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It was one year ago today, August 9, 2014, when eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death in the suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, as he reportedly walked in the street with his friend when a police officer drove up and ordered them onto the sidewalk. Police claim Brown physically assaulted the officer and tried to reach for his weapon inside a police car. But witnesses provided a sharply different account, saying Brown was shot with his arms up as he tried to flee the officer’s fire.

As Greece defaults and faces a referendum this Sunday on a new bailout package, watch Noam Chomsky on Europe's "savage response" to the pushback against austerity demands. He spoke to Democracy Now! in March.

Click here to watch Monday's segment, "As Greece Heads for Default, Voters Prepare to Vote in Pivotal Referendum on More Austerity."

As legendary activist and community organizer Grace Lee Boggs turns 100 years old today, we revisit an interview with her from our archives that has never aired before. In 2008, Amy Goodman interviewed Boggs, an activist based in Detroit, about her work in the civil rights, Black Power, labor, environmental justice and feminist movements for seven decades.

See all of our interviews with Boggs.

We are broadcasting from Charleston, South Carolina, as we turn now to look at the impact here of the the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, preserving the health insurance coverage of millions of people and handing President Obama a major victory. On Thursday, the court ruled 6 to 3 that Obamacare recipients can obtain tax subsidies for health insurance in states that use federal exchanges.

Democracy Now! was there last week in when culture jamming activist group The Yes Men took to the streets of New York City to protest Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic by handing out ancient shaved ice from the "remnants of the last icebergs of the North Pole."

The new film The Yes Men Are Revolting opens today in select theaters.

Watch Amy Goodman's 2005 interview with people's historian Peter Linebaugh about the Magna Carta's history and how it relates to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay.

Then be sure to catch our new interview with Limbaugh on the 800th anniversary of the historic manifesto, when he joins us from Lincoln Castle in Lincolnshire, England, where in a lockstone vault are kept the finest originals of the Magna Carta and the charters of English liberty.

Watch our extended interview with Evan Young, 2015 valedictorian of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School in Longmont, Colorado. His principal prevented him from delivering his graduation speech in which he planned to out himself as gay. On Sunday night, Young finally gave what would have been his graduation speech, and was recognized by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado), whose district includes Boulder and Longmont. Polis is also openly gay and the first openly gay member of Congress to become a parent.

In this web-only conversation with journalist Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, we turn to Iraq. He recently wrote a piece for Rolling Stone titled "Forget What We Know Now: We Knew Then Iraq War Was a Joke." Taibbi wrote the piece after Jeb Bush's infamous interview on Fox News. Megyn Kelly asked Bush "knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?" Bush responded, "I would have." Jeb Bush later reversed his stance.

As Palestine joins the International Criminal Court, former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard talks about how an apartheid case could be brought against Israel in the ICC. "I'm a South African who lived through apartheid," Dugard said. "I have no hesitation in saying that Israel's crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa."

Watch full interview with John Dugard

"Your children are being put back in the ground before they’ve even lived yet," rapped Baltimore poet, Grim Jackson, during a rally Sunday calling for justice for Freddie Gray. Watch Gray perform several pieces, along with fellow poet and rapper, Martina Lynch.