. is spying on U.N. Security Council members: Behind the scenes U.N. diplomats are furious at the dirty tricks; FBI plane spies on Bloomington, Indiana: peace groups, Muslims and international students likely targeted; Books not bombs! We need weapons of mass instruction! : Students walk out of classes around the…

  • Democracy Now! March 10, 2003

    Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Medea Benjamin & 20 other women are arrested outside the White House: Thousands gather in Washington for Code Pink peace demonstration; Should President Bush be impeached? Progressive Congressional Democrats consider introducing articles of impeachment if the U.S. attacks Iraq; US & UK relied on forged document in making the case…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Hour 1 :: Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible…

  • Democracy Now! February 12, 2003

    Indian philosopher and physicist Vandana Shiva: if terrorism is the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion, then the WTO rules are terrorist; she also calls for the peace and global justice movements to unite; NATO s plans to defend Turkey in case of war with Iraq are deadlocked as France, Germany and…

  • Democracy Now! February 13, 2003

    Renowned historian Howard Zinn on the history of government and media lies in time of war: from the Mexican-American war to the Spanish-American war, the Philippines to Panama, Vietnam to the Gulf War to the present.; Over a hundred thousand people are expected to protest in Manhattan this Saturday despite the banning of a march:…

  • Democracy Now! February 17, 2003

    The World Says No to War! Rome 2 million people; London, Madrid, Barcelona over a million each; Berlin and New York City half a million; Melbourne, Sydney and France hundreds of thousands; and hundreds of other protests around the world; Listen to the voice of the people, for many times the voice of the people…

  • Democracy Now! January 20, 2003

    From Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, Cairo to London, Tokyo to Paris to Antarctica, hundreds of thousands demonstrate against war; many invoked the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.; On this Martin Luther King holiday, a conversation with his son Dexter Scott King; Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why I oppose the war in…

  • Democracy Now! January 14, 2003

    The Pentagon trains journalists to report on war and promises access to the battlefield, but is it access or a new PR strategy? A debate with the Pentagon, two war correspondents and Harper s Magazine publisher Rick MacArthur.; Activists train reporters to cover the peace movement: days before the next march on Washington, Democracy Now!…

  • Democracy Now! February 3, 2003

    White House & NASA ignored warnings of another catastrophic space shuttle accident : We talk to the former NASA engineer who called for a moratorium on shuttle fights six months before Columbia exploded; Texas sheriff warns of radioactive debris as the Bush Administration pushes for nuclear-powered spaceships: A conversation on nukes in space and the…