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.

Democracy Now! 2015-12-16 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 16, 2015
• Juan González: GOP to Puerto Rico - "Drop Dead"
• GOP Debate: Trump Defends Muslim Ban, Other Candidates Debate How to Restrict Rights & Go to War
• Democracy Is Being Dismantled Before Our Eyes: Bob Herbert on Sheldon Adelson-Backed GOP Debate
• Hugh Hewitt Questions Ben Carson If He Was Ruthless Enough to Kill Thousands of Innocent Kids in War
• Trump Calls for Closing Parts of Internet as Cruz & Rubio Debate NSA Powers

Democracy Now! 2015-12-15 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 15, 2015
• Obama Touts U.S. Strikes on ISIL, But Can Military Escalation Make Up for Failed Strategy?
• When Cops Rape: Daniel Holtzclaw & the Vulnerability of Black Women to Police Abuse

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Democracy Now! 2015-12-14 Monday

• Headlines for December 14, 2015
• A Turning Point for the Climate or a Disaster? Michael Brune vs. George Monbiot on the Paris Accord
• Protest in Paris: Climate Justice Activists Decry Accord as "Death Sentence" for Millions

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Democracy Now! 2015-12-11 Friday

• Headlines for December 11, 2015
• Climate Justice Movement "Extremely Disappointed" in COP21 Draft's "Failure to Step Up"
• We are Sacrifice Zones: Native Leader Says Toxic North Dakota Fracking Fuels Violence Against Women
• At COP21, U.S. Allows Mention of Climate Reparations -- Only If It Doesn't Have to Pay Them
• Former World Bank Chief Economist on Climate: "I Hope Historians Will See This as a Turning Point"
• "Straight Wrong": British Climate Economist Responds to Trump's Climate Change Denial

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.

Democracy Now! 2015-12-10 Thursday

• Headlines for December 10, 2015
• Mary Robinson on Int'l Human Rights Day: Climate Change is the Biggest Human Rights Issue There Is
• COP21 Treaty Draft Excludes Gender Equality Even Though Women are Most Impacted by Climate Change
• Fmr. Irish Pres. on Refugees: "It's Shameful So Many Died and So Many Live in Terrible Conditions"
• "It's Going to Burn Our Planet": Hundreds Protest "Unacceptable" Draft Climate Accord Inside COP21

Democracy Now! 2015-12-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 09, 2015
• "I Don't Want to Die. This War Is Not My War": A Syrian in France's Largest Refugee Camp Speaks Out
• What Do Survivors of War Have to Do to Live in Peace?: Voices from France's Largest Refugee Camp
• Naomi Klein Decries Climate Deal as Extraordinarily Dangerous; Backs Defiance of French Protest Ban
• "It Is Not Enough": Despite Promise of New Aid, U.S. Urged to Take Responsibility for Climate Crisis