Democracy Now! 2015-06-17 Wednesday

• Headlines for June 17, 2015
• As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity
• The Dominican Republic's "Ethnic Purging": Edwidge Danticat on Mass Deportation of Haitian Families

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Democracy Now! 2015-06-16 Tuesday

• Headlines for June 16, 2015
• As Yemenis Suffer from Strikes, Conflict and Siege, Will Geneva Peace Talks Offer Any Relief?
• Bombing the Arctic: US Navy War Games in Gulf of Alaska Threaten One of World's Most Pristine Areas
• "Battling the Death Star": Seattle "Kayaktivists" Slow Arctic-Bound Shell Oil Rig as Fight Goes On
• The Yes Men Are Revolting: In New Film, Legendary Pranksters Take On Polluters Behind Climate Change

Democracy Now! was there last week in when culture jamming activist group The Yes Men took to the streets of New York City to protest Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic by handing out ancient shaved ice from the "remnants of the last icebergs of the North Pole."

The new film The Yes Men Are Revolting opens today in select theaters.

Watch Amy Goodman's 2005 interview with people's historian Peter Linebaugh about the Magna Carta's history and how it relates to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay.

Then be sure to catch our new interview with Limbaugh on the 800th anniversary of the historic manifesto, when he joins us from Lincoln Castle in Lincolnshire, England, where in a lockstone vault are kept the finest originals of the Magna Carta and the charters of English liberty.

Democracy Now! 2015-06-15 Monday

• Headlines for June 15, 2015
• As Democrats Walk Out on Obama's TPP Deal, Where Does Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Stand?
• Israeli Report Finds 2014 Gaza War "Lawful" and "Legitimate" Ahead of Critical U.N. Investigation
• What Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common? A People's Historian Explains

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Democracy Now! 2015-06-12 Friday

• Headlines for June 12, 2015
• Tamir Rice Killing: Activists Push for Arrests After Judge Finds Probable Cause to Charge Officers
• From Solitary to the Street: Coping with Freedom After Years in Prison Isolation
• "A Monster of a Facility": Amid Manhunt for Fugitives, Advocate Urges Reforms at Dannemora Prison
• The Wanted 18: Israel Blocks Palestinian Filmmaker from Making NYC Film Premiere About Intifada Cows

Democracy Now! 2015-06-11 Thursday

• Headlines for June 11, 2015
• Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals Increased Corporate Control of Public Health
• After Iraq-Syria Takeover, the Inside Story of How ISIL Destroyed Al-Qaeda from Within
• As Ruling Threatens to Gut Abortion Access in Texas, Providers Vow to Take Fight to Supreme Court

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