Democracy Now! Thursday, August 29, 2024
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- Israeli Attacks Kill Another 68 Palestinians in Gaza; Mother of First Polio Patient Decries Baby's Fate
- WFP Suspends Staff Travel in Gaza After Israel Attacks Convoy
- Israel Escalates Invasion of Occupied West Bank, Kills at Least 18 Palestinians
- EU Weighs Sanctions on Israeli Ministers Propagating "Hate Messages Against Palestinians"
- Egypt Rejects Israeli Troops on Border; Namibia Blocks Vessel Heading to Israel with Weapons
- U.S. Rejects Resumption of Nuclear Talks After Overture by Iran
- Hong Kong Convicts Pro-Democracy Editors of Stand News of Sedition
- U.S. National Security Adviser Meets Chinese President Xi Jinping
- Honduras Ends Extradition Treaty with U.S. over Ambassador's Narcotrafficking Allegations
- Rights Groups Sound Alarm as Texas GOP Purges 1 Million Voters from Rolls
- Union Workers at Cornell University Win Historic Pay Increases After 10-Day Strike
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing accusations he is using his office to suppress Latino voters in the state. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the country’s oldest Latino civil rights group, is calling on the Justice Department to investigate Paxton over a series of police raids on the homes of LULAC members, state lawmakers and other community leaders in the San Antonio area last week. Previously, Paxton had tried and failed to shut down the Houston-based and immigrant-led civil rights group Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha (FIEL) by claiming it engaged in electioneering. We’re joined by the director of FIEL, Cesar Espinosa, and the CEO of LULAC, Juan Proaño, who both share how their organizations have been impacted by the attorney general’s harassment and intimidation. Proaño calls the targeting of Latino leaders and organizations a pattern of “blatant discrimination” and says, “We see these as tactics essentially for Republicans to stay in control of the government in Texas.”
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New voting rules in key battleground states could impact the 2024 election results. In Georgia, Democrats are suing to halt a set of Trump-backed election rules which Democrats say could be used to block certification of election results if they win in November. “It appears that Georgia Republicans are laying the groundwork not to certify the presidential election if Kamala Harris wins,” explains Ari Berman, who is the voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine. Berman also discusses Tim Walz and JD Vance’s voting rights records and a recent voting rights law out of Arizona that requires new voters to prove their U.S. citizenship.
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The Israeli military has launched its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades, with hundreds of troops, backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers, fighter jets and drones, conducting simultaneous raids in the northern cities of Jenin and Tulkarm. At least nine Palestinians were killed overnight, with an additional 11 injured. In total, at least 652 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October — nearly 150 of them children — most of them during near-daily raids by the Israeli military. Israeli officials have indicated that the raids are just the first stage of an even larger operation in the West Bank. “They are trying to repeat the Nakba. … They are trying to repeat the same ethnic cleansing, the same genocide that is committed in Gaza,” says Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, who joins us from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. “Their goal is ethnic cleansing. Their goal is annexation of the West Bank.”
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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- 9 Palestinians Killed as Israel Launches Largest Raid on West Bank in Two Decades
- Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens in Gaza, Including 8 at School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians
- Israeli Forces Rescue Bedouin Arab Man Kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7
- Zelensky Rules Out Ceasefire as Russia Continues "Largest Aerial Assault" of Its War on Ukraine
- IAEA Chief Warns Ukraine's Advance on Russian Power Plant Threatens Nuclear Catastrophe
- Afghan Taliban Approves Gender Apartheid Law Banning Women from Speaking in Public
- Indian Police Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Decry Rape and Murder of Medical Trainee
- Jack Smith Files Amended Indictment of Trump over Jan. 6 Insurrection
- Trump Adds Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to Transition Team
- Mexico Freezes Diplomatic Relations After U.S. and Canada Criticize Judicial Reform Plan
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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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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