Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for December 02, 2013; Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism "No-Fly" Database; Pardoning Turkeys, Not People? Obama Urged to Reverse Lowest Clemency Rate of Modern Presidency; Over 110 Arrested as Record Black Friday Protests Challenge Wal-Mart, Major Retailers on Low Wages

Ebony and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America's Elite Colleges; Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family's Shocking Slave-Trading History, Urges Americans to Explore Own Roots

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz

Headlines for November 27, 2013; Three More NYC Contractors Found Guilty in Massive CityTime Scandal to Modernize Payroll System; Plea to End Deportations Heard Nationwide as Activist Interrupts Obama Speech on Immigration; The Pope Slams "Tyranny" of Capitalism and "Idolatry of Money," But Opposes Shift on Women, Abortion; Religious Rights for Corporations? Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Contraception Coverage

Headlines for November 26, 2013; As Wal-Mart Workers Plan Record Black Friday Protests, Study Says Retail Giant Can Afford Higher Pay; Reverend Billy Faces Year in Prison for Protesting JPMorgan Chase's Financing of Fossil Fuels; "Hannah Arendt" Revisits Fiery Debate over German-Jewish Theorist's Coverage of Eichmann Trial

Pt 2: U.S. Corporations Enlist Ex-Intelligence Agents to Spy on Nonprofit Groups

Headlines for November 25, 2013; Historic Deal Curbs Iran's Nuclear Program While Easing U.S.-Led Devastating Economic Sanctions; Honduras Presidential Elections in Dispute as Activists Defy Violence to Back Ousted Leader's Wife; Spooky Business: U.S. Corporations Enlist Ex-Intelligence Agents to Spy on Nonprofit Groups

Headlines for November 22, 2013; As Environmentalists Walk Out of UN Talks, Top US Envoy Says No to Reparations for Climate Damage; "You've Made a Wager of Our Future": Somali Youth Activist Pleads to U.N. Summit for Climate Action; Climate Activists: Carbon Trading a "False Solution" Pushed by Bankers and Bureaucrats; "We Can't Take Crumbs from the High Table": Global Activists Hold Their Own Climate Justice Summit; "Africa Is Being Pushed Closer to the Fire": Africans Say Continent Can't Wait for Climate Action

Headlines for November 21, 2013; "Nature Does Not Negotiate": Environmentalists Walk Out of U.N. Climate Summit in Warsaw; Greenpeace: In Opposing Oil Drilling, Detained "Arctic 30" Are Standing Up for Planet's 7 Billion; "We Have to Consume Less": Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis; "Polluters Talk, We Walk": Civil Society Groups Abandon Warsaw Talks over Inaction on Global Warming

Headlines for November 20, 2013; As Poor Countries Walk Out of Climate Talks, Venezuela Calls on Industrial Nations to Take Action; U.N. Defends Banning Three Youth Activists While Allowing Fossil Fuel Firms to Sponsor Climate Talks; "Finance Climate Action, Not Fossil Fuel Subsidies": Activists Blast Priorities of Biggest Polluters; Filipina Climate Chief: "It Feels Like We Are Negotiating on Who Is To Live and Who Is To Die"; As 17 of Arctic 30 Granted Bail, Greenpeace Chief Calls Fossil Fuel CEOs "The Real Hooligans"; After Global Failure to Cut Emissions, Will Poor Nations Get Help to Deal With Climate Change?

Headlines for November 19, 2013; On Day 9 of Fast, Filipino Climate Chief Yeb Saño Demands Rich Nations Pay Up for Global Pollution; "Civil Society Isn't Welcome & Corporations Are": Youth Activist on Being Banned from Climate Talks; Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change

Headlines for November 18, 2013; Global Voices from Africa to the Philippines Demand Climate Justice at U.N. Summit in Warsaw; Partnering With Polluters? U.N. Climate Summit Criticized for Sponsorships by Fossil Fuel Companies; 2 Months After Russia's Jailing of Arctic 30, Greenpeace Urges Their Release at Warsaw Summit; After Typhoon Haiyan's Devastation, Filipino Calls for Climate Action Take On New Urgency; Polish Gov't Draws Heat for Embracing Dirty Coal as it Hosts U.N. Climate Summit

Web Exclusive: René Pérez of Calle 13 Interviewed by Juan González (In Spanish)

Headlines for November 15, 2013; Jailed for Life for Stealing a $159 Jacket? 3,200 Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Crimes; Calle 13’s René "Residente" Pérez on Revolutionary Music, WikiLeaks & Puerto Rican Independence; Burning the Evidence: Gunmen Torch Records Documenting War Crimes, Missing Children in El Salvador

Headlines for November 14, 2013; TPP Exposed: WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Text to Rewrite Copyright Laws, Limit Internet Freedom; Senate Faces Historic Vote on Handling Military Sexually Assault Epidemic Outside Chain of Command; A Nun Takes on the Drug War: Consuelo Morales on Crusading Against Mexican Cartels, Corrupt Police