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We speak with Jose Saldaña, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about a wildcat strike by New York prison guards who claim limits on solitary confinement have made their work more dangerous. “The people who are living in a dangerous environment are the incarcerated men and women,” says Saldaña, who notes the strike began the same week murder charges were announced against six of the guards who brutally beat to death handcuffed prisoner Robert Brooks in an attack captured on body-camera video. “The whole world saw it, and they’re questioning: How long has this been going on in the prison system? This illegal strike is to erase that consciousness that’s building,” says Saldaña. We are also joined by anthropologist Orisanmi Burton, who studies prisons and says the proliferation of solitary confinement and other harsh measures is directly linked to political organizing behind bars starting in the late 1960s. “Prisons in the United States are best understood as institutions of low-intensity warfare that masquerade as apolitical instruments of crime control,” says Burton, author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.
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We look at a rare victory for a death row prisoner before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Tuesday, three conservative justices joined with the three liberals to overturn the murder conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip, who has spent nearly 30 years on Oklahoma death row and had exhausted all other appeals to stay his execution. The justices said Glossip was entitled to a new trial after errors in his original prosecution. Glossip’s conviction stems from the 1997 murder of his former boss, who was killed by another man who accused Glossip of masterminding the killing. Glossip has always maintained his innocence, and even Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond has said Glossip did not get a fair trial. We speak with Glossip’s spiritual adviser, Sister Helen Prejean, renowned anti-death penalty activist, who says the case has brought together a remarkable coalition to fight for justice and helped to highlight the problems with capital punishment. “We don’t need this thing,” says Prejean. “It’s time to shut it down.”
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We speak with the acclaimed science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow, who has spent decades writing and thinking about the impact of technology on our lives. He coined the term “enshittification” to describe how online platforms degrade the user experience over time in search of profits, though it has been widely adopted to describe a larger sense of decline and decay across society. He discusses his new book Picks and Shovels, Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence to discipline its workers, and billionaire Elon Musk’s work in the Trump administration. “The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” Doctorow says of Musk’s work through DOGE, which has gutted government agencies and wide swaths of the federal workforce. “In the reality-based world, even if you are worried about government waste, even if you want to make government smaller, you have to acknowledge the empirical fact that payroll accounts for 4% of the federal budget.”
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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DAWN, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization that supports democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa, is asking the International Criminal Court to investigate former President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for possible complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, citing the $17.9 billion worth of U.S. weapons transfers to Israel overseen by the Biden administration. “The bombs that Israel has used to destroy schools, hospitals and homes in Gaza were American bombs that they provided. Israel’s campaign of murder and persecution was carried out with political support that they ensured,” says Reed Brody, a longtime war crimes lawyer and a board member at DAWN. Biden, Blinken and Austin were not only “aware of what was being done with their ammunition,” but also “tried to stifle criticism” of their policies. Furthermore, says Brody, U.S. complicity in Israeli war crimes could extend into the Trump administration. He suggests that the ICC prosecutor “would be well within his rights” to open a probe into Trump following the administration’s sanctions on the ICC in response to arrest warrants issued against Israeli officials.
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The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated 30,000 immigrants in tent camps at the base were halted over concerns the makeshift facilities don’t meet ICE’s detention standards. Now the private federal contractor behind the Guantánamo detention site is under renewed scrutiny. Investigative journalist José Olivares shares what we know about Akima Infrastructure Protection, an Alaska Native corporation that counts among its myriad federal contracts immigration detention facilities across the United States, including some that are currently under investigation for human rights abuses. The lack of transparency when it comes to the company’s practices and the expansion of migrant detention at a high-security location like Guantánamo means that questions remain over current conditions and even the exact number of people who have been incarcerated there, explains Olivares.
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Reporters, workers and now judges across the country are disputing the cost-cutting claims of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has targeted federal employees across multiple sectors with firings, forced resignations and threatened layoffs. One of the millions of Americans being impacted by DOGE’s draconian measures is Latisha, an employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs who spoke with Democracy Now! in a personal capacity and not on behalf of her employer. She says that Musk’s recent demand ordering federal employees to email a summary of their work from the past week was “insulting” and “disrespectful,” and that “his real goal is to gut public services in the federal workforce and pave the way for privatization of public services, goods and programs that we all need and love.” She outlines how Black Americans and veterans, who are disproportionately represented among the ranks of federal workers, are being particularly affected by these cuts. We also speak to ProPublica editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg about his recent reporting on a “clearly wrong, clearly disproved” statistic being cited by the Trump administration about the number of federal employees who are working remotely. The statistic is being used to justify the “king-like powers” claimed by Trump and the nepotistic hires at DOGE, says Engelberg.
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Democracy Now! 2025-02-25 Tuesday
- Headlines for February 25, 2025
- As Musk Slashes Federal Gov't & Fires Thousands, Workers, Trump Appointees, Judges & Media Push Back
- "No Public Oversight": Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses
- Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate
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- U.S. Sides with Russia, Breaks from Allies in U.N. Resolutions on Ukraine
- 6 More Gaza Children Freeze to Death as Israel Continues to Withhold Shelters from Gaza
- ICC Asked to Investigate Biden, Blinken and Austin for Complicity in Israeli War Crimes
- Syria Opens National Dialogue Conference Without Participation of Kurdish Group
- Sen. Bernie Sanders Introduces Resolution to Oppose U.S. Arms Sales to Israel
- Activists Block Access to Maersk Headquarters to Protest Arms Shipments to Israel
- Hegseth Welcomes Saudi Prince to Pentagon, Pledging Closer Ties with New Administration
- Federal Watchdog Calls DOGE's Firing of Probationary Workers Unlawful
- Postal Workers Rally Amid Reports Trump Is Attempting to Privatize USPS
- Hegseth Visits Guantánamo; Trump Tells ICE to Track Down and Deport 100,000s of Immigrant Children
- Eric Adams to Close Immigrant Shelter Hotel; Judge Delays His Corruption Trial After DOJ Request
- Groups Sue USDA for Censoring Climate-Related Content on Website
- Laila Soueif, Hunger-Striking Mother of Jailed Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Has Been Hospitalized
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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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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