amy: medea benjamin joins us now from washington, d.c. what happened yesterday?tart with the beginning of the day. where were you? what were e you doing? what happened next? >> therere wasas a press confere beining held outsiside to annoue the creation of this new democracy caucus on venezuela. so we decided to go with our signs saying "hands off venezuela" and the venezuelan opposition elite showed up as well. we know these people very well from the time we were part of the embassy protection collective trying to stop them from taking over the venezuelan embassy in d.c. they are thugs. it is important to understand, amy, this is not about t nicolas maduro. this is about the policy of intervention that we are opposing. the creation of this caucus was yet another piece in that. the u.s. is paying for the salaries of a parallel government thahat they have set up. these people showed up at the press s conference yesterdayay. they push and pull, grabbed all of our signs, grabbed the phone out of the hands of one of us. i was pushed and shoved and choked and thrown to

police without warning came to medea's brightly colored house and tried to arrest her on false charges they claim geo salted against this debbie wassermann schultz anyway this attempted arrest came on the heels of the arrest of journalist max blumenthal also by d.c. police also after a false charges of assault also at his house without warning but i think it's clear what max and medea have in ca. ahman they have both been on my show the police already think that he was was was yes was yes he was here. before warren shailene woodley larry king and judah freightliner your jets are numbered. can i was still pan no actually the reason with the and mags are being targeted is because they've helped reveal the crimes of our empire whether it be through max's reporting on the do yes. cornier corney of boston posters the truth is it's a threat to our ruling corrupt officials and those officials are doing everything they can to shut down the truth but while our media was busy ignoring that they do have time for good old poverty. poverty porn is when they act all excited that people being destroy

medea benjamin earlier denounced the creation of a so-called venezuela democracy corps because it's a bipartisan group in the u.s. congress created to support the opposition in venezuela she held up a sign saying no coups in venezuela or bolivia democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz was speaking to the media when things turned nasty. not in the store but if you're on the line waving a flag. on the stump you're right. but even so she was shoved to the ground and threatened while democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz claims that she was the woman physically assaulted. to be physically assaulted by opponents of freedom is really mind blowing but this why i anthracis to do we needed to come together on a bipartisan basis to make sure we can bring freedom and democracy once again to the venue so when people we were at the press conference there were about 6 of us and the rest of the group was people who support the venezuelan opposition and when we held up our signs every single one of them was grabbed from our hands by these. even somebody had their phone grabbed f

max and medea have in common they have both been on my show the police already think that he was was was yes was yes be nice be i was here. before warren jaylene woodley larry king and judah for a land are your jays are numbered. can i was still pan no actually the reason with and mags are being targeted is because they've helped reveal the crimes of our empire whether it be through max's reporting and we do yes . cornier corney of boston posters the truth is it's a threat to our ruling corrupt officials and those officials are doing everything they can to shut down the truth but while our media was busy ignoring that they do have time for good old poverty. poverty porn is when they act all excited that people being destroyed by our unfettered capitalism were given a gift by someone who's doing slightly better than them yet. there's a reason has lived a loyal customer gives mcdonald's employee a free car after hearing about her struggles so this woman's car broke down she can't afford to fix it she has no way to get to work so a customer gave her a used car isn't it incredible isn't

actions in venice way medea benjamin claims she's being treated like a terrorist by police cars rode up to my house and motorcycles as well so around the house as if i were some kind of carers and said there was a bulletin for my arrest and i refused to go with them i said where's the warrant they didn't have a warrant and. they stayed outside my house and in the end they didn't arrest me you know i don't know if that is the end of this or they will get a warrant and try to arrest me but the fact is that peace activists i don't assault anyone and it's a travesty that they came to my house in such numbers and so intimidating the dia benjamin earlier in the creation of a so-called venice we led democracy caucus it's a bipartisan group in the u.s. congress created to support the opposition in venezuela and i she held up a sign saying no coups in venice we don't we're bolivia democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz was speaking to the media when things turned nasty. i was taught that you know the man waving the flag not. understanding your. own. material says she was shoved to

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friday morning 8 am here in moscow here's what we're across for you this american antiwar activist medea benjamin has been threatened with arrest stuff that being accused of assaulting a member of congress the incident happened when she was forcibly removed from a news conference for opposing u.s. actions in venezuela she claims she's being treated like a terrorist. police cars rode up to my house and motorcycles as well so around the house as if i were some kind of terrorist and said there was a bulletin for my arrest and i refused to go with them i said where is the warrant they didn't have a warrant and killed them and we stayed outside my house and in the end they didn't arrest me no i don't know if that is the end of this or they will get a warrant in try to arrest me but the fact is that i am a peace activist i don't assault anyone it's a travesty that the came to my house in such numbers and so intimidating. but a bunch of men only to denounce the creation of a so-called venezuela democracy corps because it's a bipartisan group in the u.s. congress created to support the oppositio

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international report the group allegedly attacked iran for violate privacy and freedom of expression i bow to medea costa from our amnesty international release a report outlining how sleaze burke and google abuse human rights some of the thing crazing dominance over the new global public square controlling the main channels. the company's surveillance based business model forces people to make a fast in bargain whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating their right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression. not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of people's private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have conditioned access to their services on consenting to processing and sharing of their personal data for marketing and advertising directly countering the right to decide when and how our personal data can be shared with others. it also accuses facebook of hidden meaning collation for politica

mr medea benjamin spin threatened with arrest after being accused of assaulting a member of congress you're in a protest in washington d.c. she says 5 police cause showed up at her house on the open his door to detain her but had no arrest warrant alert the media benjamin was forcibly removed from a press conference in washington d.c. and i was in the creation of a so-called venezuela democracy caucus it's a bipartisan group in the united states congress created to support the opposition in venezuela now during that event benjamin shouted out that the u.s. should end its sanctions on iran as well as he held up a sign saying no coups in venezuela or bolivia well this is a video from outside the conference venue the democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz claims that she was physically assaulted and there benjamin though says she herself was shoved to the ground and threatened with cross live now to could be an activist benjamin who was in that video we just saw a minute ago today thanks for joining us. because you firstly just describe for us what actually happened at that e