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In Part 2 of our conversation about the Daniel Holtzclaw verdict, UCLA and Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw talks about the lack of attention on sexual abuse by police officers. Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma City police officer, was accused of serial rape against African-American women. He was convicted by an all-white jury last week of rape and other charges against eight of the 13 women who accused him.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed hundreds of climate activists and trade unionists in Paris on Monday at an event organized by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy.

"We've taken the responsibility on ourselves to do something here and now–to stop the destruction of the world's environment, to bring people together to prevent that happening, and above all, to bring people together not through fear, but through hope, through imagination, through optimism," Corbyn said. "Unleash the optimism, unleash the imagination, unleash the hope. That is the way forward."

Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 14-year-old activist, singer and actress from the Tla'amin First Nation, north of Vancouver, Canada. On Saturday, she sang her song "Turn the World Around" at the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature in Paris, France. "I was told by a Haida elder that to turn the world around, you have to turn it upside down," Blaney told Democracy Now! after her performance.

Youth leaders from many of the countries most at risk to climate change are at COP21 demanding an ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement: 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Democracy Now!'s Carla Wills and Juan Carlos Dávila spoke to participants of an action led by indigenous youth demanding that developed countries commence an immediate phase-out of fossil fuels and provide finance and technology to aid developing nations.

We look at Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border on Tuesday–one of the most serious clashes between a NATO member country and Russia in half a century. Turkey says it repeatedly warned the Russian pilots they were violating Turkish airspace. Russia claims they plane never strayed from Syrian airspace. “There are some serious questions on the table about Turkey’s role in this conflict,” says journalist Vijay Prashad, in a web exclusive interview.

At the end of October, 27 immigrant women detainees began a hunger strike, demanding an end to mistreatment and their immediate release from the T. Don Hutto detention center near Austin, Texas. Most of the women were asylum seekers from Central America, which has seen a surge in migrants fleeing violence and abuse. The hunger strike reportedly surged to as many as 125 women, even as immigration officials denied it was taking place. Then, the hunger strikers said they faced retaliation.

As President Obama deploys special operation forces to Syria, breaking his pledge not to put U.S. troops on the ground, we continue our conversation with journalist Nick Turse, who has been tracking the expansion of global U.S. militarism for the website TomDispatch and The Intercept. Turse also discusses his new book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa. "Africa Command claims they only have one base on the continent, Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti," Turse says.

During the 1980s, five Vietnamese-American reporters were murdered in the United States. Despite lengthy FBI probes, none of the victims' killers were ever brought to justice.

Part 2 of our conversation with A.C. Thompson and Rick Rowley, who teamed up on the new PBS Frontline report, Terror in Little Saigon.

At Ithaca College in upstate New York, up to 2,000 faculty, students and staff staged a walkout on Wednesday to call for the resignation of President Tom Rochon. The students lay down on the rainy walkways in a mass "die-in." They expressed solidarity with students on other campuses across the country.

The documentary "We Are Many" focuses on the February 15, 2003, global protests against the Iraq War. The film tells the story of that historic day and how its events have helped shape political movements around the world ever since. In this web exclusive, we continue our discussion with the film's producer and director, Amir Amirani. "In Egypt, antiwar activists, who were part of the global antiwar movement, held a small protest … but they could see what was happening in the rest of the world," says Amirani.