DN!: Subprime Lending Crisis//In Debt We Trust//Journalist Josh Wolf Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:12:48 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST April 4, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * "Hang Up on War" http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hang_up_on_war/ Note that this news site, Truthdig, allows readers to post comments. Consider posting your own. Also, consider writing your local newspaper and asking for them to carry the column, distributed by King Features. Many papers across the US have done so already. If you see the column in your paper, please mail us a copy of the full page, to Democracy Now! 87 Lafayette St New York, NY 10013 Thank you! = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! Benefit with Howard Zinn & Amy Goodman Boston, Mon., April 16th see details at http://tour.democracynow.org/2007/04/boston_ma.html = = = = = = = = =   * DN! is hiring * Immediate Opening: Part-Time TV Director http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml TV News Producer/Editor http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Subprime Lending Crisis: Millions of Families Face Losing Their Homes to Foreclosure * Subprime loans have led to one million American families losing their homes in the past decade, a new study by the Center for Responsible Lending has found. In the last ten years, the subprime loan industry has emerged as a major, and controversial, player in the housing market. We speak with an attorney at the Center for Responsible Lending. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/04/1343214 * In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst * We take a look at a new documentary by veteran journalist and media critic Danny Schechter called "In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst." The film shows how "the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom." Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/04/1343218 * Imprisoned Journalist Josh Wolf Released After Record 225 Days in Jail * Independent journalist Josh Wolf has been released from prison after spending over 225 days behind bars. The 24-year-old Wolf spent more time in jail than any journalist in US history for protecting his sources. In the first broadcast interview since his release, Wolf joins us from San Francisco. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/04/1343227 * Beyond Vietnam: 40th Anniversary of King's Landmark Antiwar Speech * Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King gave the speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence." It was April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered. He was speaking at the Riverside Church here in New York. King billed the speech as a declaration of independence from the war and called the United States: "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/04/1343231 * Headlines for April 4, 2007 * - ABC: U.S. Engaged in Secret War With Iran - Report: 2,800 Iraqis Killed In March - Independent Journalist Josh Wolf Released From Jail - Secret FBI Unit Detained War Protesters In 2002 - FBI & CIA Interrogating Detainees in Secret Ethiopian Jails - Poll: Americans Least Concerned About Global Warming Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/04/1343204 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Monday, April 4, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/ To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! Thursday, April 5, 2007: * We look at how a secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs. * We look at how CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating hundreds of detainees - including a US citizen - held at secret prisons in Ethiopia. = = = = = = = = = Amy Goodman wins prestigious Gracie Allen Award - for Individual Achievement for a Program Host in Public Broadcasting, from the American Women in Radio and Television Press release and awardee list in PDF format: http://tinyurl.com/25de2w = = = = = = = = = DN! AT 10! TOUR DATES Amy and David Goodman and the DN! team are on tour. Visit http://tour.democracynow.org for more information. 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