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As sky-high rents and a housing shortage become major issues in the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. Justice Department has sued software company RealPage, alleging its algorithm enabled landlords nationwide to collude in raising rents on tenants. The DOJ says the price-fixing scheme has impacted millions of renters across the United States. ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell, whose investigation first exposed RealPage, says as much as 70% of big apartment buildings in some neighborhoods are owned by property managers using RealPage, with landlords seeing the software “as a way to have a rising tide that lifts all boats.” We also speak with tenant rights organizer Tara Raghuveer, who says RealPage is guilty of “some of the grossest, most extractive business practices” documented in recent years, but the firm is hardly alone. “For so much of the market which is a catastrophic failure, landlords’ business model is predicated on tenants’ instability,” says Raghuveer.
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We speak with Human Rights Watch researcher Milena Ansari about the organization’s new report detailing the torture of Palestinian medical workers in Israeli prisons. HRW spoke with eight doctors, paramedics and nurses who were picked up in Gaza before being transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman camp and other facilities, where they say they suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, electric shocks and other forms of abuse. The men also describe threats of sexual violence during brutal interrogations and seeing another prisoner bleeding after being gang-raped with an M16 rifle by three soldiers. The findings track with other reports from researchers and survivors, and HRW has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for its attacks on healthcare workers. “We’re really ringing the alarm about the situation inside the Israeli custody and detention facilities,” says Ansari, who says evidence is mounting of a “systematic pattern of ill-treatment and abuse.”
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, August 27, 2024
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- U.N. Forced to Halt Aid in Gaza Amid Dire Humanitarian Needs Due to Nonstop Evacuation Orders
- U.S. Has Sent Over 50,000 Tons of Arms and Military Equipment to Israel Since Genocide Started
- Israeli Forces and Illegal Settlers Continue Deadly Attacks in Occupied West Bank
- Greek Tanker in Red Sea with 150,000 Tons of Crude Has Been on Fire for Days After Houthi Strike
- Russia Ramps Up Attacks on Ukraine in Wake of Kyiv's Surprise Incursion
- Baloch Separatists Claim Attacks That Kill 40+ in Southwestern Pakistan
- "There's No Lifeboat to Take Us Back:" U.N. Head Demands Urgent Action Before Pacific Islands Wiped Out
- Uganda Cracks Down on Climate Protesters Speaking Out Against EACOP, Arrests 20+ Activists
- 130+ Killed in Heavy Flooding in War-Torn Sudan; Arbaat Dam Collapses in Red Sea State
- French President Macron Shuns Progressive Coalition as Talks on Future Gov't Hit a Wall
- Jake Sullivan Is First U.S. Nat'l Security Adviser to Visit China in 8 Years Amid Simmering Tensions
- Trump and Vance Downplay Anti-Abortion Record and Plans
- Special Counsel Jack Smith Seeks to Reinstate Classified Docs Case Against Trump
- Texas Officials Raid Homes of Latino Elected Leaders
- DNC and Georgia Dems Sue to Block New GOP Rules That Could Delay Election Results and Sow Chaos
- Georgia Unveils Statue of John Lewis Outside Decatur Courthouse
- U.S. Judge Blocks Biden Immigration Policy for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
- Nashville Mayor Urges City Lawmakers to Pass New Safety Rules After Nazi Gatherings in TN City
- Climate Reporter Peter Dykstra, Who Called Out Corporate Media Cover-Up of Climate Crisis, Dies at 67
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We end today’s show in conversation with New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam. He was one of five teenagers from Harlem — four Black and one Latino — wrongfully accused and convicted of raping and nearly killing 28-year-old white investment banker Trisha Meili in 1989. Meili had been jogging in Central Park when she was assaulted, and the accused teens became known as the Central Park Five. They faced a barrage of racism from the public and news media during their trial, including from real estate mogul and future U.S. president Donald Trump. All of the boys were convicted and served at least six years, with one, Korey Wise, having been tried as an adult, spending over a decade in prison. All were later exonerated after DNA evidence corroborated a separate man’s confession to the attack. Redubbed the Exonerated Five, four of the five members addressed the Democratic National Convention last week, slamming Trump, who called for their execution and says he still believes the men are guilty, as hateful and dangerous. “The reality was that we were guilty of the color of our skin,” says Salaam, who successfully ran for city council last year.
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A federal judge in Kentucky has thrown out felony charges against two former Louisville police officers for their roles in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020. Instead, the judge ruled that Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, is legally responsible for her death because he fired his gun to fend off intruders, after plainclothes police officers broke down the couple’s front door and barged in just after midnight. Taylor was a Black 26-year-old emergency medical technician and aspiring nurse. Since then, only one officer has been found guilty of playing a role in Taylor’s death, admitting to falsifying a no-knock warrant that claimed police had evidence of drug dealings taking place in Taylor’s home. No drugs were ever found and the two cops who fatally shot Taylor have never been charged. This lack of accountability is part of a “systematic pattern of disrespect” of Black women, says civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Breonna Taylor’s family. Crump also discusses the latest developments in the cases against police officers accused of excessive force in the widely publicized deaths of Tyre Nichols in Tennessee and Roger Fortson in Florida.
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Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri responds to the latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the drawn-out ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, which Khouri calls a “fictitious political dynamic” that is primarily used as diplomatic cover for Israel’s warfare. “The ceasefire talks should not be taken very seriously as an effort to bring about a ceasefire,” he says. “It’s pretty clear now that the ceasefire negotiations today are the equivalent of the so-called peace process in the bigger Arab-Israeli conflict over the last 40 years.”
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Headlines for August 26, 2024; “Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict; “How Many More?” Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols & Roger Fortson Cases; Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC & Fight to Defeat Trump
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- U.N. Seeks "Immediate Deescalation" After Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Heavy Fire
- Human Rights Watch: Israel Has Tortured Detained Palestinian Medical Workers
- No Deal Yet as Ceasefire Talks Continue in Egypt
- Russia Launches Wave of Attacks on Ukraine
- Member of Reuters Team Killed in Russian Attack on Ukrainian Hotel
- Two Journalists Killed in Turkish Drone Strike in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Suspends Campaign & Endorses Donald Trump
- Kamala Harris Raises Record $540 Million in a Month
- Trump's Bedminster Resort to Host Gala Honoring Jan. 6 Defendants
- DOJ Sues RealPage for Helping Corporate Landlords Collude to Raise Rents
- Felony Charges Tossed Against Two Former Cops Charged in Breonna Taylor Killing
- Second Memphis Officer Pleads Guilty in Police Killing of Tyre Nichols
- Sheriff's Deputy in Florida Charged in Connection to Killing of Airman Roger Fortson
- French Authorities Detain CEO of Telegram Messaging App
- Militant Group Kills Up to 200 in Burkina Faso
- At Least 13 Migrants Die After Boat Sinks Near Yemen
- Extinction Rebellion Protesters Block Norwegian Oil Terminal
- Summer of Heat: Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested Outside Home of Citi CEO Jane Fraser
- Federal Court Bars Biden Administration from Using Civil Rights Law to Block New Fossil Fuel Projects
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, vowing in her speech to the Democratic National Convention to continue the Biden administration’s tough line on immigration. While describing the United States as “a nation of immigrants” and promising to “reform our broken immigration system,” Harris also said that, as president, she would revive a harsh border bill that Republicans blocked from passing this year that limits asylum rights, speeds up deportations and hires more border agents. The Biden administration implemented many parts of the border bill through executive action after Donald Trump pushed Republican lawmakers to vote it down. “Our politics have been pushed so far to the right on immigration by Donald Trump that we have to fight back … to realign our politics on immigration back to where they were just a few years ago,” says Congressmember Greg Casar of Texas.
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The city of Chicago, which hosted the 2024 Democratic convention, is home to the highest concentration of Palestinian Americans in the United States. In the suburbs of the city, residents of Bridgeview — known as “Little Palestine” — have been hard hit by Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed over 40,200 Palestinians. We take a tour of Little Palestine, where Palestinian flags and signs reading “Free Palestine” adorn many of the streets and businesses, and traditional pastry and coffee shops have colorful murals of Palestinian landscapes on their walls. And we speak with residents about how they are organizing against anti-Palestinian racism and pushing for an end to uncritical U.S. support for Israel.
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Vice President Kamala Harris made history Thursday as the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to be nominated to lead a major party’s presidential ticket. There are now just two-and-a-half months left before the November 5 election, when she will face Republican nominee Donald Trump at the polls. For more, we speak with two political organizers — Maurice Mitchell, national director for the Working Families Party, and Mohammed Khader, manager of policy and advocacy campaigns at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights — and with historian and activist Barbara Ransby.
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The Democratic National Convention wrapped up in Chicago on Thursday with Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepting the presidential nomination, capping a week of political showmanship and celebration for many party members. “One of the things that struck me most was the level of choreographed mass spectacle of this convention that would be really worthy of Leni Riefenstahl,” says Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. He says Democrats and Republicans presented “the two faces of American capitalism” at their respective conventions this summer, with the GOP home to “white supremacist capitalism” while Democrats promote a “multiracial neoliberal capitalism.” He adds that despite the constant chants of “U.S.A.” throughout the week, “the reality is that the United States has never been lower in its prestige and never more discredited around the world than it is today.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris made history Thursday as the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent in the United States to be nominated to lead a major party’s presidential ticket. We speak with historian Barbara Ransby about two Black women pioneers who helped pave the way for her historic nomination: former Congressmember Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress who sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who led the fight to desegregate the party’s Southern delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
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