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As anger grows in Milwaukee over the police killing of 43-year-old Samuel Sharpe during the Republican National Convention, we speak with his sister, Angelique Sharpe, who says the family is fighting for transparency from the authorities and the full video of the fatal incident. “We really want justice for my brother,” says Angelique, who also explains that her brother’s life had been threatened by a “bully” and that he had actually called the police for help before he was killed. Samuel Sharpe was an unhoused Black man shot 27 times by police on Tuesday — but the officers were from Ohio, part of a deployment of thousands of outside law enforcement members in Wisconsin for the RNC. We are also joined by Wisconsin state Representative Darrin Madison, a Democratic Socialist, who says both Sharpe’s death and the killing of D’Vontaye Mitchell by hotel security guards weeks earlier point to a larger problem of anti-Black violence in Milwaukee.
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The Washington Post reports the word “abortion” was not mentioned a single time from the stage during the first three days of the Republican National Convention. Reporter Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at The Nation, says the silence from Trump and others at this week’s RNC in Milwaukee does not reflect a change in attitude from the Republican Party, which is still fiercely opposed to reproductive rights. “Republicans can read the polls. They know that abortion has triumphed in all seven instances where it’s been on the ballot since the Dobbs decision. They know that a rising number of people support abortion rights,” says Littlefield, who predicts that “abortion is going to have a huge impact on this election” and calls for “a Reproductive Justice New Deal.”
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Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, joins us as the Republican National Convention wraps up in Milwaukee. On the final night, Donald Trump’s invective-filled speech, coming just days after the attempt on his life, was promoted as an address about unity. But Barber says it was only “a unity of rejection” on offer — rejecting the rights of women, immigrants, workers, poor people, disenfranchised voters and more. “They may have toned down their voices, but they did not tone down their extreme policies,” he says.
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A march through downtown Milwaukee Thursday called for justice for Samuel Sharpe and D’Vontaye Mitchell, two Black men killed before and during the Republican National Convention amid a massive security buildup. Sharpe was a 43-year-old unhoused Black man who was shot dead by police officers from Ohio who were in Wisconsin as part of a group of 4,500 law enforcement officials in Milwaukee for the RNC. The shooting took place a mile from the RNC’s proceedings. Weeks earlier, security guards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel killed D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black father who died after security guards pinned him to the ground. Democracy Now! was at the protest, and we feature the voices of grieving family members who spoke out.
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We host a roundtable the morning after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, just five days after surviving an assassination attempt, delivering the longest acceptance speech in convention history. Trump began with a somber recounting of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet grazed his right ear, and soon went off script to deliver a rambling diatribe against various political enemies and repeatedly demonized immigrants. “The first three or four days of the convention were pitched as a display of unity,” says Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker, who says the nominee “got in the way” of the party’s plans. “Trump was just straightforwardly weird.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futuro Media, says the vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric from Trump and almost every other speaker throughout the week is built on lies. “If everything that he said is true, then our American economy would be tanking, right? And, actually, there would be rampant crime across the streets. That is not the truth. And even Trump supporters … know that’s not the truth,” says Hinojosa. We also speak with former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner, who says both Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance are promoting a false populism that does not actually support workers or challenge the power of big money. “We do need a president that will put the working-class people ahead of corporations. We do need a president that will line up the supposed values of this country with policy. The problem is, President Donald J. Trump is not it, and neither is J.D. Vance,” says Turner, a senior fellow at The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy.
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Democracy Now! Friday, July 19, 2024
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- Trump Accepts GOP Nomination with Longest-Ever Convention Speech
- 2nd Dem. Senator Calls on Biden to Step Down Amid Reports He May Be on Verge of Ending Campaign
- Israel Bombs Another U.N. School; Families Grieve Loved Ones as Bodies Exhumed from Al-Amal Hospital
- Israel's "Weaponization of Water" Leading to Death, Disease as Polio Virus Is Detected in Gaza
- Houthis Claim Responsibility for Strike in Tel Aviv That Kills One
- Death Toll Climbs to 28 in Bangladesh Student Protests as Crackdown Intensifies
- Microsoft Outage Grounds Planes, Causes Global Chaos
- U.K. Court Hands 4- and 5-Year Prison Sentences to Climate Activists for Planning Nonviolent Protest
- Court Blocks Student Debt Relief Plan as Biden Admin Cancels Another 1.2B in Federal Loans
- DOJ Sues U.S.'s Largest Contractor Housing Immigrant Children over Systemic Sexual Abuse
- Lou Dobbs, Racist and Xenophobic Fox News Star, Dies
- WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Convicted of Espionage, Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
- Israeli Settlers Ramp Up Attacks in Occupied West Bank; U.K. Resumes UNRWA Funding
- Long-standing Rwandan President Paul Kagame Wins Reelection with Over 99% of Vote
- Indigenous Leaders in Peru Declare State of Emergency After Murder of Mariano Isacama Feliciano
- Amnesty Says Peruvian President Dina Boluarte Criminally Responsible for Deaths of Protesters
- Uber and Lyft Drivers Take to NYC Streets to Call for End to "Lockout" Policies
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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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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The Democratic National Committee is moving ahead with a plan to virtually nominate Joe Biden ahead of the Democratic convention in Chicago despite growing calls for him to step aside and as a new Associated Press poll shows nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw from the race following his disastrous debate with Donald Trump. Top Democrats including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are reportedly privately lobbying for Biden to step aside. With Biden as the presidential candidate, “Democrats have a vanishingly thin chance of recapturing the House,” says Chris Lehmann, who rejoins us to discuss the “unprecedented” and contentious fight over Biden’s reelectability occurring within the Democratic Party ahead of its convention next month.
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American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the “self-made man myth.” Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with. “Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions,” Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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Politico reporter Ian Ward interviewed Ohio Senator J.D. Vance at length for a recent profile and joins us to discuss Vance’s biography and ideology after he formally accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination to run with Donald Trump, whom he once staunchly opposed.
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We continue to look at the record of Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, with a focus on his foreign policy actions, with Matt Duss of the Center for International Policy, former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders. Vance is “very aligned with Trump,” says Duss, such as in his support of the Abraham Accords, the Arab-Israeli normalization deal signed under the Trump administration that sought to increase Israel’s power in the region at the expense of Palestinian rights.
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After Ohio Senator J.D. Vance makes his nomination official as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2024, we spend the show looking at his record. We begin with a discussion on Vance’s professed economic populism with independent journalist Zaid Jilani and The Nation's Chris Lehmann. Jilani argues Vance's pro-working class image is not only genuine, but that he may also hold enough sway to bring the Republican Party closer to the labor movement. “Big business does fear Vance to some extent,” he says. Lehmann counters, “I don’t see the Republican Party, at the end of the day, moving toward these … redistributive policies,” citing its hostility toward immigrants, who are a major driver of economic growth. “The forgotten working class is going to stay forgotten,” he concludes.
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Headlines for July 18, 2024; Trump’s VP Pick J.D. Vance Espouses Economic Populism But Will He Actually Be a Working-Class Ally?; J.D. Vance Criticizes Biden’s Support for Iraq War in 2003 But Pushes Hawkish Policy on China & Iran; “More Radical Than MAGA”? Politico’s Ian Ward on J.D. Vance & the Future of the Republican Party; “White Trash” Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Class in America; COVID Forces Biden Off Campaign Trail as Pressure Grows for Him to Step Aside
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- Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Cancels Campaign Events, Amid Mounting Calls to Step Aside
- Biden Says He Is a Zionist, Before Claiming He "Did More for Palestinians Than Anybody"
- Israeli Soldiers Sicced a Dog on a Gazan Man with Down Syndrome
- Less Than Half of U.N. Health Facilities in Gaza Are Operational
- Israel Passes Resolution Rejecting Palestinian Statehood
- J.D. Vance Tops RNC Speakers on Day 3 as He Accepts VP Nomination
- Reporter Says WSJ Fired Her Due to Leadership Role with Hong Kong Media Union
- Colombia Ends Ceasefire Agreement with FARC Faction
- At Least 6 Heat-Related Deaths Recorded in Texas After Hurricane-Triggered Power Outage
- Extreme Rains in Eastern Afghanistan Kill at Least 47, Injure Hundreds
- "I Can't Breathe": Eric Garner Remembered 10 Years After NYPD Choked Him to Death
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, Civil Rights Activist and Musical Icon, Has Died at 81
- "Everything Is a Challenge": U.N Aid Coordinator Discusses Plight of Displaced Gazans
- CodePink Facing Death Threats After Republican Lawmaker Falsely Claims a Member Attacked Him
- Elon Musk Plans to Move SpaceX from CA to TX After Newsom Signs New Law Protecting Trans Students
- Lawmakers Seek Data on Child Labor Violations in Federal Work Program
- Puerto Rico Sues Oil Giants over Climate Crisis
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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