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We speak with V, the playwright formerly known as Eve Ensler, about “How We Do Freedom: Rising Against Fascism,” a daylong educational event to be held at New York City’s Judson Memorial Church on Saturday. V is the founder of the global activist movements V-Day and One Billion Rising that is organizing the event. “The rise of fascism, from India to Italy, from Afghanistan to U.S., [is] the most pressing concern everywhere,” says V, who ties the crisis to growing loneliness and isolation. “One of the antidotes to fascism we know is community, is solidarity, is coming together, is talking, is being part of something that is bigger than yourself.”
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A federal jury in Florida has found members of the pan-Africanist group African People’s Socialist Party guilty of conspiring with the Russian government to “sow discord” and “interfere” in U.S. elections. They face up to five years in federal prison. In a major victory for the activists, however, the jury acquitted them of the more serious charge of acting as foreign agents. “The trial of the Uhuru Three is proving to be one of the most important First Amendment cases thus far in the 21st century,” says attorney Jenipher Jones, who is on the legal support committee for defendants. “It remains clear that when covert government repression tactics fail against activists, the government will use the overt means of charges and cages against folks that they simply disagree with.”
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Supporters of Leonard Peltier are calling on President Biden to grant clemency to the Indigenous leader and activist, who marked his 80th birthday behind bars on Thursday after nearly a half-century in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. The ailing Peltier, who uses a walker and has serious health conditions, including diabetes, has always maintained his innocence over the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His conviction was riddled with irregularities and prosecutorial misconduct, and he is considered to be the longest-serving political prisoner in the United States. For much of the last four years, Peltier has been held under near-total lockdown. For more on Peltier and the campaign to free him, we speak with Nick Tilsen, president of the NDN Collective, and two attorneys on Peltier’s legal defense team, Jenipher Jones and Moira Meltzer-Cohen.
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In Sudan, a recent United Nations fact-finding mission documented “harrowing” human rights violations committed by both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, including indiscriminate attacks on civilians, schools, hospitals, water and power supplies. Civilians have also been subjected to torture, arbitrary detention and gruesome sexual violence. Over 20,000 people have been killed and 13 million displaced over the past 16 months. The war has also destroyed the country’s healthcare system and caused an outbreak of diseases like cholera, malaria and dengue. Sky News correspondent Yousra Elbagir, whose reporting helped uncover details of a June 2023 massacre of civilians by the RSF in North Darfur, says the world is showing “complete apathy and neglect” over the violence in Sudan today. We also speak with Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, who says countries including Russia, China and Iran are supplying both sides with advanced weapons that are “very likely to be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes.”
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Headlines for September 13, 2024; War in Sudan: Both Sides Accused of Crimes Against Humanity as UAE, Russia, China, Serbia Send Arms; Imprisoned for 50 Years: Amnesty Calls for Leonard Peltier’s Freedom as He Turns 80 Behind Bars; Uhuru 3 Found Guilty of Conspiracy, Acquitted of Foreign Agents Charge in Landmark Trial; “How We Do Freedom”: V (Eve Ensler) on Fighting Fascism Through Community
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- U.N. Evacuates 100 Gaza Patients for Treatment in UAE, Says 25% of War Injuries "Life-Changing"
- Calls Mount for U.S. to Investigate, Hold Israel Accountable for Killing Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
- North Dakota Judge Strikes Down State's Near-Total Abortion Ban
- 33,000 Boeing Workers in PNW Go on Strike for Better Pay, Improved Safety Standards
- Florida Jury Finds Uhuru 3 Guilty of Conspiracy, Clears Activists of "Russian Agent" Charges
- Georgia Judge Tosses 2 More Charges Against Trump in Election Subversion Case
- Springfield, OH, City Hall Evacuated over Bomb Threat Amid Trump/Vance-Fueled Anti-Haitian Attacks
- U.S. Approves $1.3 Billion in Military Aid to Egypt Despite Widespread Human Rights Abuses
- At Least 30 Killed in Northeastern Nigeria as Heavy Rains Spawn Flooding
- Democrats Unveil Bill to Make Fossil Fuel Companies Pay $1 Trillion over Climate Crisis
- NYC Police Commissioner Resigns as FBI Expands Probe into Mayor's Inner Circle
- Chile's President Calls for Repeal of Dictatorship-Era Amnesty Law
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We’re joined by award-winning Cherokee writer and journalist Rebecca Nagle, whose new book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, has just been released. By taking a look at the more than a century-long fight for tribal sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma, Nagle investigates the development and future of tribal law since the beginning of colonial relations between Indigenous peoples and European settlers, from the Trail of Tears to the “war on terror.” “A lot of times we treat Native American history like this distant chapter and the legal terrain it created as some sort of siloed backwater of American law, but actually it’s foundational,” she says.
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As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression. One of those prosecuted is activist Joanna Smith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas’s renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her civil disobedience. We speak to Smith just a week after her release, and to Linda Lakhdir, the legal director of Climate Rights International. “Countries who have held themselves up as beacons of rule of law are essentially repressing peaceful protest,” says Lakhdir. Smith says the nonviolent action she took was intended to highlight the disparity between a sculpture of a child protected from the elements with a strong plexiglass case and the billions of children around the world left unsafe and vulnerable by climate change’s effects. “The crisis is here now, it’s unfolding in front of us, and our governments are failing us,” she explains.
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At least 196 environmental defenders were killed last year, most of them Indigenous or Afro-descendant. The deadliest country was Colombia, where at least 79 land, water and climate defenders were killed. “2023 was yet another appalling year for those who want to protect their lands and their environment,” and this violence is likely to “intensify as the consequences of the climate crisis become more apparent,” says Laura Furones, senior adviser to the land and environmental defenders campaign at Global Witness, which published the numbers in a new report.
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- Israel Strikes Gaza's al-Jaouni School for 5th Time, Kills 18 Palestinians, Incl. 6 UNRWA Staffers
- Israel's Assault on West Bank Continues as Death Toll in Occupied Territory Reaches 50 Over 2 Weeks
- Biden Calls Israel's Killing of Turkish American Activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi "Totally Unacceptable"
- Kyiv Pushes for U.S. Greenlight on Long-Range Missiles as Russian Army Retakes Parts of Kursk
- Protesters March to Demand End to Ethnic Violence in India's Manipur State
- 3.2 Million Afghan Children Face Acute Malnutrition
- Spanish Congress Recognizes Edmundo González as Venezuela's President-Elect
- Peruvian Ex-Dictator Alberto Fujimori Dies at 86
- Grieving Ohio Father Blasts Trump and Vance for Politicizing Son's Death
- Report Finds Doctors Far More Likely to Order C-Sections for Black Patients
- Black Enrollment Drops at Harvard After Supreme Court Rolls Back Affirmative Action
- Amnesty Asks Biden to Grant Clemency to U.S. Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier, Who Turns 80 Today
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Headlines for September 12, 2024; “Another Appalling Year” of Violence Against Land Defenders as Nearly 200 Killed Worldwide in 2023; “On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests & Jail Terms; “By the Fire We Carry”: Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump focused heavily on abortion rights and the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Trump repeated his false claim that Democrats support infanticide, and claimed that allowing individual states to set their own laws on abortion was an improvement. Harris highlighted the risk to pregnant people now navigating a patchwork of laws and restrictions in the U.S. and promised to restore protections for reproductive rights as president. “Kamala Harris was finally out there channeling the outrage and the profound sense of violation that many people across this country feel in the wake of the Dobbs decision,” says Amy Littlefield, the abortion access correspondent for The Nation.
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We speak with consumer advocate Ralph Nader and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz about Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Stiglitz says Trump’s policies, including a plan for major new tariffs, would result in “more inflation and slower growth” and wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. Nader says that while “it’s easy to look good against Trump,” Harris is not fundamentally challenging corporate greed, the military-industrial complex, environmental destruction and more.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump had their first and only scheduled debate Tuesday, providing a stark contrast between the two candidates with just eight weeks to go before the November 5 election. Harris repeatedly put Trump on the defensive as they debated abortion, immigration, Israel’s war on Gaza, race, January 6 and other issues. Trump repeated his false claim that he won the 2020 election and again questioned Harris’s race, painted diverse cities as inherently unsafe, repeated a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets and more. Carol Anderson, professor of African American studies at Emory University, says Trump’s basic pitch is that “white Americans need to be fearful” of people of color. “What he is basically saying is, ’I’m your white savior.’”
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Tuesday night’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris focused heavily on immigration, with the Republican nominee attacking the current administration for not closing the border, and spreading xenophobic and racist conspiracy theories about asylum seekers. “Donald Trump resorted to the same deranged and despicable rhetoric that is meant to divide people. From his very first answer, he was demonizing immigrants,” says journalist Jean Guerrero, who has written extensively about immigration, including the book Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda. Guerrero says that while Harris “was able to project strength on the border” and undermine Trump on his “signature issue,” she did not do enough to challenge the narrative about immigrants bringing crime and disorder to the country. “I wish that she had countered him on immigration in a more sustained way.”
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- Presidential Debate Reveals Sharp Contrast Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
- Israel Used U.S.-Made 2,000-Pound Bombs in Assault on Gaza Encampment for Displaced Palestinians
- Israeli Airstrike on West Bank Kills 5 Palestinians in Tubas
- Blinken Calls Israel's Killing of U.S. Activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi "Unprovoked and Unjustified"
- Canada Suspends Some Arms Export Licenses to Israel
- Antiwar Protesters Rally Outside U.S. Presidential Debate, Australian Arms Expo
- Protesters Storm Mexican Senate to Oppose Judicial Overhaul Plan
- Missouri High Court OKs Ballot Measure to Enshrine Abortion Rights
- Tropical Storms Wreak Havoc in Vietnam, U.S. Gulf Coast
- Colombia Tops List of Deadliest Nations for Environmental Defenders in 2023
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