GRITtv: April 28, 2009

Evo Morales, Durban II and Race in America, and The Jay Bybee Problem Last week, Bolivia's president Evo Morales was in New York to commemorate Earth Day at the United Nations. GRITtv sat down with Morales and talked about his equality agenda, socialism, and the Bolivian banking system. Then recent polls reveal that since Obama's election more Americans think race relations in the United States are good. But those who attended the international summit on racism in Geneva last week's conference that the US boycotted see things differently.

We speak to Ramona Ortega, the Founder and Executive Director of Global Citizen and Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report. Finally, Jay Bybee, infamous for signing memos that provided legal cover for CIA agents involved in torture, was appointed to the Federal Appeals Court in 2003. And not a single democrat questioned him at the session. How did it happen? The American News Project brings us this important report on the Jay Bybee Problem. Thanks to the Real News Network and ANP for video in tonight's show.