Friday on our weekly roundtable: Whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted temporary asylum in Russia and whistleblower Bradley Manning while cleared of the most serious charge against him may still be facing decades in prison. Meanwhile new information has emerged about how much more information the National Security Agency has accumulated on all of us.
The business of mass incarceration; the torture of solitary confinement: the lens from which the US is viewed around the world.
Must the Justice for Trayvon movement chose between demanding that the Department of Justice bring charges against George Zimmerman and opposing stand your ground laws? Why are some pressing one and not the other? What are the implications for a movement finding its footing?
Panelists are: Jackie Goldberg; Tom Hayden; Dr. Gerald Horne.
Sojourner Truth Friday August 2nd
