Drop the Charges Against Amy Goodman and DN! Producers

Today it is critical that you make your voice heard in the the Ramsey County Attorney and St. Paul City Attorney offices. Demand that they drop all pending and current charges against journalists arrested while reporting on protests outside the Republican National Conventions.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

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  Did NYC Officials Deliberately Inflate Land Value of New Yankee Stadium to Turn Public Money into Private Profit?

  In his latest column in the New York Daily News, Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez writes, “In January 2007, the city assessed land under the new Yankee Stadium at 10 times the market value of virtually all other land in the South Bronx neighborhood. The assessment—not including the new ballpark—worked out to a fair market value of $275 per square foot. But a Daily News analysis of city property records shows that city assessors said land on a dozen blocks around the site was worth an average of less than $25 a square foot.” [includes rush transcript]

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  Attorneys for Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis to Make Final Plea Before Georgia Parole Board

  Attorneys for death row prisoner Troy Davis are heading to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles today to ask the state body to commute his death sentence. Davis is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 23. Last year, the board granted Davis a temporary reprieve less than twenty-four hours before his scheduled execution, after numerous questions were raised about his case. We speak with his sister, Martina Correia. [includes rush transcript]

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  Increased Raids and Checkpoint Arrests Endanger Undocumented Immigrants Threatened by Gulf Coast Storms

  Undocumented immigrants along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast have resisted mandatory evacuation orders out of fear they could be arrested and deported at checkpoints. The climate of fear around deportation has worsened as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE, continues to step up its raids across the country, with two of the largest raids in US history taking place in the last five months. We speak to David Bacon, award-winning photojournalist, labor organizer and immigrant rights activist and author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Migrants.

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  FLOW: For Love of Water...New Film Examines Global Water Crisis

  “FLOW: For Love of Water” is a new documentary premiering in New York and Los Angeles today that takes on the global water crisis. We speak with filmmaker Irena Salina and water rights activist, Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, founder of the Blue Planet Project and author of several books including, “Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.”

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

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• Breaking with Convention (Part II): Highlights from the RNC, from the Suites to the Streets to the Convention Floor

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