In Part 2 of our conversation about the Daniel Holtzclaw verdict, UCLA and Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw talks about the lack of attention on sexual abuse by police officers. Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma City police officer, was accused of serial rape against African-American women. He was convicted by an all-white jury last week of rape and other charges against eight of the 13 women who accused him.
British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed hundreds of climate activists and trade unionists in Paris on Monday at an event organized by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy.
"We've taken the responsibility on ourselves to do something here and now–to stop the destruction of the world's environment, to bring people together to prevent that happening, and above all, to bring people together not through fear, but through hope, through imagination, through optimism," Corbyn said. "Unleash the optimism, unleash the imagination, unleash the hope. That is the way forward."
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 14-year-old activist, singer and actress from the Tla'amin First Nation, north of Vancouver, Canada. On Saturday, she sang her song "Turn the World Around" at the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature in Paris, France. "I was told by a Haida elder that to turn the world around, you have to turn it upside down," Blaney told Democracy Now! after her performance.
