No one is carrying any weapons here. There are no bullets being fired by Palestinians on Israeli soldiers. There’s nothing I have seen that poses any threat to the Israeli military. Not a single Israeli soldier has been injured. And yet these killings continue.
Climate activists are claiming they have shut down all tar sands oil coming into the United States by manually turning off pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Washington state. Read the full story: Breaking: Activists Reportedly Shut Down Five Pipelines Carrying Tar Sands Oil Into U.S.
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Destruction of the marshland is a continuation of harm caused by the oil and gas industry over decades that has contributed to coastal erosion, the elimination of marshes, the elimination of wetlands in Louisiana, which makes storms much more ferocious, because those wetlands, those marshes, should be there to suck in the water, as natural sponges, if you will, when water floods onto land.
Without that marsh, that was eaten away by oil, without that coastline, that was eaten away by salt, that was allowed to incur on the coastline because of canals built for pipelines and other oil and gas infrastructure, the coast isn’t there, and the floods just come in and decimate communities.
In Dallas, Texas, five police officers have been shot dead and six others wounded while patrolling a demonstration against the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Democracy Now! spoke with Marc Lamont Hill about the movement against police brutality after the Dallas shooting.
Watch the rest of the interview: Marc Lamont Hill: Dallas Shootings Can’t Deter Us From Continuing Movement Against State Violence
The New York Daily News reports the man who filmed the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Ramsey Orta, is preparing to head to prison for four years as part of a plea deal for a weapons and drug charge. Orta is the only person in the Eric Garner case who has been jailed. He joined us in the Democracy Now! studios (pictured, left) for an interview in January: Why is Ramsey Orta, Man Who Filmed Police Killing of Eric Garner, the Only One Criminally Charged?
In Japan, tens of thousands of people gathered on the island of Okinawa Sunday to demand the ouster of U.S. military bases. Activists said 65,000 people attended what they called the largest protest in two decades against the U.S. military presence.
For decades, Okinawa residents have pushed for ousting U.S. forces off the island, citing decades of rape and environmental harm by the U.S. military.
Read more on Sunday’s protest in Okinawa, including an interview with a protester.
For months, actor Rosario Dawson has been campaigning across the country for Bernie Sanders. She spoke in Chicago at The People’s Summit on how to build off the momentum generated by Sanders’ campaign.
Watch: Rosario Dawson at People’s Summit: We Need to Stay the Course to Build a New Movement
To understand the treatment of the French Muslims in today’s French society, we need to look at the colonial legacy, which I believe continues to shape, influence the way France deals with Islam and Muslims. … France has the largest Muslim population in western Europe — and the history of the Muslim presence in France is deeply connected with the history of French colonialism. Most of the Muslims come from the countries which have been colonized by France, namely North African and West African countries.
Breaking news: In addition to this prisoner exchange, the Obama administration has indicated it will open talks with Cuba aimed at restoring full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a half century.
Both President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro are scheduled to make statements today on U.S.-Cuban relations.
