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Listen to Your Radio Tonight

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Wednesday night, please listen to these two wonderful programs:

The Mike Malloy Show airs from 9 p.m. – 12 midnight ET and will be guest hosted by Brad Friedman. I’ll be on with him live at 10:30 p.m. ET. Call in!

The Nicole Sandler Show on Air America airs from 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. (More about Nicole). I taped an interview with her this afternoon that will probably air at 11:30 or 12 midnight ET.

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Rallies Around U.S. To Demand Accountability for Torture

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Thursday, June 25, 2009, has been designated Torture Accountability Action Day by a large coalition of human rights groups planning rallies and marches in major U.S. cities, including a rally in Washington, D.C.’s John Marshall Park at 11 a.m. followed by a noon march to the Justice Department where some participants will risk arrest in nonviolent protest if a special prosecutor for torture is not appointed.

http://accountability4torture.com

Events are planned in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, read more

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What Bush Told Blair Could End the Wars

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By David Swanson

In May 2005 we launched AfterDowningStreet.org to publicize the Downing Street Minutes. By June we’d had great, if fleeting, success. During the following months and years, mountains of new memos and statements emerged on the Iraq War lies, many of them more damaging than the Downing Street documents. But increasingly nobody cared, because evidence of crimes was less interesting read more

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Citizens Face Prosecution for Speaking Against Wars

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WHAT: Four of the people featured in this report by Bill Moyers’ Journal in January ( http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01092009/watch3.html ) face prosecution for disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly.

WHEN: Monday, June 22, 2009, 9:00 a.m. ET.

WHERE: Before Judge Richard H. Ringell in the Superior Court of The District of Columbia Criminal Division, Courtroom 120.

BACKGROUND: On January 6, 2009, the first day of the 111th Congress, seventy people came to Washington D.C. from all over read more

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U.S. Govt. Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding

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By David Swanson

We’ve been lobbying the Department of Justice all these months without realizing that the key to justice lay in the Department of the Interior, and specifically in the National Park Service, which has told activist Steve Lane he will be prosecuted if he attempts to demonstrate waterboarding at Thursday’s anti-torture rally in Washington, D.C. The permit for the rally reads “Waterboarding exhibit will not be allowed for safety reasons.”

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Juneteenth: What's Old Is New Again

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By David Swanson

Two statements, 144 years apart:

“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.”
Major General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865.

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Two Things I'd Like Everyone to Stop Saying PLEASE

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1. Given that Barack Obama took in WAY more money from health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations than Max Baucus, could everyone please stop calling Baucus the top recipient of such bribes?

2. When is it going to be safe to set foot outside the house without being told that FDR told A Phillip Randolph to go out there and make him do it? Of course we have to make officials do what we want them to do. They’ll never just do it on their own. But this anecdote is being used to shift read more

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It Could Happen to Yoo

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By David Swanson

Sometimes, during a tsunami of bad news, it’s nice to come up for a breath of encouraging air. The only way to do that this week that I know of is to read a beautiful 42-page order by a judge (PDF). Usually such things don’t strike me as beautiful, but this one says that leading torture lawyer John Yoo can be sued in court by one of his victims. It also says that his arguments read more

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Audio: Justice, Accountability, Media

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The Jeff Farias Show 6/17/09

On the Web At 3:30 Duff Conacher is the coordinator of Democracy Watch, an Ottawa-based citizen group advocating democratic reforms, government accountability and corporate responsibility. http://www.dwatch.ca/

At 4:30 PM David Swanson is the author of the upcoming book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” by Seven Stories Press. You can pre-order it and find out when tour will be in your town: https://davidswanson.org/book

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