Three protesters locked themselves to the entrance of a fracking well in Denton, Texas. A police sergeant thanked the three and shook their hands before putting them in handcuffs. Hear their story on Democracy Now! today.
Democracy Now! is an independent, daily global news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We air live weekdays 8-9AM ET and rebroadcast throughout the day on nearly 1,400 TV & radio stations in 43 countries. Here we post excerpts from our interviews and key moments from our daily show.
The city of Denton, Texas, is in a showdown with Big Oil after it tried to pass a ban on fracking within its city limits. Sixty percent of Denton residents support a ban on fracking in their city, but on Monday, Texas enacted new legislation to prohibit local fracking bans. Watch Democracy Now! interview Tara Linn Hunter, Denton activist and lead singer of the anti-fracking music group, the Frackettes, at demoracynow.org
On Democracy Now! we interview leading American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton about the parallels between the threats of nuclear weapons and global warming. “They both bring forth apocalyptic images of destroying the entire human habitat and interfering with the future of the human race,” says Lifton.
Tune in to the discussion on Democracy Now! today.
They are doing special things to special people in special places.
Kirk Hubbard, a senior CIA official, referring to the torture overseen by the agency’s psychologists. Learn more about how the American Psychological Association assisted the CIA’s torture program at democracynow.org.
Women’s pregnancies are now becoming the subject of policing, prosecution, and severe sentences in an age of mass incarceration.
Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the case of Purvi Patel, who became the first person in U.S. history sentenced to prison for feticide for what the state said was an attempt to end her own pregnancy.
We’re calling on the museum sector to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Beka Economopoulos, co-founder and director of the Natural History Museum. She coordinated the letter sent Tuesday from Nobel laureates and other scientists to 330 science and natural history museums urging them to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry responsible for climate misinformation.
Climate policy and energy policy are not usually discussed together in this country … Climate change means that we need to transition away from fossil fuels, sooner rather than later.
Stephen Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International, speaks to Democracy Now! about a series of disasters seen by the fossil fuel industry in less than a week, just as extreme cold temperatures are blasting the eastern third of the United States. Watch and share the interview here.
The global standard for ethical medicine today is prior, free and informed consent.
Mary Holland, research scholar at New York University School of Law, joined Democracy Now! today for a 45-minute discussion on the debate over vaccinations, parental choice and public health. She is the mother of a child with regressive autism allegedly caused by the MMR vaccine. Watch the discussion here.
Public health departments are cutting other budgets and not doing other things in order to track down and contain measles. Why should the public pay?
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, joined Democracy Now! today for a 45-minute discussion on the debate over vaccinations, parental choice and public health. Watch it here.