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A daily TV/radio grassroots, global news hour, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States. Democracy Now! Daily News Digest April 5, 2011 Japan Releases Radioactive Water Several Million Times the Legal Limit into Ocean Radiation at the shoreline of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility has measured several million times the legal limit, just four weeks after the earthquake and tsunami and days after workers discovered a crack where highly contaminated water was spilling directly into the Pacific Ocean. We’re joined by Philip White of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo. Watch/Listen/Read U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Says It Will Continue to Push for New Nuclear Power Plants Despite Growing Global Nuclear Concern The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan has set off a debate in the international community about the future of nuclear energy. There are currently 440 nuclear reactors in operation worldwide, generating about 14 percent of global electricity—and plans for construction of new plants have soared in the last decade, especially in India and China. We are joined by Philip White of the Tokyo-based Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center and Jan Beránek, the director of Greenpeace International’s Nuclear Campaign. Watch/Listen/Read States Use “Astonishing Lack of Care and Deliberation” to Choose New Lethal Injection Drugs for Death Row Executions Tonight Texas plans to use a new execution drug for the first time on the scheduled execution of death row prisoner Cleve Foster. [Update: The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay in Foster’s execution] Like many states, Texas is experimenting with its lethal injection process due to a shortage of the sedative sodium thiopental. We speak with Maurie Levin in Austin, who filed suit to get details about Texas’s new execution drug, and Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. Watch/Listen/Read Leading Palestinian Peace Activist & Theater Director, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Killed in Jenin Palestinians, artists and peace activists worldwide are mourning the loss of a leading figure in Palestinian creative nonviolent resistance. Juliano Mer-Khamis, the founder of a theater for Palestinian children, was killed Monday by masked assailants in the West Bank town of Jenin. We are joined in Jenin by Nabeel Raee, director of the Acting School at the Jenin Freedom Theatre, where he worked closely with Mer-Khamis for many years, and by Constancia "Dinky" Romilly, founder and president of the board of the New York City-based Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, who also worked closely with the program in Jenin. Watch/Listen/Read Today's Headlines 9/11 Suspects to be Tried Before Military Commission GOP Proposes Sweeping Changes to Medicare & Medicaid Ivory Coast: Opposition and U.N. Forces Close in on Presidential Palace Libyan Americans Investigated by FBI Libya Rebels Reject Prospect of Colonel Gaddafi’s Son Taking Power Thousands Protest in Yemen, Two Die in State Crackdown Israel President Peres Visits Washington amid Construction of Illegal Settlements Juliano Mer-Khamis of the Jenin Freedom Theatre Murdered in West Bank Michel Martelly Wins Haiti Presidential Election Authorities Investigate Massive Private Information Breach Labor Rallies Sweep Nation Marking Anniversary of Martin Luther King Assassination Watch/Listen/Read Follow us Twitter Facebook Podcasts & RSS New Jobs & Internships Multimedia Producer/Editor Rails Developer amy goodman's speaking events 4/07 Cambridge, MA 4/08 Boston, MA 4/08 Boston, MA 4/09 Boston, MA 4/10 San Francisco, CA more... Amy Goodman's Weekly Column "Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering With the Machinery of Death" Share This Forward to a friend