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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz, the movie that inspired the hit Broadway musical and now Hollywood blockbuster, Wicked. Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Harburg was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of his life. We speak with Harburg’s son, Ernie Harburg, about the music and politics of his father. Then we take an in-depth look at The Wizard of Oz, and hear a medley of Harburg’s Broadway songs and the politics of the times in which they were created.
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His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz, the movie that inspired the hit Broadway musical and now Hollywood blockbuster, Wicked. Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Harburg was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of his life. We speak with Harburg’s son, Ernie Harburg, about the music and politics of his father. Then we take an in-depth look at The Wizard of Oz, and hear a medley of Harburg’s Broadway songs and the politics of the times in which they were created.
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 25, 2024
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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As foreign powers look to shape Syria’s political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country’s Kurdish population is in the spotlight. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to threaten the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey regards as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party militants who have fought an insurgency against the Turkish state for 40 years. Turkey’s foreign minister recently traveled to Damascus to meet with Syria’s new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Islamist group HTS. “Turkey is a major threat to Kurds and to democratic experiments that Kurds have been implementing in the region starting in 2014,” says Ozlem Goner, steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, who details the persecution of Kurds, the targeting of journalists, and which powerful countries are looking to control the region. “Turkey, Israel and the U.S. collectively are trying to carve out this land, and Kurds are under threat.”
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The U.S. House Ethics Committee has released its damning report on former Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, whom Trump had picked to be his attorney general before the Florida politician was forced to withdraw from consideration. The bipartisan committee’s report found Gaetz “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him” and possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on “multiple different occasions.” The report also found Gaetz had violated Florida’s statutory rape law by paying a 17-year-old high school student for sex in 2017. The Ethics Committee also investigated a trip Gaetz made in 2018 to the Bahamas where he accepted transportation and lodging in violation of the House rules and laws on gifts. “The report is detailed. There are extensive records showing these payments,” says Naomi Feinstein, staff writer at Miami New Times.
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President Biden has spared the lives of 37 of 40 federal death row prisoners by commuting their sentences to life in prison. This comes just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House with a promise to restart and expand federal executions. “Death is in no way decreasing violence or is in no way giving anybody closure,” says Herman Lindsey, who spent three years on death row before being exonerated in 2009 and condemns politicians like Trump who use executions as a “political tool.” “Most politicians use that to put the fear into people and use it as a voting tool.” President Biden’s action comes after years of advocacy by civil rights and Catholic groups. Last week, he had a phone call with Pope Francis, who reportedly called for the sentences of death row prisoners to be commuted. “He shares that faith and put it into action in a pretty courageous way, to speak out about the needs of healing the criminal justice system, that too often is wrong,” says Sister Simone Campbell, the former executive director of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice.
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 24, 2024
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- Israel Attacks Two Hospitals in Northern Gaza
- Israel Detains 100 in West Bank; Palestinian Authority Clashes with Palestinian Fighters in Jenin
- Israel Confirms It Assassinated Haniyeh as It Threatens to Kill Houthi Leaders Next
- Greenland Is Not for Sale: PM Responds to Donald Trump's Remark
- El Salvador: Lawmakers Vote to Overturn Ban on Mineral Mining
- Mass Protest in Cuba Denounces U.S. Sanctions
- House Ethics Report Finds Matt Gaetz Spent Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Sex and Drugs
- Family of Rep. Kay Granger Reveals She Has Dementia; Texas Republican Has Missed Every Vote Since July
- Amazon Accused of Trying to Flood Picket Lines of Striking Workers in Queens, NYC
- Starbucks Strikes Expands to Three More Cities
- Missouri Governor Commutes Sentence of White Cop Who Killed Cameron Lamb
- Family of Slain Cop City Protester Tortuguita Sues Three Police Officers
- D.C. Police Officer Convicted of Tipping Off Proud Boys Leader
- Taxpayers Against Genocide Sue Two California Democrats for Funding Israeli Military
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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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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