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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Poverty Is the Real Scandal”
Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?
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“Cheney, Bush and Habbush”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see.
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“Don’t Cage Dissent”
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
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Lawmaker Calls on Pentagon to Explain Promotion of Threat-Wielding Recruiter After Democracy Now! Broadcast
Rep. Gene Green (D–TX) is calling on the Pentagon to explain why a military recruiter was given a promotion despite being found to have illegally threatened a teenage boy with jail time if he decided to go to college instead of joining the military. The recruiter was eventually promoted to head a different recruiting station. Green sent the letter questioning Kelt’s new job after his Wednesday appearance on Democracy Now!
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“Threats, Lies and Audiotape”
With no end in sight in Afghanistan and Iraq, military recruiters must be prevented from using desperate and aggressive measures to lure our nation’s young people—the poorest and most vulnerable—into the line of fire.
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‘It’s a Global Election’
Amy Goodman reports from the Baltics: “When I arrived in Estonia last week—a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland—everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.”
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“Who’s Paying for the Conventions?”
The nominating conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, but most people don’t know the extent to which major corporations fund them, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system.
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“Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid”
While the presidential candidates trade barbs and accuse each other of flip-flopping, they agree with President Bush on their enthusiastic support for nuclear power.
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Teaching Democracy Now!
Airing on over 700 stations, Democracy Now! is pioneering the largest public media collaboration in North America, and is working to extend that collaboration into classrooms all over the world. We are launching an innovative, interactive program called Teaching Democracy Now!—to provide a variety of teaching tools for educators to encourage independent journalism, freedom of expression, and critical inquiry.
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In response to hundreds of e-mails from teachers, professors, administrators, students and community activists, Democracy Now! is building a FREE, web-based resource bank for teachers that offers stimulating curricula ideas and materials for a variety of disciplines and levels of education. This page will evolve with a “for educators, by educators” philosophy—a virtual space where educators can submit and share curricula that incorporate Democracy Now!. Learn more about how you can get the DVD of your choice free for submitting curriculum to our database.
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WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEMOCRACY NOW!
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“WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT DEMOCRACY NOW!”
