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Democracy Now! Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Watch Part 2 of our interview with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey about recent United Auto Workers union victories, organizing in the South, threats to unions from the U.S. Supreme Court and how she hopes they respond by taking more risks. She talks in detail about strategies she has used to help workers win across the United States and worldwide, her time as student organizer in the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa, and her health as she faces terminal cancer.

Watch Part 2 of our interview with investigative journalist James Bamford about his new article for The Nation, headlined “The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance.” He also discusses his other new report, “How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza.”

Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-04-22 Monday

• Headlines for April 22, 2024
• Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country
• "No Due Process": Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests
• "Collective Punishment": As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank
• "Enormous Expansion of the Law": James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-19 Friday

• Headlines for April 19, 2024
• "No Palestinian Is Safe": Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem
• Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest
• "Fear and Terror": Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel's Assault
• U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-18 Thursday

• Headlines for April 18, 2024
• Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student
• The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
• Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus
• Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-17 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 17, 2024
• One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World's Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises
• No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company's $1.2B Contract with Israel
• Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-11 Thursday

• Headlines for April 11, 2024
• "We're Responsible for This": American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide
• As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

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Watch Part 2 of our discussion with Nadav Weiman and Tal Sagi from Breaking the Silence, an anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans.

Democracy Now! 2024-04-10 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 10, 2024
• Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote
• Israel's Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani
• Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-05 Friday

• Headlines for April 05, 2024
• Lavender & Where's Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes
• "No Other Land": Israeli Director Slams Claims of Antisemitism for Apartheid Comment at Berlinale

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-02 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 02, 2024
• Israel Kills 6 Int'l Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés's World Central Kitchen Convoy
• State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel
• Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza
• Israel "Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War," After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria

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