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Honduras: As Berta Cáceres Murder Trial Nears End, Will True Perpetrators Be Brought to Justice?Eight men are on trial in Honduras for the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres, who was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza in 2016. A verdict is...

Honduras: As Berta Cáceres Murder Trial Nears End, Will True Perpetrators Be Brought to Justice?

Eight men are on trial in Honduras for the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres, who was gunned down in her home in La Esperanza in 2016. A verdict is expected this week—but UC Santa Cruz historian and author Dana Frank said on Democracy Now! today that the trial has been flawed from the outset:

“The trial itself has been a travesty. The government prosecutors have not introduced or taken into account a vast range of evidence of text messages, seized computer messages, phone call records that implicate all kinds of people. And they’re not taking that into account. And also Honduran law says that the family of the victim has the right to review all of the evidence, has the right to be there in court, and that has been violated over and over and over again.

So we’re going to get some kind of verdict—probably somebody’s going to take a fall for this—but we should not in any way confuse that with justice for Berta. The fact that there is even a trial is mostly because of international pressure, including from the United States Congress and people like yourselves. There is going to be a lot of pressure to act like somehow justice has been done and we’re going to put this under the rug, sweep it under the rug.

And it’s really important to say that this is not going to be justice for Berta. This is going to be some kind of a—something for show, as they say in Honduras—and that we still have to call for justice for Berta and have the true perpetrators fully brought to justice.”

See the full interview here.

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One begins to wonder if that’s actually a strategy, that you make people poor enough, you make them obsessed with working out where their next meal is going to come from, they’re not going to vote, and so you can happily ignore them.
Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Alston says the GOP tax bill will make the U.S. the “world champion of extreme inequality.” His office has just released a scathing report on poverty in the United States. Read the full interview here
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Dr. Harry Edwards on why he thinks football player Colin Kaepernick should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Read the full interview here. 
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So many people have been imprisoned. So many people have gone into exile because of the repression in Egypt. Civil society is under an unprecedented attack. So it’s very hard for people to get together. It’s also very dangerous to try and organize in a real way… although you do see pockets of resistance that rise up. There was a case about two islands that Egypt gave to Saudi Arabia sovereignty over, and there was a massive protest about that, and a favorable court ruling that was recently overturned. Doctors came out in full force after some members of their syndicate were attacked by police. And that had an effect in the court, as well. So you do see these moments of uprising. But in terms of cohesive movement building, I think we’re still a long way off.
Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the widening crackdown on civil society and human rights in Egypt. Read the full story: El-Sisi Widens Crackdown on Egyptian Civil Society, Journalists After Palm Sunday Church Bombings
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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.

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Special Report: Voices of Children of Farmworkers Demanding Driscoll’s Boycott

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“One day—I think it was a Sunday—where we were picking strawberries, it was raining, and it was like super cold, like the wind and stuff like that. And I was kind of feeling a little sick. It was like around 12:00. And I wanted to go home, so I asked my mom. And then she said, if I’m like not feeling well, we should go home. And then my mom told the supervisor. But the supervisor said like, ‘If you guys don’t get back to work, your whole—you guys all will get fired, and then you guys will find someplace to live.’ Like just like right away, like at the same day, you get fired and then you have to find a place to stay.”

- Alfredo Juárez, a 16-year-old who has been picking berries for Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state since he was 13. 

Watch our special report from Burlington, Wash. where farmworkers are calling for fairer wages and better living conditions. 

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Today we remember Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in her home in Honduras yesterday. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras, standing up to mining and dam...

Today we remember Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in her home in Honduras yesterday. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras, standing up to mining and dam projects that threatened to destroy her community. Last year, Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest environmental award. 

A 2015 report by the group Global Witness found that Honduras is one of the deadliest countries for environmentalists. Between 2010 and 2014, 101 environmental campaigners were killed in the country.

Today we broadcast footage of Cáceres and spoke with her nephew Silvio Carillo and her longtime friend Beverly Bell.

Watch the full segment here. 

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Apartheid exists now. If you keep identifying it as a future danger instead of recognizing that it’s a present reality, you will never reach that future — you will never recognize the truth of the system that you have in Israel.
Henry Siegman, former executive director of the American Jewish Congress. He spoke to Democracy Now! about Israeli politics and the prospects for peace. Watch the interview on Democracy Now! today.
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“Right now, there are psychologists at Guantánamo Bay, and they’re not only doing therapy.”

- Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, speaking last night at a town hall meeting, where the American Psychological Association is holding its annual convention. Watch today’s Democracy Now! special report.

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