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Democracy Now! Monday, September 25, 2023

Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for an exclusive broadcast interview after his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he spoke of the need to end wars and stop the climate crisis.

Democracy Now! Friday, September 22, 2023

Headlines for September 21, 2023; Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy; World Must Decarbonize Before “Point of No Return” on Climate Crisis: Colombian President Gustavo Petro; Lift the Blockade on Venezuela & Cuba: Colombian President Petro Warns U.S. Sanctions Are Driving Migration; Colombian President Gustavo Petro Denounces U.S. Intervention in Americas, from Chilean Coup to Drug War

Headlines for September 20, 2023; Assassination of Sikh Leader in Canada Highlights Modi’s Embrace of Authoritarianism in India & Abroad; Colombian President Gustavo Petro: Charges Against Julian Assange Are “Mockery of Freedom of Press”; Australian Senator Peter Whish-Wilson Calls on U.S. to End the “Totalitarian” Prosecution of Julian Assange; “I’m Not a Criminal… Enbridge Is”: Charges Tossed Against Winona LaDuke & Others for Pipeline Action

Headlines for September 19, 2023; U.S. & Iran Complete Prisoner Swap; Iranian Protesters Mark One Year Since Death of Mahsa Amini; Bombs for Bailouts: Pakistan Supplied Weapons to Ukraine in Return for U.S.-Brokered IMF Loan; Shutdown Showdown: Far-Right Lawmakers Battle with House Speaker McCarthy, Risking Gov’t Shutdown; “Stop Financing Fossil Fuels”: 149 Climate Activists Arrested Blocking NY Federal Reserve, Hit Banks

Headlines for September 18, 2023; The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis; “W​e Will Not Give Up”: AOC, Vanessa Nakate Lead Calls at Massive NY Climate Rally to End Fossil Fuels; Labor, Frontline & Youth Voices Call on Biden to Immediately Act to Prevent Climate Catastrophe

Headlines for September 15, 2023; UAW on Strike: In Historic Move, Auto Workers Target All Big Three Automakers at Once; 400 Climate Scientists Endorse Call to Halt Fossil Fuels Ahead of Major NYC Climate March; Meet Two NYU Sunrise Students Who Helped Push NYU To Divest From Fossil Fuels; Hunter Biden Is Indicted on Gun Charges as House GOP Launch Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden

Headlines for September 14, 2023; Naomi Klein on Her New Book “Doppelganger” & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite

Headlines for September 13, 2023; “A Calamity of Epic Proportions”: Death Toll from Libyan Floods Tops 6,000 in Latest Climate Disaster; “Complicit”: Columbia U. Shielded Predator OB-GYN Robert Hadden for Decades as He Assaulted Hundreds

Democracy Now! Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Democracy Now! Monday, September 11, 2023

Headlines for September 08, 2023; Spain: Soccer Head Faces Sexual Assault Charge for World Cup Forced Kiss; Women Players Strike over Pay; Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion in Major Step Forward for Reproductive Rights in Latin America; Fulton County Jail: Shawndre Delmore Is 10th Person to Die at Notorious Facility So Far in 2023

On Thursday, climate activists with Extinction Rebellion delayed a semifinal match by 50 minutes between Coco Gauff and Karolína Muchová. Three activists stood up in the crowd and called for an end to fossil fuels. One protester glued their bare feet to the ground. Nineteen-year-old Gauff eventually won the match, sending her to the finals.

Headlines for September 07, 2023; Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World; Democratic Republic of Congo Faces “Worst Hunger Catastrophe” as Mineral Extraction Enriches the Few

Headlines for September 06, 2023; “A Political Prosecution”: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia’s Republican AG; “Alarming”: Biden to Supply Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine Despite Contamination Risks; Kenyan Activist at Africa Climate Summit: Fund Green Transition on Continent & Phase Out Fossil Fuels

Headlines for September 05, 2023; Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate; “Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

“The Great Escape”: Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.; Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora on Coping with Trauma from Being Detained & Undocumented in U.S.

Headlines for September 01, 2023; Jan. 6: Proud Boys Lieutenant Joe Biggs, Who Warned of “Second Civil War,” Sentenced to 17 Years; Enbridge Is the Guilty Party, Not Me: Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action; Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright Warns the Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind; Biden Administration Sued as Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Are Detained Overseas Waiting for U.S. Entry

Headlines for August 31, 2023; Military Coup in Gabon Seen as Part of Broader Revolt Against France & Neo-Colonialism in Africa; Scientist Peter Kalmus: The Hurricanes, Floods & Fires of 2023 Are Just the Beginning of Climate Emergency; U.S. Aquifers Are Running Dry, Posing Major Threat to Drinking Water Supply

Headlines for August 30, 2023; Biden vs. Big Pharma: Medicare to Begin Negotiations to Lower Price of 10 Costly Drugs & Insulin; Progressive Dems Visit Latin America Seeking “New Path” After Decades of U.S. Interference; Texas Rep. Greg Casar Condemns Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Dangerous Stunts” at the Border; “Modern Form of Slavery”: Haitians at Dominican Sugar Plantations Work Under Inhumane Conditions

Democracy Now! Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Headlines for August 28, 2023; Gary Younge on Jacksonville Shooting & Why America’s Gun Problem “Makes Its Racism More Lethal”; 60 Years After “I Have a Dream”: Gary Younge on MLK’s March on Washington & the Fight for Racial Justice; Family of Kenneth Chamberlain, Black Man Killed in 2011 by Police, Settles with City of White Plains

Headlines for August 25, 2023; Inmate P01135809: Trump Surrenders to Jail in Georgia, Booked on 13 Felony Counts; Are “Mugshots” Unethical? How Jailhouse Photos Undermine Defendants & Reinforce Systemic Bias; “Shameful”: Reelected Tenn. State Rep. Justin Jones on GOP Silencing of Critics on Gun Control

Headlines for August 24, 2023; Two Months After Mutiny in Russia, Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies in Plane Crash; 6 of 8 GOP Candidates Vow to Back Trump as Party’s Nominee Even if He is Convicted; GOP Candidates Refuse to Say Climate Change Is Caused by Humans; Vivek Ramaswamy Calls it a “Hoax”; Should the U.S. Keep Funding War in Ukraine? Debate Reveals Deep Divisions Within Republican Party

Headlines for August 23, 2023; “They Fired on Us Like Rain”: Saudis Accused of Killing Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees at Border; “It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

Headlines for August 22, 2023; “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year; Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors; Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order; In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands

Democracy Now! Monday, August 21, 2023

Democracy Now! Friday, August 18, 2023

Democracy Now! Thursday, August 17, 2023

Amy Goodman interviews Mada Masr founding editor Lina Attalah about how the project was started in 2013, and much more.

Headlines for August 16, 2023; Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid; Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts; “Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate

Headlines for August 15, 2023; Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference; Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy; Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts

Headlines for August 14, 2023; “War Zone”: Native Hawaiian Scholar Says Colonialism Set Stage for Destruction as Death Toll Soars; “This Is the Climate Crisis”: Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires & Why Disasters Are Becoming Deadlier; After Shocking Assassination, Ecuadorian VP Candidate Decries “Clear Links” Between Gov’t & Cartels

Headlines for August 11, 2023; “We’re Not Going to Die This Way”: Father Describes Jumping into Ocean with 5 Kids to Escape Maui Fire; “We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree; As Fires Destroy Native Hawaiian Archive in Maui, Mutual Aid Efforts Are Launched to Help Lahaina; “Unprecedented”: Fire Expert Says Climate & Native Vegetation Changes Fueled Explosive Maui Wildfires

Democracy Now! Thursday, August 10, 2023

Headlines for August 09, 2023; Nina Turner: Ohio Voters Have Rejected GOP Power Grab in Victory for Democracy & Abortion Access; “Horrendous”: Black Men Tortured by White Mississippi Police “Goon Squad” React to Guilty Pleas; Meet Porcha Woodruff, Detroit Woman Jailed While 8 Months Pregnant After False AI Facial Recognition

Part 2 of our conversation with Porcha Woodruff, a pregnant woman in Detroit who was wrongfully arrested and jailed for robbery and carjacking. A month after her arrest, prosecutors dropped the case because the Detroit police had made the arrest based on a faulty AI, artificial intelligence, facial recognition match.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Democracy Now! Monday, August 7, 2023

Headlines for August 04, 2023; Trump & the KKK Act: Carol Anderson on Reconstruction-Era Voting Rights Law Cited in Trump Indictment; Blowback in Africa: U.S.-Trained Officer Overthrows Pro-U.S. Leader in Niger, Site of U.S. Drone Base

Headlines for August 03, 2023; “Never Again”: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced to Die. Jews Against the Death Penalty Respond; Center for Countering Digital Hate Vows to Keep Monitoring Hate Speech on X Despite Elon Musk Lawsuit; FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters

We continue to look at the ACLU of Colorado's new lawsuit against the FBI, the Colorado Springs Police Department and local officers for illegally spying on a local activist and a community organizing hub in Colorado Springs. The lawsuit accuses the agencies of “unconstitutional and invasive search and seizure of the phones, computers, devices, and private chats of people and groups whose message the Colorado Springs Police Department dislikes.”

Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Headlines for August 01, 2023; Did Western Military Presence Help Foster Coup in Niger, Where U.S. Has Drone Base & 1,000+ Troops?; Remembering Juan Ramos, Puerto Rican Activist & Leader of Philadelphia Young Lords; “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church Abuse

Democracy Now! Monday, July 31, 2023

Democracy Now! Friday, July 28, 2023