DN!: EXCLUSIVE: Rigged Trials at Guantanamo//Yuri Kochiyama on Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:26:56 -0500 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST February 20, 2008 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! has immediate job openings for: TV Producer/Editor For more information visit http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs. = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * EXCLUSIVE: Rigged Trials at Guantanamo * The Nation magazine reveals the former chief prosecutor for the prison¹s military commissions says the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquittals. We speak with Nation reporter Ross Tuttle and law professor Scott Horton. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/20/guantanamo * Civil Rights Activist Yuri Kochiyama on her Internment in a WWII Japanese American Detention Camp & Malcolm X¹s Assassination * Forty-three years ago this week, Malcolm X was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. Yuri Kochiyama cradled his head as he lay dying on the stage. Kochiyama¹s activism began after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when she and her family were held in an internment camp along with more than 100,000 Japanese in the United States. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/20/civil_rights_activist_yuri_kochiyama * Headlines for February 20, 2008 * Obama Wins in Wisconsin and Hawaii Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Domestic Spy Program Ghana Refuses to Host AFRICOM Explosion Kills 15 Iraqi Police Officers Al-Sadr Threatens to Lift Ceasefire 70 Firms Register to Compete for Iraq Oil Contracts U.S. Banks Borrow $50 Billion from Federal Reserve Price of Oil Tops $100 per Barrel U.S. Refuses to Lift Cuban Embargo U.S. Leaves Holes in Texas-Mexico Border Wall Conn. Lawmaker Becomes First Black GLBT State Legislator George Polk Award Winners Named Ex-Defense Contractor Brent Wilkes Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/20/headlines = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Tuesday, February 20, 2008: http://www.democracynow.org/es 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, February 21, 2008: TBA = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * "Lessons of the Chesapeake Sweep" http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/14/7054/ 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. 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