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Immigration agents with the Department of Homeland Security have detained a leader of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University in New York. Mahmoud Khalil, who is an Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent, is a green card holder and is married to a U.S. citizen; his wife is eight months pregnant. Immigration officials told Khalil’s lawyer his green card was being revoked. Khalil recently graduated from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and his whereabouts are unknown. “The [Trump] administration doesn’t seem to know exactly how to justify this very haphazard, unilateral move,” says Prem Thakker, political correspondent and columnist for Zeteo.
The arrest comes as Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to the university, despite Columbia’s suppression of pro-Palestine activism. The Trump administration doesn’t “really care about antisemitism or keeping Jews safe. All they care about is crushing dissent,” says Joseph Howley, associate professor of classics at Columbia University.
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Scientists rallied nationwide last Friday in opposition to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts for scientific research and mass layoffs impacting numerous agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service. Thousands gathered at Stand Up for Science protests in over two dozen other cities. We air remarks from speakers in Washington, D.C., including former USAID official Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health.
“I study women’s health, and right now you’re not able to really put into proposals that you are studying women,” says Emma Courtney, Ph.D. candidate at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and co-organizer of Stand Up for Science. She tells Democracy Now! it’s critical for federal policy to be “informed by science and rooted in evidence.”
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Scientists rallied nationwide last Friday in opposition to the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts for scientific research and mass layoffs impacting numerous agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service. Thousands gathered at Stand Up for Science protests in over two dozen other cities. We air remarks from speakers in Washington, D.C., including former USAID official Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health.
“I study women’s health, and right now you’re not able to really put into proposals that you are studying women,” says Emma Courtney, Ph.D. candidate at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and co-organizer of Stand Up for Science. She tells Democracy Now! it’s critical for federal policy to be “informed by science and rooted in evidence.”
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Democracy Now! Monday, March 10, 2025
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Democracy Now! Monday, March 10, 2025
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- Syrian Security Forces Accused of Massacring Hundreds of Christian and Alawite Civilians
- Palestinians Queue in Long Bread Lines as Israel Cuts Electricity to Gaza
- Trump Defends Putin's Attacks on Ukraine as Russian Air Raids Kill Dozens
- Canada's Mark Carney Wins Liberal Party Election, Will Replace Trudeau as Prime Minister
- DHS Strips Union Rights from 47,000 TSA Workers; HHS Offers Buyouts to 80,000 Workers
- Trump Reportedly Reins In Musk's Power After "Explosive" Cabinet Meeting
- Trump Expands Retribution Campaign, Targeting Law Firm Tied to Hillary Clinton's 2016 Campaign
- ICE Detains Columbia Campus Protest Leader as Trump Cuts $400 Million to University
- Trump-Appointed Federal Prosecutor Says He Won't Hire Georgetown Law Students over DEI Curriculum
- Survivors of "Bloody Sunday" Lead 60th Anniversary March Across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Trump Administration Transfers Transgender Women to Men's Prisons
- Arts Groups Sue National Endowment for the Arts over Trump's Order on "Gender Ideology"
- "Reinstate Queer Programming": Drag Performers Lead Protest Outside Kennedy Center
- "Our Rights Are Consistently Under Attack": Protesters Slam U.S. Gov't on International Women's Day
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- Syrian Security Forces Accused of Massacring Hundreds of Christian and Alawite Civilians
- Palestinians Queue in Long Bread Lines as Israel Cuts Electricity to Gaza
- Trump Defends Putin's Attacks on Ukraine as Russian Air Raids Kill Dozens
- Canada's Mark Carney Wins Liberal Party Election, Will Replace Trudeau as Prime Minister
- DHS Strips Union Rights from 47,000 TSA Workers; HHS Offers Buyouts to 80,000 Workers
- Trump Reportedly Reins In Musk's Power After "Explosive" Cabinet Meeting
- Trump Expands Retribution Campaign, Targeting Law Firm Tied to Hillary Clinton's 2016 Campaign
- ICE Detains Columbia Campus Protest Leader as Trump Cuts $400 Million to University
- Trump-Appointed Federal Prosecutor Says He Won't Hire Georgetown Law Students over DEI Curriculum
- Survivors of "Bloody Sunday" Lead 60th Anniversary March Across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Trump Administration Transfers Transgender Women to Men's Prisons
- Arts Groups Sue National Endowment for the Arts over Trump's Order on "Gender Ideology"
- "Reinstate Queer Programming": Drag Performers Lead Protest Outside Kennedy Center
- "Our Rights Are Consistently Under Attack": Protesters Slam U.S. Gov't on International Women's Day
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human rights violations and warned the country was becoming an authoritarian state. The report by a panel of independent human rights experts adds to international pressure on the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega and first lady Rosario Murillo, who was recently named co-president. “Nicaragua has become a country of enforced silence and surveillance for those who stay in the country, while those who dare to speak out face a life of exile and denationalization,” says Reed Brody, a member of the U.N. expert panel, who has spent decades investigating rights abuses in Nicaragua.
He speaks to Democracy Now! 40 years to the day since the release of his landmark 1985 fact-finding report Contra Terror in Nicaragua, which laid out how U.S. policy attempted to destabilize Nicaragua’s Sandinista government by funding the Contras and their campaign of torture, rape, kidnapping and murder.
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Republicans in Congress are pushing forward budget plans that would cut trillions in federal spending and give trillions more in tax cuts that disproportionately benefit corporations and the ultra-rich. This week, hundreds of faith leaders gathered on the Christian holy day of Ash Wednesday on Capitol Hill to voice their opposition. “There’s no way you can do the kinds of cuts they’re talking about — it’s mathematically impossible — without touching Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,” says Bishop William Barber, one of the participants. Barber also reflects on the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when civil rights marchers were brutalized in Selma, Alabama, and stresses that economic justice was always at the heart of the movement alongside ending segregation and winning voting rights.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, March 6, 2025
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We continue our conversation with Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and the author of the new book, Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments. Roth discusses the fragile ceasefire in Gaza amid news that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to withdraw Israeli troops as per his government’s agreement with Hamas, as well as withholding food and humanitarian aid from Gaza. “This is a continuation of the starvation strategy that Israel has been pursuing against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, which is a war crime,” says Roth. He adds that the United States is also implicated in Israel’s war crimes, and shares how the human rights framework can be applied to achieving peace in the region.
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