The “Step It Up” campaign is making the link between environmental crises and global warming. It’s time for politicians to do the same.

On John Lennon’s birthday, peace activist and artist Yoko Ono realizes a dream they shared.

¨I teach government at high school. I have been using DN for about a year. One of my favorite in DN is ACLU files…¨

¨The curriculum of sixth grade reading is predominantly focused on sequence, vocabulary and comprehension so I play a pre-recorded segment of DN! ten minutes a week in my classroom and then we discuss things like words they didn’t understand or on-going news stories…¨

¨I use Democracy Now! fairly regularly now in the classroom. I teach philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino--about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. 40% of my students are first-generation college students. Many of them know very little about the media; in an intro to philosophy class 80-90% of them have not heard of PBS. I will show clips from Democracy Now! to illustrate points about what is occurring in the world…¨

Troy Anthony Davis and his sister, Martina Correia, are fighting for their lives.

“I often used your transcribed interviews and reportage to illustrate and/or introduce many of the usually-unreported topics of the American (and Russian) news media to my students. Many of my students were very interested in the various subjects which your program covers. I constantly recommended the use of your site and anything it links to as high-quality info resources. The fact that your program is transcribed makes it wonderfully useful—students can listen for meaning, and they often can learn a lot from context alone.”

The barbarous military regime depends on revenue from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as Chevron to buy bullets for the guns it points at monks, a detail conveniently ignored by the Bush administration.

“I showed some of the Jena 6 coverage last week to the class, and the response was explosive, all over the political spectrum from some students aghast at this was happening now and some trying to defend David Duke. Some got up and walked out some asked for copies of the program.”

After a successful campaign to get DN! on the air in Rochester, Metro Justice decided to start spreading the word about when the show airs in their town. On labor Day they created a float with air times and a Lady Liberty impersonator. You too can find unique and eye-catching ways to spread the word about DN!

As world leaders gather this week to address the United Nations General Assembly, President Bush’s refusal to negotiate on the two key issues of our day—war and global warming—has been stunning.

The tree at Jena High School has been cut down, but the furor around it has only grown.

“Democracy Now has introduced me to other important sources.”