this is zahara heckscher speakingng on democrcracy now! t her motherer, who also died ofof breast c cancer. >> i was only 11 when she died of breast cancer, and that was before these drugs were available. she only lived one year after she was diagnosed, and that is what breast cancer means without access to the modern medicines, the biologics, and other emerging medicines, for example, have kept me alive for seven years so far and still going strong. so i know very personally what it means when people don't have access to the medicines. i also know that breast cancer, it is not about just the individual patient. it is about the family. sonme, i am fighting for my to have a mom as much as i am fighting for myself and for other women and their families. amy: that's activist, mother and writer zahara heckscher, who died from breast cancer at the age of 53 on saturday. to see our full interviews with her, go to democracy now.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is dedemocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy