DN!: Telecom Whistleblower//Beijing Games//Corporate Prosecutions Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:50:07 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST April 10, 2008 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! is hiring a full-time Outreach Director For more information visit http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs = = = = = = = = = * Amy Goodman on Tour - 12th Anniversary of Democracy Now! Standing Up to the Madness Tour * Amy Goodman has written her third book with her brother David, titled "Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times" The tour begins in New Orleans this Thursday, Apr 10th, then to Seattle on Sunday, Apr 13th, Portland, OR on Apr 14th, and then on to the San Francisco Bay Area. Find your event and use our "Email to a Friend" system to help spread the word. See http://tour.democracynow.org for details = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier -- Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More * Babak Pasdar is a computer security expert who was hired in 2003 to help restructure the tech infrastructure at a major wireless telecommunications company. What he found shocked him. The company had set up a system that gave a third party, presumably a governmental entity, access to every communication coming through that company¹s infrastructure. This means every email, internet use, document transmission, video, text message, as well as the ability to listen to and record any phone call. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/telecom_whistleblower_discovers * China's Great Leap: Human Rights Watch on the Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges * Thousands of protesters turned out in San Francisco to protest the Olympic torch relay and this year's Beijing Games. Similar protests condemning China's human rights abuses have attempted to disrupt the torch along its earlier stops in Athens, Istanbul, Paris and London. We speak with Human Rights Watch's Minky Worden, who is editor of a new book, China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/chinas_great_leap_human_rights * Justice Department Increasingly Avoiding Corporate Prosecutions * The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than fifty companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. The decline in prosecutions is seen as a deliberate and dramatic shift in policy. While the news reported in a front-page article in the New York Times surprised many, the Justice Department's use of so-called "deferred prosecution agreements" is nothing new. Back in 2005, a report released by the Corporate Crime Reporter profiled dozens of these cases and warned against their use. We speak with Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/justice_department_increasingly * Report: 40 Years After King, Little Progress in Closing Economic Inequality Gap Between African Americans and Whites * In the late 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King recognized that the next phase in the quest for civil rights and equality would focus on the economic divide. A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies titled "40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream" lays out key elements of the inequality that African Americans still experience in the United States around education, employment and wealth accumulation. We speak with the co-author of the report, Dedrick Muhammad. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/report_40_years_after_king_little * Headlines for April 10, 2008 * Report: Top Admin Officials Approved Assault, Waterboarding of CIA Prisoners 4 Killed in US Attack on Sadr City Baghdad Under Curfew on 5th Anniversary of US Seizure Iraqi Judiciary Calls for Release of Bilal Hussein from US Military Jail Dems Seek Delay of Colombia Trade Pact Fighting Renews in Gaza Jimmy Carter to Meet Exiled Hamas Leader Haiti Food Protests Enter 2nd Week IMF: US Mortgage Crisis Worse Shock Since Great Depression Clinton, Wal-Mart Founder Trade Praise in 1991 Video Lawmakers Urge Probe of Alleged Cover-Up on Halloween Photos Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/10/headlines = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Thursday, April 10, 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! 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