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.

Democracy Now! 2011-05-10 Tuesday

• Headlines for May 10, 2011
• EXCLUSIVE: Playwright Tony Kushner Speaks Out on CUNY Controversy, Academic Freedom and Israel
• Historian Adam Hochschild: Lessons for the Antiwar Movement from the Pacifists of World War I

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Democracy Now! 2011-05-09 Monday

• Headlines for May 09, 2011
• U.S. Assassination Campaign Continues as CIA Drone Targets U.S.-Born Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen
• Syria Crackdown: Syrian Dissident Haitham al-Maleh Speaks from Hiding as Al Jazeera Journalist Dorothy Parvez Remains Locked Up
• Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Cairo on Rising Sectarian Tension in Egypt After Deadly Attack on Coptic Christian Church

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5/6/11: Liz Allison, Chair of the Warrant Committee reviews the budget for upcoming Belmont Town Meeting to be held May 9 & 11th, 2011.