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To Our Readers:
When I turned 80 three years ago, I retired my weekly PBS series and have since focused on the web with a small, dedicated team as the avenue for our journalism. Your response rewarded our efforts, and we have been pleased and grateful for your interest and attention. I treasure the many messages from so many kindred spirits.
Now it’s time for another farewell, and with this note I am signing off.
...BillMoyers.com will continue to serve as the archive of the television journalism my colleagues and I have produced over the past 44 years. I hope you find it useful. The site will go into archive mode on Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Until it moves to a new home, our Trump-Russia timeline, created by the indefatigable Steve Harper and orchestrated by our producers, will continue to publish right here at BillMoyers.com, tracking the convergence of events connecting the Trump empire and Russian oligarchs now being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Watch this space and our social media (Facebook, Twitter) for more information in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, please remain vigilant and engaged as citizens in the civic and political life of your community and our country. Democracy is fragile, and no one can say with certainty that it can withstand the manifold risks to which it is now exposed.
Thank you for the company we have shared in this space — and good luck to all.
—Bill Moyers
Follow along as students across the country walk out of classrooms to demand gun control legislation and say "Enough is enough!"
Here's one student in Louisville, Ky.: “Students don’t get to voice their opinion very often and it’s thrilling to be one of the millions across the United States who will have that option. The students at Stoneman Douglas who have spoken out and become activists are incredibly inspiring.” — Katie Cummins
'Dolores,' a new documentary celebrating the life of Dolores Huerta, premieres March 27 on Independent Lens | PBS. In this interview, we talked with Dolores Huerta and director Peter Bratt about the film. In these dark times, Dolores inspires all of us to never give up.
"Water has become so scarce in this vast county — known as Turkana, in northwestern Kenya — that fetching it, which is women’s work, means walking an average of almost seven miles every day."
"The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that [the children's case], which the Obama administration first tried to extinguish in 2016, can proceed toward a trial. Trump’s Justice Department is expected to ask the Supreme Court to shut it down."
"Not one of the 23 analysts working in the department’s Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow’s disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts."
"Thompson wrote that the statement was being changed 'in an effort to align HUD’s mission with the Secretary’s priorities and that of the Administration.'”
Bill Moyers returns to Thirteen WNET New York on March 12, 2018 at 9 pm, with Rikers: An American Jail, the “powerhouse of a documentary” that has been at the center of debate in New York since the film premiered in November 2016.
Come face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island as they describe the human toll exacted at this notorious jail.
Stay tuned as Bill Moyers leads a follow up discussion about what it will take to close Rikers, as... the Mayor, the Governor and the NYC Independent Commission on Criminal Justice Reform all now call for closing Rikers Island Jail. Moyers will speak with Johnny Perez, featured in the documentary and now Director of U.S. Prison Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, as well as Michael Jacobson, former NYC Corrections Commissioner and Probation Commissioner and currently director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, and Stanley Richards, Executive Vice President of the Fortune Society.
For those of you not in New York City, you can stream the entire film at http://www.thirteen.org/programs/rikers.


When it comes to lax gun laws and frequent gun violence, Florida is an epidemic in itself. The state’s compliant legislature has been used for several decades as a Petri dish by the gun-mad scientists of the NRA’s lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA). Some history:
One of our team stumbled across this old article in her email from The Atlantic's Jim Fallows that is worth reading again. He explains the history of the AR-15 and "why this particular weapon is so unusually effective in killing... even when compared with other firearms."
Bill Moyers ameshiriki chapisho la PBS.
Good breakdown from PBS NewsHour about the Mueller indictment of the Russian Internet Research Agency "troll factory."
Russia’s ‘troll factory’ impersonates Americans. PBS NewsHour discusses what the U.S. is doing in response.
“I hope these kids don’t give up, because this is their lives and their future,” Colbert said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Somebody else may be in power, but this country belongs to them. And there is reason for hope.” #WorthWatching
“In his resignation letter, obtained by Mother Jones, Hitzman said he was leaving the USGS because the agency had agreed to provide Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke with data from the Alaska energy assessment 'several days in advance of the information’s public release, in contradiction of my interpretation of USGS fundamental science policy.'”
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the financial crisis to protect Americans from being ripped off by financial firms.
Now, President Trump's interim appointee to run the bureau, Mick Mulvaney, is making radical changes to deter the agency from aggressively pursuing its mission.
"When policymakers from around the world gather at a key U.N. climate meeting in Poland later this year, countries will be forced to reckon with the difference between how much they say they want to limit the warming of the planet and how little they actually are doing to make that happen."
Bill Moyers alishiriki tukio la Rikers: An American Jail.
Following NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement last week of new jail sites to replace Rikers, join Bill Moyers and a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the future of Rikers, including the hard choices to be confronted and the next essential steps to be taken. Clips of Rikers: An American Jail will be screened and the panel moderated by Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, starting at 6 PM ET tonight.
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2HsCczX
If you can’t attend the event at Fordham L...aw, it will be livestreamed on Facebook here: http://bit.ly/2sEuf7h
Join us for this important discussion!

“We might be 16 now and we might not be able to vote, but we can protest and we can use social media and we will make our voices heard,” student Whitney Bowen said. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t come down to politics. It comes down to kids dying in classrooms.”
































