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Democracy Now! 2024-05-03 Friday

• Headlines for May 03, 2024
• "This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure": Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza
• "Dead on Arrival": Doctors Back from Gaza Describe Horrific Hospital Scenes, Decimated Health System

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-02 Thursday

• Headlines for May 02, 2024
• "People Could Have Died": Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment
• Former Brandeis President on Gaza Protests: Schools Must Protect Free Expression on Campus
• Amnesty Int'l: Biden Must Halt Weapon Sales to Israel After U.S. Arms Used to Kill Civilians in Gaza
• "Workers Have Power": Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine

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In Part 2 of our interview with human rights attorney and war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody, he says potential International Criminal Court charges of war crimes for high-ranking Israeli officials could include “the use of starvation as a tool of war, the power of the the hindering of humanitarian assistance in violation of the Geneva Conventions.” He also responds to the International Court of Justice’s rejection of a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt exporting arms to Israel. “A similar case on the United States, if it could be brought, would have a very different outcome,” Brody notes. He is the author of To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-30 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 30, 2024
• "We Don't Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians": Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest
• In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover
• Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent
• Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike

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Climate activists blocked the entrances of the global headquarters of Citigroup in Manhattan last Wednesday to demand the bank stop financing coal, oil and gas companies. The protests came on the heels of a first-of-its-kind Earth Day hearing where environmental activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn what they call Citigroup’s environmental racism. Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas. For an update we speak with Olivia Bisa Tirko, President of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra nation in Peru, who joins us in studio while she is in New York City to participate in the week of action.

Democracy Now! 2024-04-29 Monday

• Headlines for April 29, 2024
• Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege
• Rabbi Alissa Wise & Israeli-Born Novelist Ayelet Waldman Arrested Trying to Bring Food to Gaza
• "Lyd": Palestinian & Jewish Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How 1948 Nakba Devastated Palestinian City

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-26 Friday

• Headlines for April 26, 2024
• Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment
• "People Are Going to Die": Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.
• "The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule": Author Ari Berman on America's Undemocratic System

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-25 Thursday

• Headlines for April 25, 2024
• Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution
• Amnesty International: Global Breakdown of Int'l Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond
• Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies

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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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