and sports writer dave zirin joins us from brazil where here's covering the world cup. welcome to democracy now! this began with amanda blackhorse. -- let's begin with amanda blackhorse. talk about the significance of this patent case. >> good morning and thank you for having me. the significance, i mean, this is such a huge victory not only for our group, but for native americans all over the nation and as well as our supporters. we have a tremendous amount of supporters who are non-native as well, and this is just a huge victory for us. the cancellation of the trademark does not mean the team has to change their name. i think our biggest thing with they're saying the "r" or does not deserve federal protection. we would like to make that known to the team and also we don't think that dan snyder and the co-owners should make money off of a racial slur, especially a racial slur directed at native american people. this is a huge victory for us. i do know the team will appeal and we are ready for that. we have been through this process for eight years now. we will continue

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we will go to rio de janeiro to speak with dave zirin. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the obama administration is reportedly considering the direct talks with iran over ways to resolve the crisis in iraq. where sunni militants have continued to gain new ground. over the weekend, militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria seized the northern town. isis also claim to have massacred 1700 shiites soldiers in tikrit, but the number could not be verified. the united states has become evacuating workers from its embassy in baghdad. on friday, president obama ruled out sending u.s. ground troops back to iraq. >> we will not be sending u.s. troops back into combat in iraq, but i have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support iraq security forces, and i will be reviewing those options in the days ahead. >> we will have more on iraq after the headlines. u.s. army blower -- whistleblower chelsea manning has spoken out about the news in iraq

this includes a big young adult titles like the giancarlo story by dave zirin. [cheers and applause] in fact, every time they come out, they become runaway bestsellers to greater bookstore and the goal is to make sure "brazil's dance with the devil" does the same thing. they are going to help us with that. but we also need your help to continue operation of the new bookstore. we don't want to have to leave and afterwards tell us we didn't know. we are not breaking even and we can take consumer programs that promote people's history. so please make sure you and your friend purchase next door and consider making a donation. so without further ado, i would now like to know forward and introduce to you ours enough at this evening. as you know he's one of the most extraordinary writers he ever had the pleasure of host name. you are here because you know writing fellowship and love of sports and politics. but somehow on top of keeping up with every sport and political developed and every second and if you don't believe me try following on twitter. he's also a lovely f

so i'd like you to all join me in welcoming the one and old dave zirin. >> thank you so much. what do you say after that? i want to leave, like, george costanza on seinfeld, high note, i'm out of here. thank you. thank you so much, debra, teaching for change. and before i say anything about brazil, just a couple pieces of housekeeping. first, i want to dedicate tonight to two different things. the first is what happened today at wilson senior high school and there are two teachers from wilson where there was a student-let thousand-person counterdemonstration to the westboro baptist bastard church, whatever they're called -- the worst borough church, and thank you for the inspiration at wilson high school and standing up for justice, particularly on pride week. so thank you for that. second, i want to dedicate tonight to the palestinian national soccer team, which is going to play in a major international tournament just qualified for a major international tournament for the first time in it's 86-year history, and i'm going to talk a lot tonight about the ways in which our love

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