Category: News & Opinion
LOCAL NEWS: Mara Elliott Accuses Opponent of Hiding Views from Voters
SAN DIEGO – City Attorney candidate Mara Elliott today called on her opponent to stop hiding his views on important issues, noting that he is “pleading ignorance” about two of the most […]
EVENTS: Benefit Show in Support of Dakota Protest in Ocean Beach, 10/3, 9 pm, 21+
THis will be a Hip Hop Show to raise money and donations such as food and warm clothes in order to ehlp support the 100 tribes unified in North Dakota […]
Activists in Action: Congressman Vargas Remembering the victims of the ’84 San Ysidro Massacre
Remembering the victims of the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre that took 21 lives on July 18, 1984. At that time, that… Posted by Congressman Juan Vargas on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 […]
NEWS: An End to Impunity for Dictators—and Their Backers—Makes the World Safer
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan It was a bad week for dictators, and a good one for international justice. Two brutal, U.S.-backed dictators who ruled decades ago were convicted […]
NEWS: In Wake of Coup, Should Brazil’s Olympics Be Moved or Become a Site of Protest?
We continue our conversation with Dave Zirin, author of the book “Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy,” and Jules Boykoff, author […]
NEWS & PEOPLE: “I Want the World to Wake Up”: Hiroshima Survivor Criticizes Obama For Pushing New Nuclear Weapons
Extended interview with Setsuko Thurlow who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing about the bombing of 1945 and her push to eliminate nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945 Thurlow was at […]
NEWS & PEOPLE: Peace Activist and Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Dies at 91
Holocaust survivor and peace activist Hedy Epstein has died at the age of 91. Epstein was born in Germany and left in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents […]
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention to a New Level
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made […]
WATCH: Amy Goodman on MetroFocus (PBS)
Amy Goodman appears on the PBS show MetroFocus and breaks down all that is wrong with the media’s coverage of Election 2016. Watch the Full Interview …read more Source:: Democracy […]
LISTEN: Amy Goodman on NPR’s Weekend Edition
NPR’s Scott Simon asks Amy Goodman about Bernie Sanders’ chances of getting the delegates he needs to claim the Democratic nomination. Download MP3 || Read the transcript …read more Source:: […]