tommorrow but here on the news she'd you know this internet realizar activist
aaron swartz dead at age twenty six
aaron who often appeared on this show was found dead in his apartment after
apparent suicide over the weekend
it long battle depression
friends family and supporters of error placing the blame for his death from the
department of justice with currently prosecuting earned for an incident took
place
in two thousand eleven
on the campus of m_i_t_
erin an advocate for freedom of information on the internet was busted
for tapping into m_i_t_'s network and downloading millions of scholarly
journals from that
online database j store
despite it being a victimless crime
and restore itself settle in the matter with erin
you borrow justice stepped in to make an example are apparent charging him with
mobile crimes
and the possibility of sorry more than thirty years
which is more than killers bank robbers child pornographers and terrorist
sympathizers yet
secret service even got involved in the matter
according to a statement parents family blames his death on quote accession
eight an exceptionally harsh a rape charges and book
our justice system is clearly broken
i was at the bank stirs still billions of corporate executive responsible for
the deaths of workers on will return minds
never see a day in jail
but whistleblowers and freedom of information activists have the book
thrown at them and suffer the full might of the united states justice department
over the weekend online activists affiliated with anonymous claimed
responsibility for taking down the websites of m_i_t_
and the department of justice
one thing's for sure the online community which had joined together in
the past significant achievements
like the defeat of self but and piper
will not let karen died in pain
like the suicide of the tunisian street vendor which kicked up here spring
aaron's death may have to be a spark to wake americans op
to this cancer in our justice system
it's abuse of our copyright laws
and this corporation corporate domination upbeat internet in our
society
in scrutiny is gone crazy america is army nop
or vice president
joe biden and his gun task force think of ways to stem a horrific gun violence
in america the shootings and the gun purchasers
keep piling up
according to the children's defense fund nearly four hundred and fifty children
and teenagers have been shot by a gun
just since the hundred and thirteen congress was sworn in earlier this month
but the n_r_a_'s refusing to contribute anything meaningful to the debate
the head of the n_r_a_ saying on sunday that he opposes
any sort of measure that would require background checks
for fall gun purchases
early about forty percent of gun purchases to not come with any serb
aircraft check
and thanks to fearmongering going on in the gun community assault rifles are
flying off the shelves around the nation
part of the national shooting sports foundation there were two point two
million gun background checks performed in december
which is more than a fifty eight percent increase over the same period in two
thousand love it
longer our law makers wait to pass common-sense gun safety measures
more weapons of war will find their way out onto our streets
quarters or shopping malls our schools
dangerous game that become parties play
in the best address to the news teachers in seattle are fed up with the corporate
school reform agenda and they are standing up again standardized testing
nearly the entire teaching faculty garfield high school announced that they
will not teach word minister
a new sterilize test for nine freighters known as map
measures e academic
progress
teachers say such standardized testing is a waste of time and money
a second school is also expected to join the boycott
in saving about their decision the teachers said
after this there are review we have all come to the conclusion that we cannot in
good conscience objector students to this test again
under george w bush the use of standardized testing to judge progress
our schools exploded
despite little evidence that these tests many of them sold by directly pushed
brother
are actually good measures of how well the students learning
reality always test using bridge corporate saket is like george's brother
neil bush
we sell the standardized test scores
put on the seattle teachers are fighting back against education scam
els hope other teachers around the nation join this movement
according to the white house comprehensive immigration reform must
include a pathway to citizenship
as the white house as the new york times reports the white house will soon tackle
immigration reform add-on
for the call to allow undocumented immigrants currently in the united
states an opportunity to become citizens one day
this is certain to draw the ir of republicans who call any sort of path
witnesses that ship
amnesty
party elders on the right who understand the changing demographics in america to
sign on to immigration reform
attempted not
become and relevant party in this rapidly-changing that states
and finally take the trillion dollar flat incline off the table
just like the fourteenth amendment solution the obama administration ruled
out using a plan to point to raise the debt ceiling should republicans in the
house not act
stated the treasure at least on saturday red
and the treasury department know the federal reserve believes that the law
can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum wines
for the purpose of avoiding
making increasing the debt limit
and club
without the best chance ronald reagan had to put its face on a u_s_ plane was
lost
white house spokesman jay carney said there's no back-up plan it's up to
congress to raise the debt limit
delivers the fate of the entire global economy is in the hands of house
republicans
the concern e very concerned
and that's the way it is today monday
january fourteenth
twenty thirty
i'm tom harkin