July 16 - Suing the NSA to Stop Them Spying on Americans; Open Season on Black Boys; Africa's Population Explosion

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Part 1	We begin with a lawsuit filed today in Federal Court by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the National Security Agency to stop it spying on American Citizens. Cindy Cohn, the Legal Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Freedom Foundation joins us to discuss the legal challenges ahead to stop what the plaintiff’s describe as an “illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance”.
Part 2	Then we speak with Gary Younge, a feature writer and award-winning columnist for the UK Guardian, whose recent article in The Guardian “Open season on black boys after a verdict like this”, has gained international attention. With appeals for calm in the wake of such an unjust verdict, Gary Younge asks, as the father of a black child, how he and his child can feel calm and whether the only option now for black teens who venture out of their homes, is to be armed like George Zimmerman.
Part 3	Then finally, following a recent report by the U.N. that China’s population will shrink, India’s will plateau, but Africa’s will explode, we speak with John Bongaarts, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar at the Population Council, an international non-profit that studies world population. We look into Africa’s lost decade in birth control and how the world’s increasingly strained water and land resources will be able to support and estimated 9.6 billion people by 2050.