Democracy Now! 2015-04-24 Friday

• Headlines for April 24, 2015
• As Obama Apologizes for Deaths of Hostages in Drone Strike, Does the U.S. Know Who It Is Killing?
• Pentagon Speeds Efforts to Resettle Guantanamo Prisoners Ahead of Vote on Two-Year Transfer Ban
• Watch: Explosive Footage from Inside Rikers Jail Shows Guard Beating Teen Accused of Backpack Theft
• A People Expunged: Marking the 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide amid Ongoing Turkish Denials

Democracy Now! 2015-04-23 Thursday

• Headlines for April 23, 2015
• "Running While Black": Protests Swell over Death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore Police Custody
• U.S.-Backed Saudi War in Yemen Continues as Aid Groups Describe "Catastrophic" Humanitarian Crisis

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Democracy Now! 2015-04-22 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 22, 2015
• "It Was Worth Risking My Life, My Freedom": Campaign Reform Activist on Flying Gyrocopter to Capitol
• Kenyan Mother Wins Goldman Prize for Anti-Lead Protest After Her Own Breast Milk Made Baby Sick
• Earth Day Special: Goldman Prize Awarded to Burmese Photographer Who Fought Dam Project
• How Many More? 116 Environmental Defenders Were Murdered Last Year, Mostly in Latin America

Watch our extended interview with Nelson Denis, author of "War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony," and see excerpts of Pedro Albizu Campos' 1950 speech made shortly before he was arrested. We also speak with Rep. José Serrano, Democratic congressman from New York. He successfully pushed the FBI to declassify records regarding the Bureau's activities targeting independence activists. He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Democracy Now! 2015-04-21 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 21, 2015
• Greece's Yanis Varoufakis: The Medicine of Austerity Is Not Working, We Need a New Treatment
• War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party

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Listen to our extended interview with Khalifah al-Akili, a Muslim American from Pittsburgh area who was arrested just days after he emailed civil rights groups to say he believed he was the target of an FBI "entrapment" sting. His story is told in the new film "(T)ERROR." He is now serving eight years in federal prison for illegally possessing a gun after having previous felony convictions for selling drugs. He spoke from prison on April 19, 2015, in a phone call with Democracy Now! producer Renée Feltz.

In part two of our interview with Steve Downs, executive director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, he details his work on one of the most baffling cases in the so-called war on terror, the story of Aafia Siddiqui. In Pakistan, she is considered a political prisoner, but in the United States she is known as "Lady al Qaeda." She is currently incarcerated at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, where she is serving 86 years behind bars. Her lawyers say she hasn't spoken with anyone for over a year.

Democracy Now! 2015-04-20 Monday

• Headlines for April 20, 2015
• FBI Informant Exposes Sting Operation Targeting Innocent Americans in New "(T)ERROR" Documentary

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Democracy Now! 2015-04-17 Friday

• Headlines for April 17, 2015
• Test Mutiny: Tens of Thousands of New York Parents Revolt Against Standardized Exams
• Did NBC Cover Up Role of U.S.-Backed Free Syrian Army in 2012 Kidnapping of Richard Engel?
• Watch: Art Exhibit Recreates Tiny Cell Where the Late Herman Wallace Spent 42 Years in Solitary
• Volunteers Gather to Care for Glenn Ford, Exonerated Louisiana Man Who Is Now Dying from Cancer

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