Office of the Americas

Today, a discussion of the protests against the University of California's regents approval Thursday of a 32 percent increase in student fees and the growing privatization of public education with UCLA student activist Zen Dochterman and the president of the AFC, Bob Samuels. As protesters gather at Ft. Benning in Georgia this weekend for the annual protest to shut down the U.S. Army training center dubbed by critics as the “School of the Assassins,” we’re joined by Blasé Bonpane, director of the Office of the Americas. And we talk with UCLA professor Saree Makdisi, author of “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation,” as Israel is coming under widespread international criticism for its plan to engage in a new round of illegal settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour