Diane Nash, civil rights activist and Selma organizer who led the original march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scheduled to march on Saturday, March 7th but refused at the last minute when she saw George W. Bush was to help lead the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
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GALLERY: From Selma 1965 to Brooklyn Bridge 2015
“Selma is everywhere,” Attorney Norman Siegel told me prior to the march. “The racial injustice that occurred in Selma in 1965, unfortunately, is still present in various forms all across America including in New York City”.
Family Debt and Paternalist Ponzi Schemes
A child is already being put into family debt when they are young, only decades later do they realize their “government” is doing the same thing to them.
NSA Whistleblower William Binney Warns of New Threats
William Binney was the highest-level whistleblower to ever emerge from the NSA and a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was on my show.
Vigil for Nicholas Heyward Jr., Killed by NYPD in 1994
A crowd of about 50 came out Sunday to participate and show support for Nicholas Heyward Sr. whose son, Nicholas Jr. was shot and killed by NYPD officer Brian George on September 27, 1994.
Malcolm X Anniversary and Creeping Police Brutality
The People’s Climate March that took place in NYC this past Oct. turned out somewhere over 400k people marching for the environment and the future, the lives of their children and grandchildren
PHOTOS: Pablos Iglesias Talks With Amy Goodman
People packed the house to see Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and Pablo Iglesias, the General Secretary of the Spanish grassroots organization Podemos Party
Stop Patriarchy’s 50 Shades of Gray Protests
A handful from StopPatriarchy.org stood outside the IFC Theater on 42nd St off 8th Avenue today handing out fliers and protesting the newly released film
1 Billion Rising to Stop Violence Against Women & Girls
Initiated by V Day and Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history
Oh, The Poor Perpetrator! A Light Bulb Moment
The answer is right in front of our faces. We cannot afford to not hold those responsible to account. Every time we don’t, it gives them that much more leverage to do it to us and condemn the next innocent person!