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Police Should Not Kill Us: ...

09.23.2022

Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.

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09.23.2022 Police Should Not Kill Us: Phillip Pannell's Family Wants Officer Who Shot Him in Back Held Responsible Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.
09.23.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-23 Friday Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin’s plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the ...
09.22.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-22 Thursday Donald Trump has two major legal setbacks related to his business and his handling of classified documents; Iranian protests grow over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody; The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández ...
09.21.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-21 Wednesday The head of Oxfam America calls for leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to address the global hunger emergency; Adnan Syed’s first lawyer on how the “Serial” subject gained his freedom; Dissident heiress Abigail Disney on her new documentary, “The ...
09.20.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-20 Tuesday Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not “over,” as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the ...
09.19.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-19 Monday We go to Puerto Rico for an update on damage from Hurricane Fiona; How the climate crisis has worsened the magnitude of tropical storms; What Black Britons think of mourning the queen. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. ...
09.16.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-16 Friday Renowned Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal,” and the impact of trauma on people’s health. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
09.15.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-15 Thursday A White House-brokered deal averts a national rail strike over grueling work conditions for tens of thousands of railroad workers; The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Pakistan nears 1,500; Russia continues to bomb civilian infrastructure following Ukraine’s successful offensive ...
09.14.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-14 Wednesday Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy in Ireland and the future of the Irish unification movement; War correspondent Luke Mogelson on his new book, “The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for ...
09.13.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-13 Tuesday The legacy of British colonialism in the Caribbean and growing calls for reparations; Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the energy war between Russia and the West; How the rivalry with China is transforming the U.S. territory of Guam ...
09.12.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-12 Monday The history of British colonialism in Africa, and Kenya in particular; The family of Carl Dorsey, an unarmed Black man shot by New Jersey police, files a civil lawsuit as they demand answers about his death; How privatization set the ...
09.09.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-09 Friday A roundtable on the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, dead at the age of 96; Climate activists and Appalachians rally outside the Capitol to protest the Mountain Valley Pipeline as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls it ...
09.08.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-08 Thursday The U.N. calls for a demilitarized zone around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine to avoid a Chernobyl-level catastrophe; Update from East Africa, where the majority of countries are facing famine and drought; New revelations about the secretive ...
09.07.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-07 Wednesday As Israel admits one of its soldiers may have fatally shot Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, her family calls for an independent investigation; The Nation’s Elie Mystal on the Trump-appointed federal judge who approved a special master to review ...
09.06.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-06 Tuesday Liz Truss is sworn in as Britain’s new prime minister, replacing Boris Johnson; Voters in Chile reject a new constitution; Remembering journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
09.05.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-05 Monday For a Labor Day special, we look back at the life and legacy of the late historian Howard Zinn, who would have turned 100 in August.
09.02.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-02 Friday President Biden denounces former President Donald Trump and MAGA supporters in a primetime speech. We speak with Prof. Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”; As thousands of unhoused ...
09.01.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-09-01 Thursday Nina Khrushcheva and Katrina vanden Heuvel on the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Greenland’s melting ice sheet will trigger one foot of global sea level rise by the end of the century; Protests grow inside Google ...
08.31.2022 Robin D. G. Kelley on 20 Years of "Freedom Dreams": Occupy & Black Lives Matter Movements, Abolition Historian and author Robin D. G. Kelley joins us for an extended Part 2 interview about the 20th anniversary edition of his book, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.”
08.31.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-31 Wednesday We get an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, from Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and a longtime activist; Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, on violent protests in Baghdad after Iraqi cleric Muqtada ...
08.30.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-30 Tuesday Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs on the West’s “false narrative” about Russia and China; Afghan refugees struggle to gain “humanitarian parole” one year since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan; A conversation with Florida House Democratic nominee, 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro ...
08.29.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-29 Monday Pakistan declares a national emergency as massive floods continue to devastate the country; The Justice Department releases a redacted version of the affidavit used by the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate; Hundreds of farmworkers pressure California ...
08.26.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-26 Friday Six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war is at a bloody stalemate; Marking one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; The assault on reproductive rights continues as more states enact bans on abortion and punishment for doctors ...
08.25.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-25 Thursday President Biden approves limited student loan forgiveness; Oklahoma’s governor orders the execution of James Coddington despite a recommendation of clemency from the state parole board; How a secretive billionaire made the largest known political donation to a right-wing group. Get ...
08.24.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-24 Wednesday We remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn on what would have been his 100th birthday. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
08.23.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-23 Tuesday Authorities charge the former Mexican attorney general over the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014; Tariq Ali of the New Left Review responds to terror charges brought against Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and ...
08.22.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-22 Monday A landmark ruling orders Walmart, CVS and Walgreens to pay $650 million in damages for their role in the opioid crisis; Florida arrests 20 people — mostly formerly incarcerated — for alleged voter fraud ahead of Tuesday’s primary election; a ...
08.19.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-19 Friday Kenya faces a political crisis amid a contested presidential election; We speak with two of the seven Palestinian civil society groups raided Thursday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank; A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing data ...
08.18.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-18 Thursday We spend the hour focusing on Brazil, where former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva kicked off his campaign this week challenging Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, with reporter Michael Fox, host of the “Brazil on Fire” podcast; Indigenous ...
08.17.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-17 Wednesday As 95% of Afghans lack enough to eat, the U.S. refuses to release $7 billion of frozen Afghan assets; Medea Benjamin on Cuba’s need for humanitarian aid after a massive fire, and the draconian sentencing of Saudi activist Salma al-Shehab; ...
08.16.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-16 Tuesday Alex Vitale on the reasons to defund the FBI that have nothing to do with Trump; U.S. lawyers and journalists sue the CIA for spying on their London visits to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy; Calls grow ...
08.15.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-15 Monday A search warrant reveals the FBI is investigating President Donald Trump for potential violation of the Espionage Act and other laws; Afghan journalist Zahra Nader on the first anniversary of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan; We ...
08.12.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-12 Friday Matthieu Aikins writes about “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” for The New York Times; An imprisoned Saudi man was tortured and jailed for running a satirical Twitter account; Longtime Filipino activist Walden Bello gives an interview after ...
08.12.2022 Indigenous Lawyer: Independently Investigate Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira Murder in Brazil's Amazon We speak with Indigenous lawyer Eliésio Marubo in Brasília about calls to independently investigate the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.
08.11.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-11 Thursday Trita Parsi on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal; Hundreds of migrants arrive by bus in New York, sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with no warning as mutual aid and legal services scramble to respond; Activists call on ...
08.10.2022 "My Boy Will Die of Sorrow": Efrén Olivares on His Memoir of Family Separation Under Trump & Beyond In an in-depth interview, attorney Efrén Olivares discusses families he represented who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the long history of U.S. immigration policy and family separation.
08.10.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-10 Wednesday Police arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice ...
08.09.2022 Sandy Hook & the Battle for Truth: Alex Jones Spread Lies from 2012 Massacre to 2020 Election, Jan. 6 We talk in-depth with New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson about covering the latest Alex Jones trial, and her book, “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.”
08.09.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-09 Tuesday FBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents ...
08.08.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-08 Monday Dozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane ...
08.05.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-05 Friday The DOJ brings criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death; The life and legacy of Albert Woodfox, a Black Panther activist who was held in solitary confinement longer than any ...
08.04.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-04 Thursday The nuclear crisis grows at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant and abroad; Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
08.03.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-03 Wednesday U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan; We look at the vote to expand health benefits to veterans affected by toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan and how local residents have been impacted, as well; Kansas voters ...
08.02.2022 In-Depth Steven Thrasher Interview: How Racism, Capitalism, Borders & Ableism Create a "Viral Underclass" In an extended interview, LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of “The Viral Underclass” and shares stories of the people he writes about in his new book.
08.02.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-02 Tuesday The U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul; Update from Kansas, where voters will decide a constitutional amendment that could end abortion access in the state; LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher on monkeypox and his new book, “The ...
08.01.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-08-01 Monday We spend the hour with Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and their son Zayd, who chronicles the family’s activism in his new award-winning 10-part podcast series, “Mother Country Radicals.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. ...
07.29.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-07-29 Friday Congressmember Andy Levin on facing AIPAC’s big-money campaign in Tuesday’s primary race; As key Senate Democrats reach a deal on climate funding, we speak with one of their advisers and with a congressional staffer arrested this week urging lawmakers to ...
07.28.2022 Afghan Journalist Bilal Sarwary: Taliban Must "Allow a Free Press to Thrive" Amid Humanitarian Crisis In Part 2 of our interview with Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, he discusses life under Taliban rule and the increasing Taliban attacks on journalists.
07.28.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-07-28 Thursday As top U.S. and Russian diplomats talk for the first time since February, we look at the latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine; The Taliban crackdown on women and girls since taking power. Get Democracy Now! delivered right ...
07.27.2022 Democracy Now! 2022-07-27 Wednesday Tensions between the U.S. and China mount ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan; Economists Jayati Ghosh and Richard Wolff on the risks of a global debt crisis and how to handle rising inflation. Get Democracy Now! ...

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