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Democracy Now! 2024-03-19 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 19, 2024
• Israel's Ultimate Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Growing Famine, Al-Shifa Attack
• "Anarchy & Chaos": U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Who Resigned Protesting U.S. Meddling & Deportations
• "Unseen": New Film Profiles a Blind, Undocumented Social Work Student, Humanizing Disabled Migrants

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-18 Monday

• Headlines for March 18, 2024
• "A Catastrophe That Cannot Be Described": Palestinian Poet in Rafah on Daily Hardships Amid Israel's War
• Rachel Corrie: Parents & Friend Remember U.S. Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer in Rafah in 2003

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Israeli scholar Maya Wind joins us for Part 2 of her interview about her new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. She discusses Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s universities; the coalescing of Israeli university administrations with the Israeli far right; the move to repress Palestinian organizing on U.S. campuses, including of groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace; and how archaeology, law, Middle East studies and other forms of knowledge production have subordinated their research agendas to the requirements of the Israeli state.

Democracy Now! 2024-03-15 Friday

• Headlines for March 15, 2024
• Kamala Harris Makes History as First Sitting Vice President to Visit Abortion Clinic
• "Abolish Zionism": Palestinian Academic Speaks Out After Suspension from Israeli University
• Author Maya Wind: Universities Are "Central Pillar" of Israeli Apartheid, Complicit in Gaza Genocide

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It’s been a busy period for the pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens. She won a Pulitzer Prizer for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s. She released a remarkable musical video for her song “Another Wasted Life” featuring 22 people who were wrongly incarcerated. And now her banjo playing can be heard on “Texas Hold ’Em” the new hit single by Beyonce who recently become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart. In October, Rhiannon Giddens spoke to Democracy Now about her remarkable life from her work in the Carolina Chocolate Drops to her new album “You’re the One,” which features a song inspired by Kalief Browder.

Democracy Now! Thursday, March 14, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-03-13 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 13, 2024
• What Is Israel's Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War
• Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan Are "Not Serious Responses" to Gaza Suffering
• "Revolutionary Love": Michelle Alexander on Gaza, Solidarity, MLK & What Gives Her Hope
• Warning to America: Hungarian Green on Authoritarianism as Trump Hosts PM Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-12 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 12, 2024
• "Haiti Needs Peace": PM Ariel Henry Announces He Will Resign, Transitional Council to Take Charge
• Aid Worker in Gaza: The Only Barrier to Delivering Supplies Is Israel. The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally
• U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza
• Immigrants Held in Private Northwest Detention Center Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-08 Friday

• Headlines for March 08, 2024
• Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden's Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy
• Biden's SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond

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Democracy Now! Thursday, March 7, 2024

Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa joins us for Part 2 of her interview from Cairo after two weeks in Gaza. She discusses the impact of “unlimited weaponry” supplied by the United States for Israel to bomb and starve civilians there. “Language is really inadequate and insufficient to capture the enormity of this moment,” says Abulhawa. “What I’ve seen is really a fraction of the totality of this horror.” She is the founder and co-director of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization and the Executive Director of Palestine Writes Literature Festival.

Democracy Now! Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-03-05 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 05, 2024
• Haiti: Ariel Henry's U.S.-Backed "Criminal Regime" Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police
• Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking
• "The Zone of Interest": Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & "Walls That Separate Us"

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We continue our conversation with Alabama-based writer and artist Abbey Crain, who had been receiving in vitro fertilization treatments for about two years when the state Supreme Court issued its controversial ruling that frozen embryos are “children,” opening both patients and medical providers to new legal risks. State lawmakers have since passed protections for IVF providers, but they have not challenged the underlying logic of the court ruling. Crain says IVF is coming under threat as part of a larger Republican assault on reproductive healthcare, warning people outside the state, in a recent Glamour article, that “you are not special and you are not safe” from similar restrictions.

Democracy Now! 2024-03-04 Monday

• Headlines for March 04, 2024
• U.S. Airdrops Aid While Supporting Israeli Bombardment of Gaza
• Thousands Attend Navalny's Funeral Despite Climate of Fear in Russia
• Alabama IVF Patients Struggling to Navigate Legal Landscape After Supreme Court Ruling

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-01 Friday

• Headlines for March 01, 2024
• "Just Being Racist": Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits
• The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-29 Thursday

• Headlines for February 29, 2024
• Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. "Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe" in Gaza
• Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into "Far-Right Legislature"
• Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza

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