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Immigrant rights activists are urging the Biden administration to pardon longtime activist Ravi Ragbir, who has been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for potential detention and deportation since 2001. Ragbir has been subject to regular ICE check-ins for over two decades, each time facing the possibility of being taken into custody by the agency. “Once you go into that building, your family, your friends, your community don’t know if you’ll walk back out,” says Ragbir. We speak to Ragbir, his wife Amy Gottlieb and his lawyer Alina Das about his case and why they are calling on Biden to take action before the new Trump administration, with its promises to carry out mass deportations, has the opportunity to pose an even bigger threat to immigrants like Ragbir. A presidential pardon “will ensure that as a green card holder, Ravi will be able to remain here in the U.S.,” says Das.
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We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an administration that stood out for its successful championing of human rights elsewhere in the world, “in Southeast Asia, Carter really continued the policies of the Nixon and Ford administration,” particularly in Indonesia, which was at the time occupying and carrying out a genocide in East Timor. Simpson founded the Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, which provided thousands of U.S. documents to East Timor’s Truth Commission in the aftermath of the Indonesian military’s mass killings of tens of thousands of Timorese civilians with U.S. arms under the dictatorial regime of President Suharto.
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The late President Jimmy Carter presided over a key landmark in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the 1979 Camp David Accords signed by Egypt and Israel. Carter’s lifelong interest in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict is an analog for his complicated legacy in foreign policy and human rights. As Seth Anziska, a professor of Jewish-Muslim relations at University College London, explains, while on one hand Carter believed that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians constituted apartheid “far worse” than what he had seen in South Africa, on the other, his deep Christian faith made him fundamentally sympathetic to religious beliefs framing Israel as a Jewish homeland. “He was the first U.S. president to talk about the idea of a Palestinian homeland alongside his commitment to Israeli security,” says Anziska, who argues that the failure of the Camp David Accords in promoting lasting peace lies in their “perpetuation of Palestinian statelessness.”
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, has been laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, following a state funeral held in Washington, D.C. “He was the last president to actively encourage participation and involvement in governmental processes by the progressive civil community,” remembers the celebrated civil society and consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Nader compares Carter’s progressive credentials to President-elect Donald Trump’s flouting of the law and embrace of dangerous beliefs like climate denialism. Carter “brought the best out of people,” Nader says, while “Trump brings the worst out of people.”
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At least 10 people have died in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires as firefighters continue to battle multiple infernos in the area. Thousands of homes and other structures have been destroyed, and some 180,000 people are under evacuation orders. Multiple neighborhoods have been completely burned down, including in the town of Altadena, where our guest, climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus, lived until two years ago, when increasing heat and dryness pushed Kalmus to leave the Los Angeles area in fear of his safety. “I couldn’t stay there,” he says. “It’s not a new normal. … It’s a staircase to a hotter, more hellish Earth.” Kalmus discusses an op-ed he recently published in The New York Times about the decision, which he says was toned down by the paper’s editors when he attempted to explain that fossil fuel companies’ investment in climate change denial and normalization has only accelerated the pace of unprecedented large-scale climate disasters. “This is going to get worse,” he warns, “Everything has changed.”
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-10 Friday
- Headlines for January 10, 2025
- Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape
- "Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party": Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter's Legacy
- Camp David's Failures: Why Jimmy Carter's Opposition to Israeli Apartheid Wasn't Enough to Secure Peace
- Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia's Genocide in East Timor
- Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported
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- Death Toll in Los Angeles Wildfires Reaches 10 as Largest Blazes Remain Uncontained
- As Historic Fires Tear Through L.A., Scientists Confirm 2024 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded
- The Lancet Says Gaza Genocide Death Toll Likely 40% Higher Than Official Estimates
- House Votes to Sanction International Criminal Court over Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders
- NYU Suspends 11 Students over Peaceful Antiwar Protest
- "We Are Documenting Our Genocide": Gaza Journalists Demand Int'l Media Defend Palestinian Colleagues
- NYT "Chooses Silence Over Accountability" as It Refuses to Run Quaker Ad Condemning Gaza Genocide
- Jimmy Carter Buried in Georgia After State Funeral at Washington National Cathedral
- M23 Rebels Seize Town in Eastern DRC, Advance on Goma
- Elon Musk Accused of Election Meddling over Interview with German Far-Right Leader
- Supreme Court Denies Trump's Request to Halt Sentencing in Hush Money Case
- Federal Judge Rejects Biden's Expansion of Title IX to Include LGBTQ+ Students
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Raging wildfires continue to scorch communities across the Los Angeles area, killing at least five people, displacing about 100,000 more and destroying thousands of structures. With firefighters unable to contain much of the blaze, the toll is expected to rise. The wildfires that started Tuesday caught much of the city by surprise, quickly growing into one of the worst fire disasters in Los Angeles history. Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council have come under criticism for cutting the fire department’s budget by around 2% last year while the police department saw a funding increase. Nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters are among those who have been deployed to battle the fires. Journalist Sonali Kolhatkar, who evacuated her home to flee the destruction, says it has been “frustrating” to watch the corporate media’s coverage of the fires. “No one is talking about climate change in the media,” she says. We also speak with journalist John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, who says the L.A. wildfires should be a wake-up call. “This blind — frankly, suicidal — loyalty to the status quo of keeping fossil fuels preeminent in our energy system is creating an increasingly difficult situation and unlivable situation,” says Vaillant.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced major changes to what content is allowed on his company’s social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, scrapping the system of independent fact-checkers in favor of “community notes” from volunteer users. Zuckerberg also loosened moderation rules around offensive speech, which will allow hateful content targeting women, LGBTQ people and other groups. Meta’s changes have been widely interpreted as a gift to Donald Trump and other Republicans, who have long argued against the policing of hate speech and disinformation online. The company has also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and recently added Trump ally Dana White, the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship, to its corporate board — part of a larger shift in Silicon Valley toward Trump and his MAGA movement. For more on these changes, we speak with media scholars Siva Vaidhyanathan and Marc Owen Jones, as well as Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose media company Rappler has been at the forefront of battling disinformation and hate speech on social media. “As of last year, 71% of the world is under authoritarian rule. We are electing illiberal leaders democratically, partly because our public information ecosystem … is corrupting our individual communications with each other,” says Ressa.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 9, 2025
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- L.A. Wildfires Kill 5; Officials Order 130,000 Residents to Evacuate as Angelenos Brace for More Blazes
- Israel Kills 70 Palestinians in Gaza; 15 Incubated Newborns Could Die Unless Hospital Receives Fuel
- "Let's Call It Mexican America": Pres. Sheinbaum Fires Back After Trump's "Gulf of America" Remark
- DOJ Plans to Release Findings on Trump's 2020 Election Subversion Efforts, But Not on Classified Docs
- Russian Attack Kills 13 in Zaporizhzhia; Biden Admin Sends Final $500M to Ukraine
- Chad Says It Fended Off Armed Attack on Presidential Residence
- Lebanon Elects Joseph Aoun as President After 2-Year Vacuum
- Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released from Iranian Imprisonment
- Longshoremen Reach Tentative Deal, Averting Major Ports Strike
- SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO, Expanding Umbrella Labor Group to 15 Million Workers
- North Carolina's GOP Justices Block Certification of Democratic Justice Who Won Nov. Election
- Advocates Demand New York Lawmakers Protect Immigrants Ahead of Trump's Inauguration
- Washington National Cathedral to Host State Funeral for President Jimmy Carter
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Eleven Yemeni men imprisoned without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for more than two decades have just been released to Oman to restart their lives. This latest transfer brings the total number of men detained at Guantánamo down to 15. Civil rights lawyers Ramzi Kassem and Pardiss Kebriaei, who have each represented many Guantánamo detainees, including some of the men just released, say closing the notorious detention center “has always been a question of political will,” and that the Biden administration must take action to free the remaining prisoners and “end of the system of indefinite detention” as soon as possible.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he is stepping down as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, following rising discontent over his leadership and growing dissent within his government. Trudeau had served as Canada’s prime minister since 2015. His resignation comes as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to annex Canada. For more, we speak with Canadian activist and electoral candidate Avi Lewis for the New Democratic Party, who says that, “like Joe Biden,” Trudeau “waited way too long” to step down from candidacy in upcoming national elections. Lewis calls Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on Canada a “cartoon threat” that comes out of the real estate mogul’s long-running use of “force” in his personal and business dealings.
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Massachusetts Congressmember Jim McGovern calls on President Biden to pardon environmental activist Steven Donziger, who has been targeted for years by oil and gas giant Chevron. Donziger sued Chevron on behalf of farmers and Indigenous peoples who suffered the adverse health effects of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon. “I visited Ecuador. I saw what Chevron did. It is disgusting” and “grotesque,” says McGovern. “Donziger stood up for these people who had no voice.” In return, Chevron has spent millions prosecuting him instead of holding itself to account, he adds, while a pardon from the president would show that the system can still “stand up to corporate greed and excesses.”
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Calls are growing for President Biden to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg following newly publicized documents proving that the FBI knew of her innocence long before she was prosecuted by the federal government more than 60 years ago. Rosenberg and her husband Julius were charged with sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union and executed on June 19, 1953. A federal pardon or exoneration would be “the right thing to do,” says Massachusetts Congressmember Jim McGovern, who is part of an effort led by the Rosenbergs’ son Robert Meeropol “to get history right.” Ethel Rosenberg “was framed,” says Meeropol. “She was not a spy.”
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At a news conference Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his threats against Gaza, Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal as he continues to push an agenda of extreme U.S. imperialism. Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern calls Trump’s comments “outrageous,” “ridiculous” and, ultimately, a distraction from his planned abandonment of social services. We also discuss social networking behemoth Meta’s announcement that it is ending its fact-checking program, in what’s being seen as a capitulation to Trump and conservative media disinformation campaigns, and how President Biden’s unqualified support for Israel’s assault on Gaza violates multiple U.S. human rights laws.
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