amy: priya sawhney, we are watching you at that action. were there confronting the 2018 as well, one of the cofounders of direct action everywhere. explain why these chickens mattered so much to you. you also then got arrested and face felony counts, years in prison? >> yes, i am facing up to a decade in prison and seven felony charges. i was one of the 58 activists arrested in september in the same county for documenting animal cruelty of the largest organic holger producer in the nation. --poultry producer in the nation. people love animals and we know this to be true because most people have dogs at home and they will treat their dogs like children. when we show people what is happening to these chickens inside of farms, to pigs inside of farms, people are mortified. the reason for this is because people don't want to see animals being hurt. growing up as a child in india, i saw a lot of stray dogs, a lot of stray animals. i always knew these animals are helpless and we need to help them into whatever we can. so i carry that into my wor

to see our interview with priya sawhney, visit our website democracynow.org. and legendary new orleans musician dr. john died thursday of a heart attack. he was 77 years old. dr. john won six grammy awards in a decades-long career that saw him produce at least three dozen albums fusing blues, boogie, funk and jazz -- in a flamboyant sound that embodied new orleans's diverse music scene. after hurricane katrina devastated new orleans in 2005, dr. john headlined a series of benefit concerts. in 2010, he was active in the campaign to hold bp accountable for the deepwater horizon oil disaster off the louisiana coast. >> ♪ amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. "when they see us." today we spin the hour with ava duvernay, whose damning new series tells the devastating story of five teenagers from harlem requester african-american and one latino, who were wrongfully accused and convicted of raping and nearly killing trisha meili, a 20-year -- 28-year-old white investment banker w