bishops to submit their resignations to the pope, we speak to sister simone campbell, a vocal critic of the church's male hierarchy. the hehead of network, which has nuns in the bus. then prisoners across the country are set to go on strike today in a mass mobililization demanding improved living conditions, greater access to resources, and the end of what they describe as modern day slavery. >> it is prisoners that have drafted this list of domains and prisoners i continue to communicate wiwith us and relate to us the conditions a face, the retaliation they face when they try to speak out on their own. amy: we will speak with prison striker organizers and the pulitzer prize winning historian heather ann thompson, author of "blood in the water: the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." all that and more, coming up. welcome to dememocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. for the first time in the history of the roman catholic church, the pope has addressed a letter to the entire population of 1.2 billion catholics on the topic of sex abuse b

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