Democracy Now! 2011-05-13 Friday

• Headlines for May 13, 2011
• "Friday of Decisiveness in Yemen”: Tens of Thousands Protest as President Saleh Defiantly Rejects Demands to Resign
• Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvaz Remains Missing After Being Detained in Syria, Then Deported to Iran
• “Making Art In America Is A Political Statement In Itself”: Grammy Award-winning Singer Steve Earle On Music, Writing and Acting

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5/11/11 - Spring Town Meeting. ; Session 4

Egypt’s military took power after the popular uprising that ousted former president, Hosni Mubarak. Now it faces mounting criticism for widespread use of military trials against civilians. It has used the courts to convict more than 5,000 civilians since late January.

On Monday, people gathered at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo to speak out against the military court system. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous sent this video report.

5/12/11 -- Sound of Erin Radio. ; Irish and Celtic Music.

Democracy Now! 2011-05-12 Thursday

• Headlines for May 12, 2011
• Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Obama Has Discretionary Authority to Advance DREAM Act, Humane Immigration Reform
• “They Are Violating All the Rules”: Rep. Luis Gutierrez Calls for Public Hearings, Impact Studies into Massive Gas Pipeline for Puerto Rico
• Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón on Holding Torturers Accountable, Why He Opposes the Killing of Osama bin Laden, and His Threatened Ouster from the Bench

5/2/11: Massachusetts State Rep. Will Brownsberger discusses state issues of the day with host Monica Collins every month.

Democracy Now! Wednesday, May 11, 2011

5/9/11 - Belmont Spring Town Meeting Session 3

Historian and author Adam Hochschild talks to Democracy Now! about his latest book, To End All Wars, and the comparison between pacifist struggles in World War I-era Britain to the U.S. during Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq today. We also discuss Hochschild’s earlier book, King Leopold’s Ghost, about the horrific colonial exploitation of present-day DRC by Belgium’s King Leopold and the U.S.-backed assassination of the Congo’s first elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.