Advocates Urge Trump to De-escalate with North Korea, Not Ratchet Up Threats & Military Aggression | Daily Digest 04/17/2017

Legal Chaos in Arkansas as Judges Halt State Plan to Carry Out Unprecedented Spate of Executions & Is Turkey Becoming a Dictatorship?: Erdogan Claims Victory in Vote to Give President Sweeping Powers Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Monday, April 17, 2017 democracynow.org Stories Advocates Urge Trump to De-escalate with North Korea, Not Ratchet Up Threats & Military Aggression Vice President Mike Pence has made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea, following North Korea's attempted missile ... Read More → Legal Chaos in Arkansas as Judges Halt State Plan to Carry Out Unprecedented Spate of Executions Arkansas's plan to carry out an unprecedented series of executions has been thrown into chaos, after judges ruled to temporarily halt the state's plan. Hundreds of ... Read More → Is Turkey Becoming a Dictatorship?: Erdogan Claims Victory in Vote to Give President Sweeping Powers Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday's referendum over whether to give sweeping powers to the president, but Turkey's main ... Read More → Headlines → Pence Visits DMZ as Tensions Rise Between U.S. and N. Korea Turkey: Erdogan Claims Victory in Referendum to Give President Sweeping Powers Syria: 126 Civilians Killed in Bombing on Evacuation Bus Gen. McMaster Meets with Afghan President After U.S. Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb On Tax Day, Tens of Thousands Demand Trump Release Tax Returns White House Will Keep Visitor Logs Secret Berkeley: 21 Arrested in Clashes Between White Nationalists & Antifascists Arkansas: Legal Rulings Temporarily Block Scheduled Executions 700 Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike in Israeli Jails Migrant Justice Activist Hugo Castro Disappears in Mexico Georgia: 2 Cops Fired for Kicking and Beating Handcuffed Black Student 9 Arrested in Good Friday Protest Against Drones at Hancock Air Base in NY Forward this email → Donate today → Follow WEB EXCLUSIVE Immigrants on Hunger Strike over Conditions as Trump Admin. Plans to Curtail Rules for Detention WEB EXCLUSIVE Full Interview: Allan Nairn on Trump, U.S. Militarism & Resisting the GOP's Right-Wing Revolution COLUMN Trump's Making Good on One of His Many Campaign Promises: Promoting Unfettered Police Power SPEAKING EVENTS 4/23 Princeton, NJ 4/24 Middletown, CT 4/24 Cambridge, MA 4/25 Cambridge, MA 4/25 New Haven, CT 4/25 South Hadley, MA 4/26 Middlebury, VT 4/26 Montpelier, VT 4/27 Bennington, VT 4/27 Burlington, VT 4/29 Washington, DC 4/30 Washington, DC and more... 207 W 25th St — 11th Floor — New York, NY — 10001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License