DN!: Johns Hopkins Responds to Toxic Sludge Test Allegations//Puerto Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:25:04 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST May 23, 2008 = = = = = = = = = * Commit your tax rebate to peace media - donate to Democracy Now! * Your support makes it possible to continue this broadcast and train a new generation of independent journalists. Please give today at http://www.democracynow.org/contribute/donate_money = = = = = = = = = * Jobs at DN! * Democracy Now! is hiring for the following positions: Archivist Manager for Spanish Programming & Outreach Outreach & Publicity 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 "Standing Up to the Madness" tour continues. Upcoming events: Fri, 5/23 Ashville, NC WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Ferguson Auditorium, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College DESCRIPTION: A talk and booksigning with journalist Amy Goodman. TICKETS: $10 admission. Advance purchase at Malaprops Bookstore, WPVM and MAIN. Sat, 5/24 Atlanta, GA WHEN: 2pm-10pm, 5pm speech by Amy Goodman WHERE: The B-Complex, 1272 Murphy Avenue, Atlanta GA 30310 DESCRIPTION: 40th Anniversary of the underground newspaper, the Great Speckled Bird. TICKETS: $7 Tue, 5/27 New York, NY WHEN: 6:30pm WHERE: 333 East 47th Street New York, NY 10017 DESCRIPTION: Japan Society Event: Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S & Japan. Amy Goodman will moderate a panel with Tom Hayden and James Orr. TICKETS: $20/$18 Japan Society members, $15 seniors & students Fri, 5/30 Grass Valley, CA WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Hall (Vet's Hall), 255 South Auburn Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945 DESCRIPTION: A talk and booksigning with journalist Amy Goodman. TICKETS: $10 KVMR Members, $15 General Sat, 5/31 Davis, CA WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Sciences Lecture Hall, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616. DESCRIPTION: Amy Goodman will interview a group of former Guantanamo prisoners live before a large Davis audience. The interview will be carried out through video conference (the former prisoners will be in their native Sudan). The event is a benefit for the Guantanamo Testimonials Project. TICKETS: $10 tickets can be purchased online (tickets.com), by phone (753 752 1915) or in person (UC Davis Freeborn Hall or the Davis Farmers Market). Fri, 6/6 Minneapolis, MN 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!: * Johns Hopkins University Responds to Allegations Toxic Sludge Tested as Lead Poisoning Fix in Poor Black Neighborhoods * Lawmakers and the NAACP last month called for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on the yards in poor black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The calls came after the Associated Press ran a story on the issue. We host a debate between Dr. Michael Klag, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Caroline Snyder, Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/23/johns_hopkins_university_responds * Juan Gonzalez on the Puerto Rico Primaries and a NYC Middle School's Student Uprising Against Standardized Testing * Juan Gonzalez reports on Puerto Rico's contentious primary, where voters can choose a presidential candidate but can't vote for them in the general election. And he details a remarkable boycott at a South Bronx middle school, where more than 160 students recently refused to take a three-hour standardized test. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/23/juan_gonzalez_on_the_puerto_rico * "War, Inc.": John Cusack's New Film Satirizes the Corruption, Profiteering and Hubris Behind the Iraq War * John Cusack joins us to talk about War, Inc., his new film taking on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Brand Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is deployed to the fictional country of Turaqistan to kill a Middle Eastern oil baron. Hauser's employer is Tamerlane, a secretive for-profit military corporation headed by a former US vice president played by Dan Aykroyd. We also speak to Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestselling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/23/war_inc_john_cusacks_new_film * Headlines for May 23, 2008 * Senate OKs $165B War Funding Measure Audit: Pentagon Mishandled $8B in Iraq Spending Mourners Bury Victims of Latest US Air Strike in Iraq 2 Iraqi Journalists Killed in Separate Attacks Protesters Disrupt Petraeus Testimony Bush: US Occupation Needed to Thwart Iranian "Ambitions to Dominate" Mideast Cuba Demands White House Answers on Opposition Funding UN Experts: Food Crisis Violates Basic Human Rights 3 Killed in Afghan Protest over US Desecration of Koran UN: Burma Junta OKs Foreign Aid Workers McCain Repudiates Hagee over Hitler Comments Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/23/headlines = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Friday, May 23, 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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