California's Supreme Court, in a decision yesterday, upheld Prop 8 and a ban on same sex marriage. At the same time, a host of states (Iowa, Vermont, and Maine) have legalized gay marriage in recent months. What's next for the LGBT movement? And should efforts to expand civil rights focus on the states or the Federal level?
Media Consultant Joel Silberman, author and activist Jewelle Gomez, New York State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, and The Nation’s Richard Kim on California’s ruling and the future of the gay rights movement.
Then Eric Massa who represents New York’s 29th District on the battle for single payer healthcare. The advice he was given when he decided to run was, don’t do it. As a freshman congressman he’s been advised not to take a stand. But he’s bucked that trend too.
Finally, does torture save and protect American lives ,as former VP Dick Cheney argues? Not according to Matthew Alexander, a 14-year senior military interrogator who conducted more than 300 interrogations in Iraq in the pursuit of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In an exclusive interview with Brave New Films Alexander says that Cheney’s torture policy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of American servicemen and women.
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