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Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second year in a row in response to Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We feature an excerpt of the Christmas sermon of Reverend Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, titled “Christ Is Still in the Rubble,” referencing a sermon he gave at this time last year titled “Christ in the Rubble,” about the loss of Palestinian life to Israel’s assault of Gaza. We also go to Bethlehem to speak with Reverend Isaac. He shares his message to the U.S. and the rest of the world. “Our fear here in Bethlehem is that there is no one who’s going to hold Israel accountable,” he says. “We’re tired and sick of these wars, which are enabled by American tax money and American politics.”
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In France, sentences have been handed down in the trial of Dominique Pelicot and 51 other men convicted of rape against Pelicot’s ex-wife, Gisèle. Dominique Pelicot had repeatedly and systematically drugged and facilitated the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, approaching other men online to visit their home and assault her over a period of 10 years. Pelicot waived anonymity and fought for a public trial in the historic case, a decision that shaped the public discourse on sexual violence and the prevalence of chemical submission and drug-assisted sexual assault. “We were all here to wait for Gisèle, but also we were all here for one another,” says Diane de Vignemont, a French journalist who reported on the Pelicot trial and found a “sisterhood” that formed among women attendees to the trial, many of whom shared their own experiences with sexual assault.
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After the Republican-led Congress passes a government spending bill but rejects a last-minute demand for a debt limit suspension from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk, we look at the richest man in the world’s growing influence, with The American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner. “At the end of the day, Musk got exactly what he wanted,” says Kuttner, referring to Musk’s influence in the removal of an anti-China trade provision in the bill. “It’s a classic case of Musk rolling Trump. … I don’t think this is going to end well.”
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Democracy Now! 2024-12-23 Monday
- Headlines for December 23, 2024
- Elon Musk's Opposition to Gov't Spending Bill a "Smokescreen" for His Business Interests: Robert Kuttner
- Landmark Rape Case of Gisèle Pelicot: As Husband & 50 Men Are Sentenced, Will French Laws Change?
- "Christ Is Still in the Rubble": Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide
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- Biden Commutes Sentences of 37 Men on Federal Death Row
- UNRWA Warns "World Must Not Become Numb" to Israel's Escalating Attacks on Gaza
- Doctor at Kamal Adwan Decries Israeli Attacks on Hospital in Northern Gaza
- "This Is Cruelty. This Is Not War." Pope Francis Condemns Israel on Gaza
- Syria: Diplomats from U.S., Turkey, Jordan and Qatar Meet with HTS Leader
- Congress Passes Spending Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
- House Ethics Report Finds Gaetz Committed Statutory Rape
- Panama Rejects Trump's Threat to Retake Panama Canal
- Trump Says U.S. Ownership of Greenland Is "An Absolute Necessity"
- Five Die in Germany as Car Drives Into Christmas Market
- Int'l Court Rules Against El Salvador's Strict Abortion Ban
- U'wa Indigenous People in Colombia Win Major Victory at Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Washington Post: 3,100 Indigenous Students Died at U.S. Boarding Schools
- Top NYPD Uniformed Officer Resigns Under Investigation for Sexual Misconduct
- Report: Netanyahu to Skip Auschwitz Event to Avoid Being Arrested for War Crimes
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.” That message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”
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We continue to look at the U.S. health insurance industry and how patients can fight back against their providers with advocate Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign. She says her advice for patients is to always appeal denials and to seek outside help when possible, including advocacy groups like hers and external review boards. She also stresses that much of the chaos of the U.S. health system is due to corporate greed. “Everyone has an incentive to charge more,” says Benjamin. “If we had Medicare for All, we wouldn’t be paying as much, and we would probably have much better health outcomes.”
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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson’s assassination has brought renewed attention to the practices of the health industry and especially UnitedHealth Group, which reported $22 billion in profits last year. For more, we speak with Kevin Dwyer, who has firsthand experience with UnitedHealthcare denying him lifesaving medication for cystic fibrosis. “The thought of getting this medication that could stop my decline was everything to me. And it was devastating when I got the denial,” says Dwyer, who only got approved after his case became a national news story. “It shouldn’t take this, but unfortunately it does,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign.
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Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height of the holiday period to follow the law and bargain with those who have organized with the Teamsters union. The strike includes warehouse workers and drivers at seven distribution centers in some of Amazon’s largest markets, including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco; Teamsters have also set up picket lines at many other warehouses nationwide. “We’re engaging in a coordinated action to try to put the pressure on Amazon to stop breaking the law, come to the table,” says Connor Spence, president of Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1, which represents workers in New York. “This is an unfair labor practice strike over their refusal to bargain.” We also speak with Ronald Sewell, an Amazon associate in Georgia, who says workplace safety is a major driver of worker discontent, including insufficient access to water and overheating. “The danger is real. It’s not something that we’re making up,” says Sewell.
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 20, 2024
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- Israel's Genocide in Gaza Claims 77 Palestinian Lives Over Past Day
- Israeli Settlers Vandalize West Bank Mosque Amid Continuing Israeli Attacks Across Occupied Territory
- U.S. Officials in Damascus as Syrian Kurds Seek to Fend Off Possible Turkish Incursion
- Syrian Youth, Women Gather to Demand Respect for Human Rights from Incoming Gov't
- Striking Amazon Workers in NYC Met with Police Crackdown as Labor Action Spreads Across U.S.
- Starbucks Workers Launch Escalating Strike Action
- U.S. Gov't Inches Closer to Shutdown After House Rejects New, Trump-Endorsed Spending Bill
- Fulton County DA Fani Willis Barred from Georgia's Election Subversion Case Against Trump
- Luigi Mangione Faces Federal Murder Charges for Shooting Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO
- Another Member of NYC Mayor Eric Adams's Inner Circle Is Indicted
- Biden Sets Out Goal to Reduce Emissions by Up to 66% by 2035
- EPA, Energy Dept. Workers Condemn Biden Admin for Funding Bombs Over Climate Crisis
- Three WFP Workers Killed in Sudan Air Attack as Agency Warns 1.7 Million People Facing Famine
- Macron Met with Angry Crowds as He Toured Cyclone-Devastated Mayotte, Where Aid Has Been Scarce
- Crowd Crush at Nigerian School Fair Kills 35 Children
- Ecuador Successfully Completes Debt-for-Nature Swap as Part of Amazon Preservation Effort
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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“We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned mass grave in Syria, following the sudden fall of the authoritarian Assad family from power. More than 150,000 Syrians remain unaccounted for after being held in Assad’s prisons, and many are believed to be buried in mass graves. We speak to Zayadin about what’s been uncovered so far and the struggle to preserve evidence, particularly in the face of a new regime that has not prioritized tracking records of the Assad government’s crimes, and of Israel’s ongoing shelling of crucial sites. “Every minute that passes where there is inaction, where these documents, these sites are not being preserved, are not being secured, is just one more family possibly never knowing what happened to their loved ones,” she says.
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“When you’re in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don’t think my judge sentenced me to go through this.” The U.S. government has agreed to pay a record-breaking amount of nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits brought by 103 people who survived sexual abuse and assault at a federal women’s prison in California. The facility, FCI Dublin, was shuttered earlier this year. Its former warden is now himself imprisoned after being convicted of sexually abusing incarcerated people under his care. Aimee Chavira, who was formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin and is part of the class-action sexual abuse lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, says the settlement, while welcomed, “doesn’t change anything. No amount of money will change what was done to us and what did happen.” Community organizer Courtney Hanson helped advocate for survivors with the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition. She calls for “policy changes to ensure that this type of staff sexual abuse stops happening” in prisons across the country.
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