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Margaret Gordon - 2010 Purpose Prize Winner

2018-12-08T02:30:27.187Z

Since Gordon connected the asthma that plagued her low-income community to the pollution of the nearby port, she has fought to improve the area's environmental health.

How a Climate Change-Fueled Drought & U.S.-Fed Violence Are Driving Thousands from Central America

2018-12-01T00:13:15.108Z

President Trump is urging Mexico to deport the thousands of Central American migrants who are at or approaching the U.S. border in an attempt to seek asylum, days after U.S. border authorities fired tear gas into a crowd of asylum seekers as some tried to push their way through the heavily militarized border near San Diego. Trump tweeted, “Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!” This comes just days before Andrés Manuel López Obrador is sworn in as Mexico’s new president. López Obrador’s incoming government has denied it made any deal with the Trump administration to force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their U.S. asylum claims are processed. We speak with John Carlos Frey, Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and PBS NewsHour special correspondent. He recently returned from reporting trips in Guatemala, Mexico City and Tijuana, where he was documenting the migrant caravan.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org

Mustafa Ali: Meet the Top EPA Environmental Justice Official Who Quit to Protest Pruitt & Trump

2018-11-30T23:19:25.320Z

A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency has resigned in protest of a Trump administration proposal to scale back severely the size and work of the agency. Mustafa Ali helped launch the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice in 1992 and served under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Up until last week he headed the environmental justice department. He joins us in one of his first interviews since leaving the EPA.

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://democracynow.org

How Tear Gas Became a Favorite Weapon of U.S. Border Patrol, Despite Being Banned In Warfare

2018-11-29T00:20:02.258Z

As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and police to turn on civilians. Border authorities’ use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency’s own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone. Customs and Border Protection told Newsweek Tuesday it began using tear gas under the Obama administration in 2010. The agency’s use of tear gas has now reached a seven-year record high. We speak with Stuart Schrader, lecturer in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied how tear gas went from a weapon of war used in Vietnam to being deployed by law enforcement at home. His forthcoming book is titled “Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.”

Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org

MC Serch on Being Asked to Write Lyrics for Rakim, Eric B Having Beef with Him

2018-11-28T23:58:28.984Z

MC Serch spoke to VladTV about 3rd Base being signed to Def Jam and their first single being "Steppin' to the A.M.," which he said was written with Rakim in mind. Serch explained that Def Jam's Lyor Cohen asked him to help write for Rakim, who Cohen said was having writer's block.

MC Serch went on to explain that he wrote "Steppin' to the A.M." in one day, and when they called Eric B, who Serch thought was his good friend, he hung up after 30 seconds and called back to tell Lyor that he was beefing with MC Serch. To hear more of the story, including how Eric B and MC Serch haven't talked since then, hit the above clip.

Watch Part 3: https://goo.gl/ShLUM6 Part 1: https://goo.gl/Rv2Uzp ---------------------- MC Serch spoke to VladTV about 3rd Base being signed to Def Jam and ...