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04.21.2021

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on three charges for murdering George Floyd, making him the first white Minnesota police officer ever to be convicted of killing a Black man. We hear reactions to the verdict ...

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04.21.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-21 Wednesday Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on three charges for murdering George Floyd, making him the first white Minnesota police officer ever to be convicted of killing a Black man. We hear reactions to the verdict ...
04.20.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-20 Tuesday Jury deliberations begin in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd; The Sikh community is in mourning after a gunman attacked a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, killing eight people, including four Sikhs; How the Indianapolis ...
04.19.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-19 Monday Thousands protest in Chicago over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was shot dead with his hands in the air; A lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps is suing two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him ...
04.16.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-16 Friday Newly released police bodycam footage shows 13-year-old Adam Toledo had his hands in the air when a Chicago police officer shot him dead last month; Why the family of Anton Black, a Maryland teenager killed by police, is suing the ...
04.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-15 Thursday President Joe Biden announces that he plans to withdraw U.S troops from Afghanistan by September 11, ending the longest war in U.S. history; Rep. Ro Khanna on U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen and more; The CDC temporarily pauses use ...
04.14.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-14 Wednesday President Biden vows to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; A new Frontline documentary looks at the rise of right-wing extremism across the U.S. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your ...
04.13.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-13 Tuesday Protests continue in the Minneapolis area after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop; The trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin is taking place approximately 10 miles from where Daunte ...
04.12.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-12 Monday Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, says the union is filing a complaint against Amazon for unfair labor practices after workers at an Alabama warehouse voted against forming a union; Labor scholar Jane McAlevey on ...
04.09.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-09 Friday As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 560,000 and Brazil records over 4,200 deaths in a single day, we look at how Cuba has successfully fought the pandemic despite the U.S. embargo and is on track to release two ...
04.08.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-08 Thursday The U.S. and Iran prepare for more indirect talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew from the agreement three years ago; We speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams about the Biden administration leaving in ...
04.07.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-07 Wednesday Members of the Minneapolis police testify at Derek Chauvin's murder trial and say he violated department policy; We speak with Victoria Law, author of "'Prisons Make Us Safer': And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration"; Unions reach an agreement with ...
04.06.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-06 Tuesday Essential workers in New York who have been denied government relief during the pandemic enter their third week on hunger strike to demand assistance; A new report reveals rampant pandemic profiteering in the U.S. medical system; We look at President ...
04.05.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-05 Monday Why the world's poorest countries are at India's mercy for vaccines; A new investigation reveals rape is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia's military offensive in the Tigray region; We remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who ...
04.02.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-02 Friday Calls are growing to boycott Georgia-based companies after Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed what many describe as the worst voter suppression legislation in decades; Oregon Governor Kate Brown on the historic efforts to expand vote-by-mail and automatic voter registration in ...
04.01.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-04-01 Thursday We air excerpts of the third day of the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd last May in Minneapolis; COVID-19 cases in Brazil continue to rise as the country faces a growing political crisis ...
03.31.2021 "I Felt the Need to Call the Police on the Police": Witnesses Describe Seeing George Floyd's Murder On the second day of the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, jurors heard chilling testimony from eyewitnesses who watched Chauvin kill George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for over nine months.
03.31.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-31 Wednesday Resistance to the military coup in Burma continues despite a bloody crackdown; We mark International Trans Day of Visibility with activist Raquel Willis and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio; How states are excluding people held in prisons and jails from accessing ...
03.30.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-30 Tuesday We speak with Minneapolis-based civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong after the first day in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin; Journalist Roberto Lovato on the humanitarian crisis at the border and what's pushing so many people to flee Central ...
03.29.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-29 Monday Hopes rise that the Suez Canal in Egypt may soon reopen after a 200,000-ton container ship blocking the canal was partially refloated; Historian Robin D.G. Kelley on the historic union drive of Amazon workers and the history of radical Black ...
03.26.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-26 Friday Georgia passes a sweeping elections bill that civil rights groups describe as the worst voter suppression legislation since the Jim Crow era; Actor and activist Danny Glover on the union fight in Bessemer, Alabama, where workers are trying to establish ...
03.25.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-25 Thursday A select few billionaires see massive gains in wealth during the pandemic; The House holds a hearing on "Extremism in the Armed Forces" to look at connections between people who participated in the January 6 insurrection and the military; A ...
03.24.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-24 Wednesday The mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, came just a week after a judge blocked a local law banning assault weapons like the one used in the grocery store rampage that killed 10 people; Investigative journalist Frank Smyth on the history ...
03.23.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-23 Tuesday The Biden administration moves to close much of the southern border as it holds 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children; Trump-supporting Mexican conspiracy theorists are fanning the flames at the border; Workers in Alabama are voting on whether to become the first ...
03.22.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-22 Monday We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about rising racism and hate crimes against Asian Americans, the deadly shootings in Atlanta where a white gunman attacked three Asian-owned spas, and his new novel "The Committed." Get ...
03.19.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-19 Friday Georgia Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock condemns Republican voter suppression efforts as "Jim Crow in new clothes"; Author Heather McGhee discusses her new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." Get Democracy Now! ...
03.18.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-18 Thursday The Asian American community is grieving after a white gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, including six Asian women; The military junta in Burma intensifies its crackdown amid ongoing protests against the coup; The U.S. ...
03.17.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-17 Wednesday Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, remain under a "boil water" advisory more than a month after winter storms disrupted the city's aging water infrastructure; Deb Haaland is confirmed to lead the Interior Department, becoming the first Native American person in a ...
03.16.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-16 Tuesday Vijay Prashad on the growing U.S.-China rivalry and the danger of a new cold war; Thousands of migrant children seeking refuge are held in crowded cells at the U.S.-Mexico border; New York state Senator Alessandra Biaggi calls for Andrew Cuomo's ...
03.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-15 Monday How the American Rescue Plan aims to address decades of discrimination against farmers of color; Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who successfully sued Chevron for environmental abuses in Ecuador, continues to fight against the oil giant, whose unprecedented legal assault ...
03.12.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-12 Friday President Joe Biden vows to accelerate the vaccination effort and bring more normalcy to the U.S. by July 4; Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the $1.9 trillion relief package and how to ensure vaccine equity and debt relief for ...
03.11.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-11 Thursday Questionable corruption charges against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are annulled, clearing the way for a 2022 presidential run against Jair Bolsonaro; The Biden administration holds about 3,500 migrant children after a surge in crossings at the ...
03.10.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-10 Wednesday We look at the potential impact of the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package as President Biden prepares to sign it into law; Bill McKibben on Rutgers University's decision to divest from fossil fuels; Cornel West decides to leave Harvard after ...
03.09.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-09 Tuesday The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is thrown into question as judges consider adding a third-degree murder charge; Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott orders the state to fully reopen and lifts a statewide mask mandate; We ...
03.08.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-08 Monday The story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was jailed for 14 years and tortured at Guantánamo but never charged with a crime, is told in the new feature film "The Mauritanian"; We speak with Slahi, the film's director, one of ...
03.05.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-05 Friday As the Senate begins debate on President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, we look at the fight to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 with Reverend William Barber; The House votes to pass H.R. 1; Abolitionist Mariame ...
03.04.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-04 Thursday We speak with Harvard professor Marcia Castro about rising cases of COVID-19 in Brazil; Co-authors Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick discuss their new book, "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics."
03.03.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-03 Wednesday We look at how Asian American communities in New York and the Bay Area are responding to the spike in racist hate crimes; Calls are mounting for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign or be impeached over sexual harassment ...
03.02.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-02 Tuesday Republicans in the Georgia House pass a sweeping bill to make it harder to vote; We look at the racial vaccination gap and calls to lower the age cutoff for vaccine eligibility for Black Americans; How people have struggled to ...
03.01.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-03-01 Monday A newly declassified U.S. intelligence report confirms Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directly ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; The Biden administration faces criticism for bombing Syria in an attack targeting Iranian militias; The House passes a $1.9 ...
02.26.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-26 Friday The FBI and New York Police Department are facing new calls to open their records into the assassination of Malcolm X after the release of a deathbed confession of a former undercover NYPD officer who admitted to being part of ...
02.25.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-25 Thursday Pressure grows on the Biden administration to support a push by India and South Africa at the World Trade Organization to loosen intellectual property rules to make COVID-19 vaccines easier to make and distribute; As the House prepares to pass ...
02.24.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-24 Wednesday Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland testifies before the Senate in her bid to become the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history; Asylum seekers brave freezing weather while living in tents in the refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, while ...
02.23.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-23 Tuesday As the U.S. passes 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, we speak to New York emergency room doctor Craig Spencer about the pandemic and how to make vaccines available to more people around the world; To mark Black History Month, we remember the ...
02.22.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-22 Monday Naomi Klein on how deregulation and reliance on fossil fuels paved the way for the power fiasco in Texas; Some residents report astronomically high energy bills in the aftermath of the winter storms; Conditions inside Texas prisons, already dire, become ...
02.19.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-19 Friday We celebrate Democracy Now!'s 25th anniversary by airing highlights from our coverage over the years, from Haiti to Gaza, Standing Rock, the U.S.-Mexico border and more.
02.18.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-18 Thursday Texans are left in the dark as a major winter storm overwhelms the state's power grid; The latest science on masks; The fight over canceling student debt heats up in Washington; Celebrating co-host Nermeen Shaikh's 10th anniversary on Democracy Now!
02.17.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-17 Wednesday We look at the debate over how to safely reopen schools during the pandemic; Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, vote on whether to become the first unionized warehouse in the U.S.; Journalist Sarah Jaffe on her new book, "Work Won't ...
02.16.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-16 Tuesday The Nation's Elie Mystal on Trump's acquittal and where the Republican Party goes from here; Ecuador's leading presidential candidate, left-wing economist Andrés Arauz, talks about his campaign pledge to fight austerity, poverty and the pandemic.
02.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-15 Monday As the Senate acquits Donald Trump for inciting the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, is it setting a dangerous precedent?; The Lancet reports nearly 40% of deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 were avoidable.
02.12.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-02-12 Friday Closing arguments in Donald Trump's impeachment trial; Ralph Nader on Democrats' impeachment strategy and corporate crime; We look at the rise in domestic violence during the pandemic ahead of V-Day, a global day to end violence against against women.

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