Democracy Now! 2015-10-07 Wednesday

• Headlines for October 07, 2015
• Father of Journalist Shot Dead On-Air in Virginia Speaks Out to End U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic
• "Einstein's Definition of Insanity": Father of Slain Reporter on GOP Candidates' Gun Control Remarks
• Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out

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Democracy Now! 2015-10-06 Tuesday

• Headlines for October 06, 2015
• Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: "This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives"
• NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord
• Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): "We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World"

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Democracy Now! 2015-10-05 Monday

• Headlines for October 05, 2015
• War Crime in Afghanistan?: Outrage After U.S. Airstrike on Hospital Kills 22 Patients & Staff
• Mission Accomplished Redux: 1 Year After "End" to War in Afghanistan, Aid Workers Reveal Real Story
• Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: Climate Change Could Be Catalyst to Build a Fairer Economic System
• Naomi Klein on The Leap Manifesto & What a System of Climate and Economic Justice Looks Like

Democracy Now! 2015-10-02 Friday

• Headlines for October 02, 2015
• "This Has Become Routine": Obama Speaks Out After 10 Killed in Oregon in Year's 294th Mass Shooting
• After Latest Mass Shooting, a Look at the Oregon County Sheriff Who Vowed to Ignore Gun Control Laws
• This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re-imagines Vast Challenge of Climate Change

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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, Brazilian privacy activist David Miranda and others have launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards. The proposed International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers would require states to ban mass data collection and implement public oversight of national security programs. The treaty would also require states to offer asylum to whistleblowers.