Democracy Now! 2015-10-09 Friday
10/09/2015 – 22:00
Democracy Now! 2015-10-09 Friday
- Headlines for October 09, 2015
- Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian Civil Society Groups for Democratization Efforts After Arab Spring
- Making Money from Misery? Disaster Capitalism from the Migrant Crisis to Afghanistan and Haiti
- First Latino US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on Migrant Farmworkers, the Border and Ayotzinapa
- Headlines for October 09, 2015
- Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisian Civil Society Groups for Democratization Efforts After Arab Spring
- Making Money from Misery? Disaster Capitalism from the Migrant Crisis to Afghanistan and Haiti
- First Latino US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on Migrant Farmworkers, the Border and Ayotzinapa
One Year After the Disappearance of 43 Mexican Students, Their Mothers Are Still Demanding Answers
More than one year after the disappearance of 43 students from the Aytozinapa rural teachers’ college in Guerrero, Mexico, the case is still shrouded in mystery. On September 26, tens of thousands of people marched to mark the first anniversary and to demand answers in the case. New information in the case now suggests that not only were the local police involved in attacking the students in Iguala on September 26, 2014, but that the federal police and Mexican military may have been involved as well.
For more on the case, we’re joined by Hilda Legideño Vargas, the mother of Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, and Hilda Hernández Rivera, the mother of César Manuel González Hernández. Both of their sons went missing during the attack by local police one year ago. The two women traveled to the United States from Mexico to attend Pope Francis’ World Meeting of Families. We spoke to them in New York about the Mexican government’s failure to fully investigate their sons’ disappearances, the secret government surveillance program that their sons were under, and where the women believe their sons are now.
- Headlines for October 08, 2015
- Legendary Patti Smith on Her New Memoir “M Train” & National Book Award Winner “Just Kids”
- Patti Smith on Closing Guantánamo, Remembering Rachel Corrie and Feeling Frustrated with Obama
- Patti Smith on 19th Century Poet William Blake and on Creating Political Art “Unapologetically”
- “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith on Pope Francis and Her Performances at the Vatican
- Headlines for October 07, 2015
- Father of Journalist Shot Dead On-Air in Virginia Speaks Out to End U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic
- “Einstein’s Definition of Insanity”: Father of Slain Reporter on GOP Candidates’ Gun Control Remarks
- Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out
- Headlines for October 06, 2015
- Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: “This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives”
- NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord
- Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): “We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World”
- Headlines for October 05, 2015
- War Crime in Afghanistan?: Outrage After U.S. Airstrike on Hospital Kills 22 Patients & Staff
- Mission Accomplished Redux: 1 Year After “End” to War in Afghanistan, Aid Workers Reveal Real Story
- Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: Climate Change Could Be Catalyst to Build a Fairer Economic System
- Naomi Klein on The Leap Manifesto & What a System of Climate and Economic Justice Looks Like
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke at the National Black Theatre in Harlem on Monday while he was visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Joining him at the event were actor & activist Danny Glover, New York State Sen. Bill Perkins, and #BlackLivesMatter organizer Opal Tometi.
Over the course of four years, filmmaker Avi Lewis and journalist Naomi Klein traveled to nine countries on five continents to profile communities on the front lines of the climate justice movement. The result is the epic documentary “This Changes Everything,” inspired by Klein’s best-selling book of the same name. The film just opened in New York City at the IFC Center. In this web-only special, Lewis and Klein talk about the climate justice movement, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the “Shock Doctrine,” and more.
- Headlines for October 02, 2015
- “This Has Become Routine”: Obama Speaks Out After 10 Killed in Oregon in Year’s 294th Mass Shooting
- After Latest Mass Shooting, a Look at the Oregon County Sheriff Who Vowed to Ignore Gun Control Laws
- This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re-imagines Vast Challenge of Climate Change
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Brazilian privacy activist David Miranda and others have launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards. The proposed International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers would require states to ban mass data collection and implement public oversight of national security programs. The treaty would also require states to offer asylum to whistleblowers. It is being dubbed the “Snowden Treaty.” At a launch event last week, Edward Snowden spoke about the need for the treaty via teleconference from Russia. “This is not a problem exclusive to the United States or the National Security Agency or the FBI or the Department of Justice or any agency of government anywhere. This is a global problem that affects all of us,” Snowden said.
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