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We speak with death row inmate Keith LaMar live from the Ohio State Penitentiary, after the release of The Injustice of Justice, a short film about his case that just won the grand prize for best animated short film at the Golden State Film Festival. “I had to find out the hard way that in order for my life to be mine, that I had to stand up and claim it,” says LaMar, who has always maintained his innocence. LaMar was sentenced to death for participating in the murder of five fellow prisoners during a 1993 prison uprising. His trial was held in a remote Ohio community before an all-white jury. On January 13, 2027, the state intends to execute him, after subjecting him to three decades in solitary confinement. LaMar’s lawyer, Keegan Stephan, says his legal team has “discovered a lot of new evidence supporting Keith’s innocence” that should necessitate new legal avenues for LaMar to overturn the conviction.
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Israel has sent tanks into the occupied West Bank for the first time in 20 years, as the Israeli military escalates its offensive that has already displaced 40,000 Palestinians. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Palestinians living in the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps will not be allowed to return to their homes. On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the occupied West Bank and was photographed holding a meeting inside a Palestinian home that had been seized by the Israeli military. On Saturday, Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian children — one 12, the other 13 — in separate incidents. “What we are seeing is an intensified campaign aimed at annexation of the West Bank,” says Mariam Barghouti, Palestinian writer and journalist based in Ramallah.
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Friedrich Merz is poised to become the next German chancellor after his conservative Christian Democratic Union placed first in Sunday’s key election. Social scientist David Bebnowski, speaking from Berlin, tells Democracy Now! that Merz is likely to join with the diminished SPD of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz for another “grand coalition” of establishment parties, which has ruled Germany for much of the last couple decades. He also comments on the alarming rise of the “Nazi-curious” AfD party, which was endorsed by Elon Musk and made significant gains in the election, winning the second-most votes. “The AfD is a party that is definitely part of the extreme right in Germany,” Bebnowski says.
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Democracy Now! 2025-02-24 Monday
- Headlines for February 24, 2025
- Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right "Nazi-Curious" AfD Places Second in Historic Rise
- Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid "De Facto Annexation" of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti
- The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life
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Watch Part 2 of our extended interview with Ohio death row inmate Keith LaMar live from the Ohio State Penitentiary, after the release of The Injustice of Justice a short film about his story that just won the grand prize for best animated short film at the Golden State Film Festival. LaMar talks about his case, conditions in solitary confinement, and his work with musicians and others to raise awareness about his case as he fights to stop his pending execution scheduled in 2027. We also speak with his lawyer, Keegan Stephan; and Amy Gordiejew, Director of the Justice for Keith LaMar Foundation.
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- Center-Right CDU Wins German Election; Neo-Nazi AfD Comes in Second, Doubling Its Support
- Europe Shows Ukraine Support on 3rd Anniversary of Russian Invasion Amid Growing Rift with U.S.
- Israeli Tanks Enter Occupied West Bank, Soldiers Kill 2 Palestinian Children in Mounting Assault
- Gaza Ceasefire Remains Precarious as Israel Reneges on Exchange of Captives
- Trump Team Purges Military Leadership, Lawyers
- "Cruel and Disrespectful": Union Slams Musk Email to Gov't Staff; Workers Told to Ignore Request
- "See You in Court": Maine Gov. Janet Mills Defiant as She Refuses to Enforce Trump's Anti-Trans EO
- Trump Names Right-Wing Podcaster and Loyalist Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FBI
- Constituents Confront Elected Officials over "Tyranny in the White House" at Local Town Halls
- Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Members to Sue DOJ After Being Freed by Trump
- DOJ Drops Probe into Elon Musk's SpaceX; SEC to Drop Lawsuit Against Coinbase
- U.S. Transfers More Immigrants to Guantánamo
- UNSC Calls for Rwanda to Halt M23 Support, Withdraw from DRC, Where 7,000 Have Been Killed Since Jan.
- Sudan's Military Claims Strategic Gains as RSF Signs Deal for Parallel Gov't
- Hundreds of Thousands Gather for Beirut Funeral of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah, Slain by Israel
- Free Speech on Trial as Energy Transfer Takes Greenpeace to Court over DAPL Protests
- Students Launch Week of Actions After Barnard Expels 2 Students over Protest for Palestine
- AP Sues Trump Officials After White House Cuts Off Reporters' Access
- Yosemite Park Workers Hang Upside-Down U.S. Flag to Protest Layoffs, Drilling Plans
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We discuss the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term in office — and the response from the Democratic Party — with journalist David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever. He notes that despite Republicans holding all three branches of the federal government, Trump has mainly used executive orders and other decrees to impose his will instead of using legislation. “They’re trying to create a precedent that presidents cannot be constrained at all,” he says of the party’s strategy. He also faults Democrats for failing to effectively oppose the administration. “What is the Democratic Party for? What does it support? What does it advocate for? There’s not really much of an answer right now.”
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As the Trump administration attempts to dismantle higher education in the United States by redefining discrimination in schools, fighting so-called woke ideology, attacking diversity, equity and inclusion programs, gutting the Department of Education, and threatening funding for research and higher education, we speak with Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, whose latest book is Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. He says Trump’s assault on education is part of the authoritarian playbook since “universities are centers for defending democracy.” He also urges university presidents to speak out more forcefully. “It used to be that our presidents were supposed to speak out in favor of democratic values. Now university presidents are being told, 'Oh, you have to preserve your institutions.' Guess what: Universities are core democratic institutions.”
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The Trump administration has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities across the United States to end all programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion — DEI — or risk losing federal funding. The Department of Education has already canceled some $600 million in grants for teacher training on race, social justice and other topics as part of its crusade against “woke” policies. This comes as President Donald Trump has said he wants to abolish the agency and tapped major Trump donor and former professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon to carry out that goal; she is expected to be confirmed by the Senate with little or no Republican opposition. Education scholar Julian Vasquez Heilig, who teaches at Western Michigan University, says Trump’s moves are part of “an attempt to privatize education” in the United States, with DEI used as a wedge to accomplish a larger restructuring of social structures. “Higher education hasn’t faced a crisis like this since potentially McCarthyism.”
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Democracy Now! Friday, February 21, 2025
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- White House Insists Ukraine Hand Over $500 Billion in Mineral Wealth and Stop Criticizing Trump
- Russian Forces Advance on Dnipropetrovsk, Bomb Kherson Apartment Complex
- Israel Drops Leaflets on Gaza Threatening to "Impose Forced Displacement Upon You"
- Israeli Leaders Cast Doubt on Ceasefire Deal, Saying Body Returned from Gaza Was Not Shiri Bibas
- Netanyahu to Escalate West Bank Attacks After Buses Explode in Tel Aviv
- U.S. Sanctions Rwandan Official and Militia Leader Tied to M23 Atrocities in DRC
- Mexico Warns U.S. Against Violations of Sovereignty as Trump Designates Cartels as Terrorist Groups
- Venezuela Refutes U.S. Claims That Deportees from Guantánamo Prison Camp Were Gang Members
- Trump Cancels Deportation Protections for Half-Million Haitian Immigrants
- Judge Orders Trump Admin to Comply with Previous Order on Frozen Funds, Balks at Contempt Charges
- Judge Declines to Halt Trump Administration's Mass Firings of Federal Workers
- CDC Report on Bird Flu Spreading Between Humans and Cats Was Delayed by Health Communications Pause
- At CPAC, Elon Musk Wields Prop Chainsaw to Celebrate DOGE Cuts
- "I Cannot Imagine a Worse Choice": Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director Over Democrats' Objections
- Senate Approves $340B Budget Blueprint to Expand Military, Fund Mass Deportations
- Senators Advance Pro Wrestling Mogul Linda McMahon's Nomination for Education Secretary
- Gov. Hochul Declines to Remove Eric Adams as NYC Mayor
- Luigi Mangione to Face Murder and Terror Charges as Trial Opens over Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
- Vatican Officials Say Pope Francis's Health Is Improving, Won't Rule Out Resignation
- Friday Marks 60th Anniversary of Assassination of Malcolm X
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country, is triggering panic. Reports of the surge describe widespread looting, killings, attacks on aid and mass displacement. Thousands of people have fled to neighboring Burundi over the last few days as the U.N. accused M23 of killing children and attacking hospitals. Our guest Kambale Musavuli, a Congolese author and human rights advocate, speaks to us from Ghana about Western countries’ ongoing demand for Congo’s minerals and their complicity in the deadly violence. Industrial nations as well as celebrated musicians and sports teams from the West have refused to cancel agreements and appearances with Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame, explains Musavuli, “clearly telling us that the lives of the millions of Congolese do not matter.”
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Who are the minds behind DOGE, and what do they really believe? Historian Quinn Slobodian says three strains of conservatism have converged to form the second Trump administration’s anti-democratic coalition: finance-backed corporate interests previously friendly to the Democratic Party, Christian conservative think tanks who have long advocated for the end of the administrative state, and the online-driven movement of reactionary extremists who traffic in white supremacist and neo-Nazi rhetoric. Meanwhile, says Slobodian, “Trump is a person who doesn’t believe in much, but he believes in money,” leaving him willing to enact the political visions of these three pro-capitalist projects. Slobodian, an expert in German history, also discusses the connections between the Trump sphere and Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, supported by Musk and Vice President JD Vance.
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Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back. “All of us do something not only essential, but also mandated by Congress,” says union organizer and Army Corps of Engineers employee Chris Dols. Dols is part of a growing movement of federal workers and their allies staging mass protests to Save Our Services and warning of the long-term consequences of these extreme cuts to the bureaucracy. “They’re trying to immiserate the working class, and they’re doing it through the federal workforce,” says Dols, who is also a national coordinator with the Federal Unionists Network. “It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net in this country, because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.” He calls on the larger public to join the worker-led movement resisting these radical cuts. “The whole public sphere is at stake.”
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