Chilean hip-hop artist and musician Ana Tijoux joins us in studio to perform some of her songs and talk about the political themes behind them. Tijoux was born in France in 1977 to parents who were jailed and later fled Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. "Hip-hop is the land of the people that don't have a land," she says.

Democracy Now! 2014-07-10 Thursday

• Headlines for July 10, 2014
• "Indonesia is on a Different Path": U.S.-Trained General Defeated After Alleged Plot to Rig Vote
• Spied on for Being Muslim? NSA Targets Named in Snowden Leaks Respond to U.S. Gov't Surveillance

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Democracy Now! 2014-07-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 09, 2014
• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Responds to Hillary Clinton: Fair U.S. Trial for Snowden "Not Possible"
• Julian Assange on Aiding Snowden, Tiff w/ The Intercept & Whether He'll Ever Leave Embassy Refuge

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Democracy Now! 2014-07-08 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 08, 2014
• Report from Gaza: Israel Launches New Offensive on Besieged Palestinian Territory in Crisis
• "Incitement Starts at the Top": After Arab Teen's Murder, Israeli Gov't Accused of Fueling Hatred
• "Absolutely Unjustifiable": Aunt of US Teen Decries Brutal Beating by Israeli Forces Caught on Video
• The Kochs' Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch's Ties to John Birch Society

Democracy Now! 2014-07-07 Monday

• Headlines for July 07, 2014
• Exclusive: DN! Goes Inside Assange's Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks, Snowden and Winning Freedom

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Democracy Now! 2014-07-04 Friday

• "What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass' Historic Speech
• July 4 Special: "We Shall Overcome": Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger

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Democracy Now! 2014-07-03 Thursday

• Headlines for July 03, 2014
• "One of Our Greatest Friends": Mandela's Cellmate Thanks Sweden for Helping Anti-Apartheid Struggle
• As Neo-Nazis Rally, Sweden Poised for Election-Year Shift of Power Balance from Right to Left
• Swedish Left Party Surges in Polls with Focus on Climate Action & Fighting Privatization
• How Sweden's Feminist Initiative Party Became First of Its Kind to Win a Seat in European Parliament

Watch the video above to see Cecily McMillan speak with reporters after her release; and an interview with her supporter Lucy Parks, by Democracy Now! fellow Messiah Rhodes. Scroll down to read the full transcript.

"I was driven to Queens and dropped off on the side of the road," Cecily McMillan said of her release from jail this morning with just a MetroCard.