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The award-winning Palestinian American journalist and author Sarah Aziza has released a new book, The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, in which she examines her recovery from an eating disorder from which she nearly died in 2019, linking it to the generational trauma experienced as part of her Palestinian family’s history of exile. Aziza was born in the U.S. as a daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees. “I began to recover memories of my Palestinian grandmother that led to a curiosity … about my family’s history in Gaza, in Palestine, the greater Nakba,” says Aziza. “And as a daughter of the diaspora, I hadn’t tied my own story so viscerally to the story of my people.”
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Organizers across the United States are planning a massive day of May Day protests against the Trump administration. Organizers say that they have broad support from groups targeted by the administration, including immigrants, federal workers and more. “Instead of attacking only one community … they are attacking everybody at the same time, and that enabled us to gather a really broad coalition,” says Jorge Mújica, strategic organizer for Arise Chicago.
In New York, organizers are calling on people to march alongside them in Foley Square. “We need to fight this corporate takeover,” says Nisha Tabassum, lead organizer for worker issues at Make the Road New York. “We are the many; they are the few.”
Los Angeles organizers are expecting hundreds of thousands of protesters to join them in opposition to Trump’s policies. “We are taking our power back,” says Georgia Flowers Lee, National Education Association vice president for United Teachers Los Angeles.
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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- Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill Dozens as 65,000 Palestinian Children Suffer Acute Malnutrition
- "Persecution, Apartheid and Genocide": South Africa Condemns Israeli Assault on Gaza
- Amnesty Condemns U.S. Support for "Live-Streamed Genocide" in Gaza
- Survivors Recount U.S. Attack on Civilians in Yemen Detention Center That Killed 68
- Anti-Trump Sentiment Boosts Mark Carney and Liberals to Victory in Canadian Elections
- Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees
- El Salvador Denies Lawyer Access to Venezuelans Deported by U.S. to Notorious Prison
- Trump Administration Dismisses Scientists Writing National Climate Assessment
- Trump Appointee Harmeet K. Dhillon Leads Gutting of DOJ's Civil Rights Division
- Senate Report: DOGE Machinations Allowed Elon Musk to Avert Over $2B in Possible Legal Liability
- Trump Pardons Florida Health Executive Who Evaded Taxes to Fund Luxury Lifestyle
- Trump Pardons Las Vegas Councilwoman Who Used Embezzled Funds to Pay for Cosmetic Surgery
- Democrats Hold Sit-in on Capitol over Budget That Seeks to Cut Billions for Poor and Working People
- Power Back in Spain and Portugal After Massive Iberian Blackout
- Vatican to Start Deliberations on Next Pope on May 7
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We speak with two brothers who are fighting Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over its massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee, used to run its chatbot Grok. The facility is next to historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 35 pollution-spewing methane gas turbines the company is using without legal permits. Musk says he wants to continue expanding the project.
“What’s happening in Memphis is a human rights violation,” says KeShaun Pearson, executive director of the environmental justice organization Memphis Community Against Pollution. “Elon Musk and xAI are violating our human right to clean air and a clean, healthy environment.” His brother Justin J. Pearson, a Tennessee state representative for Memphis, says Musk is “perpetuating environmental racism” by ignoring the wishes of local residents: “They are abusing our community, and they’re exploiting us.”
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We speak with two brothers who are fighting Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over its massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee, used to run its chatbot Grok. The facility is next to historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 35 pollution-spewing methane gas turbines the company is using without legal permits. Musk says he wants to continue expanding the project.
“What’s happening in Memphis is a human rights violation,” says KeShaun Pearson, executive director of the environmental justice organization Memphis Community Against Pollution. “Elon Musk and xAI are violating our human right to clean air and a clean, healthy environment.” His brother Justin J. Pearson, a Tennessee state representative for Memphis, says Musk is “perpetuating environmental racism” by ignoring the wishes of local residents: “They are abusing our community, and they’re exploiting us.”
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We speak with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners, which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan, the genre-bending horror film is set in the Mississippi Delta during Jim Crow and is a “cinematic gumbo” of various influences and themes, Coogler tells Democracy Now!
“I wanted to make a film that was kind of raging against the concept of genre and making the audience constantly question it, even while they were watching it,” he says. In particular, the film celebrates Delta blues, music made by Black artists “living under a back-breaking form of American apartheid,” and what Coogler describes as “our country’s most important contribution to global popular culture.”
Coogler also discusses his family connection to Mississippi, producing the film with his wife Zinzi Coogler, his highly publicized contract with Warner Bros. and more. Coogler’s previous films include Black Panther, Creed and Fruitvale Station.
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Democracy Now! Friday, April 25, 2025
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- Gaza Death Toll Since Israel Shattered Ceasefire in March Reaches 2,000, Entire Families Wiped Out
- Trump Tells Putin to "STOP!" After Deadly Kyiv Attack and Amid Shaky Peace Talks
- Reuters: Trump Will Offer $100+ Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia
- Indian and Pakistani Forces Exchange Fire Amid Mounting Kashmir Tensions
- U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote
- "The Next Version of 'The Big Lie'": Trump Orders Probe into Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue
- Federal Court Blocks Trump from Withholding Funds to Sanctuary Cities
- Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Return of 20-Year-Old Venezuelan from Salvadoran Prison
- Federal Judges Block Trump's Cuts to Public Schools That Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Trump Executive Order Targets College Accreditors' DEI Policies
- Police Pepper-Spray Student Protesters Demanding CCNY Divest from Israel
- DRC Agrees to Ceasefire with Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
- Tunisian Authorities Raze Refugee Camps That Housed 7,000
- Guatemalan Police Arrest Indigenous Leader Who Led Nationwide Protests
- Trump Executive Order Seeks to Expedite Deep Sea Mining
- Highland Park Parade Gunman Gets 7 Consecutive Life Sentences
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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