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• US Activist Detained in Israeli Jail Condemns Blockade of Gaza
• South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Election of Barack Obama, the Israeli Blockade of Gaza, US Foreign Policy under President Bush and More
• As New York Renames the Triborough Bridge for Robert F. Kennedy, We Speak with RFK’s Daughter Kerry Kennedy on Her Father’s Legacy, Her Human Rights Activism and the 2008 Election

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

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• Agents of Change or Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons? A Discussion about Barack Obama’s Advisers and Transition Team
• Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales Indicted in Private Prison Case in Texas
• Vatican Threatens to Excommunicate Catholic Priest for Supporting Ordination of Women into Priesthood

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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• Cornel West on the Election of Barack Obama: “I Hope He Is a Progressive Lincoln, I Aspire to Be the Frederick Douglass to Put Pressure on Him”
• Steve Fainaru on “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq”

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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• An Hour with Bolivian President Evo Morales: “Neoliberalism Is No Solution for Humankind”

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• Amy Goodman’s New Column: “A View From the South”

  Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.

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• “President Obama Can Redeem the White House”

  Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.

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• Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008

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• Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”

  Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”

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• “Organizer in Chief”

  You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.

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• Studs Terkel, 1912-2008

  
  The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!

  In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”

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• “Election Protection”

  Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?

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• “Change Big Donors Can Believe In”

  The candidates’ coffers are swelling with larger and larger bundles of cash, but don’t hold your breath waiting for the extended television discussions of this, because it’s the broadcasters who profit the most.

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