Democracy Now! Audio

Former Animal Rights Prisoner on Ag-Gag Laws, Secretive Prison Units & Detention of Daniel McGowan

Headlines for April 09, 2013; Undercover Activist Details Secret Filming of Animal Abuse & Why "Ag-Gag" Laws May Force Him to Stop; Debate: After Activists Covertly Expose Animal Cruelty, Should They Be Targeted With "Ag-Gag" Laws?

Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Criminalization of Cyber-Activists, Bradley Manning & Iceland's Pirate Party (Pt. 2)

Headlines for April 08, 2013; "The Kissinger Cables": Three Years After "Collateral Murder," WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy; Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jónsdóttir on Challenging Gov't Secrecy from Twitter to Bradley Manning; Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): Tariq Ali on Late British PM's Legacy from Austerity to Apartheid

Headlines for April 05, 2013; At National Conference for Media Reform, Activists Hope to Stop Murdoch, Koch-Backed Consolidation; Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"; Colorado Independent: Suspect in Killing of Prisons Chief Tormented by Years of Solitary Confinement; "Shadows of Liberty": New Film Explores How Corporate Control of Media Erodes Press Freedoms

40 Years After Secret U.S. War in Laos Ended, Millions of Unexploded Bomblets Keep Killing Laotians

Headlines for April 04, 2013; New Era of Nuclear-Armed North Korea Forces U.S. to Reconsider War Games at Regime's Door; Drop the I-Word: In Victory for Advocates, Associated Press Stops Using Phrase "Illegal Immigrant"; On 45th Anniversary of His Death, Martin Luther King Jr. on the Power of Media and the Horror of War; Testimony, Recordings at Trial Reveal the Racial Biases and Arrest Quotas Behind NYPD's Stop & Frisk

Headlines for April 03, 2013; Silent on Assault Weapons Ban Defeat and NRA-Backed Dems, Has Obama Collapsed on Gun Control?; NRA's "School Shield" Call for Armed Guards Seen as Path to Further Criminalize Youth of Color; A Gun in Every Home? Nelson, Georgia Residents Debate New Law Mandating Forced Ownership of Firearms

Headlines for April 02, 2013; The Monsanto Protection Act? A Debate on Controversial New Measure Over Genetically Modified Crops; Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America from Monsanto to Wal-Mart

Headlines for April 01, 2013; Texas DA Killed Two Months After Deputy Shot Dead; Aryan Brotherhood Probed in Killings; Prosecutor Seeks Stay of Execution for Texas Prisoner Duane Buck, Sentenced to Death for Being Black; Texas Prosecutor Linda Geffin, Victim of Brutal Attack at Home, on the Killing of DA Mike McLelland; ExxonMobil Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Ruptures in Arkansas as Obama Ponders Fate of Keystone XL

Headlines for March 29, 2013; Strange Bedfellows: While Urging Gun Laws at Home, Obama Joins NRA to Weaken U.N. Arms Trade Treaty; The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus

Headlines for March 28, 2013; "Skim-Milk Marriage": Justices Cast Doubt on DOMA in Case Brought by 83-Year-Old Lesbian Widow; Debate: Does Marriage Equality Reinforce a Conservative Institution or Support Social Change?; "Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement": Film Portrays Lesbian Couple Behind Defense of Marriage Case

Headlines for March 27, 2013; Inside the Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court Case: Recordings of Oral Arguments, Plaintiffs; "A Historic Moment": California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality; Widower of First Openly Gay Congressman Fights DOMA for Denying Benefits to Married Same-Sex Couples; In Challenge to Roe v. Wade, North Dakota Enacts Law Banning Nearly All Abortions

Cheryl Wills on Her Family's Path from Slavery to Freedom & Legacy of Chinua Achebe on African Americans

Headlines for March 26, 2013; Energy Nominee Ernest Moniz Criticized for Backing Fracking & Nuclear Power; Ties to BP, GE, Saudis; "Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale": Cheryl Wills Uncovers Family's History from Slavery to Freedom