Jackson, Jesse, 1941-

  • Democracy Now! March 12, 2003

    Did Pakistani intelligence officials fake the arrest of alleged Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?: Foreign journalists in Pakistan begin to question Pakistani intelligence officials. We ll have a report from Islamabad; Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated: We go to Belgrade for a live report from Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill; Angola, Guinea, and…

  • Democracy Now! March 12, 2003

    “Throughout the globe, the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force : Diplomat John Brown explains why he resigned from the State Department to protest U.S. war plans in Iraq; Halliburton, Bechtel and other U.S. firms set to profit from the rebuilding of postwar Iraq: Meanwhile the Guardian reports Halliburton is…

  • 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! September 6, 2001

    South Africa attempts to forge a compromise over language on Israel and Palestine at the UN World Racism Conference as fallout continues over the US withdrawal from the conference.  Well talk to Reverend Jesse Jackson and Actor and civil rights activist Danny Glover; and a speech by South African Bishop Desmond Tutu on religion, racism,…

  • Democracy Now! September 4, 2001

    The U.S. withdraws, sort of, from the UN World Conference Against Racism in protest of criticism over Israels treatment of the Palestinians. We go live to Durban, South Africa, with reactions from Jesse Jackson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, and human rights groups from around the world. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE MINUTE MUSIC BREAK…

  • Democracy Now! March 1, 1999

    U.S. Role in Genocide in Guatemala; Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Police Brutality |U.S. Role in Genocide in Guatemala In a much anticipated report released last week, Guatemala’s independent Historical Clarification Commission concluded that the U.S. gave money and training to a Guatemalan military that committed “acts of genocide” against the country’s Mayan population during the…

  • Democracy Now! February 10, 1999

    The Africa Trade Bill: Reading the Small Print; Christopher Hitchens on Iraq; New York Rallies Against Police Brutality |The Africa Trade Bill: Reading the Small Print The Africa Trade Bill is due to be marked up this week by the House International Affairs Committee. Opponents to the bill charge that it will only imporve the…

  • Democracy Now! July 24, 1997

    Campaign Finance Reform; Death Penalty; Cocaine Sentencing Disparity; Abortion Arson |(14 Minutes) Campaign Finance Democrats accuse Republican party during Campaign Finance Hearings. TAPE OF: Michael Baroody, president of the National Policy forum. TAPE OF: Benton Becker, Republican and former counsel to President Gerald Ford. (19 Minutes) Death Penalty Despite an international outcry, Virginia state officials…

  • United front against fascism.

    Actuality of the three day rally organized by the Black Panther Party to discuss repression in America. |r.1. Philip Shapiro — r.2. Martin Sharon, Dr. Dick Fine, and Dr. Bronson — r.3. Father Earl Neal — r.4. Vicki Cooper, Terry Cooper, Don Goldmacher — r.5. Father Eugene Boyle, Dick York, and Rabbi Abram Fineberg —…