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"Democracy Now!": Wed. Mar. 3 2010
As New York Governor David Paterson is criticized for alleged interference on aide’s behalf in a domestic violence case, we look at the problem of domestic violence nationwide with Terry O'Neill, president of National Organization for Women. A new Utah abortion bill could punish women for miscarriages and domestic violence against them. As the Chilean earthquake toll passes 800, aid has yet to reach many devastated areas. From New York to Liberia, investigative journalist Greg Palast tracks vulture funds preying on African debt. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
Email this pageGRITtv: The NAACP and 100 Years of History
The NAACP turns 100 and the civil rights organization is celebrating this week in New York. Looking back, looking ahead what?s changed and what hasn't? With the financial crisis disproportionately impacting African Americans, the first black president in the White House, and the nomination hearings of Sonia Sotomayor we review the past few days and the last 100 years. Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington, D.C. bureau of the NAACP, Sonia Ossorio, President of the National Organization for Women in NY, Derrick Johnson, President of the Mississippi NAACP, and James Rucker, Executive Director of Color of Change on the role of the NAACP and other activist organizations inside and outside the beltway.
