RACIAL RELATIONS

  • Democracy Now! June 23, 2003

    Protesting the War on Women and the War on Terror. As President Bush and Karl Rove launch the largest political fundraising campaign in history, women s rights advocates join forces with the peace movement to protest today s fundraiser in NYC; USDA opens $3 million dollar biotech conference in Sacramento; agriculture ministers from over 100…

  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Hour 1: Looks like news, sounds like news but paid for by drug companies: Morley Safer of 60 Minutes introduced hundreds of fake news breaks broadcast on public television; CNN s Aaron Brown and CBS Walter Cronkite may back out after a news expose revealed the scheme; Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund facing massive…

  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz secretly create new Pentagon-based intelligence unit: Seymour Hersh examines the role the Office of Special Plans in the lead-up to invading Iraq; Harsh New York Rockefeller drug laws turn 30: Hip hop pioneer Russell Simmons & Anthony Papa who served 12 years for a first-time offense call for repeal of the laws;…

  • Democracy Now! April 2, 2003

    “Until this administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer:” Former U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling on why he resigned from the State Department; Civilian casualties mount in Iraq: We…

  • Democracy Now! April 2, 2003

    Hour 1: “Until this administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer:” Former U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling on why he resigned from the State Department; Civilian casualties mount in…

  • Cornel West : Speech At Mario Savio Awards Ceremony, November 15, 2001.

    Speech (keynote address) given by activist, theologian, and scholar Dr. Cornel West at the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award ceremony which took place on November 15, 2001 in the Pauley Ballroom at U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Cornel West spoke on “Progressive Politics In These Times: From Vision to Action” [ a video…

  • Democracy Now! September 26, 2001

    “UNHOLY WARS: AFGHANISTAN, AMERICA, AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM”: CORRESPONDENT JOHN COOLEY DISCUSSES THE INVESTIGATION IN GERMANY,OSAMA BIN LADEN’S FINANCIAL ASSETS, AND HIS BOOK, THE MOST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE CIA’S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE MUJAHADEEN : SHOULD THE US FUND THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE, THE OPPOSITION TO THE TALIBAN?: A DEBATE:BUSH ADMINISTRATION PUSHES FREE TRADE AGENDA TO SHORE…

  • Democracy Now! October 1, 2001

    PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY JOINS ISRAELI MILITARY IN CRACKING DOWN ON PALESTINIAN DISSENT, KILLING TWO ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS : FBI QUESTIONS PACIFIST GROUP WOMEN IN BLACK: A ROUNDTABLE WITH MEMBERS FROM BERKELEY TO NEW YORK TO JERUSALEM : YOUTH PROTEST FOR PEACE IN BUSH’S BACK YARD : THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DECLARES THE GROUP IS RESPONSIBLE…

  • Democracy Now! September 24, 2001

    THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CHANTING “BUSH WANTS WAR, NEW YORK WANTS PEACE!”; DENVER ACTIVISTS FACE FELONY CHARGES FOR AN ANTI-WAR ACTION: CIA PUSHES TO SCRAP BAN ON ASSASSINATIONS AND WORK WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS : RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES MOBILIZE FOR PEACE :THOUSANDS OF PEACE PROTESTORS MARCH IN CITIES ACROSS EUROPE :ENVIRONMENTALISTS RAISE…

  • Democracy Now! September 25, 2001

    AS ISRAEL INTENSIFIES ITS OCCUPATION IN PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, A CONVERSATION WITH EDWARD SAID : U.N. WARNS OF A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN AFGHANISTAN: UP TO ONE MILLION AFGHANIS COULD FACE STARVATION IN THE FACE OF US PREPARATIONS FOR WAR : LAWMAKERS CONFRONT ASHCROFT OVER ADMINISTRATION’S PROPOSED “ANTI-TERRORISM” LAWS : BUSH ADMINISTRATION TRIES TO LIFT ALL RESTRICTIONS…