Oakland Fire Survivor: Create Affordable, Safe Living Spaces & Stop Treating Artists Like Criminals | Daily Digest 12/09/2016

Trump's Labor Pick, Fast-Food CEO Andrew Puzder, Opposes Minimum Wage Increase & Paid Sick Leave & Green Party's Jill Stein on Obstacles to Vote Recount: "This is Not What Democracy Looks Like" & More Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Friday, December 9, 2016 democracynow.org Stories Oakland Fire Survivor: Create Affordable, Safe Living Spaces & Stop Treating Artists Like Criminals Mourning continues in Oakland after the death of at least 36 people in a fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse, where the victims were overwhelmingly young artists, ... Read More → Trump's Labor Pick, Fast-Food CEO Andrew Puzder, Opposes Minimum Wage Increase & Paid Sick Leave President-elect Donald Trump has picked fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder to become the next secretary of labor. Puzder is a longtime Republican donor who has been a ... Read More → Green Party's Jill Stein on Obstacles to Vote Recount: "This is Not What Democracy Looks Like" A Wisconsin judge is set to decide if a recount of the state's presidential vote can proceed. We speak with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, who has ... Read More → "Call Out the Lies": SEIU Head Defends Union Leader Who Challenged Trump on False Carrier Job Claims Donald Trump attacked union leader Chuck Jones on Twitter this week, after the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999 appeared on CNN criticizing ... Read More → SEIU President Mary Kay Henry Stands by Support for Clinton over Sanders in 2016 Election The Service Employees International Union faced criticism for endorsing Hillary Clinton in November 2015 even though many labor activists saw Senator Bernie ... Read More → Headlines → Trump Picks Fast-Food CEO Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary Democrats Say They'll Try to Block Scott Pruitt as EPA Head NYC Real Estate Agents Pitch Trump's Secret Service as Trump Tower Amenity Today Marks 3 Years Since Syrian Activist Razan Zaitouneh's Abduction Amnesty: Half a Million Displaced in Turkey Amid Gov't Crackdown South Korea Parliament Votes to Impeach President Park Egypt: Human Rights Groups Denounce Arrest of Activist Azza Soliman Scientists Warn Giraffes are at Risk of Extinction Paris: Public Transport Free for Third Day to Combat Air Pollution The Guardian: More Than 1,000 People Killed by Law Enforcement in U.S. This Year Supreme Court Rules 4-4 Not to Halt Execution of Alabama Man Standing Rock: Masked Men Threaten Water Protectors: "North Dakota People Are Going to F*** You Up" Cameroon: Police Kill 4 Anti-Government Protesters Philippines: Families Denounce Extrajudicial Killings Ahead of Human Rights Day Saturday Forward this email → Donate today → Follow SPECIAL BROADCAST Watch Democracy Now!'s 20th Anniversary Celebration DN! IN THE NEWS Amy Goodman Tells CNN Media Has Responsibility to Cover Standoff at Standing Rock & Climate Change DN! IN THE NEWS PBS MetroFocus: Amy Goodman on Covering Months of Resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline NEW BOOK Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Patti Smith & Michael Stipe Perform at Democracy Now!'s 20th Anniversary COLUMN A Victory at Standing Rock, For Now WORK WITH US! Senior TV Producer 207 W 25th St — 11th Floor — New York, NY — 10001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License